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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.

LIEUT. COL E..D. MATTHEWS having returned to the Colony rames the Duties of Secretary and Treasurer as from THIS DATE

E. D. KATTHEWS, ›

Secretary, KOTAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB, Hong Kong, 15th Oct, 1998. [1856

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the following DEBEN. TURES WEN DRAWN at the PAVILION on FRIDAY, THE 12TH DAY OF UCTO- DEK, 1929-

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78-1 Holders of Drawn Debentures who desire to bend on the 51s: OCTU. BER, 18, e requested to inform the TREASURERS, Mesra, PexcY SITH, BETU & FLEMING, on or befors TUES DAY 30TH OCTURER, 19.8.

AND

is NOTICE

HEREBY GIVEN that Debentures Numbered as above which are not cushed on the 1st UCTORZE, 13, will be paid on the 30TH APRIL, 1929, after which Date they will Cease to bear Interest

of

By Order of the Committee,

L. S. GREENHILL,

Hon. Secretary, Bong Kong. 15th ('et, 1928. (6850

NAVY

LEAGUE.

(HONG KONG BRANCH),

TRAFALGAR DAY.

EMBERS are Reminded that

Placing A

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MANUAL ident Wreath CA the CENOTAPE il take place SATURDAY, 20 OCTOBER, t 11.30 AM. This will be followed im. mediately afterwards by the Placing of a Wreath on the WANCHAI MONU. MENT

Members are invited to be present at either or both Cerimonies.

C. P. MARCEL,

Acting Hon. Secretary.

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OLD BEDFORDIANS CLUB,

MEETING will be held on MONDAY, 2210 OCTOBER, at 5.15 r.., in the BOARD ROOM the Hora Kend A BBANGHAT BARX to fix a Date for OLD BEDFORDIAN DINNER. It is hoped that all Old Bedfordians will attend or send their Names in to the Undersigned.

E. J. K. MITCHELL, c/o BRADLEY & Co., LTD.

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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

HE HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of MEMBERS will

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be held in the JOCKEY CLUB ROOM, HONG KONG CLUB ANNEX, on FRIDAY, 25TH OCTOBER, 1028, at 5.15 г.M.

By Order,

B. R. FORSYTH

Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 19th Oct., 1928. (6344"

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The London Office of the HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, 2. BRIDE LANE, E.C.4., is sonstantly. receiving Enquiries from Hom Manufacturers regarding Suitable Firma to not an Agents for their products in Hong Kong as South China,

If Local Companies desirana of taking ap further Agencier will let on know the Táncs in which they are interested the information will be forwarded to London and passed on to interested parties as op. portunity offers.

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

THE REAL CLUB.

EMBERS are asked to mote

M that the 4x REEL OLUB

PRACTICE is to be hell on TUES- DAY 18 at the ExanÄ. May at 5.30 Instead of WEDNESDAY 17TH.

(Signed) R. O, BUTHERLAND,

Hon. Secretary, 6833]

FANLING HUNT.

QUBSCRIBERS are Kotified that the

ANNUAL MEETING will be held on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16TH at $90 ... in the HOARD ROOM, Mosers, Jandian, Marazeox & Co., LTD. All those interested in Hunting, Stoeple. charing, or Point-to-points are invited to attend.

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THIRTY CENTS Par Share, in respect of the Year 1928, will be Payable on MONDAY, the 20th OCTO BER, 1999, on which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on Applica tion at the Company's Office, EXCHANGI BUILDING

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES DAY. the 23an OCTOBER, 19, 10 SATURDAY, the 27 OCTOBER. 1929 (Both Day inclusive), doring which period No Transfer of Shares can be registered..

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The majority of motorists are on According to the agenda, no The exact amount of damage the roads for pleasure'jaunts. They matter of special public interest done to the forehold of the .8.8. will be brought before the fort. Chengte by fire on Sunday night is leave home in the morning by many

nightly meeting of the Sanitary at the moment unknown. From routes and at different hours, but Board to-day. The orders of the enquiries made of the agents yes as the shades of evening spread over day comprise the usual letters from terday, our representative was in-

Three lots of Crown land were the land they turn homewards by the Government, a minute referring formed that the damage, had not the shortest roads and at the same to the application for registration been surveyed and until that was sold at auction at the P.W.D, offices twilight hour. Evening gathers of a dairy in Woo Sun Street, and done, further details would not be resterday afternoon, all at upset an authorisation to vacions Sari-available. It is, however, learned price. Two of them were purchased everything scattered by the morn- ing." as a poet wrote many century. Inspectors to enter premises that there was not much cargo in by Chitone, the third being bought turies ago and the trouble about, traffic control is that the arterial ronds bring the motorists into the bottle necks that lead into London more rapidly than was the case before these speedways were made. But in the long run arterial roads will provide the solution of the trafie problem. They are part of n scheme as yet incomplete. As time goes on they will bandded to. until the ancient ways that served the nerds of a mare leisurely nge can be avoided by motorists. Nor will the benefit be felt only by ear- It will be shared by residents in towns along main roads which are not agreeable plaers to

owners.

live in at week-ends as cars trek

homewards. There is also that con- siderable "section of the business comunity who are finding read transport economical. More is in volved, therefore, in an enlightened policy of road development than the

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The first lot to be put up tô

Transatlantic "telephone, call since The longest and most expensive

auction, Kowloon Inland Lot No.

the service was inaugurated was

Opposing a motion at a Southend | 2144, has an area of about 2,944. made last month, when an Ameri- Town Council meeting to rescind square feet. It is situated at the can visitor, staying at a London a decisin vetoing an expenditure of junction of Tang Choi Street and hotel, rang up a business associate £20,000 on a new bandstand, Alder. Shan Tung Street, the annual Crown in New York and spoke for as man. Sir John Francis argued that rental being 832. It was sold at the minutes. The concection was made people would not be tempted out upset, price of $7,088 to Lou Kiu, about 9.30 p.m., and there were of their houses to-day to listen to Ng Yng and Pang Yun Kui, of 97. only two small interruptions. The military bands.

call cost £285.

Ty Cobb, the veteran baseball player, who is to make a tour of Japan, with a team of major league veterans, will also visit the Philip- Pines. Cobb saile, for Japan from Portland, Oregon, on October 24th

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stand.

"Young people," Fourth Street, Sayingpun. he added. " prefer to

go to the

Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2143, pictures and hold hands. The which is situated at the junction of council decided to erect the band Prince Edward Road and Waterloo Road, was next put up. The aren is about 113,250 square feet, and the annual Crown rental 8780. The pro- planning to send a gift to the cuzer general in Hong Kong of the Emperor of the occasion of the Society of Missions Etrangeres, Fr. coronation next month. The Japan- A. Biettesu. became the purchaser ese will offer a silver-white bear at the upset price of $36,625.

Japanese residents in America are

Among the special conditions of skin, mensuring 12 by 8 feet, to the

clauses fürbidding the Emperor, and their gift to the Em-le are press will be a specially made jewel- erection of other than detatched ar box. Japanese residents throughout semi-detached houses of European America are expected to deunte at type, and the erection of any build- least 50 cents apiece toward a funding within 20 feet of Prince Edward from which the presents will be pur Road or Waterloo Bond. chased.

Stock exchange speculations on behalf of Prince Christopher of married the late Greece, who

for a series of ten exhibition games. He will then go to the Philippines, and later to Hawaii after filling his engagements in Japan. Hong Kong fans would like to see the visitors in action "while passing through the port on their way from Manila.

Sentence of six weeks' hard Bottled at Cognac, France, convenience and pleasure of the Inhour was passed yesterday at the car-owner who goes picnicking in Kowloon Magistracy on a cholin employed at St. Mary's School. A the English countryside 00

Portuguese girl student reporterd rummer's day.

the loss of an umbrella which had been left in ́hat stand, and u Chinese detective subsequently saw widow of William B. Leeds, Ameri the coolie climbing over the school wall with the missing property. It Rome have resulted in the vanish can tinplate king, by his agent in has fecord, having got into trouble in a large slice of the prince's was found that the prisoner had a several years ago under the Opium personal fortune, and have involved Ordinance, and again last year for him in a euit for slander instituted larceny.

by the bank which handled his Horbomaniaes" who misuse the funds. The prince alleged that, as blessing of modern civilization by a result of his agent, Apostolo excesive blowing of automobile Tsorepic, exceeding his authority horns are strongly criticised in during the prince's absence, he suf- |leading editorial in the Bangkok

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The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. E. Autenrieth, missionary of Moilim," Swatow, to Miss M. Fritz, of Coppingen (Wurttemberg), travelling to Hong Kong by the s.a. "Swishruecken.

Remarking that it was a common practice for the villagers of Cheung Sha Wan to offer for sale joints of pork from animals which had died

of disease, the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday fined three villagers 850 each on two charges-possession of the carcases, and preparing them

for sale.

Three Chinese, charged with play ing mah jongg in the small hours

of the morning, were discharged by Mr. R. E. Lindsell from the Central Magistracy yesterday morning with a caution. The Magistrate added that if the complainants desired performed under conditions that they could procced against the mah were rendered horrible by the ex-jongg players by summons.. haust fumes of petrol engines. Other main roads from the coast

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The

The third lat, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2148, is situated at the junction of Tai Nam Street and Prince Edward Road,, and has an area of 5,875 square feet. annual Crown rental is 368 and the

chased on behalf of the Fuk Wa upset price 811,980. It was pur- Bank, Bonham Strand, by Wong Yu Tung.

DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN CHINESE RESIDENT.

FAMOUS CLASSICAL

SCHOLAR.

The death occurred on the 13th.

senior member of the Chinese staff

in the head office, of the Asiatie Petroleum Co. (South China), Ltd.

his benzine-chariot, and was pernger of Barclay's Bank to appear instant of Mr. Fung. Yuk Shunz forming the not unusual feat of before a notary to explain the eir- (also known as Fung Tuk Shan).' blowing them all." Happily p

of drawing up cumstapees Police Commissioner rame by and. escorting his car to the police ata document granting full power of tion, amputated two horns.

attorney to the $oker. The baok manager, Mr. Duncan Balfour, not only ignored the summons, but since it was alleged to have con- tained insinuations that the bank colluded in the operations, has in stituted alander, proceedings.

Arrangements have been almost completed by a few enthusiastic collectors of antique Chinese lade te hoid an exhibition for three days, frem October 20th to 22nd, at 144

150, Des Vœux Rond Central, on the second floor of the National Commercial and Savings Bank, Ltd. (opposite the Sincere Store). This exhibition, which will be open daily from 3 to 5 p.m., will provide the inspecting rare jade ornaments public with an unique opportunity af great antiquity and beauty There will be no charge for admis

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Mr. Fung was only 39 years old. and leaves à wife and seven chil dren to mourn his loss.

WEATHER REPORT.

The typhoon is situated less than 300 miles to the north-west of Guam, moving W.N.W.

Moderate to fresh monsoon will Prevail along the coast, and over the Northern China Sea.

Locat Forecast:-N.E.. fresh, fine.

Educated at Queen's College, Mr. Fung enjoyed the friendship of Mr. A... H. Crook, M.A., the Head- The story published in London master, and of the Hon. Dr. R. H. papera of John Joseph Melville, | Kotewall, Mr. Li Yau Tsun (chair: the self-styled Alchemist," is a man of the Hong Kong Chinese remarkable example of the persist- Chamber of Commerce) and many which Ben Jonson ridiculed. More Mr. Fung had a great knowledge ence of the childish credulity- other leading Chinese residents. under the stimulus of cupidity- Well versed in Chinese classics, than twenty years age a number of the art and literature, of his of Scotchman, who were supposed country. to be hard-headed business mea, treated Melville's claims so serious-

The funeral took place yesterday, It is not surprising to learn that ly that they parted with many Roman Catholic Cemetery.

the remains being interred in the Lord Birkenhead has finally and thousands of pounds. He was pro- dobnitely decided to quit politics,vided with a building at He was never really happy in the engineering works at Dumbarton to India Office--the depressing atmos enable him to carry out his secret through Kent and Surrey were of Mrs. Ainslie, of No. 14, Broad- He hugetted and got il tempered, gold and silver. Since then Mel William Ainslie, 7 years old, son phere of which was ill-suited to a process of the transmutation of man of his dashing temperament, lead into mercury and mercury into similarly congested; and indeed,wood Hond, has been sent to the and on turning to journalism as a

The weather report, forecast, and ville has from time to time found remarks, issued by the Royal Ob many motorists turned aside, put Victoria Hospital. When his mother relief, got into trouble with Mr. English dupes, the latest being reservatory, Hong Kong, on the 15th their cars into garages, and went returned home on Sunday afternoon man, of expansive and expensive ago entecried the capital of a

Baldwin. Lord Birkenhead is a sidets of Southend, who two years instant, was as follows:-

The anticyclone has passed into home by train

she found that the little boy had tastes, and has long yearned to company styled Melmil, Ltd., and the Pacife, but another appeare to Is this to be taken as an indica-been bitten or scratched inside his escape from the dull and underpaid uipped factory at Laindon. be developing over North China.

job he held in the Cabinet. It is The shareholders knownow that they not generally known that he has have been fooled, and the company tion of what will probably happen mouth by the dog. The animal, a in the future on a larger scale as

black chow, has been sent to the been practically receiving no salary is being wound up. But Melville alaughter house, Kennedy Town, for for his services Secretary of still asserts that he can do the trick motoring 'becomes inore general than

State for India. As a former Lord "under proper conditions, and no observation. it is to-day The answer is in

Chancellor he is entitled to a pen- doubt he will soon get hold of. fresh sion of £3,000 a year, and when a guils. The supply is inexhaustible. the affirmative, as they say in the

In connection with the illuminat pensioner takes another Government House of Commons. And this raises ed car parade at the Grand Tattoo, job the rule is that he cannot draw

Both Australia and South Africa the practical point whether there The Hong Kong Automobile Asso- and the pension attached to one both the salary of the office he holds

•have approved of the Canadian pro- posal to inaugurate British Empire. is any remedy for a state of thinge ciation and the lótal Fint Agency he has held. Since the salary of a

A girl about seventeen years of that promises to become intolerable. sent their respects to Mrs. Southorn Secretary of State is £5,000, Lord Games, somewhat on the same fines

as the Olympic Games, the first age was crushed to death beneath Birkenhead, unless he get special Ho have no doubt that in time yesterday morning by the hands of treatment, receives no emolution meeting to take place at Hamilton, a medium ten-ton tank during re- cent manoeuvres in Surrey. She Mies Joyce, Crouch. She went to from it. deal with

In fact his Lordship's Ontario, in two years' time. It is menns will be devised. to the difficulty. This is the English Government House and presented pension was larger than his salary also understood that the English slipped from an edging of turf on would be, because a retired Lord A.A.A. officials are supporting the the roadside as the tank was pass- THE traffic problems which are pre-way. At the moment: it is being the Chatelaine, with a basket of Chancellor pays no income-tax. He scheme, while Ireland. views the ing and fell under it. The driver has to pay income-tax on his salary matter in a favourable light. The did all in his power to stop the sented in these days to all who use said that congestion of traffic, slow-chocolates" tied with the Italian as long as he is Chancellor, but Scottish authorities are also pre machine, but unhappily to no pur the main roads in, and aroundness of locomotion, and the madden colours from the Fiat agency.

not on his pension. That was the pared to recommend that Scotland pose, and it skidded. A corporal reason why when Lord Haldane should send a team, provided that of the Military Police, who was London are constantly appearing ing delays lately experienced are

became Chancellor for the second the three countries England, Scot-standing in new aspecte. Throughout the a proof that the new arterial roads

There will be a public lecture at fine, after declaring that no man land, and Ireland are represented narrow cecape from being crushed. was worth more than £3,000 a year, independently. This proposal, it The girl's arm was caught by one past summer the congested state of are a failure. These mighty high the Helena May Institute on Mon- he insisted on receiving £8,000 as may be taken for granted, will be of the wheels and was afterwards the roads in consequence of the ways constructed at a cost of day, October 22nd, when Mr. Crook Chancellor. That merely made his agreed to, and British Empire amputated, but death ensued. The "Sex Life in salary about equal to his pension. Games, which may arouse greater accident happened at the entrance enormous increase in the volume of millions were meant for speed, and will speak on-

Lord Birkenhead will accordingly interest than the Olympic Games.to the camp of the Guards' Brigade, motoring has been a matter of to enable motorists to avoid the Planta."-ADVT,

lose nothing by leaving office; and will actually come into being in whither the girl had cycled to acc the remuneration he, will receive in 1030. It is expected that these the troops return from their all grave concern.. But the scenes wit traffic jams that were inevitable, on

The first chamber concert of the the City will no doubt be sufficient games will take place actually in night battle. The road had no nessed at week-ends at the end of the older roads, which were made

to replace those literary earnings each country in turn, while the footpath, and it was in passing a season will be given at the Helena which be has been forbidden by Mr. erente will in the main be confined stationary lorry that the accident September were, according to our when the passing of a post-chaise London correspondent, unprecedent- or a stage coach was an event. It May Institute on Thursday, October Baldwin to make, and which, a to athletic contests, with a pent occurred. The girl was endeavour-

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