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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

THE HONG KONG AND KOW. LOON TAXICAB CO.,

LIMITED.

(ÎN LIQUIDATION),

FOR SALE

BUICK 7 SEATER SALOON

BUICK BLAten Boaderna.

GARNKE 28 PASSENGER BES

8 OAKLAND 5 SEATERA

OLDSMOBILE 7 SEATER

1 HUDSON 7 STATER SALOON

and

INTIMATIONS.

INSURANCE AGENCY.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20th, 1927.

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

FONIES Up to 8100.000

First Class British Insurance Mailable for Investment an Company Require AGENTS in HONG KONG and CANTON for the 1st Class Mortgage Security subject

Com to Truston Valuation. Transaction of Fire Business, municate with CHINESE POST OFFICE Box No. 1855, Skanoras.

13:22+

HONG KONG FOOTBALL LEAGUE.

PPLICATIONS for Admission to

5124)

Apply: Mrs. DEACONS,

Princes Buildings.

SHARES IN CHINA "UNDER- WRITERS, LTD.

W

1 BRICK 1 STUOZZALZE and CRANDA to the abors League must reach "ILL the Present HOLDER of

LEB in incomplete state.

the following Snares in the the Undersigned on or before the Sist Quantity of Spare Parts for Buick, AUGUST accompanied by the Enahova Company which are registered

CADILLAC, OAKLAND

trancs Fee of TWENTY DOLLARS, in My Name please Communicate With. CITROEN Cars and U. M. D. & No Clab can be admitted to the ous Delay to the Undersigned, c/o GARNEE Trucks.

ITD., BL League unless affiliated to the HONG CHINA UNDERWRITERS, Quantity of Machinery comprising:- KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.

George's Building. Inthes, Drilling Machines,

W. E. HOLLANDS, Electric Light Plant, Battery

Hon. Secretary. Charging Plant, Electric Air Pump

etc.

Quantity of 06ce Furniture and

Equipment

Farther particulare girun and In- spection arranged on application to Undersigned.

A. RITCHIE

c/o Liquidator,

Lov, BINGEẨN & MATIEKTA, 5235] 3, Queen's Road Contral.

IN THE MATTER OF THE COM- PANIES ORDINANCES, 1911-1925, AND

IN THE MATTER OF TROLLOPE & COLLS (FAR EAST), LTD. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION).

NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN in parruspce of Section 188 of the Companies Ordinance 1911 that A GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the above-named Com pay will be held at the Office of the Liquidator, CHARTERED BANK BUILDING Vistoria, Hong Kerg, on SATURDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1927, At Noon, for the purpose of having an Account laid before them, showing the manner in which the Winding Up endacted, and the property bar been of the Company disposed of, sad of boarding any explanation that may be.

by the Liquidator, and, alas of determining by Extraordinary Resolu tion the manner in which the Books," Accounts and Documents of the Company and of the Liquidator thereof, shall be disposed of.

Dated this Eighteenth day of August, 1927.

JOHN FLEMING, CA

Liquidator.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

THE BUSINESS OFFICES of the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS have been REMOVED from 1a, ChaTex ROAD to

1, ICE HOUSE STREET, (Corner of BATTErt Path)

(Opposite NATIONAL ÇITT BAXX

OF NEW YORK).

Telephone: C. 12. Night: C. 4511.

PRINTING WORKS:

PERCIVAL STREET, ANCHAI Telephone: 0.4511.

JERSEY LADIES' COLLEGE.

HEAD MISTRESS: — Miss E. WAINWRIGHT, MA, LONDON

BOARDING

IALS PUBLIC

GSCHOOL with Preparatory Department Climate specially mit d to Colonial children, Univerty E aminations: Fees Moderate. For in. formation about Entrance Scholarshipe Apply to The HEADMISTRESS, LADIES COLLEGE, Janser, C.L

HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD AND MINISTERING CHILD

REN'S LEAGUE.

"FUN O THE FAIR"

N Connection with

P.O. Box 133.

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HONG KONG FOOTBALL

ASSOCIATION.

PPLICATIONS for Affiliation to Atbe abors Association mut reach the Undersigned by the 31 mccompanied by the Necese of TWO DOLLARS. Newly affiliating Clube ONE DOLLAR Entrance Fee Extra.

W. E "HOLLAND",

Hou. Secretary.

P.O. Box 233.

HONG KONG FOOTBALL

ASSOCIATION."

REFEREES AFFILIATION.

PPLICATIONS from Qualified

Referees for Affiliation to the above Association must reach the Undersigned by the 31st accompanied by the Annual Subscription of ONE DOLLAR

W. E. HOLLANDS;

Boo.. Secretary.

P.O. Box 233.

[5968

BY ORDER OF THE OWNER.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF THE UNDERMENTIONED

VALUABLE PROPERTIES, Situate in the NEW TERRITORIES

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Certificate No. Sharse Nos, No. of Sharts

1014 218198/210695 300

1015

1018

500

219626/220195 220126/220625 100

KAM FAT LAY. Eeng Kong, 11th Aug. 1977, (5211)

FOR SALE.

YAWL Bigger Yacht, "VIKING

EDOROTHY L" Built in Shanghai 1918. Teakwood Throughout. Length Overall 43 Feet, Beam 14 Fort, Drait 7 Feet About 18 Tons Gross Splendal Accommodation with Fire Comfortable Beds, Galley, Laystory, and Crew's Quarters. 2 Anchors, Fathoms Chain and Dingey, Bails and Standing Rigging. Price: $4,000- Apply to: JOHN 0. OSWALD VICE CONTUL FOR NORWAт, FOCHOW. (8185

FOR SALE OR TO BE LET UNFURNISHED.

No. 7, PEAK, LUGARD ROAD,

TIGHT Boomed HOUSE, with

En Boating, Bo Bed

Four Bathrooms, Three Drying Rooms, Modern Sanitation, Orses Tennis Court

INTIMATIONS.

ON

SPECIAL SHOW

The Toilet

gloomy about the future. Some of

Among the passengers disembark- these shares which only a fawing from the as Railpiadi from years ago were quoted at £ite aro Shanghai yesterday were Capt. H. now to be obtained for £70 and F. Bloxham, of the Hong Kong there is the prospect of a still Police Force, and Flight-Lieut.

Howell. further decline.

THE C.N.C. DISPUTE.

NO CHANGE IN THE FOSITION.

So far there appears to be no

and the representatives of tha officers as Shangbai, although it

Inaensethe competition: is As the result of being knocked sign of any re-opening of "parleys" rather unfair for the companies in down by public motor cat No. 9 between the China Navigation Co. the past have had to buy their own und and comtrust their awa_pri- vate roads, whereas the "motorist has had the roads provided for him by the community. The railways bare not only to maintain the tracks treated by their own capital, but,

in Connaught Road West on Thues- day afternoon, a Chinese, suffered injuries to his bead, arms and hody which necessitated his removal to has been rumoured that many ́ off- cers have expressed a desire that the Government Cicil Hospital.

14 some effort should be made to start

With driving motor cycle No. fresh negotiations, and others, it 1029 in Queen's Road West at 10.30 is said, as already stated this

in addition, have to pay ordinary on Thursday morning, Mr., J. R. weck, are ready to accept the Com- rates and taxes which to a certain | Jenkins, of the Hong Kong Amuse-pany's terms.

.

extent subsidise their rivale. Praement, Ltd., knockeil down an old "The deadlock still continues and tically the only capital outlay of Chinese woman who was injured in what the next step will be yet

She was taken to the the arm. Clovernment Civil. Hospital.

Preparations the motor bus company is far the

of

ELIZABETH ARDEN

LONDON.

and Garden-Apply: LINSTEAD &A. S.

DAVIS, AzÄNDRA BUILDINGL

TO LET.

WATSON

[4778

& CO., LTD.

HONG KONG.

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in the Colony of Hong Kong: LIVE-Boomed HOUSE, No. 49, NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT in GRANVILLE ROAD, KOWLOON,

Finsh and Banitary

Teniences.

No. 53, on which is situated the | with TAI WAN GLASS FACTORY. This Lot is situats at KOWLOON

BAY:

A FISH POND ritmate at NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT. No. 8 in the NEW STERLITORIES. LOT NO. 3909 and 5818 in SURVEY DISTRICT 1 in the NEW TERRITORIES (Agrical- tural Late)

TO BE SOLD

BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

THURSDAY, zax 16 SEPTEMBER, 1927, at 3 o'CLOCK I.K.

IN FOUR LOTS

Dy

MLS.LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,

AT THRE

SALES DOOM,...

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W

Con

Apply to SPANISH DOMINICAN

FROCURATION.

Phone No. 721 C.

ANTED-56 Roomed HOUSE.

Lease. Mid-levels or sear PRAK TRAK preferred. Apply For No. 5121, c/o Hong Kong Daily Pres [5123

R

OOMS-Hong Kong, Kowloon

single, double, Flats furnished or unfurnished. Flat for disposal with furniture House $20/30,000 wanted. Also 30,000 Sq. ft. land on Peak,

No. 9, DUDDELL STREET, BONG KONG, SMALL INVESTORS. Tel. 0, 4830.

For further Particulars and Condi.

tions of Sale, Apply to:--

MEERS, HASTINGS, DENNYS

AND BOWLEY,

Vendor's Solicitors,

8. DLA VEUX BOAD CENTRAL,

OF TO

MERA, LAMMERT BROS.,

The Auctioneers, No. 8, DUDDELL STEIST. Hong Kong, 19th Ang., 1927. [5233

STAR

THEATRE

FINAL NIGHT

THE NEW

I Arts and Crafts Competition will OUR CABARET

be held, for which Prizes of the Value of $10,00, $4.40 and 32.30 will be given. .....

A07 Bandmade Article LOY kind may he entered, provided that is is the bond-Aids Handiwork of the Competitor and that the materials used, which

TORY tube of any kind, do not ceat inors than.

50 Cents.

Entries to be sent on or before 18 SEPTEMBER to

MI F. C. WOO,

ST. PADE'S GEMA ECU001, Macdonnell Road;

and must be accompanied by a detailed. statement of the materials, used and "their cost.";

Entries will be Judged by Maa. J. PEARSON KOTKWALE

The Articles will be-Boli-at-the - FUN Oʻ THE FAIE" on OCTOBER

10213

66:

CHARLES CHAMIER'S “ REVUE COMPANY OF TEN. LONDON ARTISTES.

TO-NIGHT

AT 9.30

“ POT POURRI.”

BOOKING AT MOUTRIES AND THE STAR THEATRE

PRICES: 33. $2 AND $1.

TO LET.

OFFICES & GODOWN IN NEW BUILDING.

BEST SITUATION,

APPLY

BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE 5, Queen's Road Central

TO LET

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

•

purchase of vehicles.

The Criminal Sessions for August open on Monday at the Supreme Court There are only two cases sn

One the calendar.

concerns.

remains to be seen.

The 2.5" Shantung is announced to sa to-day-for Shanghai. The other steamers previously mention- ed as resuming their respective runs have already left this port

The, inestimable advantage of the 'bus, of course, is that it invariably traverses the routes along which. or very near to which, people live to that they can always alight some Chinese charged with robbery by

The following appears in last where near their, residences. Fur- two or more, and the other case is

Saturday's Shanghai Times:- ther, they travel along dustless in respect of two Chinese charged

To-day marks the 44th day' that roads which wind through the most with bribery, and alternatively with

the floating staff of the China pleasing part of the country side-offering a bribe.

Navigation Co. have been on strike a country side which for sheer

A fine of 8600, or in default four | and there appears to be na par- beauty is incomparable, and un-months hard labour, was imposed sibility of a settlement of the dis- surpassable in any other part of yesterday morning on a Chinese pute in the immediate future. Tho the world. From the point of view who was arrested the previous day local agents for the Company, of convenience, economy and plea in Water Street in possession of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, asid sure, the motor has great advan-seven tacks of prepared opiam. The lages over the railway; and for these reasons the third class pas- senger is deserting the train at any rate throughout the suckner Blasting at Morrison Hill

The only development has been months. The first and second class Thursday afternoon caused a large passengers have already done so fragment of rock to drop from the the arrival of five of the Company's for motor cars are now cheap and hillside on to Morrison Hill Road: Rect from Swatow where they had A ricksha coolie who was passing at been tied up since the strike com- ininitely moTE comfortable and

the time was struck and sustained menced on June 20th. The vessels sociable than a railway carriage.

injuries to the art. He was which arrived are the s.s. Nanning, It might be argued that the fail- moved to the Government Civil. Newchuang, ss Kwangei, ua. yay's will always hold their own in Hospital. One of the shafts of the Hupeh and 1.8. Kanchow. These the transport of minerals and goods. Į ricksha was broken. This, unfortunately, is not the case

as is exemplified in the case of a

man's record showed that he bad yesterday that they had no state- served several previous terms of im- ment to make in reply to that pub- lished at the instance of the Guilds prisonment for opium offences.

yesterday.

"

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ships are to be tied up by the Com-- "By far the cleverest series of pany at Shanghai until officers are obtained to re-commission them för merchant who recently wanted advertisements I have ever en-

service. countered," was the comment of goods distributed in the provinces

The vessels were brought to Armand T. Grove, an advertising from London. He invited tenders

expert of London, when disening Shanghai by officers of the Com- from motor haulage contractors and the advertising series. now being pany who refused to join the strike". found that he could get his pro- used in the Orient by the Dollar Miss In TAGAWHILL wishes to duce transported and delivered at Steamship Line and 'American Mail

convey her thanks to the many friends who have so kindly ex-cost of £125 es against £240 which Line. "The advertisements," be pressed their sympathy with her the railway companies required said, have, wondrous pulling in her bereavement, [5236

Unless, therefore, the railways can power. The short pithy sentences reduce, their charges very drastic and the terseness of the text is of a character which spells success in

LONDON, August 18th. ally, by lowering overhead expensen,

Viscount Gort, VIC, has been advertising. I must comment on the and by intredecing other severa

illustrations accompanying the text appointed General Staff Officer, economies, the outlook is far from These show things as they really First Grade, of the Fourth Divisice, bright.

Hong Kong Office 11, Ice House

Street.

London Office: 21, Bride Lane,

Fleet Street, E.Ó. 4.

The Daily Press.

Hose Kosu, August 10ra, 1927

A HONG KONG RESIDENT AT HOME.

Ir does not require keen vision writes a Hong Kong resident now on holiday at Home, for the return ed exile to England to realise that the railways" are in the throes of s.struggle from which they will find it difficult to emerge successfully.

The competition of the motor "us is such that trains are at present running practically

Except along the

London Breathes from

or London to Glasgow. The whole face of England is literally covered with these huge vehicles which traverse enormous distances at speeds which are not much behind the ordinary

OFFICESlow train and at prices which the railway companies cannot yet

STEPHENS' BUILDING, 67/69, DES VEUX BOAD

CENTRAL,

"PRINCE'S" "BUILDING, CHATER ROAD,

touch

VISCOUNT GORT'S NEW

POST. [THEOUGS`REUTER'S AGESUT.]-

are,aboard a Dollar liner. They in succession to Colonel B. B. In the meantime the cost of hold out to the traveller visions of Crozier, as from November 4th.

moving about now in England is, delightful voyages across the Pacific -visions which are always falfil- if one cares to take advanatge cfed." the new means, even lower than in pre-war days. When we think of the Peak Tram fares, and ricksha

THE TYPHOON,

GALES AND HEAVY RAIN,

fares in Hong-Kong, we are tempt COMING TO HONG KONG? ed to inform the motor 'bus peuple in England that there is great scope for their activity in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

Two Chinese cases of enteric fever were reported on Thursday.”

Bankruptcy Court at the Supreme There will be a sitting of the

Court this morning, in respect of Chinese frmz-

The Band of the Queen's Royal Regiment will play prior to and during the service at St. John's Cathedral to-morrow evening.

The "Aussie" Club are giving

a ten-dance in honour of Mr. Lum Poo Wah, the noted Australian Chinese tennis player, this after

noon.

Passes Through Colony. Viscount Gort, arrived in Hong Kang yesterday morning by the P. & O. Rawalpindi, on which vessel he is proceeding to Marseilles.

[Lieut.-Colonel Viscount Gort, V.C., D.3.0., MV.O., M.C., of the Grenadier Guards, was the Chief- of-Staff to Major-General John Duncan, commander of the China A telegram received by the Defence Force, and is the sixth of American Consulate-General from the title. Educated Harrow and the Manila Observatory yesterday Sandhurst, he entered the army in morning at eleven o'clock," stated 1908, at the age of 19.

His very that the typhoon was then year or distinguished service during the over Aparri, moving W.N.W., which Inte-war was with the Grenadier means that it was heading for Hong Guards, and it was when leading Kong,

the First Battalion, in 1918, that The later Boyal Observatory re- he won the Victoria Cross.] ening the coast between Hong Kong port stated that the typhoon WAS near Apparri, and was then threat and Amoy this morning.

The weather forecast then given out was "N.W. winds, possibly in- creasing to a gale; fair at first, evercast, with rain, later."

ADVANCE BOOKINGS FOR HONG KONG.

The latest P. & O. advance At 10.20 yesterday morning the passengers lists give the names of phoon was in Lat. Iedeg N., Long 191deg. E The radius was the following persoas booked for 60 miles, but the intensity was Hong Kong. On the Mantua, unknown.

No. 1 local signal was hoisted sailing from London on October 7th:-Mr. and Mrs. C. E. H. during the morning

strike the Colony this morning, or Bellamy, Mr. A. W. Barclay, Mr. The typhoon is now expected to Beavis, Mr. and Mrs LC. F. in other words the worst should be and Mrs W. H. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. over by the time this is in the E. W. Carpenter and Miss Carpen- banda of our readers.

As usual junks and native craft ter, Mr. and Mrs. 8. B. B. Mc made for shelter as the day. pro Elderry, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Mott

LAST NIGHT'S REPORT.

Mrs. G. F. Nightingale, and Mr. JO. Fletcher. On the area,

About one hundred years ago the canals of England were in a flourish

The South China Athletic Assogressed yesterday. The tempera- ing financial condition, for they ciation are giving a larewell re-humidity was also high. It was a the Kashgar, sailing from London ture went up to over 90 and and Mr W E L Shenton. On were the cheapest and best means ception at their zooms at China day of stickiness, especially for of transporting produce from one Building to-night to their members those not yet inured to the climate on October 20th:-Mrs. C. O. Luard centre to another. With the advent who are laving on the Tenyo Maru, and many a move was made to the and Miss H. Luard, also Mr. and

ice-chest. of the locomotive, however, they on Monday na delegates to the Far gradually ded in importance Eastern Olympiad.

The Intest weather report, fore sailing from London on November -until-page they are-regarded-as-a-

cast, and remarks issued by the 4th, Sir Henry and Lady Pollock, Another open-air concert at the Royal Observatory at 8.50 last even Mr. Peoples, Mr. and Mr. J. relic or a curio lingering in an age Kowloon Deck Bathing Bench, in ing stated which has little practical use for aid of funds for a swimming sale 9.W. Japan At 8 p.m. this after ing on the Devanha from Home on An anticyclone covers Kores and Palston and Mr. J. Shewan Sail- them Is the same fate to be for the Service at the end of the noon the typhoon was in about Lat. November 17th, Capt. and Mrz APPLY S. J. DAVID & CO. meted out to the railways? Those swimming sexson, will be given to 20deg N Long--11dag E, mov. G. Cumming and Capt. and Mr. D E Kilber Sir Henry who hold the shores which it must morrow afternoon, o'clock. The ingl. M. Vrat

Gollan (the Chief Justice) leaves on the boat prior to the Mantua, the Macedonia

PRINCE BBUILDING","

OHATER - BOAD,

LOCAL FORECAST-N.W. - winds, be remembered still enjoy the pres. Northampton Regimental Band veating to NE increasing to gale tige of Trustee stock, áre very 1 will play,

force, cloudy, overcast, ram later.