NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.
HONG KONG HOCKEY CLUB.
INTIMATIONS.
·PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 1927.
THE Undersigned have received
TULS ANNUAL GENERAL KEET. 1 Instructions to Bell by
ENG will be held on MONDAY,
5TH SEPTEMBER, at 5.30 r.m., in the LECTURE Room at VOLUNTEZE HRAD QUARTXAS (by kind permission).
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T. P. SAUNDERSON,
Hon. Secretary.
HONG KONG FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
MANAGEMENT COM
TMITTEE of the above Leagte
will meet at VOLUNTEER HEADQUALTIES (By kind parcission), on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH BI 3 30 PM, to make Arrangements for the League Competi tions for the Coming Season. Club Secretary's are invited to be present.
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W. 3. HOLLANDS,
Hon. Eecretary...
PUBLIC AUCTION
OR
MONDAY, 6TH SEPTEMBER 1997, COMMENCING AT 9.30 LX
H.M. NAVAL YARD DEPOT, KOWLOON,
OLD, AND SURPLUS VICTUALLING STORES
ON VIEW FROM FRIDAY, 2ND SEPTEMBER, 1927,
Comprising:
INTIMATIONS.
Verses for the Week.
"The man's emphatically mad.
Who drinks the best, yet can be sad.”
(RABELAIS).
"Let other posts raian a fracas,
Bent rings and wince, sa drunken
Bacchus,
An' crabbit names and stories wrack as An. grato our jug. I sing the juice Beetah malt can
"mak' c
In glass or jug,
As with naw wine intoxicated both
persona insured under these Acts in the course of the past three years Eas been greatest in the South-East of England this is, in the area east of a line drawn from the Wash to Portsmouth.--.
The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. Clement Lo, clerk, employed at the Banque Francisc Chinoise, and residing at No. 12 Tang Long Street, to Miss Fran- coise Leon, teacher, residing at No. 132, Queen's Road East.
Among the trades that have shown
Passengers due to arrive by s the most marked activity have been Khyber from Home to-day, include. those associated with the buildings. H. Armstrong, Mr. F. industry, Cement manufacture, Foale, Mrs. Foale and infant, Mr. rooting tiles, fittings, stoves, paints, Foale (Jr.), Miss Foale, Mr. F. C. ironmongery, furniture, and, need- Goodman, Mrs. Goodman and twó less to say, bricks. One firm in children, Mr. T. H. Goaden, Mr. E. Savage, Mrs. Savage and child, Mr. R. B. Wood, Mrs. Wood, Mr. Wood (Jr.), Master Wood, Miss Wood.
They swim in mirth, and fancy that the Eastern area is turning out two
they fool
million bricks day, and its Divinity within them.”
machinery is running for twenty hours of the twenty-four. Included in other industries that are "PICS
(BUINE).
Table Linen, Implement, Serge, Articles of Meas and Table Goa, Electro Plated Ward, Seamen's
Flannel, Remnants, Bankets, Sundry DEWAR'S
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG. Clothing, etc., sic.
NOTICE.
MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR LOCAL, EXA- MINATIONS.
DECEMBER 1997.
TOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN
that the bore. Examinations will Begin on MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927. Forms of Entry and Copies of the Regulations and the fyllabus can be obtained on application to the Rao
--TETRAX,
Estry Forms duly filled in, should Teach the REGISTRA, together with the Statutory Fers, on or before the 17T SEPTEMBER 1927, Fees shall be paid in accordance with the following Scales:
MATRICULATION AND SENIOR
LOCAL. EXAMINATIONS...., H. K. $20. JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATION..H.K.$19. Chudidates offering more than Fire Subjects Matriculation, Serior and Junior Local Examinations will be charged an Additional Fee of $1.00 for esch Subject 10 offered
As Additional Fee of $5.00 will be Charged for EACH of the following
Terms of Sale:-As detailed in Catalogue.
LAMMERT BROTHERS,
Auctioneers,
$253
BY ORDER OF THE OWSER.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF THE UNDERMENTIONED VALUABLE PROPERTIES, ́· Sitaate in the NEW TERRITORIES
in the Calony of Boig Kong: NEW KOWLOÓN INLAND LOT No. 53, on which is situated the TAI WAN GLASS FACTORY. This Lot is situate at KOWLOON
BAX:
A FISH POND situale at NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO.
LOT
8 in the NEW TERRITORIES,
Noa." 5903 Bad 3918 in
44
WHITE
LABEL"
OF GREAT AGE.
Lim
TUESDAY'S
TYPHOON.
OFFICIAL REPORT FROM THE ROYAL OBSERVA- TORY
NEARLY 100 INCHES OF RAIN,
We publish below the official report issued by Mr. T. F. Claxton, Director of the Royal Observatory, on the typhoon which passed be- tween Gap Rock and Hong Kong at p.m. on Tuesday.
DO
fresh
The typhoon probably formed to Miss Aileen Woods is leaving to the oast of Pratas on the after perous are those concerned with the morrow with the "Our Cabaret" neon of August 20th. It passed Company for the North. She is near that island in the evening, but anufacture of motor cars, dice-
now busy "rebeatsing a number of caused
more than trical equipment, tinplates, wire-
new Sketches with the company breeze. On the morning of August less apparatus, and the production and, we understand, will also sing 30th it was shown, to the N.W. of of sugar from beet for which the selections from her repertoire which Pratas and passed between Gap | Government offers substantial has proved so popular in
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the Rock and Hong Kong at about 4 subsidy to farmers and the beet Colony. The company are opening p.m.
A
FROM ENGLAND' TO CANADA BY AIR.
PRINCESS, AS PASSENGER, IS BLESSED BY ARCHBISHOP,
MONOPLANE ALSO BLESSED.
PRINCESS DAINTLY EQUIPPED
*(THROUGH KEUTER'2" AGENCY.]
LE
LONDON, August 31st. The Fokker monoplane Straphael, piloted by Colonel F. F. Minchin, and accompanied by Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Princess Lowenstein Wertheim, left Upavon Aerodromo this morning for Ottawa,
LATER Princcer Lowenstein Wertheim is -
the first woman to participate in
aa Atlantic flight
· She arrived at Upavor at dawn
Roman Catholic Archbishop of small diameter "and feeble inten- Cardiff and two priests who bless
sugar factories. No doubt it bas at the Carlton Theatre Shanghai The typhoon was of unusually in a motor-car accompanied by the cscaped the notice of many that on September 7th. SCOTCH WHISKY there is so much activity in the
recent meeting of the 'sity. It is now shown as a depresed the aeroplane before the start. aren in question because of the Penang Poppy Day Committee, sion over South China.
over which Mr. P. J. Sprouls The wind at Gap Rock backed The latter was dressed in a purple They also blessed the Princesa. absence of tall chimneys and big presided, Mr. Dawbarn said the
from N.E., force 5, at 1 pm. leather firing suit and wore silk Ex-Service Association was in a buildings begrized with dust,
strong position. They had over North, force, 5, at 2 p.m. and There is fortunately, no Black $2,000 on dixed deposit and 8644 W.S.W., force 5, at 3 p.m.
stockings and high-heeled furlined in the Benevolent Fund. He did
boots. Her luggage consisted of Country with its repellant ugliness
no think they should ask for ia South-Eastern England.
rebate this year. A Committee re
two attache cases and a hat box "The Chief Inspector shows how presenting the different communi-
ties was appointed. industries may rise and wane, and altogether disappear as a result of changes in fashion or in the habits of the people. The craze manifest
AWARDED 50
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NEW TERRITORIES (Agricul-
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TO BI SOLD
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Tr
ed by women for short hair in the last few years has killed the trade in hairpina, and the making of hair-pada, hair nets and veils. The thousands of workers who were
Subjects: - Foreign Language Higher THURSDAY, zzz 1ST SEPTEMBER, It Never Varies, formerly engaged in the manufac
The
Bygiens and Physiolog
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of which may be obtained
from the Brottnak, will be awarded
1997, AT 3 O'CLOCK FM.
IN FOUR LOTS
IT
on the Results of the Matriculation Massas.LAMMERT BROS.Auctioneers and Local Examinations:-
(1) Two Peace Memorial Scholarships, ach of the total value of £1,350 open to British Boys only.
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(4) One Hong Kong Government Educational Scholarship, open to Boy Candidates from Hong Keng Schools.
(5) Four Hong Kong Government
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ture of blouses and lace now find themselves, as Othello lamented, with their occupation gone." The tremendous increase in transport facilities by motor conveyances has
The annual general meeting of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society is to be held in the City Hall on Friday, September 16th,
At Waglan the wiad veered. from North, force 7, at 2 p.m., to S., force 6, at 4 p.m. and 5.S.E., force
6, at 5 p.m.
At the Observatory the wind veered from N.N.E. at 11 am to N.E. at noon, E.N.E. at 1 p.m. and East at 5 p.m. At 6 p.m. it veered rapidly to 8.8.E,
The rainfall for the 24 hours
ending at 10.30 a.m. yesterday was total to 92.88 inches 1.52 inches, which brings the year's
5.15 p.m., for the purpose of receiving the annual report and statement of accounts for the pear
The highest, squall velocity was ending August 31st, 1927, and of electing office bearers for the eat the rate of 57 miles per hour at sueing year. A copy of the report 2.25 p.m. will be pablished later, when re- ceived from the Hon, Secretary.
moved to the Kweng Wah Hospital A Chinese was on Tuesday re- from No. 22, Reclamation Street,
Weather Reports. Yaumati, suffering from a ballet wound in the head. The man who The morning weather report yes- was a seaman on a fishing junk terday forecasted South winds, said that the wound was received moderate; overcast with rain at on August 29th in fight with fret, improving later.
depression had moved to
I also stated that the Japanese
kaido.
Hok.
Last Evening's Report. The weather report, forecast and remarks for last evening read—
The Japanese depression is now
affected trade. In the country dis- pirates in Chinese waters while on a voyage from Ssichong to Hong tricts the number of tailors, Kong. Several casualties were in- milliners, dress-makers, carpenters, Bicted on the pirates by the junk'a blacksmitha, and saddlers has crew, and the bandits were even-
tually dzişen off. diminished. The villagers are able
Among the passengers arriving | to shop in the towns.
at Hong Kong by the s. Chenon N.E. of Hokkaido. Pressure is re- from Shanghai were the latively low over China... There are some who will, perhaps,cedur
members of the Broadway Follier
Local forecast:-South regret the passing of the village Company which is to give a short moderate, cloudy showery. dressmaker if only because there is season at the Queen's Theatre be
ginning to-day. The company in-Į
Shipping Items.
ROOMS.-Hong Kong, Koned or nothing now to denote the country cludes Mr. Joseph Cherpineipal
single, double, Flats furnished or
unfurnished.
winds,
The Zungshan, scheduled to sail
The machine carries 800 gallons of petrol and two days' food sup- plies of emergency rations.
17%
D-
Mr. Levine's Intentions.
LONDON, August 31st. Mr. Charles Levino has nounced that if Minchin succeeds in crossing the Atlantic, he will alter. his plans and attempt to break the long-distance endurance record by Aying eastward.
MR. LEVINE'S NEW PILOT.
APPOINTS ME. WALTER FINCHCLIFFE,
[BRITISH WIELLESE SERVICE.)
Ruaar, August 30th.
Mr. Charles Levine, the Ameri-. can millionaire-owner of the nero- plane Miss Columbia, in which be flew across the Atlantic se
which he piloted himself yesterday passenger with Chamberlin, aud
♫ sensational manner from Paris to Croydon, has appointed the English aimoan Walter Hinch- cliffe, of the Imperial Airways, to
in
Flat for disposal with maidén from her cousin in London, Miss Helen Cook, late principal at 1a.m. yesterday morning, left pilot him back across the Atlantic... faritare. House $20/30,000 wasted. for both are turned out smartly and dancers with the New York. mid- for Canton at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. The start is expected to be made
night Revenue, Sgt. Adolfo Belloti, The Taishan came down in the
Mr. Levine is deter- (6) One Hewitt Memorial Scho'ar- YY THING ASSISTANT for Also 30,000 Sq. Ft. land on Peat equally well, and distinctions in a well known tenor, late of the evening as usual, and the Lung very soon.
dress are gone presumably for ever. Metropolitan Opera Company, and then again came down last night.mined to achieve the feat of By- hip of the value of $300 per Mooring and Camooring Vaisels SMALL INVESTORS. Tel: 0.4630.
seven young ladies of the ballet. Thus the schedule has been maining both ways across the Atlantic Applicants having Experiance
So, too, the village blacksmith with Charles Hugo, well-known intained without alteration, except
AUDEM,
(7) Four Montargis French Prizes - Bostawain or Quartermaster preferred.
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Two of the value of $50 each for Apply to the BOARD'S WHARF Matriculation and Senior, and | KANAGER. Two of the viané. of $25 each for Junior.
Bound Copies of Examination Question Papers, set at Past Examinations, may be obtained from the RZGHSTEAÉ A! $1,00 per set.
W. B. FINNIGAN,
Registrar.
31st August, 1927
HONG KONG CLUB
NOTICE.
75276
SEVENTH YEARLY
TDRAWING OF 20 DELEN. TURES (1920 Issur-8500 EACH) of the HONG KONG CLUB, Payable on FRIDAY, the 307 SEPTEMBER, 1927,
will be held in the Chun House, 11 O'CLOCK A... OP THURSDAY, the STH SEPTEMBER, 1927.
Bearers of Debentures are invited to altend the Drawing,
By Onler,
AEL ABBAS,
Acting Secretary, Hong Kong, 27th Aug., 1927. [5263
HONG KONG CLUE
NOTICE.
N Terms of Debenture. Conditions
112 18 and 14 NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that the DRAWING OF:30 ADDITIONAL DEBEN TURES (1930 15Z-3500 BACH) of the HONG KONG CLUB, Payable on SATURDAY, the 3187 MARCH, 1928, will be held in the Crus Hopaz, at 11 O'CLOCK LM. on THURSDAY, the 8ru SEPTEMBER 1927, immediately after the SKYARTH FARLY DRAWING 67 20 DEDENTUREL
Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing.
By Under,
A. EL ABBAS,
Acting Secretary.
Hong Kong, 27th Aug. 1997, (6284
NOTICE.
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the circumstances..
WANTED-5/6 Boomed HOUSE. his brawny arms has vanished-or the Star Theatre, who is acceof for the early sailing of the Dang- Mr. Levine, in leaving his hote: in
Mid-levels or
sear nearly so from under the spread-panied by Mrs. Hugo. The Broad, which was unavoidable under London, paid a visit to Croydon FAX FLAN preferred. Apply Boxing chestnut tree. He has been way Follies are on their way to No. 5121, c/o Hong Kong Daily Prou.
(514) swept aside by the advance of Manila in the course of a tour of the world and their visit to Hang motoring, or has survived only Kong should give much pleasure to
local theatre-goers. where he has been wise in time, and has closed his smithy and opened a garage,
DEATH. SWEENEY.-On August 31st, THOXAS FRANCIS, the infant son of Mr. "and Mrs. N. SWEENEY, Chinese Maritime Customs, (3278.
Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House.
Street.
London Office: 91, Bride Lane,
Fleet Street, E.C. 4.
The Baily Press.
Hose Kore, Seztemaer 187, 1927
INDUSTRIAL CHANGES IN
ENGLAND.
OFFICIAL reports on trade and
industry are scarcely to be regarded as attractive reading for the general
public. They are not the mental
Two Chinese cases of enteric fever. were reported on Tuesday.
Local Chinese newspapers report that three officials of one of the local labour.guilds have absconded with $13,000 of the gnild funds.
مية
QUEEN OF THE NETHER,
LANDS.
HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATED.
CONSULATE GENERAL **AT HOME.”
The President Jefferson did not sail for Manila on Tuesday even. ing, as scheduled. A notice was posted at the Star Ferry wharves stating that the ship had gone out to anchorage, owing to the proxi- mity of a typhoon, and passengers were asked to remain on shore over night. The Jeferson returned to her berth at the Kowloon Wharves yesterday morning, and sailed later in the day for the Philippines.
West River steamers sheltered when the barometer fell, and ar rived here some hours late.
Diamasted Junk.
Aérodrome to-day, and was sure rounded by an admiring crowd, anxious to see the man who had flown across the English Channel without any experience as a pilot.
(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.]" The Millionaire's "Baby,"
LONDON, August 30th. "Mr. Levine, has appointed the
British pilot, Walter Hinchcliffe, to By the Mia Colum ia back to America.
at
Interviewed Levine said: "The Mus Columbia Croydon, Mr.
is my baby, and I would not sell her. When I get to New York T mm going to try and reclaim the endurance record for America My baby can take gasoline suficient for 05 hours.
Asked how he felt after his first. "Everybody seemed scared, but ail that happened was that I forgot to set the stabilizer for landing. 1
and land at 100 miles an hour in- had it set. for level Aying, other- wise, all I did wrong was to try stead of 60."
While on the way to Canton on Tuesday afternoon, the Lungelan An "at home" was held at encountered a dismasted and "dere ~ Among the passengers arriving the Netherlands Consulate-General liet junk off the West Brothers at Chancery yesterday morning in 5 p.m., which was apparently abaa- here by the s.. Tanda from Japan honour of the birthday of Her doned. A notice to Mariners at solo flight, Mr. Levine said: yesterday morning, were Capt. and Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the the Harbour Office states that this Mr. Charnock, and the Rev. G. F. Netherlands.
wreck is a danger to navigation. Stopford.
Guests were received by Mr. A.
No Damage. Methofer, Consul, and acting Con- All the vernacular papers state shl-General for the Netherlands, Police and authorities it -appears In the absence of reports to the that there is no confrmation of and included E.E. the Governor that the wind and rain caused no rumour of the arrival of Mar- (Siz Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) damage in the way of landslides, shal Chiang Kai Shek in the and HLE Major Ceneral General etc. A junk is stated to have cap Luard, C.B., O.M.O. (General Colony en route for Europe.
Officer Commanding South China sized in the harbour on Tuesday Command), with their respective afternoon, but no loss of life has A.D.C.'. There were also present been reported, representatives of the Consular bodies
2
Mr. J. Buchanan, chief engineer of the dredger Tembakul, which arrived in Penang a while ago to carry out work on Weld Quay, has been missing since Saturday.
tickets.
and daughter will arrive in London He added that his mother, wife from Paris,
In the evening Levine and Finch- cliffe flew to Cranwell aerodrome to prepare for their trans-Atlantic fight. The case against the two Chinese
French Pilot Paid, charged with the murder of Mrs.
"PARIS, August 30th...... Rose Mackay at Chai Wan (pear Mrs, Levine has handed to Bron- Shaukiwan) on August 6th, is to be bin 100,000 francs, as damages due continued this morning and after-from Mr. Levine for breaking his Chancery were the following:-The hot at the Central Magistracy, contrnet with regard to the trans-
before Mr. R. E. Lindsell.
Atlantic Bight.
HE. the Governor proposed the toast to the Queen of the Nether lands, and the toast, to HM. King George Vth was submitted by Mr. Methofer.
Among the many callers at the
fare one would select for a holiday, or to beguile the time on a ses voyage, or as, a birthday present. But all the same they have their
A fine of $50 or four weeks' hard uses. They can also be extremely labour was imposed on a Chinese interesting. Thus the Report of Road Central on Tuesday. On his who was arrested in Connaught the Chief Inspector of Factories person was found 134 Po Piu
Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shepton," the |* and Workshops in Great Britain
Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, Com for the year 1996 contains the ar- Mr. B. D. F. Beith was among modore Pearson, R.N., Sir Robert The licensee of the Kowloon- resting statement that there is a those arriving here yesterday morn He Tung, Sir Shou Son-chow, Store, a compradore shop at No. ing by the Empress of dia. The Captain B. L. Dowbiggin, Mr. 76, Nathan Road, Kowloon, was new distribution of industry in vessel had a large passenger list, and Mig. P. Marks, Mr. and Mrs. charged before Mr. W. Schofield England. We must try to forget including over 240 Chinese steerage AO Banker, Mr. and Mr. Yra at the Kowloon-Magistracy-yester- Heurn, Mr. and Mrs. C. de Bruyn, day morning with selling to Bani- that the North is the great work. Passengers for this port.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Andel, Mr. T. tary Inspector D. W. Phillips, half shop of the nation to the exclusion, been sent Hospital Mr. C.
A Chinese boy aged 16, has King Dovan Dorsser, Mr. C analysed, was found to have been D.C.I, Mr. Heenbergen, a pound of lard which, on being
"PRIDE OF · DETROIT IN THE BALKANS
· ARRIVAL. IN, BALKANÉ.
(THROUGH REUTKE'S AGENCY.]"
- BELGRADE,- August 30th. CONTES Up to $100.000 a APELX S. J. DAVID & CO imest, of other orcas-This infor- bent to the Kowloon Hoobs Meyer, Mr. W. Ar Dowley, Mr. Lo adulterated. In imposing fine
The Pride of Detroit, with Brock mation comes to light, curiously shoulder and right arm caused by Chung Wan,compradore of the of 250, his Worship said that it and Schles, who are fying round enough, through the Unemployment
a fall while climbing a troe op- Netherlands Trading Society, Mr. appeared to him that the defend the world, has arrived. posite the Kowloon City police H. M. Hendriksen, and any unt's foki supplied that kind of Chey will re fuel and resume the
|·bers of the Consular Body- Insurance Acts.” The increase in the station.
stull to anyone who asked for lardfight to-morrow.
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ia
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