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NEW ADVERTISE MENTS.

HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB.

RUGBY.

LL interested in RUGBY FOOT. A BALL are invited to attend A MEETING at UNION BUILDING. PADDLE STELET, ba THURSDAY, 301H AUGUST, at 5:30 7.3.

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NETHERLAND CONSULATE-

GENERAL.

———

IN Clememoration of the Anniver

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sary of the Birthday of MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THINKTHER- LANDS, the CORUL GENERAL will be "At Home" at the CHANCERY, Asiatic Buildo, on FRIDAY, the 31. of AUGUST, Between. 11 AM. mad Noor.

ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30th, 1928.

NOTICE OF MEETING.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING MEMBERS will be held in the BOARD ROOM DI Messy. JARDIN, MATHESON & CO., LTD. kind permission) on FRIDAY, Ster AUGUST, 1928, at 6.30

(

BULLNESS—

Passing of Annual Report and State-

ment of Accounts..

Blection of Officers.

To consider any Business in the interest

of the Club.

W. PRYDE." Acting Hoa, Secretary.

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EXTRAORDINARY GEN.

TERAL MEETING of MEMBERS

in connection with the New Articles of Association will be held at the Office of the Club, Yonx BUILDING, TO-DAY, at 5.15 P.M.

B, O. BLAKER,

Acting Becretary

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MID-LEVELS' RESIDENTS'

ASSOCIATION,

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the abers Association will be held AT THE LADIES' RECREATION OLUB, PEAIX KOAD (by kind permis. sion), an THURSDAY, the 6 SEPTEMBER, 1928, at 6 P.x:

T. A. MARTIN,"

Hon. Secretary,

Hong Kong, 29th Ang., 192. [6652"

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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

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These arguments cover to some extent the whole of the Civil Service from the highest to the lowest grades, and they should be applied to the petition of the locally engaged men in Hong Kong. The stocktaking sale of the The officere appointed on sterling Pioneer Silk Store ends to-morrow salaries from Home received an night. Thus there are only two adrance for one of two reasons, more days in which to take advan

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Friday, being the birthday ofį H. the Queen of the Netherlande the Consul General will be at home at the Chancery, Asiatic Building that morning from 11 am to noon.

MORE DETAILS OF PRO- GRAMME.

COMMITTEE MEET ON THE GROUND.

The working committee of the Grand Tattoo held their first meet- ing on the actual venus on Tuesday the programme which was read and evening, and went right through" explained by Lieut. Col. J. L Comyn, C.M.G. The seats in the various stands were tried by mem bera of the Committee and duly, priced according to the excellence of the view accorded. Half the

seats will be sold at 81 and 50 cents and no seat is to cost more than

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it ought to be shown that these men are not as well off now as it was reasonably anticipated they would be when they joined the Service. If the concessions which

justed to meet the deficiency. We

regard Government employment as

the other line of argument, that of obtaining satisfactory recruits for vacancies the Government hold that the large number of appli- cations of high standard for Gov ernment posts strongly supports the view that the scales of salary are adequate."

THE FENGTIEN ENVOY IN CANTON.

12th.

the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, No. 1, Woodland Terrace, Hong Kong, to Miss N. M. Alvares, No. 14, Cameron Road, Kowloon.

Contingents of the troops were rehearsing while the meeting was being held.

Programme,

The programme which we under stand is now final is as follows:

The Tattoo will be opened, each night at 8.30 p.m. by the firing of

caatle gates will be flung open. Through them will issue the mass- ed buglera of the command who will sonnd the "First Post." They

·will be followed by the Drums and Pipes of the 1st Batt. the Queen's Royal Regiment who will beat" the Tattoo. Next the guard of honour will enter and following them the tournament. massed bands and drums of the

The next Promenade Çansert at Volunteer Headquarters has been arranged for Friday, September 21st, when the Band of the 1st As-5.40 H.E, the Officer Adminis Battalion The Queen's Royal Regi-tering the Government (the Han: ment will play (by kind permission Mr. W. T. Southern, C.M.G.) will Arrive and when the Government of Lieut-Col. H. C. Ponsonby, House party is seated the massed D.S.O., M.C., and Officers); bands will played for 15 minutes.

a. Gathering Of The Olang.

At 8.55 the first scene entitled be given.

The Gathering of the Clans" will Some details of this have already been given in our columns. It will be performed by: AD.C., and the Reel Club, the the Philharmonic Society, the

clacemen and the pipers being from, the 2nd Batta. the King's Own.

Dancing Displays.............. Scottish Borderers.

We note that 'a Fengtien envoy is

In our account yesterday of the in Canton and is being feted and "Total" Fire Extinguisher demon- treated generally as greatly stration it was stated that "a honoured guest, This must be ex-mixture of oil and Aerosene was ceedingly pleasant for the envoy, used." The mixture used in all but we frankly confess that we do cases was, "Oil and Garolene.” not fully understand the purpose A gasolene fire is, we are informed, of his mission. According to his much more intense than one caused own statement he has been sent to by kerosene and the test was there fore even more drastic than was the South by General CHANG HSUCH

suggested. LIANG, the son of the late Marshal

It was

A 13 year old Chinese boy was ise Teo Lan, to copfer with the Canton leaders concerning the knocked down by a China Motor submission of the three Eastern Bus Co. vehicle in Shanghai Street and was taken to the Kowloon Hos Provinces of Manchuria to the pital with a broken leg. Nationalist Government. We cannot comprehend why it should be neces- sary in view of the fact that China is now presumed to be, theoretical 17, a united country under one Central Authority. We should have Souls Spiritual Festival: imagined that political questions

stated that the boy had joined little crowd who were scrambling for "Devil Money" which was be ing thrown from the upper floors in honour of "Sui Yee" the Stray

GUNMEN.

LESSON FOR MEN WHO ~

FOUGHT POLICE.

SINGAPORE, Aug. 22nd. The maximum punishment within

་་

At 9.15 on the first night:

A Dancing Display will be given by the 3/15 Punjabis of the Khattak War Dance: which should be particularly interesting.

On the second night-Old Eng- Bish Dances arranged by Miss Daisy O'Keefe. A May-pole dance wit be given by the children of the by the ladies of the Colony. Garrison School, and a Morris danes

On the third night-Highland Dancing display given by the mem hers of the Reel Club, the music will be provided by the pipe band

of the K.0.8.B.

Torchlight Evolutions.

At 0.20 each Light Torch Light Evolutions will be given by the 1st Batta. the Queen's Royal Regi ment. About 440 N.C.O.'s and men will take part divided into three groups, and music will be provided by the massed, bands.⠀

of this magnitude would have been FLOGGING FOR SINGAPORE discussed and settled in Nanking. have been granted to them during Canton cannot very well effect the recent years have not been sufficient issue and we do not think it would compensation for the unexpected be to her advantage to try to do

Outposts Of The Empire. rise in the cost of living it is only. Her policy in future," we trust,

At 9.45 each night the second right that salaries should be ad-

scene of the Scenario will be given, which is entitled "Outposts of the will be one of "splendid isolation."

Empire " and which shows the There is no particular reason why he should have a hand in the the power of the Straits Settle-capture at a desert fort. Taking part are the Hong Kong and Singa something in the nature of a com-

ments Criminal District Judge was present political muddle, and the imposed on three Chinese gunmen, Own Scottish Borderers; the Hong pore Brigade, A.; the King's tract. The starting salaries and

more she can keep herself free from members of a dangerous gang who Kong Volunteer Defence Corps various grades of promotion are

entanglements of any kind the were arrested in a Chinatown house (motor cycle and machine gun see- all carefully scheduled and a man

better.

after a struggle in which two of tions); the Mule Corps; and the Hong Kong Branch, St John's Am- knows almost exactly to what

However, Chinese politics. are them attempted to draw their pisbulance Brigade. height he may climb when he first,

Gala Displays. sets foot upon the ladder. Civil notoriously difficult to follow and tols on the police. The men will

each undergo three years' rigorous At 10.5 there will be various gala' We believe that the Government service candidates do not present possibly for some obscure reason

displays. imprisonment and receive twenty should be a model employer. Its themselves for the entrance exami- good may result from the conver-strokes of the rotan,

On the first night-Chinese dis play, arranged by members of the Mr. Nicol stated in answer to Chinese community of Hong Kong, standards should as high, and nation because they imagine they xations which the Fengtien envoy

On the second night:-Illuminat- perhaps even a little higher, than will secure dazzling salaries; they will have with Marshal Lr T81 Chief Court Inspector Meredith those maintained by private busi-play for safety and security all HSIN on his return to. Canton. In (prosecuting), that at about 7.30 ed decorated motor car parade, mobile Association. The masacd ness firma. It should not exploit along the line and having obtained the meantime, it is interesting to p.m. on August 4th, accompanied manged by the Hong Kong Auto- On the third night:-Portuguese DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS to severely the laws of supply and these advantages it is idle for them, learn that the gentleman from by Inspector Cowie and a party of bands will provide incidental music. HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND Past the Bale in Fable Auction 19 demand and grind the faces of the after din or aften, years, to Manchuria cavies Canton because detectives he visited 130, Victoria

community under the patronage of be held on MONDAY, the 3D DAY of unfortunato merely because they grumble at their remuneration and it is so far ahead of the North Street. In a room on the first Pageant, arranged by the Portuguese Boor there were four men, the three H.E. the Governor, of Macao. At are unfortunate.” But this does not to point out that, it is less than ru Provinces in revolutionary accused and another. The first 10.20, Japanese fireworks display, mear that it should not the part others are receiving in similar ideas" Canton, he says, "has accused was lying on a bed. An arranged by the Japanese residents

of the Colony.

The Tattoo is timed to end at TO BE TBT OR SOL Com Shamshuipe in the Colony of Hong of the philanthropist and establish socupations outside of Government long been the reputed source of re- the police party entered, both he

Įmodious BUNGALOW at Kong, for a term of 75 years, commen Magizora Gar, near Morum ROAD: | cing - from 1st July, 1898, with conditions of service with which circles. We often hear the arge volution and the most vigorous spot and the second accused attempted 10.20 p.m. on the first two nights

Witness and ut 10.40 p.m. on the third. Good Garden. Private Garage-Apply the option of renewal of a Crown Rent other institutions, having to mainment advanced that a brilliant man, for radiating civilisation." Long to draw their pistols.

seized the Boz. No 6173, elg Hong Kong Dolly to be fixed by the Burreyer of His

firet accused, who Press

[6273 MAJKETT THE KING, for one further tain a profit and loss account, could say in the Treasury at Home, may Canton live up to its repata-

struggled, trying to get his right | . |"term" of "24" yearn less three days not possibly hope to compete. It might easily make a fortune in the tion for "radiating civilisation, haud to his side, and was hand- WEATHER REPORT.

must be regembered that the Gov. City and that consequently it is but we hope it will not pride itself caffed with difficulty. Inspector

Cowie had to dash the second Yesterday's weather report, fore "ernment is the guardian of the scandal the Government should too greatly upon being the source accused's pistol from his hand. In cast and remarks, issued by the

of revolution." public purse and that it is fatally pay him a paltry 21,500 or £2,000

first accused's jacket were found Royal Observatory at 5.17 p.m., five rounds of ammunition which stated immed easy to be generous with other a year. It is no scandal at all.

fitted into his revolver. The re- |The anti-cyclone remains to the people's money. Liberality in the The Treasury official decided upon The Colony had a clean bili of volven had six rounds in the cham, north-east of Japan and the do- ber. The second accused's pistol pression in the Gulf of Tongling. individual is to be commended but his career, well-knowing its rewards health on Tuesday.

had eight rounds in the magazine The typhoon is situated shout to the delightfully altruistic liberality and its limitations. He can always All interested in Rugby football and one in the chamber

miles east of Oshima, moving north- A dagger was found in the third ward. N of a government, which has are leave it and try his luck elsewhere, are invited to attend a meeting at accused's possession. A piece of A message from Manila, iegued action detrimental to the com- but he has no right or reason to Union Building, Fedder Street, to steel, fled at the end into a three- at 11 am, states that the typhoon

edged dagger, was also found is in Long. 131deg, E., Lat. 28deg.. manity as a whole, is to be depreendeavour to wring further conday (Thursday) at 5.30 pm.

Inspector Cowier stated that the N., moving NORMALNE Cessions from the Governor on The anal aming of the Wind speed drew his pistol, and Another typhoon is in about If the petition of the locally the ground that another has secur- held at the Ladies Recreation struck ne gunman with it over his and is practically stationar

that another has our levels Residents Association will witnesso drawing his revolver, Long Tapdeg. E, Lat, engaged civil servants for a general ed greater rewards by following a Club, Peak Road, on Thursday, wrist, causing him to drop his Local Forecast.E

able winds, moderate, fair, September 8th at 8 p... increase of salaries is to succeed less sheltered path of progrem,

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FARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Locality.

New Bowloon Inland

on of Cheang Let No. 1154,

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Pej Ho Street.

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