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INTIMATIONS.

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY (1918), LIMITED.

IS HEREBY

NOTICE INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIVE Per Cont. on the Paid-up Capital

of the Company has been declared in respect of the Financial Year ending 30th Bartamas, 1029, and that such Diri.

dend will be Fayable on TUESDAY: TTK

INTIMATIONS.

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INTIMATIONS.

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AUGUST. 199 and, after which Rooms and Out-honson, Two Lifte. Date Dividend Warrants may be obtain. upon Application at the Head Office

od

of the Company, St. Gaonan's BUILDING,

Hong

Kong.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON DAY RD JULY, 1998, to MONDAY, Bax AUGUST, 1928, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..

General Managert,

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Fong Kong, 29th June, 1948. (6444

THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY

CO., LIMITED.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND or

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to

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CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-QBIENT.

4TH FLOOR, FRENCH BANK BUILDING.

TO LET.

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'JOLY, SATURDAY, WEDNESDAY, the 1st AUGUST (Both Days inclusive), during which Period No Tra ster of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directère, L. 8. GREENHILL

Secretary Hong Korg, 13th July, 1928. [490

HAI HO CONSERVANCY COMMISSION.

VACANCIES FOR THE POSITIONS OF ASSISTANT DREDGING SUPER- INTENDENT AND ASSISTANT WORKS SUPERINTENDENT.

APPLICATIONS are invited from Engineers for the

above positions,

Applications are required to give tá following ParticularsName, Nation Date of Birth, Married or singl➡, lications, Previons Training, Posi tiana.bolā,

Testimonials.

The following requirements necessary :-

Age about 27 Years. Certificate of Mechanical Engineer with know ledge of Marine Engines, Workshop Equipment, Welding and Electrics Machinery, Photograph and Medical Certificate of fitness."

The conditions of appointment are:-- The successful candidates to take ap

their appointments immediately. The appointments may be terminated with 3 Months' Notice by either side.

The initial Salary of the employe wil be Tis. 250 with triennial increase) until a maximum of Tls. 425 is reached. (The possibilities of farther promotion depend upon the employe qualfications for promotion to the rank of Superintendent as well as upon vacancies in that rank).

issued to

A Bent Allowance will

the employe

A Superannuation Fund will be kept

in the name of the employe Home furlough on fall pay with second- clase preisge paid will be allows for a period of months after every 5 Years of serrica

All applications for the position must be in the hands of the Dndersigned by the 15th August, 1928.

R. S. CAMPBELL,

Secretary.

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OFFICIAL NOTICE.

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The Daily Press.

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means shaken off all the traditions

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THE TATTOO

마

EMBLEMS.

UNAUTHORISED PROTEC- TION CORPS TO BE BANNED.

INTERESTING EXHIBITION THEY FELL INFO, BAD HANDS.

ATY.M.CA.

BULLDOGS, DRAGONS AND BRITANNIAS,

KWANGTUNG GOVERNMENT

ORDER.

DARING PIRACY OFF SINGAPORE.

JUNK LOOTED AND CREW IMPRISONED.

"PIRATES POSE AS REVENUE

OFFICERS.

SINGAPORE. July 9th.

can mention is described by those who know it as "full of pos sibilities, awaiting development,” The difficulty is finding the neces sary capital for enterprise of a kind that, under the old conditions. was necessarily of a highly specula tive nature. An ordinary exploring party might miss sources of vast wealth by a few miles, while blazing their single trail through the jungles of New Guinea or Philippines "OT across atretches of South America. the search for oil, er geld, or lando p.m. They form a most inter- tions who exact illegal tribute from of armed Chinese boarded a junk esting exhibition showing they the country people under the style off Seaview Hotel, rifled the vessel, . suitable for rubber becomes a very do a very

wide divergence of of protection fees.

and left her at anchor with the different proposition when the re-artistic merit and of ideas. There The circular states that according crew secured in the hold, where are designs of such infantile weak to a letter received by the Provin- they were imprisoned for ten hours. ness of technique that they must cial Government. Council

The tongkang left Singapore surely have been sent in by school Military Headquarters, the estab. harbour after midnight on Satur- children, others notably the winning lishment of Rehabilitation Centres day, and while of Seaview Hotel. in the various regions has enabled was hailed by four Chinese in a emblem, show real craftsmanship in their clean lines and good com-

the formation of a comprehensive sampan. Representing themselves system of defence and patrol, both to be revenue officers, the men position..

by land and water. Now that

The Department of Finance, says The ninety-eight designs sent in the Canton Gazette, has circularis.

A daring piracy-the first to ba the for the Grand Tattoo Emblem com- ed all magistrates, instructing that reported in local waters for some

be exercised to years-occurred in the early hours. vast petition are on view to-day in the strict measures the

suppress unauthorised. YMCA, City Hall, from 11 a.m.

organisa. of yesterday morning, when a gang But

ult of an aerial survey, conducted with 'speed and accuracy, can be submitted to the geologist and mineralogist.

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from

call-

were

A visit to Cambridge this week would probably reveal how very little we know about the configura-

It is perhaps the psychologist government troops are effectively on the tongkang to stop, to be tion of the world and our still rather than the artist who will policing the land, special organi searched for contraband chandu, smaller stock of geological know find food for study in these emping trade are unnecessary and craft, whereupon revolvers

sations for the protection of ship- They were allowed to board the ledge. And yet geology has become blems. Britannia, the bulldog, the superfluous, and should be dispen drawn, and the crew of five order- the divining rod of the modern lion, and the Union Jack, figure sed with and disbanded.

Frequently such Protection Corpsed, to enter the exceedingly cramp- world, pointing to the sources of in a large number and sometimes

are started in sincerity and good ed more than one of these patriotic faith but as time passes their con- which was then nailed down.

quarters of the fore hatch, new wealth. Far more hinges, upon

emblems is excorporated. Such trol slips into the hands of an. the work of the International Geo- designs did not find favour in the using fees collected to further pro and from their prison the crew The pirates anchored the vessel, scrupulous people, who, instead of graphical Union than the producing eyes of the selection committee. tection measures, apply the money heard the arrival of another craft, of school atlases or the filling of Hong Kong though a British Colony, to their own ends.

Since the Rehabilitation measures apparently a twakow, into which is essentially cosmopolitan, and are maintaining peace and order the general cargo on the tongkang those blank spaces in the map however strong the private patriotic to such good effect, the Shipping rapidly transferred. which Sir ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE fervour of some of us may be, the Protection Bureaux on the West and RIDER HAGGARD people with financial success or in any way re

Tattoo would not be either * and North Rivers have been abolish pirates then left, and after 10 ed since the beginning of the hours in the hatch the crew, TOR- last survivors of prehistoric beasts presentative of the Colony if it month, while the patrol boats have dered desperate by the close con- were to be aggressively Britannic, been transferred to the Preventive ¦ and lost civilizations." It means

Dragons, runners-up to the bull-Service Bureau of the National finement and the heat, managed to break out. They then discovered presenting capital with definite dogs, are open to much the same Revenue Controlling Committee.

objections; but no one could take The circular to the magistrates that the rudder had been detached, propositions for exploiting new exception to the amiable looking bears particular reference to local the sails cut, and the oars thrown tiger lying on the red triangle like organisations helding, no recogni overboard. They hailed a passing resources whereas previously re-a cat on a wall. Cats are a part tion from the authorities.

of home life all over the world, and, liance had to be placed on a few though the tiger of the emblem is

Was

The

"craft and were towed in to port.

There have been no arrests "80

supposed to represent China, even CANTON MARRIED COUPLE far, and with ten hours in which

adventurous spirits who would ask

a foreigner. for funda in support of expeditions regard him as

It is a happy augury for the that might be highly romantic, and success of the Grand Tattoo that this competition made so wide an even productive of valuable botan-appeal, Artists. traditionally do not work for any material award, and

very big one.

ical results, but were hardly likely

to be profitable from a financial point of view, and therefore were by no means tempting except to the few who had money to risk on a picturesque gambic.

The stock taking sale at the Pioneer Silk Store will be con- tiaped for 10 days more in response

in this case the prize was not a

EXECUTED.

'FALSE CHARGE AGAINST CREDITOR:

to get away the chances of the pirates in escaping safely with their booty are naturally very | bright.-Straits Times.

ESTATE.

A married couple was recently shot for falsely accusing others of A TEA HOUSE KEEPER'S being communiste. The woman had been a member of the Service Squad of the Garrison Headquarters, bat had been dismissed for malpractise.

CHINESE WIDOW DIED INTESTATE

Many nationalities and ranks of life are represented on the walls of the Exhibition. The prize winner, Mr. Pun V. Ying, is a Chinese architect and close to his sketch

The husband was heavily in debt, hangs one from the hand of a and with his wife conceived a plot leisured lady from the Peak.

by which he would be rid of his Several come from Service men and creditor. The two concocted a letter one from the South China Morning charging certain people were mem of $9,900.64 was left by a Chinese Estate in the Colony to the value Post office. If the directed bers of the Communist Party. The tea house keeper, which he en- people were sufficiently interested letter was sent anonymously to the in the Tattoo to send in a design Garrison Headquarters, whose trusted to two friends until his son for its Emblem, they will un- forces took action and apprehended should attain majority. doubtedly wish to witness it in the persons named. On investiga September. The suggested pro- tion one of the detained persons.

was Kwok King gramme evidently succeeds in mak- recognised the handwriting of the Fu, otherwise known as Kwok Lai The total output of the Kailaning an appeal to Hong Kong as a letter, protested his innocence and Shan. He owned the Chung Wah said it must have been a plot to Tea House at 18, Des Voeux Road Mining Administration's mines 'or

get rid of him since the writer of the week ending June 30th amount-

the letter was indebted to him. The Central, and the Fu Lan Tea House ed to 83,442 tons, and the sales

promissory note was produced in at No. 80. Queen's Road West support of this man's protest. The Prior to his death at Tung Kad during the period to 121,730 tons.

Secret Service Corps acted on this

to many requests from customers.

of earlier and more 'haphazard times. For one thing he hates to admit a blank space of the map," and to judge by big atlases like those published by the Times and by the Encyclopedia Britannica one would imagine that the sur veyor's chain and theodolite had

Last week three cases of "sinall- covered. the whole of South America and Asia on thoroughly as England Pox (two fatal) and two new cases of enteric with two fatalities from or Hong Kong. Every turn of

this disease were reported. There small rivers is given and the exact were also three deaths from in- spot where they rise; each hill is Ruenza. On Monday one case of

PS. there if of suficient size to be re-small-pox and two of enteric were

duced to a proportion of 1 in 10 notified. millions. Actually wo know that the maps of wide areas of South America, Africa and Asia are built up by the cartographer from a few explorers' notes and sketches much

MAPPING THE WORLD.

The popular and well-known Burgeon of Macao, Dr. Jose Caetano Soares, is passing through Hong Kong on his return to. Macao from home leave. Dr. Soares, who

whale.

Honourable Mention, Ninety-eight designs were sent in of which ten beside the winning emblem were awarded honourable

mention as follows:

Prize winner: Mr. Fun U. Ying, of 18, Sau Wa Fong, Hong Kong.

Very Highly Commended. Mr. K. S. Leung, Ellis Kadoorie School, Hospital Road. Building, Kowloon,

Mr. G. W. Arnold, 4, Torres

Mrs. H. V. Koop, St. Paul's Col- lege Hostel.

Highly Commended. Mr. H. F. Baptista, Messrs. She- wan, Tomes & Co..

Lotte Wierink, 581, Nathan Road Kowloon,

Q:M.S. Martín, RE, 11 "GB" Block, Kennedy Bond.

Commended.

Mr. A. Abbas, c/o Lowe, Bing Pte. N. Colbrau (723581) Trans visit to Europe, is returning to the ham & Matthews. Portugues Colony alone; his wife port Section, Queen's Royal Regi- and family are remaining in Por-ment.

Mr. Harry Lai, 904, Canton Road tugal for the present.

(top floor).

Mr. Jose Goulartt D'Aquino, c/o CE, Warren & Co.

Tas King is to receive the delegates in the way that an archeologist is looking extremely well after his of the International-Geographical reconstructs a civilisation "from n Union which is holding a Congress broken bowl and a rusty dagger, this week at Cambridge. According or an anatomist given a thigh bone in consequence of a Contract entore, to a British Wireless message a and balf a akull will present us feature of this Congress will be the with a Neanderthal man, every examination of the various sections hair of whose body is numbered.

of Victoria, in the Colon of and Koag, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE the

that

into by us for the Sale under another. Name of the

hereinafter described,

Ship

we bare applied to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant Ship- 1894, in respect of the Ship Act. POBUEN CHOW of Hong Kong, Official Number 137681 of Gros Tonnage 517.10 tons, Register Tonnage 238.08 tons, heretofore owned by us the CHUEN ON STEAMBOAT COM- PANY, LIMITED, whose registered Office la situated at Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, for the Permission to Change her Name to "KONG 80" sad to have her registered in the Now Dame at the Port of Hong Kong as oward by us.

Any Objections to the proposed Change of Name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Victoris in the Colony of Hong Kong within Seven Days from the Appearance of This Advertisement.

Dated at Victoria, Hong Kong, this 14th day of July, 1928.

ARUNTE

(Signed), CHUEN ON STEAMBOAT

COMPANY, LTD.

头灶阴

NG ĐEO MÀNG.

Managing Director

(6509

Yesterday at about noon a colli- sion took place off Kowloon City

the two

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of a new world map upon which But with the coming of the serb- between a steam launch and a small inany experts have been engaged plane a new stage in the mapfishing sampan. The sampan was idr years

Map making has in-makers art has been commencal overturned and deed become a very important From his dying machine Sir ALAN cupants, an old woman and a man, matter and has grown from an COBHAM must have viewed more of were thrown into the scs. How- ever, they were immediately, rescued interesting means of expressing Africa in a few months than

by the crew of the launch and their travellers tales and fancies to some LIVINGSTONE and STANLEY saw in

craft was soon righted. thing in the nature of an economie the whole of their lives. And the blue print of the world,

aviator brings back not merely, the results of his own observations but also a series of accurate aerial

In England the British Ordin ance Survey was established as long ngo as 1781 and there are elaborate photographs. Work of this kind and fairly accurate maps dating opens up propositions of a very Most parts of back to the time of QUEEN ELIZABETH. practical nature. Before then, however, a map was the earth have natural resources of

FOUR CASES ON THE CALENDAR.

The deceased

testimony, and on finding further village, Pun U district, on Febru evidence of the conduct of the ary 11th, 1928, deceased made his guilty pair, submitted them to trial will in which he stated that he by military law, when they were had been ill for a long time and found guilty and sentenced to death,

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The innocent persons were releas ed.-Canton Gazette,

VOLUNTEER'S PROMENADE

CONCERT..

as all treatment in Hong Kong had proved ineffective, ho Was going back to his native country for "recuperation and treatment." His son, he said, was too young to take over the control of the business, and in the event of death overtaking him, he entrusted his property to Kwok Ping Hok, and Fine weather is now all that is Leung Yat, Cho to hand over to the first of this season's Promenade manhood. required to ensure the success of his son when the latter has reached

Concerts organised by the Concert Committee of the Hong Kong been granted to the executors Probate of deceased's will has Volunteer Defence Corps, which

FRIDAY'S PROGRAMME...

to take place at the Volunteer named. Headquarters on Friday evening, commencing at.9.15.

Local Compradore's Inheritance. "A Chinese woman who died

Mr. W. H. Fitz-Earle, A.R.C.M., the Bandmaster of the 2nd Bat intestate at No. 14, Fat Luk Po talion The King's Own Scottish Street, Canton, on March 18th, Borderers, has arranged a very fine 1925, lelt, property in the Colony

and

CRIMINAL SESSIONS OPEN programme of band music, includ

ng a number of well-known selec- amounting to $8,500. Letters of .TO-DAY.

tions. The soloist for the evening administration have been granted will be Mr. O. C. Womack; who is to deceased's husband, Wong Man singing to hand accompaniment, Tsang, who is a compradore to a "The Heart of a Rose" (Nicholls) firms in Exchange Building.

Berceuse de Jocelyn (Godard). The full band pro Criminal Sessions open to-day. Bramme is as follows:- There are four cases on the ca eu Grand March-"Spirit of dar, one of which will be heard at Pageantry"...........(Fletcher). the Chief Justice's Court. The Overture" Maritana" ...(Wallace). prisoner is Au Shiu who is charged Selection "Lilac Time" with being implicated in the rob

(Schubert). bery of 600 gold bars from the Cornet Splo (Echo) "Bizillietta"

(Bioa). fore-steam-launch Wo Fat Shing in the

"Aloha Septette. harbour on October 14th, last year.

Before the Puisne Judge, Mr. Alpine Scene-"Les Echo des Justice P. Jacko, Lai Tak and

Boik"

.............. (Damare). Man Yan will face a charge of Overture-" William Tell

(Rossini). robbery at Yaumati on May 20th. Man and Lo Lau who are alleged The other two cases concern To Three Dances" Henry VIII" to have tried to rob a woman at Selection-"The Gondoliers" Kowloon City Road on June 20th. Two other Chinese, Teang Iu and Teui Chiu will also be charged fide to with committing a robbery at

Gascoigne Road or June 16th

WEATHER REPORT.

Kesterday's weather report cast and remarks, issued by the Boyal Observatory at 6.25 p.m., stated:--

Depressions remain to the north

a fantastic picture of a countryside commercial value. In Europe every of Japan and over Tongking Pres- with very little regard for accuracy country has either mineral wealth, sare is low to the east of Luzon and proportion. But though the fertile agricultural land or forests where a typhoon may be forming. modern world has 'called this now and there is no reason to suppose Local "Forecast:-East or a science of cartography into exist that other. Continents are less richly able winds, moderate, cace the map maker has by his endowed. Nearly every place one cloudy.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL PARTY FOR YUNNAN.

Daring the summer vacation, the School of Anthropology of Chung Shan University will send an ex pedition to study the habits and conditions of the Lolo tribe of Yunnan. The party making the trip consists of Mr. S. M. Shiroko- soroll, professor of anthropology of the school, with his wife, and Mr. Yuan Shan Chi and Mr. Yuna Shu

(German). Tan (Sullivan).

The party will leave Canton

It is to be hoped that there will about the 18th of July, proceeding be a large attendance at what is to Yunnan by way of Annam. They hoped to be but the initial concert expect to pursue their investiga-

tion for three months...

of a series.