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NEW ADVERTISE MENTS.

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LFE. "BATHING AT THAT T8% MUI.

WESTERN MARKET

AND QUAREY BAY BERVIOL-

FORNIA THE SPECIAL QUAREY HAT TESIN will be WITHDRAVAN for the

From the LAST * DAY Mor, SEPTEMBER.

L. C. P. BELLAMY,

General ManaUG Hong Kong, 25th Sept., 1999, [6759

HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY,

ANNUAL GENERAL

TMEETING & MEMBERS of the above Society will be held in the CITY HALL TO-DAY (THURS DAY), at 5.43 P.M., for the purposes of

(1) Receiving the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the Year onded 31st August, 1928 (2). Considering and, if thought Et passing Amendments to Constitu- tion and Bules saarendy advised. (3) Electing Otics-bearers for the

Ensuing Year.

A: RITCHIE,

E. M. BRYDEN,

Joint Hon. Secretaries,

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THE HONG KONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that THE SEVENTH ORUIN. ABY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, LOWER ALBERT ROAD Bong Kong, on FRIDAY, 12

INTIMATIONS.

MACAO CHARITY AND COM. MERCIAL FAIR.”

NOTCE.

"THE Geral Committee of the

MACAO

CHARITY AND карочном COMMERCIAL FAIR The the OPENING DATE of the MOVEMBER 1995 at 9.00 PM. }|{{wmaker Permitting), and OLUSING báng. The 250 DECEMBER, 1928.

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NOTICE.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY

·OF CANTON, LIMITED.

◄ERTIFICATE No. Y/92 for

Twenty Shares, £ For Share

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1928.

Paid Ur ambered 113130/115149 in this Society standing in the Name of CHO YIK TONG of SHANGHAI, been Declared LOST, and at the Expiration of One Month From the Date beroof the abore Document be not forth- coming the Said Certificate will be deemed CANCELLED and of No Effect, and A NEW CERTIFICATE for the said Shares will be issued in its. stead by the Society.

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General Manager, Hrog Koag, 14th Sept., 1928, (6718

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Form for the TENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held on SDN. DAY, 14TH OCTOBER, 1928 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained from

L.R.R.C.. Macao, Causeway Bay STARLES, and ROION ADVIATISING CO.

Entries CLOSE at Macao 2.30 ... OCTO-WEDNESDAY, 3RD OUTÜBER, 1929.

BER. 1928, at 11.40 4. M., for the purpose of receiving & Report of the Directors Legether with Statement of Accounts, and re-electing Directors and Auditors...

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the

to the 12 28TH SEPTEMBER OCTOBER, 1928, Both Days inclusive By Order of the Board of Director,

K. MANUK,

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Sceretary. Hong Kong, 14th Sept., 1928. [6751

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF THE

"ALUABLE LEASEHOLD PRÒ. PERTIES rituale at VicToRIA, Hong Kong, and knowo ax:

1.-One Undivided Twenty-second Part or Share of and in the Reclamation Rights for Reclamation) in respect of MARINE LOT No. 43. Area: 1,723 Square Feet or thereabouts. 2-Two Undivided Twenty-second Parts

or Shares of and in the Reclamation Rights (or Beclamation) in respect of MARINE LUT No. 43. Area: 3,146 Square Feet or thereabout.

To 32 SOLD

IN TWO LOTS

BY

PUBLIC AUCTION,

DN

THURSDAY,

THE 4TH DAY 07 OCTOBER, 1928,

At 3 d'CLOCE IM.

AT

THE CHINA AUCTION ROOMS, D'AGUILAR STREET, VICTORIA, HONG KONG,

BY

MR. E. V. M. E. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer.

For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, Apply to-

MEES, JOHNSON, STOKES AND MASTER,

PRINCE BUILDING, HONG KONG,

од то

Ma. E. M. R. DE SOUSA,

..Auctioneer. Hong Kong, 25th Sept., 1928. (6755

G.

B.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

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"THE PEAK FLATS." ITUATED within Two Mintter Walk from the Tram Station and arerioaking the Southern Side of the Inland Ready for Occupation. Five-Boomed FLATS and Biz-Roomed FLATS

with all Modern Conveniences, Drying Rooms and Out-bonnen, Two Lift.

Apply to

CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT,

4TH FLOO FRENCH BANK BUILDING,

TO LET.

Four Room

FLATS, at 16, MACDONNELL ROAD, with Modern Conveniences, For Particulars, Apply: XAVIER BROS., 2, QUEEN'S Road. TZL.

C. 3216 OR C, 2722.

FURNISHED,

FLA

TO LET.

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INTIMATIONS.

WATSON'S

LAVENDER WATER.

Distilled from real

The case against one man and three girls of being concerned in rabbing an elderly woman, describ ed as a fortune teller, of $88 or the Castle Penk Road w again before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. The case was remanded till next Wednesday.

4.

The remarkable new all-electrical ship Brunswick, of 9,000 tons, built

SOCIETY WEDDING.

THE MASTER OF NAPIER AND MISS MUIR -NEWSON,

A LOVELY BRIDE AND HER TROUSSEAU.

THE LATE MR. M. J. D. ALVES.

RETIRED GOVERNMENT

SERVANT.

FUNERAL YESTERDAY.

The death took place early rester-

Haiphong Road, Kowloon, of M...

by Messrs. Scott, of Greenock, for HISTORY OF A GREAT SCOTS day morning at his residence in the Atlantic Oil Shipping Com- Pany, Philadelphia, ran its trials

FAMILY.

on the Clyde last month. The ship One of the biggest and most in. is the largest of its type yet built.teresting social events of the season The captain's bridge is an amazing will be the wedding to-morrow of place from which the whole ship

3. J. D. Alves, a member of the Fortuguese community.

Owing to ill health Mr. Alves was obliged to retire from the

must afflict the average Chinese. Traffic in opium flourishes must when conditions are bad, partly because the ruler wants the revenue, and partly because the victim of his mis-government wants a way out of his sorrows. Each country, how ever, seems to find it necessary to have some stimulant or "dope" to enable the individual to escape The most refreshing of all from reality for a time or face it perfumes in the hot weather.with artificial courage.

The Scotsman, we understand, finds in whiskey a powerful aid. It enables him, so the cynic say. to endure residence in Scotland

can be operated by one person at the Master of Napier and Misa Government servies a few months. He served at the General until such time as he can get away a switchboard. The ship steers auto Violet Muir Newgon.

The Master 650.

Post Office, on the Kowloon-Canton from it. Beer seems to be adequate į maticully, and does not require

a drug er stimulant for the engines to start or atop the Diesel of Napier holds a commission as

electric, engines. Once the course Lieutenant in the King's Own Railway staff add latterly at the average Englishman whose lot is isnt it does not require further Scottish Borderers and is a well- Imports and Exports Office. generally saat in more pleasant Clyde's first effort at this remark-known and popular figure in the pincer He has not to endure the able type of vessel.

Colony. Miss Newson although a rigours of climate nor the sparer conditions that prevail further north. The Russian finds relief in vodka which is somewhat more potent than the other spirits of Europe for his spiritual need is greater. A few Frenchmen find it

ENGLISH LAVENDER

In Elegant Green Flasks Each: $4.00, 82.25: 81.25

WATSON'S LAVENDER.

Attention. The Brunswick is the

A young Italian has found a stranger at present will not remain novel method of travelling gratis. Having lost all his money at Monte so. as she and her husband will o be atole a motor-car, meaning make their home here when they to drive to Paris, but in order to buy petro when he had run the tank empty had no recourse save to sell pinces of the car en route, At Avignon he disposed of the trunk on the back for 150 francs, chus

return from their honeymoon,

The Master Of Napler-Family History.

The late Mr. Alves was greatly respected by bis superiors, and his kind nature gained for him a host of friends among the Sabordinate Officers of the Government service.

Many members of the Harbour Office and the G.P.O. were present at the funeral yesterday afternoon William Frangis Cyril James at the Roman Catholic Cemetery,

TALCUM POWDER. Recessary to resort to absinthe in getting to Lyons. There he sold the Hamilton Napier, Master of Napier, Happy Valley. The service was

IN MAGNUM TINS.

MADE FROM "PURE

Associated with English

· Lavender of exquisite fragrance. $1.00 Per Tin.

Paris.

Rev. Father A. order to escape from their earthly spare wheel for 200 francs and pro-

gressed to Troyes. At Troyes the was born in 1900 and is the eldest conducted by trammels, but most Frenchmen tool-box procured him the means to

son of Baron Napier and Ettrick, Granelli. Chief mourners were find their solace in wine which, in drive to Melun, and at Melan he

was arrested in the net of negotint who succeeded as the 19th Baron Messrs. C. and J. Alves (brothers), such an attractively rich country, ing the accumulators the proceeds Napier in 1913. He was educated R. Ribeiro and D. Fernandez is all that is needed." Unlike vodka of which would have got him to

at Wellington and Sandhurst, from"] (brothers-in-law). Among those pre- and absinthe it cause no vain regrets. It is more difficult to speak

which he was gazetted to the sent were Messrs. J. M. Perpetuo, of America. It may be that the

K.O.S.B. His mother is the daugh. M. Mendes, Reed, Fentonii, F. X. Soares, T. H. Rüttonjer, P. V. Remedios, A. V. Barros, J. J. Remedios, M. A. Gomes, J. Rosario, C. F. V. Ribeiro and S. Pinna.

A. S. WATSON No doubt when the promjerd unill-

& CO., LTD. Hong Kong Dispensary.

PHONE C. 16.

Palace Hotel, Shanghai, a foreign

The

in Holland...

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Wonderful Decorations. An The wedding will be one of the most lovely ever celebrated in Hong Kong. Lady Pollock is under- taking the decoration of St. John's Cathedral and the Officers' Mess of

On a charge of seeking to breame unduly familiar with a pretty young American girl in front of the

ter of Lord Belhaven and Stanton. Italian Talc success of prohibition, if it is grant-

dressed Chinese, giving his occupa-. The family history goes back to ed that it is a success, is due to the tion as clerk, was before the Pro- the 15th century and it was in 1434 fact that on the whole the country visional Court charged with "offer

The young that Alexander "Napier acquired ing public insult. is so prosperous and the people woman chanced to be the wife of lands near Edinburgh in discharge

In addition to a large number of generally so happy that nothing a foreign educnted Chinese,

wreaths, permanent more than a long drawn out senti- accused was released on $100 bail, of a Crown debt and became Pro- private Wreath when the question of the constitu-vost of the Scottish capital.

was sent by the Q.P.O. mental or harrowing film, necumtion of the Court was raised. The

The 1st Baron, Sir Archibald staff and there were also floral WILL made that the panied with an ice-cream soda, is suggestion

American authorities might prefer Napier accompanied James VI. of tributes from the Import and needed as a temporary velief from an American Consular representa- the nonotony of such pleasing con...! tive to sit on the case with Judge Scotland to England when that Exports office staff, and the Chinese revenue officers of the 1. and E. Tseng instead of the British re- monarch succeeded Queen Elizabeth ditions...

presentative.

as James I of England. He was Department. At the inquest at Ramsgate, Eng-treasurer depute of Scotland, Lord enium arrives in China, when every land, on Dr. Victor Leuliette, aged che is safe, prosperous, and in-53, a scholar of some eminence, who Justice Clerk and a Lord of Session. telligent, when social and economicas found drowned, it wae stated His son, the 2nd Baron, was

that his nervous system had lately conditions have progressed so far gone to pieces and he had become ardens cavalier, and died in exile that a man may be nured that the victim of certain obsessions. Dr. R. 3. Archibald said that Dr.

The family has been strongly what he has own that will he reap, Leuliette, who was a brilliant man, there will be a general exaltation had tried to find a cure in percho-associated with the Navy and Army, analysis, but found in it a disease of the spirits of the nation, and worse than the original one from and in the 17th century Admiral Sir It was stated Charles Napier. General Sir Thomas the need for some artificial method which he suffered.

that he left. home at five in the Napier and two other generals both of becoming temporarily happy morning wearing a Yest, night

name of Mark Napier will disappear. That the cense shirt, overcoat, and slippers, and of the

was found on the rocks west of quenees of consuming opium are Ramsgate A verdict of "found were distinguished members of the thoroughly bad, that whatever relief drowned is obtained is obtained at the expense of physical and degeneration cannot be denied. The whole history of opium is sordid, but one of the effective means of combatting it is by making condi- tions in China such that there will ise no need for it. The last few years in China have been so deplor- IPES, is that even onlookers might be xcused if in their despair they turned to opium as the quickest way out of the chaos and misery which lay exposed to their view.

DEATH.

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PLACZEK.-On September 25th, at 10 p.m., at the French Hospital, Rev. Father AUGUSTIN PLACZEK. rector of St. Margaret Mary's Church, Happy Valley,

The funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 pm, to-day. . [6763.

Street

Hong Kong Cce: 11, Ice House BUILDINGS, London Office: 21, Bride Lane,

Fleet Street, E. L

ILAT in CARNARVON

Kowloos. 5 Boomed HOUSE in MINDEN AVENUE, KOWLOON,

8,95)

Apply to:-.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.,

Alexandra Buildings.

LET. Famished, Five-room TFLAT MAY ROAD LEVEL, For 'One Year, From 187 DECEMBER 1928.-P.O. Box B-45.

[6672

Todious

BE LET OR SOLD-Con

BUNGALOW

MADALINE GAT, near Moroz ROAD. Good Garden. Private Garage-Apply: Box No 6273, c/o Hong Kong Daily

*[6273

Press

THY Continue to affer

WPOO ON HERBS Ler when

Foar reach-Pimples, Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation, Dis betes, Dropy, Rheumatism, and many other Diseases. No Drugs, Parely

Chinese Herbs.

TOO ON HERBS CO.,

Po the Sale by Public Auction 65, QUEEN's ROAD CENTRAL, 1ST FLOCA

be held on MONDAY, the IBT DAY of OCTOBER, 1928, at 3 P.M. et the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of H13 EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND & Mong Kok Tani, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for, a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Heat to be Axed by the Burveyor of His MAJESTY THE Kue, for one further term of 75 yoRIT

PARTICULARS

No. of Sale

Registry No.

Locality.

Tai Yenng Choi St

Lot No. 2141.

unction of Mong Kok Road and

Kowloon Infand

OF THE LOT.

Boundary.

Measure.

ments,

Asper

sale plan

Contants in

Equare feet.

Annual

Rental

Upset Frice.

About

Mor's

8

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6,200

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The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 2771, 1928.

THE OPIUM QUESTION.

Ir any topic has persisted through the ages it is that of opium-the fascinating drug which seems to excite as much pleasure in the consulter, as it does anger and corrow in the heart of the reformer

Geneva is once more examining the problem, or perhaps it would be' more reasonable to say is continuing to examine it. A close study of the different drinks, drugs, narcotics

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family.

Ancestor In Hong Kong Civil Service. Curiously enough a son of the 5th Baron, William Napier, who was born in 1821 and died in 1876, held

was recorded.

Vice-Admiral Sir Cyril Fuller, moralCommander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station, speaking at the Canadian Club, Vancouser on the necessity of the Imperial Navy to Canadian commerce, said:-" don't want to talk politics, but I the post of Clerk of the Warks in do ask the huge provinces of the Hong Kong. Canadian interior to consider what happens to their produce. Моте The great grandfather of the and more is going through Van Master of Napier, the 10th Baron, couver, Victoria, and Prince Rupert, What would happen if the command had a rely distinguished diplomatic of the een wore over lost 1 The and public career being auccessively

only safeguard, he continued, was

the Imperial Navy. It was a busi Ambassador to Russia and Pressin, ness matter for Canada that it Governor of Madras and in 1972 should be maintained. The reali

It was in the

zation of this necessity would make Viceroy of India. the prairies sea-conscious, The latter year that the title of Baron training of Canada's naval recruits

in the Royal Navy was already help of Ettrick in the United Kingdom

Two Chinese cases of enteric were ing. reported on Tuesday.

The annual general meeting of members of the Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society is being held to-day (Thursday) at 5.45 p.m. in

the City Hall.

The Reverend Fáther A. Placzek, rector of St. Margaret Mary's Church, Happy Valley, died late Inst night at the French Hospital. The funeral will pass the Monument

"

Two brothers in New York State have changed their name from Hell to Heill because the former spell ing caused them a certain amount of embarrassment." Perhaps the more bashful among their clients might feel a certain delicacy in re

sitive.

In Crockford's Clerical

peerage was bestowed,

the

The service tradition of family is maintained both by the Master of Napier and by a younger. brother who is in the Royal Navy.

Sir Percy Nawson's Career. Miss Violet Muir Newson is the daughter of Sir Percy Wilson Newson, Bt., and Lady Newson, of

the King's Own Scottish Borderers, where the reception is to be held,-

is being wonderfully decorated with

Bowers and Angs by Laze, Craw. Ford's who are in charge of all the catering and decoration, A platform built out from the verandah of the Officers' Mess has been roofed over and will be lined with white flowers, with the bridegroom's family colours of yellow, white, and green sug- gested by a border of yellow lilies and tubs of palms...

On

The Wedding Dress,

this platform, under an enormous wedding bell, the bridal couple will stand to receive their

gate under a roofing of coloured Euests who will walk up from the flowers. The Bride will wear a lovely and gracious picture gown of parchment georgette and very fine lace of a lightly deeper tone, with a long train of parchment

satin trimmed with the same ince. Her long talle veil will be sécured by" bandeau of pearls and diamanté. The Bridegroom will w*** the picturesque full dress-uniform of his regiment.

Miss Newson's troussent, which |a princess might envy, has been

chosen with very great care by her. mother in the most exclusive Paris and London salons, the wedding dress itself being specially designed to set off her stately beauty by Pam

of Bond Street.

A Present From A Former Napier

Bride.

On the corsage will be worn the orange blossom which Lady Napier

commending others to go to them; but probably the real trouble was that the brothers were tired of hearing the same jékés made on their name year after year. Eng Kingsclere, Camberly. Surrey and Grosvenor House, Park Lane, Lon- lishmen, as a rule are not so sen- Dictionary there are five clergymen don. Sir Percy, who is the first of the name of Dams, and they do Baronet, created in 1921, has had a and Ettrick, the Master of Napier's and other short cuts into dream at 5.30 p.m. to-day.

not seem to experience any incon- venience. A clergyman of this naine distinguished business career. He is mother, wore at her own wedding. land" would form a most interesting

was at a luncheon where a speaker, partner in the firm of Jardine. It has mellowed to the same soft Miss Newson's Most people have heard of the who did not know him personally,

ivory shade an volume. It each nation could be

casual" Australia; here is the alluded to him, after a moment & Skinner & Co., East India mer wedding dress and sprays of white taken in turn and its special vier intest Authentic example of his hesitation, as Mr. Damesan chants. Calcutta, and director of heather are entwined with it. An- investigated it would probably becasualaess. A stranger strolled into effort which provoked a loud burst several big business houses there. other charming gift from Lady the Fellowship of Mons office in of laughter, in which the owner of In 1920 he was President of the Napier and Ettrick is a tiny hand- found that this vice was related to Sydney one morning in August and the name heartily joined.

kerchief edged with real Brussels many other factors in the national said:"I am from the north of

lace, and a wedding service book Australia, I have a wool sale this

bound in white kid which the life including the economic and afternoon, and I would like to take

earlier Napier bride also carried. Inside the book-in-faded-ink-is-a social conditions of the country. 40 of these fellows out to dinner, WEATHER REPORT.

Miss Newson was born on the 28th can it be done?" It was explain-

Lady Napier's mother, and opposite It has been said that drink.is the ed to him that, owing to the long

Yesterday's weather report, fore. August, 1900, and is thus only just loving message from Lady Belhaven, cast and remarks, issued by the nineteen years of age, while her is her own message to the bride of quickest way out of Manchester, distances away at which the mem-

bers of the fellowship lived, it Roval Observatory at 5.30 future husband" is twenty-eight her eldest son. May it not be that opium is the would be impossible to get them stated:-

a tall and lovely gif with quickest and best way out of China, into the city; but his kind action A belt of high pressure extends golden hair and hazel eyes, and Nature has a way of providing would he like to pay for the meals the Sea of Japan and & trough of Master af Napier. They make a bride are going for their honeymoon was very much appreciated, and from the lower Yangtaze Valley to only a few inches shorter than the Your Visit in cordially welcomed when you

will settle in Hong Kong for as long- will see that our Trained Female Hair an antidote for practically every of 20 at the first-annual-reunion low pressure-from-Indo-China to very striking couple when they walk to the Philippines after which they

or dance together. taking place on Saturday. He said: Gusm. Fresh mansoon may be ex Dressers give you every satisfaction. ill she indicts upon us. Indulgence Yes, certainly. I will pay for pected along the 5.E. Const of

Miss Newson went to rebool nt is the K.08.B.'s are here, "Heathfield." Ascot, and later to Percy and Lady Newson will stay in.opium would seem to be qu 40, how much is it? He was told China and over the North China Paris to complete her education in at the Repulse Bay Hotel until thes -obvious, thought temporary, escape and said,

the amount, put it on the table, Sex,

10th of October when they return won't tell you my Local Forecast —

Home on the orca. from much of the depression that's name," and walked out.,

fresh, fue to cloudy.

FIRST Branch-5, D'Aguilar Street (For Ladies only.) (TEL. 0.6234.)

BRCOND, BRANCH-22, Queen's Rd. Cent,

(For Ladies & Genis.)., ; (Bear Ground Floor of KAYAMALLY

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„Businzen Hovas— .8-1.x.-to-7\y x..on Week Dayt 12 Noom to 6 r.M. on Sundays,

Wirde

Bank of Bengal, and in 1921 Governor of the Imperial Bank of India..

She

The Bride.

very exclusive.finishing school. (Continued on, next~Column).

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Honeymoon In Philippines.

The Master of Napier and his

Sir