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NEW ADVERTISE. MENTS.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG

In the Matzea_OF_THN ESTATE FREDERICK WILLIAM JONES OF THE COLONY Or HONG KONG, LATE OF THE 8.8. "CHTEN CROW, MASTER MARINER, DECKABEE

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the Court haa, by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897 (No. 4 of 1897), made An Under Limiting the Time Lorre Estate to the Claims to or against the sending 26TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1929.

"

Creditors and Olaimants are hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the stove Date...

Dated this 28th day of November, 1929, Nort-The First Nctice in each case shall be published within Ten Days of this Order, and the Second Notice (if any) not less than 5 or more than 10 days from the publication of the First Notice

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Q. D. MELBOURNE,

Üficial Administrator.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS PA100 Rale by Public Auction to be hald on MONDAY, the 3RD DAY of DECEMBER

♦ at

2.M., at the Vozka Department, ty Offices of the Order of HI EXCELLENCE TAX GOYANGA, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for term of 75 years, with the optien of renewal at a Crown Hent to be 'Azed by the Surveyor of His MAIENTY THE Kine, for one further terms of 75 years,

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Bale.

Lot No. 2157.

Locality.

At junction of Nathan Road

and Bute Street.

Registry No!

G

Boundary.

Measure

ments:

4།

As per

salo plan.

Contents i

Square feet.

Annual

Rental.

Upset Price,

Abatit

7,130.

E

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16,040

PUBLIC AUCTION. DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Sale by Public Auction to

be held on MONDAY, the 8XD DAY of

DECEMBER, 1928, at 3 r., at the Offices of the Fable Works Department, by Order of His ExcELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Prince

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29th, 1928.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE. PROTECT PLACE BONHAM Roid.

THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR

Begins DECEMBES SRD. EN trance Examination for New Students, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1er, at 9 A. For Prospectus, for, Boarders and Day-boys, apply

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, Prospect Place,

NOTICE..

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THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

That Certificate No. 12543 for TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 60 Shares (NEW) Numbered 431810/ 431839

3rd JULY, 1928, in the inated on Nama of TANG NUI LAM has been declared LOST and should the Same not be produced before the LT DECEM- BER, 1998, it shall be deemed CAN. CELLED and of NO EFFECT

'GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agents, Hong Kong, 19th Nev., 1928, [7008

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,

THE EIGHTH EXTRA RACE

MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY Vallat on SATURDAY, 17 DECEMBER, 1925, Commanding at 100 2.2.

The First Boll will be Bung at 1.30 r.x. The Charge for Admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.00 for all PersonA including dis

Boldiers and Sailors in Uniform Ha'f

Price.

Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain Admission

the Members Enclosure.

LO

troduce

Each Member has the right to in- 2 Non-members to the Members' Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Messrs. Linstead & Davis, Each, Up to FRIDAY, SUTS

1929.

Ladies

38

200

NOVEMBER,

INTIMATIONS.

130 Nota

Avia

AWARDED

White Label HEST SCOTCH WHIS

OF GREAT AGE-

op Dewar & So

PERT

DISTILLERS.

AWARDED 50

The Charge for Admission for a GOLD & PRIZE

to the

Each Member can obtain, upon Applica tion to the SECRETARY, Badge for

Admission o

of 2 Ladies

dica Free of Charge.

Bookmakers, Tie The Mon, etc., will not be permitted to operate with- in the Precincta of the

HONG

JockxY

OLUB

N.B.-Attag the Face M

is drawn to a 1

KONG

Florses

in Routine at above Meeting. entered for Races will not bear Dis- tinctive N

the Face Book a umbers in the heretofore, but Starters as they are Nambered Conss- weighed out will be entively, and such Numbers exhibited ou

Board

All Horses starting in tha Race will displays Saddle Cloth bearing a Number corresponding to the Horse's Board Number and such Number wil to PARI MUTUEL and Case

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also apply SWEET TICKETS. .

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THE HONG KONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.

Edward Rond, in the Onlony of Hong SECOND TOURNAMENT OF THE

Kong, for a term of 25 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Kent to be. Bred by the Surveyor”,al HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Locality:

19

Lot No. 2158...

Price Edward. Road,

Kowloon Inland

G,

Kowloon.

Boundary

Messure-

menta.

ft. ft. it. ft

As per

sale plan

Annual

Rental,

Contents in

Square feet

1,304

狮

Upast Price.

About

007681

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

Pthe Bals by Public Auction to DECEMBER, 1928, at 19, at the

Offices of the Publis

blic Works Department, b

ent, by Order of His EXCELLENT THE GOVERNOR, of Ona Lot of OROWN LAND at Mong Kok Tabi, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 75 bara

be held on MONDAY, the 3D DAY of

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale

Registry No.

Locality.

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No. 2161.

Junction of Arras Street and

3

Reclamation Street

Boundary

Measure

rpents.

"As por

sale plus

Contents i

Square f

Rental

← | Upset Price, |

BIO

50097

7093

FOR SALE OR TO LET ON

LONG LEASE. DE

3.114

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A.R CASTLE (H.M.S. Cumberland) 10 Round Welterweight Contest. MARINE FRASER (H.M.S. Tamar) A.B., BAUNDERS (H.M.S. Serank)

V.

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Five Six Round Contesta.

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25TH AND 29TH NOVEMBER General Public: FRIDAY & Satúrbay, 30TH NOVEMSER & 1ST DECE MAZE,

USUAL PRICES. [7028

RATTAN, SEAGRASS, CANES, ETC.

WANTED TO B

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Class HONG KONG EXPORTER in the above Lines-Reply giving Lowest Quotations cf. Hamburg, Box No. 7037, efo Hong Kong Daily Prean

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Two Chinese cases of small-pox were reported on Tuesday."

Ten more dead bodies of children

were found by the police on Tues day in the crowded districts on both sides of the harbour. Signs of small-pox were found on three of the victims.

A Chinese woman while travelling on a tram-car between Shaukiwan and Causeway Bay on Tuesday morning gave birth to a daughter. She was removed from the car at the Bay View Police Station and later sent to St. Paul's Hospital.

the improvements already made ate of far reaching importance from a commercial point of view. It must be remembered that before Weihaiwei has declared Hong the revolution the territory was Kong to be an infected part and practically unknown to the foreign announces that ships will be subject trader. New roads are being to medical inspection under quar rapidly constructed; care is antine regulations. paid to the education of the people and industries started, resulting incidentally in the creation of a market for foreign, goods which will very soon repay attention. General Woyd SKIU HENG, the head of the province and Genera) WU TING YANG, one of his right, bind men, have gathered round them some scores of students re- turned recently from American and other Universities, and under their

direction guidance and quicker and better means of coin- munication are being provided between one town'and another and the old and cumbersome and ex- pensive, because inefficient, forms of agriculture are gradually being replaced by modern methods. Five years ago a tour of Kwangsi meant weeks of uncomfortable travelling in a bullock cart. Now there are over a thousand miles of reason.

Tiverton (England) is seeking a nhly well-constructed highways and the plans for as many more have supplementary water supply. The Town Council engaged 'for several been prepared. In a number of days, at a fee of twelve guineas a districts the cheap motor-car is day a water diviner, who, after

spending a few hours at one spot, custing the bullock cart. Motor-divined" a supply which he estim bus services have made their ap- ated at between 80,000 and 100,000

gallons a day. pearance and there has been a very great extension of electric light for assault brought by a Chinese and telephone installations. The motor car driver against Mr. B. Fasco has been withdrawn. When Magistrate last week a week's ad the matter came before the Senior journment was granted as it was stated that there was the possibility of the matter being settled out of Court

native to whom until very recently quick mechanical transport was a thing unknown curí go joy riding in a charahanc for thirty-cents and ring up an acquaintance at a hundred miles distance and describe the experience to him over the 'phone.

"On returning to Wuchow after even a brief absence," wrote our correspondent last week," one sees ironiense improvements in the West

port. Since October 10th

Wuchow University has been open- ed and there are to-day more than 300 young men and women study ing to become scientific agricul. turalists, engineers, lawyers and teachers, a Chinese "graduate of a German University and a former Civil Governor of Kwangsi being the head of this new institution." But as we have shown, this is only one of the many indications of the changing times. A number of fac tories have been opened, or are in enurse of erection both at Liuchow and Wuchow and an important experimental farm, under Govern- ment auspices, has been established which forms the headquarters" of a band of lecturers and teachers

A Chinese "who was in the act of trying to steal chickens from the second floor of a house in. Yuen Chow Street. Shamshaipo, mads a desperate leap into the street on finding that he was observed by the inmates. He died almost in mediately.

It is understood that a summons

At a meeting of the Court of AMERICA'S THANKS the Company of Master Mariners

GIVING DAY. the following were elected for the ensuing year: Captain Sir Burton Chadwick, M.P., R.N.R., Deputy! THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Master; and Captain Sir Walter d'M. Baynham, R.NR., Captain E. C. Birnie, R.N.R., Captain P. F. W. Blake, Commodore Sir Bertram F, Hayes RN.R., Captain R. F. Hayward and Captain S S Rich ardian, RN, R., Mariner Wardens

The second instalment of M. Poincaré's new book, "The In- vasion." shows that both Foch and Joffre were convinced of victory in

· 1914. Both of them were Con-

fident about the future," writes M. Poincaré." The war, they say, may take a more or less long time to win, but we shall win. The Ger mans have lost the game which they planned and prepared." Neither Foch or Joffre believed possible the new mass attack which Kitchener

feared.

WE HAVE PROSPERED."

The following proclamation has been issued by President Coolidge in honour of Thanksgiving Days the grest home day of the Ameri- can people, which is being celebrat- ed today.

The proclamation states:

The season again approaches when it has been the custom for genera- tious to set apart a day of thanks giving for the blessings, which the Giver of all good and perfect gifts. has bestowed upon us during the year. It is most becoming that we and mercy of God which have fol- should do this, for the goodness lowed us through the year deserve our grateful recognition and se knowledgment. Through His Divine favor peace and tranquillity have reigned throughout the land; He has protected our country as a whole against pestilence and dis- aster and has directed us in the. ways of National prosperity. Our fields have been abundantly pro-

industries ductive; creased; wages have been lucrative, flourished; our commerce has in- and comfort and contentment have followed the undisturbed pursuit alleged to be due to them for cer

of honest toil. As we have prosper tair supplies before the war, whiched in material things, so have we came before the Anglo-German also grown and expanded in things Tribunal in London recently was spiritual. Through divine inspira- tion we have enlarged our charities. withdrawn. The sum of £6,000 and our missions; we have been (£3,500 principal, and 23,500 in imbued with high ideals which have terest) which Messrs. Vickers ac-operated for the benefit of the world and the promotion of the knowledged was due, was agreed brotherhood of man, through peace upon, and the claim was settled for and good will, that amount.

the

મ claim for £75,000 by German Weapons and Menition Factories Company from Messis, Vickers in respect of percentages

Passion for knowledge of the stars among women is revealed by the fact that the National Federn tion of Women's Institutes, in con- the International junction Education Society, has decided to

with

circulate gramophone lectures this winter on astronomy among its Two banishees who returned be- 4,000 rural centres in England and fore their time were sent to prison Scotland. Special lecture records by M E W. Hamilton at the

on Mars, the heavenly bodies in Kowloon Magistracyesterday. The spring, summer and winter, etc., have been made by Professor H. B man who was deported in 1023 for

Turner, Savilian Professor of 45 ten years received a twelve months' hard labour. The tronomy at Oxford. other, who was deported only eigh- teen months ago for similar period, was sentenced to three

2

of

months hard labour, and twe've

strokes of the birch. If, after medical examination, the defendant was not in a fit state to be birched, i he was to undergo a further nine months in gaol.

* OBITUARY.

FRANK. HEDGES BUTLER.

PIONEER OF THE AIR.

It was stated at a recent meeting The death is announced of Frank of the Greater London Regional Plan- Hedges Butler at the age of 73.

MA Butler was a man of wide ning Committee that the General Committee had decided that the interests and experiences and at time had come for the appointment one time or another

DEATH OF MISS TS'O. SHUK KI.

FUNERAL THIS MORNING.

our

have

Wherefore. 1, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, do hereby set apart Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November next as a day of general thanks- giving and prayer, and I recom mend that on that day the people- shall cease from their daily work, and in their homes and in their

accustomed places of worship, de- voutly give thanks the Almighty

for the many and great blessings. they have received, and seek His guidance that they may deserve a Continuance of His favor.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I cansed to be afixed the great seal have hereunto set my hand and

of the United States..

(Seal): DONE at the City of Washing

ton, this 3rd day of October, in the year of our Lord One: Thousand Nine Hundred and. Twenty-eight, and of the In- dependence of the United: States, the One Hundred and." Fifty-third.

CALVIN COOLIDGE.

CINEMA NEWS.

WORLD THEATRE,

JACKIE COOGAN IN **THE BUGLE CALL."

Jackie Coogan has forzaken, his usual role and appears as a brave bugler boy-the son of a frontier cavalry captain-in his intest pic- ture The Bugle Call" which will be screened at the World from to-

and its defenders Spectacular battle scenes are shown and the inve interest is in the hands of Clairo. Windsor and Herbert Raw- inson, two well-known players."

Don't Tell The Wife Irene Rich, the leading player in an amusing picture "Don't Tel The Wife," which will be screened at the Star to-day to Saturday, appears as a sophisticated Parisian matron, who finds, that her husband has almost been led astray through his preference for blondes. Hunt- ly Gordon is the hero and is sup- ported by a well balanced cast of players including Lilyan Taahman und Otis Hurkan.

of a technical expert, who would almost every partner bad visited be responsible for the actual pre-He was also a keen motorist and paration of the regional plas. He first treasurer of the Royal Auto would have to prepare a develop mobile Chub, founder of the Royal ment plan for an area covering a Aero C'ul and a keen balloonist. radius of 25 miles from Charing He made in all over

a hundred Cross, an area of some 2,000 square free balloon ascenta, including the miles. "Among the questions to record longest distance in England, which special attention would be done alone, in 1902, and the record given would be the possible estab- of the world for the longest Today to Saturday. The story takes. lishment of satellite towns surround bannel sea voyage from London

Jackie. ed by agricultural belts, which to Caen in Normandy ir. 1905. He pace in a frontier post, might to some extent supply the was a pioneer of the aeroplane is exciting incidents, save the fort. and his bugic, after a number of food required by the population. 1906.

Mr. Butler was also a talented The Brst step in to £1,000,000 violinist, and founder of the Lyric whose pupils for the most part are fishing industry has been taken at

scheme in connection with the white Club Orchestra and the Imperial

Institute Orchestral Society. the farmera in the neighbourhood. Aberdeen by the setting up of a He has written many books and 1885 Kwangsi, moreover, does not mean

new fish meal and by-product fue- articles upon aeronautics and tory. Purchases of fish and fish travel. to hide its light under a bushel-wastes will be made. for the present It welcomes publicity and foreign on the fish market at Aberdeen, but ultimately plant will be instal cooperation, both good things if led in all types of trawler which properly utilised. A small month will take up the waste at sea, and ly magazine, printed in English, the new premises will become a finishing factory. Materials of im- and devoted exclusively to the mense value will be taken from the interests of

raw products by means of meal and the province · has

It is with deep regret that we oil extraction plant. These pro have to record the death at already made its appearance and ducts include glues, phosphates, French Hospital yesterday morn- as our readers are aware an indusoils, leather, powders, glycerine, ing of Misa Te'o Shuk Ki eldest iodine, insulin, and ammonia," Mr daughter of Dr. 6. W. Ts'o, C, A. McCurdy, one of the directors O.B.E. LL.D. after one week's of the company, states in a docu- lness. The funeral will take place ment circulated privately. We are to-day starting from the French at the beginning of a revelation in Hospital at 10 am. passing the It is interesting to note the re- dealing with the riches of the scas."

University at 12.15 pm. where ། sults of these ..activities.

friends can pay their last respects; An undergraduate magazine, saya and from there the cartege wil Chinese correspondent writes: the Daily Express, laments the proceed to the Chinese Permanent

fact that the very expression

"Cemetery. "Since September 12th, a British young man from Oxford" now em- bodies something of 'sneer. That agent for a popular American car

is not quite true, but as an 'effort has been visiting the principal of self-criticism and self-realisation cities, his equipment consisting of it is welcome. Many a man has felt, touring ear, a truck, a tractor, on leaving Oxford to enter a busi- ness or a profession, that he is at an interpreter and three drivers. a disadvantage with his non-Univer While they He has taken most of the roads,sity contemporaries,

were busily launching themselves and incidentally received orders on a career he has been in a world

The Daily Press.

Hose Kore, NOVEMBER 29, 1928, trial exhibition,gon, a fairly big scale has been projected "for, the autumn of 1998.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF KWANGSI.

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velopment work in progress in Ewangsi. In the spring of this year a representative of the Daily Pien spent over a month travel- ling through this province and re- ported signs of enlightened ac- tivity in all directions. This work

of reconstruction "as it is term"

ed in all official documents, al though development work is the more correct title for something catirely new, has been, continued -with-unabated vigour and whilst we do not suggest that Kwongal has been miraculously transformed

Our

WEATHER REPORT.

the

The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Obser atory, Hong Kong, at 5.10 p.m. yesterday state:-

The anti-cyclone is central over the Sea of Japan. The typhoon in

for a dozen or more cars, and now singularly distant from the realities the China Sea is now moving on a

*

ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION.

SPECIAL FORCE NEEDED.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21st,

Mayor Harry Mackey, today in- dicated that police of Philadelphia may be relieved of the responsibility. for enforcement of the national prohibition law here.

He declared that the police have" been organized to protect life and property. Until a few years ago, he said, that was the only view of their function.

Then emme prohibition, imposing new, responsibilities under which the police power has collapsed in every city in the United States, in Mackey's view.

Philadelphia graft, crime, and

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he, is negotiating for the sale of he will be coring with for the re- north-east track towards the Bahn vice conditions have been a target.

Local forecast:-North

moderate, fine to cloudy

Two Typhoons.

mainder of his days. Employers tang Channel. a hundred tractors to the Kwangsi find it hard to place him in the

winds, for reformers from all over the world during late years. "Clean- up" activities under General Smed- Government, while another agent, right job. On their side, as on his, there is too great a readiness to

ley Butler of the Marines now in indirectly working for an Ameri- regard him as a misfit. The Univer

A message issued from Manila at China, brought much publicity but can car, is offering the delivery of sities ought to be the training 150 passenger cars to meet the degradional life. If they are not in about Long. 1320 E, Lat: 21 posed to believe that if prohibition leaders in all spheres 0 p.m.. states that there is a typhoon accomplished little Mackey is dis- mands of the traffic in the Kweilin it is because they only partly moving N.N.W

enforcement can be wholly divorced districts. It would seem that in succeed in combining practicality. There is another cyclone or from local police functions it w Kwangs elsewhere the trade with culture, ideals and the love of typhoon West of Northern Luzon, be easier to hold the police respon

beauty with knowledge of this world less than 100 zile distant, moving "sible, tor their enforcement of local

E.N.E. goes to the enterprising.

band its affairs.

Laws.