INTIMATIONS.
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ASSOCIATION.
INTIMATIONS.
"THE PEAK FLATS."
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.SWAom the 8 donut
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W. E. HOLLANDS,
Hon Secretary.
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6% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBEN. TURES (KAILAN BONDS).
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ITUATED within Two Minutes" overlooking the Southern Side of the Island. Ready for Occupation in JULY. Five-Roomed FLATS sad
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Shamshaijo in the Colony of Bong 68. Quen's ROAD CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOR. Kong, for a term of 75 years, commen- cing from at July, 1898," with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be rel by the Surreyor of His MAJESTY THE Ko, for, one furtoar term of 24 years less three days.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of sale.
Locality,
Kowloon Taiand Registry No.
Lot No. 1138.
Junction of Chouog Sha Wan Road and
hamebuipo,
Nan Chang Street,
Boundary
Measure-
ments.
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anie plan
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of
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man.
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DANGEROUS BLASTING.
AMERICAN RESIDENT'S
COMPLAINT.
CONTRACTOR WARNED AND
FINED.
The summons
**RECEIPT."
CASE DECIDED AGAINST THEN.
A NOMINAL FINE.
NINE-YEAR-OLD ARTIST.
GIRL WHO NEVER HAD A LESSON,
| WORK THAT SHOWS GENIUS.
The case in which two delivery coolies employed by the Wing On EXHIBITION OPENED BY SIR
JOHN LAYERY.
To Peggy Somerville, aged 0.
art.
of his early days. The gyro com "ROCKS ON ROOF SHOP COOLIES AND THEIR pas, for example, is a great ad- vance on the magnetic variety and removes an element of uncertainty in a very important direction. It was said before the war that a naval captain, whose ship touched CODSC- shoal, without serious quences, demonstrated to a court of inquiry that his standard compass
Company were summoned for issu had been deflected by the steel hook
ing receipta on which the necessary that replaced the left hand, which
revenue stamps had not been affix- he had lost in action, as young At the instance of Mr. David Med was again before Mr. Lindsell may be applied the words "And a little child shall lead them "-- The court accepted the in- Biggar, manager of the Equitable at the Central Magistracy restarthat is, the lions and the lambs of triente calculations upon which the Eastern Banking Corporation, a day morning.
Mr. H. L. Dennys, who appear- Already she is painting in a way defence was based and recommended Chinese contractor, Kwok Sing
that no living artist could excel, that the captain supply himself, Leong, appeared before Mr. R. Eed for the defence, argued at the writes the art critic of the London This is not an with a brass hook! The gyroscopic Lindsell at the Central Magistracy previous bearing that the sala Morning Post
yesterday for carrying out danger-notes on which the word "received" overstatement. compass, is fortunately, unaffected our blasting operations.
Sir John Lavery, in the absence was entered when the coolics de- of Lady Lavery through illness, by the proximity of steal ar by
was taken outlivered the goods at the houses of opened an exhibition of Peggy's thunderstorms which are another against the contractors
after customers were not legal acquit work on June 7th at the Claridge Gallery, Brook-street, W., and said source of anxiety to those who rely several warnings had gone un- tances and therefore did not re he was completely mystified by
heeded, 'and 'because the complain-quire the on the magnetised needle.
affixing of revenue the extraordinary genius of the little girl in the handling of oils, The Raleigh, a big cruiser and ant considered that he could not stamps.
Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, for water colours and crayons.' sister ship of the Hawkins, the pre- get any satisfaction from the Police, the Crown, yesterday argued that
In support of his and one's own sent China Station flagship, is, we to whom he reported the matter on the document on which one of the opinion, pumerous little drawings sevarni occasions. Mr. Biggar re-coolies signed a receipt for money and paintings made between the for goods delivered, was in the ages of three and nine could be believe, the only other serious
" "Whitberry sides at
Pokfulam,
nature of an acquittance and mentioned. All are gema of great casualty suffered by the Nayy since and the defendant's firm are en should be therefore stamped. beauty, refined in sentiment" and the war, and she was also lost dur-gaged in work on the hillside op-
For the defence, Mr. Dennys sub-expressed with the technical assur- Imitted that Wing On and other ance that comes to most artists ing foggy weather off the North-east posite the complainant's home.
similar stores carried on business after long experience and much const of Canada. Not a single Mr...Horace Lo prosecuted on be on a cash basis, and that it was vexation of spirit.
She never had really to oblige a customer that
A lesson. She Dreadnought has been lost, though half of Mr. Biggar, and the de
watched one of the coolies took the goods to just
her father and was not legally repre- the house and obtained the money brothers at work (all are artists), the name ship was commissioned fendant
there. The document on which he and became absorbed in her own. sented. twenty years ago.. Indeed the last
In her third year she sent clever Me. Biggar gave evidence to the signed his name was one of a British capital ship to suffer this;
effect that as a result of the blasting multiple set of invoices used for sketches to the Royal Drawing accounting purposes and for the Society, and at the Claridgo Gal- fate in time of peace was H.M.S.
operations fragments stone identification of the coolie who delery are shown other specimens of the early efforts that led up Montague which went ashore on had fallen on the roof and garden livered the goods.
His Worship held that a techni- gradually to the beautiful Ming the Lundy Island in Bristol of his residence since June 3rd. He cal offence had been committed in Vase" which is her latest achieve- Channel. Her captain had im- made two reports to the Police one of the cases. By putting the ment.
to the document. In answer to a question she said, the coolic showed that money had "Yes, I like music, and I dance. petuously taken the ship to sea in Station at Pokfulam and took the word "received"
been received, and that therefore and also read poetry." Peggy was foggy weather in order to carry stones, which were quite, big, to out some of the earliest tests with how the police. However, the brought it within the definition of unsophisticated enough to admit
rocks..still continued to be a receipt under the Ordinance. If that she loved Longfellow.
the coolie had merely signed hin
18 nothing precocious wireless ever attempted at sexblown over the complainant's house name or had put in the word about Peggy's demeanour. She is Shortly before the wat H.M.S. and ground. On one occasion he delivered." the document could a charmingly natural child, with Bedford, one of the old county saw a też pound rock fly over hia still be regarded as an invoice or bright, dark eyes and fair hair, as much interested in her domestic cruisers out on this
Station residence and bury itself in his delivery note.
A conviction was recorded on pets as in art. It would be un- each summons with a nominal fine wise to prophesy as to her future. ran on to a reef during a full garden behind the house.
development. She has advanced so Mr. Biggar also said that he of one dollar.
far already that a period of ap- speed trial and became a total
telephoned the contractors about
parent repose may follow, of slow wreck. In this instance there was
the danger they were causing and
but sure preparation free from ar tificial forcing. a serious loss of life. But the lists representative from the firm call-
of accidents to modern ships of the British Navy is a creditably
of
ed and promised that it would not occur again.
A. S. WATSON short oner Risks must be taken, at home after 5 p.m. and again
& CO., LTD. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS PHONE C. 616.
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the employment of pilots. In some
instrumenta And human skill, neither of which are infallible have to be relied upon, and two accidents in ten years is not a record that gives rise for anxiety or calls for changes in policy and method.
The death has been reported
On June 24th (Sunday) he was
stones were blown over the house. Some fell on the roof while several large picces almost buried them- selves in the lawn.
MOTOR TRANSPORT LECTURE.
MR. W. SCHMIDT AT ENGINEERS INSTITUTE
TO-DAY...
There
As hinted, she comes of a family of artists. Her father is an able painter, her, brother, Stuart, who is twenty, has, exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy since he was sixteen, and a younger brother mounted his sister's pictures and
Even after the issue of the sum-presentative, of the National display them to the best advantage.
nons cause" for complaint continu ed. The last time that rocks were own over his house was on Sun day, and this time the fragments reached the servants quarters whica were behind the house.
A Foolish "Defence," In answer to the charge the de- covered the blastings properly; and that no stones ever reached the com plainant's house, but only fell on
ports their employment is insisted from the Kwong Wah Hospital offendant said that they had always upon for all vessels, but generally an 8 months old Chinese baby fol- the King's ships prefer to do their lowing an accident. in which the child was scalded by overturning own pilotage. The King's Regula'
a pot of hot tea. tions lay down clearly that a pilot is to be regarded in an advisory
capacity only. The captain and Calony of the death of Mr. John
the roadway.
4
den by somenne reise? And how
Magistrate, (sharply)" Nonsense, do you mean to suggest that the wit News has been received in "theness is lying, or do you think that
the stones were buried in the gar could the stones fly a distance of 100 yards if there were satisfactory covers over the blasting 7"
The defendant, however, persisted covered.
Mr. Walton Schmidt, Field Re.made the admirable. frames which Automobile Chamber of Commerce, New York, has arrived in Hong Kong and will deliver several lec tures here.
To-day at the Engineers Institute under the auspices of the Hong Kang Automobile Assocation, at 30 o'clock, he will speak on Modern Motor Transportation,'
reels of moving pictures,
his talk being illustrated with eight
COLONEL KILLED IN A FROLIC.
MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY OF AN OFFICERS' PARTY.
An Army officers' early morning frolic at the Park Hotel, Preston, on June 9th turned to tragedy when Lieut. Col. F. W. Baker Young, R.A.M.C., was killed.
Colonel Young, who lived at the Esplanade, Waterloo, Liverpool, was staying with a number of other officers at the Park Hotel. They started to go to bed soon after half past twelve.
"In America" Mr. Schmidt anid "the automobile clubs, the manu facturere who make the car, and the dealers who sell them discovered some time ago the necessity for con- stant co-operation on their part to create a public appreciation of the value of motor transportation in the economic development of the
As they left the lounge Colonel country and the importance of providing adequate highways over Hugh Kennedy offered to give any which automotive transportation of them a "fying somersault in Two years ago Mr. Schmidt from Colonel Kennedy's grip head made a trip around the world with first to the stone floor and his skull these motion pictures and lectured was fractured. He was dead when in New Zealand, Australia, India, the doctor arrived. East and South Africa. On this trip he has visited Japan and
Kong from Shanghai.
navigating officer are to check his Fryer the Emesitus professor of proposed courses and handling of Chinese at California University. the ship, and, in fact, to carry on Mr. Fryer was formerly professor as though he were not there, for an of English at the Tung Wan Cal- that the blasting was properly could travel at low operating costs. the hall. Colonel Young slipped
lege, Peking and had also held educational poets in Hong Kong He died at Berkeley, California.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of $100 with the warning that the fine would be doubled if the offence were repeated.
error on the pilot's part does not absolve those normally responsible for the safety of the ship. Every Tus stranding and feared loss of thing is opposite to the naive re- H.M.S. Dauntier, one of the fine mark of the master of the ill-fated Battn. Scots Guards, who remained HEALTH OF THE COLONY. Manchuria and comes to Hong cruisers recently on this station local steamer Kochou, I never behind to settle certain matters in
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under the command of Rear- Admiral Bortz, brings to mind the ordinary risks to which the ships and men of the Royal Navy are sub-
jected in time of peace. Förtu-| nately, in this instance, there was
R. Q. M. S. Barrie, of the 2nd
connection with the recent depar- ture of the Battalion for the North, sailed for Shanghai yesterday by the s.s. Huichow to rejoin his unit.
interfered with the pilot"
There is very good reason for this policy. In the first place it
justified by results, for naviga-Stiff Sergt; Fan, AS.C, was tion accidents to ships of the also a passenger on the vessel for British Navy are extraordinarily Tientsin on transfer." rare. In the second, the Navy is
11 ENTERIC CASES LAST WEEK.
CHAN SO PAYS THE PENALTY.
I am satisfied that the affair was a pure accident," said the "I coroner at the inquest later. have taken part in such mess games
At the present time China with myself, and know the spirit in its ever increasing number of which they are carried out. Every motor vehicles is now facing pro-one concerned was sober." blems upon which America has A verdict of “ Accidental death ”
BOBBED HAIR COMMUNIST
FOR DEPORTATION:
ONLY 19 YEARS OF AGE.
-NEW VOICE" IN "INDIA.
POWERFUL MODERATE
Four, deaths from small-pox and been working for a number of was recorded.
years. one fresh case were reported last We want to know the problems week, all cases being Chinese. of motorists and motoring or than usual, there being 11 fresh Mr. Schmidt "and in returti we Enteric cases numbered more,ganizations in Hong Kong" aid
cases (10 Chinese and 1 British) want to offer such information as and thres deaths.
we have cu motoring and the motor of the by Public Anction to no loss of life and as a precau
Other cases shown on the Medical industry in the United States, police and fighting force, and as A disabled tram car which was Officer a report were 4 fatalities trusting it will be helpful.” JULY: 1928, at 8 FM, at the Ofices tionary meaéure the vessel was such its ships must be able to go being pushed back to the depot at from influenza, one from cerebro. of the Public Works Department, by abandoned, except for a small party wherever good seamanship can be about 7.45 p.m. yesterday was re- spinal fever and one neg-fatal cues
One Lot of CROWN LAND at Tai of Sfty officers and met. This expected to take them. It would be sponsible for some disarrangement of diphtheria.
On Tuesday 1 case of diphtheria Kok Twai in the Cokay of Hong Kong, action, taken only four hours after surprisingly tame if an chemy or
of the service. The car assisting and of enteric, both Chinese were for a term of 75 years, with the option
the erring one had difficulty with notified. of renewal at a Crown Rent to be the ship grounded, suggests that a pirate craft were allowed to
its charge near the Cricket Club ixed by the Burveyor of His Mazz from the first only the slightest
escape because they had entered Kiss, for one further term of 75
hope of saving the ship could be pilotage waters and no local expert and the delay held up about a dozen ground and Wellington, Barracks
entertained and that the position
was available to help the navy men vehicles which proceeded slowly and was one of extreme gravity.
out. But the pilotage skill neces in close formation almost to the The episode will be the subject of eary in such emergencies is only depot where the trouble ended. & court martial when the conduct gained by constant practice of the of the officers concerned will be art. When reliable charts investigated. The brief Reuter supplemented by some degres of cables state that there has been com- knowledge about local tides and "ment on the fact that no local pilot currenta a navigating officer is ex "was aboard and that the mishap pected to take his ship wherever re-
stated:- occurred while the vessel was quired. He is assisted, how Pressure remains high over South, making the harbour of Halifax eyer, by modern instruments of a Manchuris and low over China during a fog. It is well known reliability and accuracy that make The depression over the Eastern
Sea is stationary. that My Lords of the Admiralty the old time seaman lament the and Service traditions are against supposed passing of the seamanship winde, moderate, fair.
No, of Salo
Registry No.
Kowloon Inland
Between Kowloon Lot No. 2122.
Inland Lois. Nos 1777 and 2007,
Lai Chi Kok Road.
Boundary
Menaar-
ments.
ift. ft. ft. ft.
41,5
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As per
zalo plan
4.
$
9,036
104
0458
18,07%
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PARTY.
BOMBAY. Under the leadership of the Maharajah Bahadur Sir R. Singh, of Darbanga, the "Zemindars (landed proprietors and commer- cial and industrial leaders) have signed a manifesto announcing the formation of a national league to combat the influence of the urban classes,
which have completely, dominated Indian, polities since the A bobbed haired Chinese girl Montagu-Chelmsford reforms."! whose age is only 19 was arrested The signatories allege that Gov ROBBERS IN THE GUISE OF with four men in Yaumati at No. erament protection of their vital 04, Woosung-Street following a raid | interests" has sinckened. Their or- FRIENDS.
on the premises by the police. `ganisation is the biggest politica! The oldest of the men is 23 while formation since the birth of the Chan So, a servant employed at the girl claims to be married to a Swarajist (home-rule) 'movement. WEATHER REPORT. the Diocesan Boys Bchool, Kow- man in Singapore. The girl is a It demands greater representation loon, was in a lonely road at native of Hainan Island, while the for commercial, agricultural, ex- Yesterday's weather report, fore. Homuntip on Tuesday night when men come from Waichow on the military, and labour interests, and for the Depressed Classes (low- cast and remarks, issued by the three men who looked like honest East River.
citizens hailed him and started to The prisoners admit, that they caste Hindus and hill-men), to- Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m.enquire about his health. The con- have no employment, but say that gether with a revision of election versation proceeded to other topics they came to Hong Kong for the methods as the only way to avoid until Chan So was enddenly Knock-trip." No unlawful matter was disaster.
The league is in complete co- ed into the gutter and found him found in the fat, but it has been self overpowered, gagged and truss decided to apply for deportation of operation with the Simon Commis ed up with a rope, and
all five, as the police suspect that sion appointed to study the possi The men quickly extracted 820 they are connected with the Comble extension of self-government
India. from Chan's pocket and decamped munist movement.
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