NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.
HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
NOTICE OF MEETING TES 40TH ANNUAL GENERAL T MEETING OF MEMBERS will
be held in the Oc of Mo JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. (Top Floor), by hind permission. TO-DAY (FRIDAY), Peri AUGUST, 1927, st $.80 PM..
Business-**
Passing of Annual Report and State- ment of Accounts,
El-ction of Ocers, is Secretary, Treasurer and Committee.
1 consider any hurines in the interest of the Club.
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Hos. Secretary,
INTIMÁTIONS. -
HONG KONG FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1927.
APPLICATIONS for Admision to
to the Learne must reach the Undersigned on or before the 31st
INTIMATIONS.
FOR SALE OR TO BE LET UNFURNISHED.
No. 27, PEAK, LUGARD ROAD.
TIGHT
Boomed HOUSE, with
LUOUST Sccompanied by the En-E Central Hosting, Five Redmon trance Fee of TWENTY DOLLARS. Four Bathrooms, Thres Using Rooms. No Club can be admitted to the Modern Sanitation, Grass Tennis Court Longne unless afiliated to the Hose and Garden-Apply: LINSTEAD &
DAVIN, ALEXANDRA BUELDINGE, Kone FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION,
W.E HOLLANDS.
Hoz, Secretary.
P.O. Box $53.
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A
PPLICATIONS for Affiliation to the above Association, must mach the Undersigned by the 31st crompanied by the Necessary Fee of TWO DOLLARS. Newly albating CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL Club ONE DOLBAR Entrance Fee
NEXT SESSION of the
TON CHANSER OF COMMERCE
CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL Ореца on MONDAY, 5TH SEPT. EMBER.
Classes are hold at CHANTAZED BANT BUILDING (First Floor) from 1 15 to 2.15 7.M., uni each 8indent has the services of a Personal Teacher in addition to Lessons in Cis
stuca
The desirous of learning Colloquial CANTONESE are invited to municate with the Undersigned. «
M. F. KEY.
Secretary, GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
25th Augus', 1997.
PUBLIC ACTION.
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THE Undersigned have received THE
Instructions to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
Extr
W. E. HOLLANDS,
Hon. Secretary.
F.O. Bar 233.
HONG KONG FOOTBALE ASSOCIATION.
REFEREES AFFILIATION. PPLICATIONS from Qualified Aeferees for A Blisticn to the above Association must reach the Undersigned by the 31st accompanied by the Annual Subscription of ONE DOLLAR
W. E. HOLLANDS,
Bon. Secretary. [5208
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MEMORIAL SERVICE for the
A Late Wun, BRO. D. D. LOGAN will be held at ZETLAND MASONIC SATURDAY, THE 27TH AUGUST, 1997, HALL on SUNDAY, 29TH AUGUST All Master Masons of both at 10 LX. Constitutions are Invited to Attend.
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MOTOR CARS.MACHINERY, ETC. (the Property of THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.) damaged by recent typhoon. Terms: As Cratomary."
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LAMMERT BROTHERS,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned bava received
structions to Bell by
·PUBLIC AUCTION,
MONDAY, 5TX SEPTEMBER, 1927; COMMENCING AT 9.30 AM.
AT
H.M. NAVAL YARD DEPOT, KOWLOON.
OLD AND SURPLUS. "VICTUALLING STORES
Comprising
Table Linen, Implement. Sorge, Flanel, Remnants, Blantats, Sunday Articles of Mass, and Table Go, Electro Plated Ware, Seamen's Clothing, etc., etc,
Terms of Sale:A detailed in Catalogne.
LAMMEET BROTHERS,
"Auctioneers.
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BY ORDER OF THE OWNER. PUBLIC AUCTION
OF THE UNDERMESTION" n
VALUABLE PROPERTIES, Situate in the NEW TERRITORIES in the Colony of Hong Kong: NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT.
No. 53, on which is situated the TAI WAN GLASS FACTORY. This Lot is situato at KOWLOON
HAY:
I
A. FISH POND situato at NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT No.
LOT
8 in the NEW TEHHITORIES.
Nos. 5909 and 5913 it SURVEY DISTRICT 1 in the NEW TERRITORIES (Agrical- tural Lots)
TO BE SOLD
PUBLIC AUCTION
Qal
THURSDAY, THE 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1927, at 3 o'CLOCK EML. IN FOUR LOTS
MESSRÄLAMMERT BR08, Auctioneers
AT TREIK
SALES ROOM,
No. 8, DEDDELL STREET, Hond Kone.
For further Particulars and Condi
tions of Sale," "Apply 10-
Messes, HASTINGS, DENNYS
ANG BOWLEY,
Vendor's Solicitors,
8, Des Vox ROAD CENTRAL,
OR TO
Mamas. LAMMERT BROS,
The Auctioneers,
No. 8, DVIÐELL STREET.
Hong Kong, 19th Ang, 1927. [3233
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NOTICE.
MONIES Ep to 8100,000 are
Available for Investment on 1st Class Mortgage Security subject
to a Trustee Valuation.
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Princes Buildings
SHARES IN CHINA UNDER.
›WRITERS, LTD.
XILL the Present HOLDER of
W the folloring Bhares is the
abere Company which are registered ia My Namo please Communicate With- out Dalay to the Undersigned, c/o LAD,, Bt. CHINA UNDIXWRITERS, George's Building. Certificate No. Shares No. No. of Shares
1014
1015
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210120/10625 500
219624220125
500 9/0126/220825 400
KAM FAT LAY. Hong Kong, 11th Ang, 1927. (527
HONG KONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.
(IN LIQUIDATION)..
FOR SALE
TO LET.
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The Wesleyan Church at Wanchal now has a periodical of its own, and the frat amber has appeared.
St. Peter's Young Men's Club are, holding another wrist drive at the Cathedral Hall this evening, begin- ning at 8.30.
Three cases of enteric, British, Portuguese and Chinese respective-
THE DRYING ROOM.
[BY BELLA SIDNEY WOOLF (MRS. W. T. SOUTHORN).
We were discussing Hong Kong on the deck of the P. & O. bont that was taking us towards the Island and my fellow-passenger
said:
"I hope your house has a good drying-room i
I'm told it has,” I replied. "I'm glad of that and I'm glad you didn't misunderstand me. It ly, and one Chinese case of diph-shows my accent is still above re-
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Silver ornamenta and mancy valued at 874 were stolen from
Headquarters House on Wednesday, according to a report made to the police.
proach. When I came put first, a pleasant Cockney woman on board said to me:-
"I hope your house has a good droying-room,”
"Yes, I answered brightly, a do I. I love entertaining people and a good drawing-room is indis pensable.'
Half one's possessions in the drying' shelf and vanish. One has not the roon seem to wander up to the top
energy to wade through the coat- jungle to the shelves, to stand sa a chair and conduct a systematic search in so onervating a tempora- ture. Consequently one learns to "do without One continues to WeAr the same clothes. One's heart sinks at the thought of re trieving wedding garments from tin-lined boxes buried beneath a pyramid of other boxes, cushions, notepaper, thermos Barks, cameras, playing cards, attaché cuses, books, pictures and medicines.
If your "boy" or amah" hap- pens to be out and you need a change of clothing, you suffer un- utterable vexation of the spirit. They know where they have hidden the ties ar hats or shoes that match But you don't entertine people a certain suit or dress. You don't Revenue Oficer E. Wardley has in the droring-room.' she said, After making hay of everything, reported that on Wednesday after-
You drey your things there.' until it looks like a jumble sale Boon, in Connaughtt Road Central, "Covered with confusion, I pro-when the villagers have picked over. while he was riding his mator-cycle, ceeded to explain my entire ignor the goods, you retire with a hetero geneous collection of garments and No. 518, he struck a hoy, aged five, ance of Hong Kong habits."
à ragged temper, who was later taken to the Governa drying room. It is at the same I myself am no longer ignorant of
ment Civil Hospital.
time the bane and the blessing of my existence.
But I have
with quarrel architects. If I had to design a house in Hong Kong I should build
But if the "drying room "is Hades incarnate, still it is almost worse to leave your things outside. In a day or two of log your pillow," your clother, your hats, smell like
As the result of a fall while attempting to alight from a tram- car in motion on the Shaukiwane palatial drying-room and casually jelly, your load pencils disinte-
Rond on Wednesday, Chinese woman injured the back of her head, and was removed to the Gov- ernment Civil Hospital in an conscious condition,
Motor cars and machinery belong. ing to the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Company, Ltd., which were damaged in the recent typhoon, are
attach the rest of the house round
it
But the architect thinks other- wise. He builds a lovely house and somewhere in an out of the way scarper he constructs a drying-room.
It is usually of a strange shape very often you can hardly stand up right in it and it is never adequate. A housekeeper speaks with feeling on this point. She spends so many fevered moments in that blend of & fecond-hand clothes shop, the palm house at Kew; and a pawn-broker's store. Graven indelibly on her to be sold by public auction to-
brain as Calais was engraved on morrow at 11 am, at the Com- Queen Mary's heart-is that welter pany's garage, Salisbury Road, of mattresses, boxes, pillows, sheets, blankets and cushions. The pioneer Kowloon by Messrs. Lammertushing his way through the jungle Brothers
must have a fellow feeling for the Hong Kong woman pushing her way through the coats, dresses,, um- brellas, trousers, sunshades, field glasses and winter coats that dangle
Members are reminded that the annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Football Club, at which officers will be elected, and arrange- ments for the approaching soccer
BARSON
from the racks.
The shelves always remind me of the shop kept by the sheep in Alice," where you started a thing discussed, will be held on the bottom shelf and it went up to-day at 3.30 p.m., at the Board to the top one and disappeared. Boom of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
a fungus, your soap dissolves into
grate and fall into three pieces-— two strips of wood and a strip of either lead your envelopes are. firmly stuck down or else in such
state of dissolution that wherever you put them down they adhere likes fly-paper. A book grows a thick white furry coat of mould, clocks and their leather cases part company, notepaper develops brown spots like iron mould, the wooden tops of bath salts bottles drop off the cork, mirrors become dim and spotted, everything breaks out into a cold perspiration.
No, pile on the faggots and stake up the drying room" and roast your belongings. It is less depressing to bury your treasures for a while, knowing that they will emerge when the mist rolls by, than to feel you are turning them into
mushroom bed
It is better to deliver up your goods to the fiery furnace whence they may emerge from the ordeni, than to see them moulder away be- fore your eyes.
"The wills above be done! but I would fain die a dry death."
THE C.N.C. DISPUTE.
FURTHER SETTLEMENT
RUMOURS.
In the ease reported yesterday Before Mr. W. Schofield at the where the Kwong Mou Loong Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Cracker Factory was fired $50 for morning a young Chinese was sen- not having a licence to manufacture tenced to six months' hard labour | fire-crackers, no suggestion WAR End: 15 - strokes-of-the- birch for made that there was overcrowding. snatching a gold bangle from a The regulation for cracker making END OF STRIKE IN SIGHT? was opened, and it contained-baby, which was being carried on is that five or six men should be button, a penny, an antiquated its mother's back, near Shamshuipo employed in one small room, but
It is hoped that the end of the the defendant has over fifty ex-dispate between the China Navi- pistol, a dice box, a child's night Market on Tuesday.
ployees. They are, however, accom- gation Company and its officers is cap, and a book entitled Gur- prises of Love, or an Adventure in
The next session of the Chinese modated in one large room, quite at last in sight, but" former dis- appointments make it necessary to Language School conducted under ¦ adequate in size for their number. pince some restrainton undue Greenwich Park."!***
the auspices of the General Chamber.
*optimism. of Commerce opens on Monday, A house boy of No. 142, Kowloon
This seems conclusive proof that
However, if the rumours current
ed in London, and the result was JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT WAA, as has been September 5th. Classes for new and Tong, appeared before Mr. Win the Colony yesterday are correct, laughter and ridicule, and the con- fusion of all those--and they are many-who believed that "JOHANNA a true prophetess. To most people, of course, she is merely a fanatic. who flourished at, the begin
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A. RITCHIE,
c/o Liquidator, LOWE, BINGHAM & Mattawwa, 3, Queen's Road Central
TO LET
died in 1914. On her deathbed she
repeatedly alleged, the victim of delusions. She was mentally afflict ed. She suffered from what would he called in these days religious mania. It might be supposed that practice. the examination of the box would
"AUNTY J. WALKER."
The following placards, signed Aunty J. Walker," issued by the Bureau of Public Safety, Police Department," is hung in the Traffic placard reads: Office at Palien Headquarters. The
GOOD BYE TO THE REV. AND MRS. H. S. F. ROSSITER.
TRIBUTE IN WESLEYANS' PERIODICAL,
advanced students are held daily tracy yesterday morning, summon delayed. No official news is avail Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- then the settlement should not be during the tiffin interval and ined for keeping a chow dog without able regarding the reported re- addition each student is allotted a a license and also for allowing the opening of negotiations at Shang- personal teacher for conversational dog to be abroad without a muzzle. bai, but there is a very optimistic. He was further summoned for keep feeling that next week will see the ing a second dog without a license. officers back at duty.
Chineso merchants with big finan He pleaded guilty to all three sum- have convisted everybody that as second floor of No. 30, Shanghai the che dog had been destroyed to have been largely responsible for A Chinese woman living on the monses, and Sergt. Fennell, who cial interests involved are stated to prosecuted, told His Worship that have brought pressure to bear and a prophetess she had been found Street, Yaumati, on Wednesday, by the police. Defendant was in the resumption of negotiations. bequeathed a box to her faithful out. But we learn that there are attempted to commit suicide by ed 85 on each of the summonses followers with a strict injunction many in England who still believe jumping into the harbour from aand was also fined 84 for allowing for keeping a dog without a license, that it was to be opened in a time in her. They are saying that the Star ferry launch while in mid- the chow dog to be cut without a of dire national need, and then only box that was opened in the pre-steam. She was rescued by a seaman muzzle. after the Archbishop of Canterbury sence of the Bishop of Granthem of the launch, and was removed to had summoned 24 bishops to be
the Government Civil Hospital on was the wrong box. There were arrival at Hong Kong. present at the ceremony. During nine boxes, it is said, so that we the Great War there was a demand have not heard the last of JOHANNA A Chinese was on Wednesday, for the box to be opened; but the SOUTHCOTT. We are indeed no taken to the Government Civil Archbishop wisely refused to move.
nearer the solution of her secret-Hospital suffering from injuries re- Recently when the question was if there ever was one-and the cived through falling down the again raised be declared that if he recent investigation has achieved stairs of No. 18, Stone Nullah were to summon 21 bishops nothing but the reduction of the Lane. The accident accurred while required he would be "acting in number of possible claimants who the police were carrying out an a way which I should regard as possess boxes, by one.
opium raid at house No. 91. Fear ing that his house would subequent- OFFICES partly profane and partly fantas-
The persistence of credulity is
ly be raided, the man was attempt. often a pathetic but also often aing to escape when he missed his Fortunately for the elucidiation marvellous spectacle. It has hap- footing on the dark stairs and of truth and the discomforture of pened before now that the propbet tumbled down to the bottom. knives and fools, the Bishop of who has foretold the end of the Grantham was sportsman chough a world on a certain date does not, | The sequel to the assault on a few weeks ago to give the box when the day comes and goes with conductor of a Kowloon motor bus chance. It is true that he is a out event, disappear amid the anger in Sai Kung Road, Kowloon City, Saffragan Bishop, and he is only or derision of his dupes, as morning at the Kowloon Magis. on Wednesday, took place yesterday one whereas Jonansa stipulated for might expect if he does dinapropiat bete Mr Wache cast ind remarks, issued by the -24, but he had a number of clergy pear he getterally leaves behind, at held," a Chinese was charged with Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m.,
to support him. It is also true that any rate, some of his dupes, who common assault. Inspector Phillips stated:-
The anticyclone over N.E. Japan efforts in furthering the cause, dur applied for a remand and stated the present is not a time of national proceed to explain the failure away that the complainant had been re- has strengthened lightly. Pres ing a very trying period of depres peril for Old England, but one must The classic example of this is the moved to hospital suffering from sure is low over N., and B.W. sion in the history of the Church. APPLY S. J. DAVID & CO. not be too exacting when it comes lady who bravely maintained that several bruises inflicted by the fire China. The typhoon appears to Mr. and Mrs. Rossister, after a men who had a quarrel with him be nearly atationary about 300 miles brief sojourn in the Old Country, aprophetess and a box of the world had actually come to an ever their fares. The police bad to the east of Aparri, Another leave in early 1928 for the West mystery. If a national emergency and on the appointed day just as not received intimation from the typhoon has formed to the east of Indies mission field. Friends in the Far East wish them, God Speed hospital as to the nature of the Guam. V suddenly arose it is just as well had been predicted, but that no one conductor injuries. His Worship LOCAL BORECASTB viede lylit and all success and happiness
their new abode. adjourned the case, į
to moderate, fair, to be prepared. And so the box had yet realised it
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The Wanchai Wesleyan Methodist Church Quarterly (their new magazine) contains the following:- It was with feelings of regret that we at Wanchai, said "Good-bye" to the Rev. and Mrs. H. S. F. Rossiter on their departure from Hong Kong by the sa. Rawalpindi. Mr. Rossiter has been closely asso ciated with the cause at Wanchai Church for over two years. He first became acquainted with our church in 1925, when many mission workers were compelled to evacuate- from South Chine mission stations to Hong Kong.
Mr. Rossiter came to us from Wuchow and has been more or less in touch with, the activities of the Church ever since. During 1925- 1920 he was pastor at Wazichat Church on three separate occasions, finally handing over control at the... Pastor, Rev. J. O. Knight Anstey. end of last year
Mr. Rossiter, will be remembered
at Wanchai particularly for his
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