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·BALLANTINE'S

in use for almost 100 years.

ESTABLISHED. 1927.

By Appointment to B.M. The Lats H.M. The Late King Edward Queen Victoria 412

nad

YII.

His Majesty King George V.

PURE SCOTCH-LIQUEUR WHISKY 10 years old.

GEORGE BALLANTINE & SON, LTD. GLASGOW AND LONDON. DISTILLED IN SCOTLAND

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1929.

MOTOR SMASH AT BY MAIL, WIRE, AND

TAIKOO:

DRIVER AND TWO SAILORS

INJURED.

COLLISION WITH TRAMCAR.

A serious motor smash occurred in the neighbourhood of the Taikoo Dockyard yesterday as a result of which a Chinese driver and two

itish bluejackets were injured. It appears that public ear No. 800 was travelling from Shaukisan to Hong Kong with three sailors as passengers. On the way it met tramçar No. 39 going in the other direction down the hill. Through the failure of the steering gear or 'some other cause, which is not clear at the moment, the motor car came in violent collision with the

· tram.

WIRELESS.

Trheran-The unrest in the Kushgai tribe land, near Shiraz. still continues,

Madrid. The post and art critic. Enrique de Mesn, has died here suddenly.

Milan-Two flights of Italian bombing seaplanes are to assemble at Tarante to undertake an instruc tional cruise in the Eastern Mediter ranean and the Black Sen.

H.K. VOLUNTEER CORPS.

COMMANDANT'S ORDERS.

(ORDERS UV LT.-COL. I. O. BIRD. .9.0.. 0.8.E.. COMMANDANT.]

No. 27/29, 1-Sports Meeting.

"

DIVING FOR GOLD.

£1,000,000 AT, STAKE.

ECHO OF S.S. - EGYFT" COLLISION.

United Press.)

Brest (France).-Another attempt is to be made to wrest the million

treasure hold of the liner Egypt, sunk years ago off the coast here. Various efforts by salvage firms have

A mesting of the Sports Compounds sterling of bullion from the mittee will assemble at Corps Head. Vienna, scarcity of meat in Austrin has led to demonstrations quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, by "housewives, much indignation July 8, 1959. being caused by the Government arder limiting the importation of foreign cattle.

All ranks interested and willingbeen made to reach the gold and to assist in organising the, annual sports meeting and swimming meet ing are invited to attend.

Sydney, Sydney magistrate has fined a 'niversity student and S. cost for behaving in

An O.C. Hits will please detail riotous manner at night. Another student was remanded for three a unit representative to attend weeks an that witnesses might be obtained.

Paris. It is anounced by the French Foreign Office that the text of an alleged Franco-Folish Mali- tary Convention, accompanied by an annexe, has been published "in Moscow and that these documents are erely forgeries.

The motor car driver received serious injuries, being "thrown If you want a really first clas

against the windscreen which was Scotch Whisky at a reasonable price.ushed to bits.

He was at once have CAL you

better than removed to the Government Civil.

Woodstork (Ont.). The Rev. R. Ballantine's Liqueur Whisky.

Hospital. Two of the biurjackets,. Mackay has died at the age of 83. He was an ex-Moderator of excellent.

A.B. Sharman of H.M.S. Sepoy the General Assembly of the Presby and A.B. Greeh, of the same vessel, Lerian Church of Canada, and was

cign Mission.

It is

2.-Corps Band.

The Band will parade fer Band Practice in mufti at Corps Head- quarters at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9, 1929.

3.-Engineer Company, Parade at Belchers' Fort on Thursday, July 11, at 6.15 p.m. for run in conjunction with R.E. and R.A. Please send in names not later than Monday, July 8.

Dress: Hälmet, tunic, slacks, Sandwiches black boots and belt.

The French Store received bruises to the face and for det years secretary of the For- should be taken.

Beaconsfield Arcade.

Jamaica.-On the recommenda

were taken to the Royal Naval Hos

4.-Mounted Infantry Company. pital. Fortunately, their injuries tion of the Clovernment of Jamaita, Thursday, July 11, 1999. Parade were nut of a serious character. the Legislative Council has alloent-at Causeway Bay Stables at 5.30 In the afternoon a constable stooded £500 to provide food for the p.m. for Machine Gun Drill with

in the districts stricken with children who are attending schools pack ponies, drought, where several persons are reported to have died of starvation. Steps have been taken to provide

CONSIGNEE NOTICES by the damaged motor car which

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.

AND

ODINA MUTUAL, STEAM NAVI: GATION CO, LTD.

YONSIGNEES per Co a Vonei

"TALTHYBIUS"

CONSI

ogramanice

presented a sorry spectacle, with the radiator and practically the whole of the front portion complete ly wrecked. There were also patches of blood among the broken splinters of glass.

HOTEL 'BUS IN THE

GUTTER...

ACCIDENT NEAR THE MONUMENT.

relie works.

Vienna.To meet the competition

Sunday, July 14, 1920. Field Fir ing Exercise. Parade at Dragon Garage, Happy Valley at 9.30 am.

5.-Car Section.

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A meeting of N.C.O.'s will be of numerous private motor-omnibus held at Corps Headquarters at 5:30 enterprises the Australian Postal Department is now running omnibus on Friday, July 6, 1999. All N.C.O.'s should make special services between 300 termini. Four offart to be present. hundred vehicles are in use, cover- ing About 3,750 miles in their daily journeys Last year the postal omnibus carried 3 million passen

gers.

at

Berlin. The issue of the German newspaper provincint Communist Der Klosarkampf, published Halle. which during the suspension of the Rate Fahne has been used by the Communist Party as a sub- stitute, has also been suspended for four weeks on account of an article containing incitement to armed re volt.

6.-Machine Gun Company. There will be no further Com any parades during the month of July, 1929.

7.-Scottish Company. The Pipes and Drums will parade at Corps Headquarters at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10, for practice.

6. Portuguess Company.

X.c.o.'s CLASS,

silver in the form of ingots held securely in the strong rooms of the ill-fated vessel, but all attempts heretofore have been în vain.

The Egypt was sunk on a voyage from London to Bombay. She collided with a French steamer, the Seine, in the Bay of Biscay and went down with the loss of ninety- eight passengers and crew.

Ablest Divers Engiged, The unusually large consignment destined for gf gold and silver was British banks in India." Steps were at once taken to recover the precious cargo, but although the ablest divers in Europe were en gaged on the task it was found im- possible to get into the streng-hold. The first divers employed were- Germans. They located the vessel after some weeks. She lay on her side in a particularly awkward position; moreover & beavy current prevented the divers broaching the rich board.

The salvage work has pow been entrusted to an Italian firm who will employ Gennese divers who are noted for their ability to work at great depths under the sea. If it is still found to be impossible to reach the rich cargo, charges of dynamite will be lowered and the divers will blast that portion of the ship wherein the gold lies, and attempts will be made to hoist this

means by

powerful

be

on

This

aloft

(magnets.

Two Italiar salvage boats will be employed in the work, which will probably occupy a month, Salvage experts declare that this is one of the

most formidable tasks ever undertaken by divers, since the vessel lies at a depth of 360 fest.

of

Paox SEATTLE, VANCOUVER AND VICTORIA VIA JAPAN are requested to take Delivery of Flow! and Lumber Shipments a son as the Vol in ready to discharge and are An accident not devoid of the kereby notified that if their Lighters are humorous aspect occurred at 7.10 not placed alongside the Steamer p.in. yesterday behind the Civil required, their Shipments will be dis-Service Cricket Club. With the charged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloor, at indiscriminate opening up of the their expense,

where the Cargo will

roadway at this spot with hardly lie Alo at their risk and expense and

to indicate danger subject to the Terms and Conditions of any barriers

was bound te Storage at Holt's Wharf. Stramer will spots. something Storage Discharge on the 4th July. happen 2000.

The next N.C.O.'s Class will General Cargo will be discharged into Hong Kong Hotel bus No. 38 was

Vienna. A Viennese art dealer held at Corps Headquarters where it will lie approaching the ball before tuming who had arranged a private show Friday, July 5. at 5.30 p.m. Kowloon, Cocsignees risk and subject to the round the Monument on its way of Albert Dürer engravings, basis the last class of the first series Terms and Conditions of Storage at town. A troue had been dug be reported to the police the loss of so it behoves all NC.O.'s to do Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be readyhind the Club house, but this had our valuable first proofs. The their utmost to attend. for Delivery from the Godown on and been covered in with earth and missing sheets represent "The

The next Class after will be held after 4th July,

there was no barrier, or what was

Madonna on the Crescent" (with on Friday, July 19, 1929. All broken, chafed and damaged Goods there in the morning had been re

the Maruetta signature, 1665): to ba left in the Dodowns, where they moved after covering the tranet.

The Madonna crowned by an will be examined on any Tuesdays and

The left wheel of the vehicle

Angel (paper with the little Fridays Jetween the hours of 10.45 sank into the trench down to the

crown mark):"The Madonna with and Nook, within the Free Storage period hub. A breakdown gang from the

the Pear" and "The Grotesque No Claims will be admitted after, the Carage quickly turned up in charge also paper with the little Goods have left the Vessel's Godown. and all Goods remaining undelivered of a European, jacked up the bas after the 10th July, will be subject to and sent it on its way none the

worse for the mishap.. The passen Rest

Holt's Wharf,

st

All Claims against the Vessel martgers in the bus escaped with a

shaking. be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 24th July, or they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agazta.

4th July, 1929.

[8067

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co.

STEAMER "KHYBER."

ARRIVED HONG KONG 03 4TH JULY, 1924,

FoxANTWERP.LONDON, GIBKAL- TAH, MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND ATRAITS,

crown).

Madras-Dacoits led by a Pathan raided a village in Kohlapur State and stole property worth £3.000.

Seville.-Don Anibal Gonzalez, A donkey running wild and a tram-car driver trying to run into the architect of the principal Seville the side of the unfortunate competiExhibition buildings, has died at

was extricated also Seville, aged 53. for before it provided

appreciative crowd with a little light relief.

*

Calcutta. The Legislative Cowa-

The Garage gang planted planks cil of the Punjab is to be allowed

9.---Transier.

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Tremendous Pressure,

The divers will be equipped with special apparatus to enable them to withstand tremendous pressure No. 1083 Pte. E. A. Griffiths from at such a depth, while an ingenious Car Section of the Reserve Com-system of lighting under the ocean will enable them to work as if they pany, A.C. Section, as froto June 1,

were in full daylight.

1920.

10.-Leave. 9/Lieut. R. D. Read, Corps Signals, from June 25 to July 7,

1520.

R. A. WOLTE MURRAY, Major,

Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C.

Hong Kong, July 6, 1929.

in the roadway supplemented by to finish its term of three years, MARRIAGE BOND SANCTITY,

contractor's wooden mixing which expires in January next.

the

tray in order to prevent any more Oslo. Copenhagen University vehívics going into the trench, which by then was opened up in several places.

S.S. NELLORE.”

FOR JAPAN-HONG KONG- AUSTRALIA SERVICE. MONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above.

Intending passengera to Australia naried Vensel are hereby informat that their Goods are being landed and be interested, to learn that the placed AT THE RISE in the Hong Kong Fastern & Australian Steamship and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Co., Ltd.. have acquired from the Company's Godowas at Kowison, where & O... S.N. Co. the xs. Nellore each Consignmont will be sorted out which vessel will take the plage of Mark by Mark and Delivery, can be the ss. Arafurn on the E. & A. obtained as the

run from Japan to Australia vi Goods are landed. Optional Goods will be landed here Hong Kong

The as. Nellore is a steamer of unless Instractions have been given to the contrary Six hours before arrival of 16,953 tons gross register and her the Steamer.

length, breadth and depth are, 450 Goods not cleared within 8 days, in feet, 52 feet and 30 feet, respec- sluding date of arrival, will be subject to tively. Beat

She is therefore, of very similar No Firs Insurance will be effected by dimensions to the E. & A. 5.8. Damaged Packages must be left in the Co.'s s.s. Tanda which has earned Godawns for examination by the Con- such an excellent reputation with travellers between Hong Kong and sigaoon, and the Company's Burveyors,

Australia. MOSHTE. GODDARD & Douglas, at 10 A... on Mondays and Thursdays, within the From Storage period.

Rin any case whatever.

All Clation against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or

before 24th July, 1929, or they will not

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be recognized. A Goode bave left the Godown.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.,

Agenta Hone Kong, 4th July, 1929. [8069

No Claims will be admitted after the

ON SALE.

celebrated its 150th anniversary by a torchlight procession of studente through the town. There was later a festival at the Town Hal!

Moscow. Bukharin has been ap- pointed a member of the Persidium

UNHAPPINESS A PROBLEM "FOR THE CLERGY."

A woman..

who asked at the Thames Police Court for a separa- tion from her husband said in reply of the Supreme Economic Council to the magistrate, Mr. Cairns, that a "Catholic in Moscow as a result of the recent she was married" at compromise with the leaders of the church. Opposition.

"The clergy have all the glamour Quebec-The death is announced and glory of knitting you up," said of Mr. Roch Lanetôt, who had refr. Cairns, and I have to do presented a Quebec constituency in all the unravelling. the Liberal interest in the Canadian

"It is not fair. The truth is you people ought to go to the clergy. Marriage is a Holy Sacra- ment, according to the doctrine of your Church

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House of Commons since 1904.

Aukland. During 1998 the busi. nem transacted by the New Zealand Public Trustees Office exceeded all previous records, a net profit of "It begins, which the Holy' £29.467 being shown. The value of Catholic Church, and ends in the administration is sordid atmosphere of the metro- estates under over 218,000,000.

politan police court." Sydney. As it has proved im. possible to obtain from the New South Wales Government an assur ance of an early reduction in the Ministry has decided to arder price of coal, the South Australian

40,000 tona from abroad.

The s, Nellore hna accommoda Toronto.-Mr. Clubb, Manitoban tion for be 1st Class and 52 2nd Minister of Public Works, who with clase passengers, the latter being another Minister vacated his posi accommodated aft and not mid-tion owing to allegations about & rangement permite

Aukland.-A. scheme suggested by

It is declared that this lighting system will make the ocean bed as right as a Hollywood movie studio, under the most powerful klein lights.

and

re-

Numerous other wrecks, mainly sunk daring the world war containing waluable cargoes, main to be salvaged' off the French and English coasts and if the Italian attempt proves successful the same divers will probably be asked to work on other vessels which have reposed for years below the aca at depths which have hitherto bafil- ed salvage men.

One rare treasure is still await ing to be tapped. This is the of. diamonds $13,000,000 cargo aboard the. Belgian ship Elizabeth

ville. The liner was torpedoed on a voyage. from Africa towards the end of the war, She now lies on the cecan bed in the Bay of Biscay There are between 10,000 and 15,000 carats of diamonds in her holds and the diver who succeeds in reaching them will make himself rich for life.

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Pros: Taft.July 6, 6p.m. Pres. Grant.....July 30, 6 p.m. Pros. McKinley July 16,3p.m. Prus. Lincoln...Aug. 3,6 p.m. Pres. Jefferson..July 20, 6pm. Pres. Cleveland, Aug. 13, 6 pm,

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KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART

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THE MOTOR VESSEL

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"BRITISH PRINCE having arrived from the above Port on 4th instant, Consignees of Cargo are Colonies with the object of recruit- being landed at their risk into the T

Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon the Secretary of State for the hereby informed that their Goods are ing graduates of New Zealand uni- Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, versities for the British Colonial Service has been approved by the Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk

and expense. New Zealand Government.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods Due to sall to SINGAPORE, BELAWAN.DELI "and Paris.A lightning, strike ofare to be left in the Godowns, where will be examined on Wednesday, 10th instant, at 10.4. Louvre Post Paris, as a

of a sum from their wages for the upkeep of uniforms. The strike lasted only five hours.

shite noise of considerably exonerated by a special Royal Compostmen took place at the Rue du more deck space for both classes of mission, was re-elected without opmonstration against the deduction

position to his former seat. passengers

Shanghan. The Newspaper Dis Excellent accommodation is being arranged for Chinese Steerage and tributors Union has forbidden mem- deck passengers and the vessel willbers to circulate "mosquito" papers

Paris. The police are looking also be equipped, to carry a large which have been banned by the

for an English-speaking stranger quantity of meat, butter and other nuthorities.

Ottawa The Canadian govern-who got into conversation with frozen eargo, in insulated compart- menta, in addition to having amplement is expected to follow the Chilean priest in a Paris omnibus Abdelral on 20-MagDonald Cabinet's lendinand persuaded him to buy 32-pre-

and Chinese inerchandise.

Jesuming relations with the Bagets crous places free-starp KHAI

UEFI VOLUME

HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS, July to December, 1928. WIZH LYDEL, PRE-$7.50

On Sale at the Hong Kong DAILY PARAS OFTION.

It is anticipated that sit. Nellore in view of the important commerci- they met later. When the priest re- will leave Yokohama for Sydney al relations between the two turned to his hotel he found that be had paid £300 for a bag of and Melbourne during the latter countries.

pebbles.

half of October, this year.

(Continued on neat Oolumn),

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All Claims must be presented within Offers of the Vessel's arrival hero. after which date they cannot be re- cognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 11th instant, will be subject to Beat,

No Fire Inanrance has been effected. Bills of Lading yo

will be countersighed

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excellent Saloon accommodation.”

All lower berths."

English cuisine.

Doctor carried.

Wireless telegraph.

1st Class Fare to Singapore-$125.

In connection with the Royal Packet Nat. Co.'s (K.P.M.) Berrics to destinations in the Netherlands East Indies and Australia.

Aganta JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LIJN.

Telephone 1574. T024 Building, Charaa Road,

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