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THE CHINESE RESTAURANT

The Chinese Restaurant was established in 1924 at the After British Empiro Exhibition at Wembley, London. returning to Hong Kong, the Restaurant is now being carried on at No. 25, Des Voeux Road, Central.

1.

An excellent rouge of Foreign and Chinese food is prepared by our special chef. We take pleasure in offering the following specimen manus for the consideration of our patron:

MENU

1. Stowed Starkana with Sliced Chicken.

2. Roasted Fowls Rolls.

3. Steamed Pigeons and Ham,

4.

Milk and Almonds, Sweet Gruel.

5. Steamed Glutinous Rice Stuffed with Lotus and

Sweet Mixture.

Price:$1.50 per dinner per person, (cae portion each person)

MENU

1. Stewed Sharkfins with Sliced Chicken,

2. Bousted Fowls Rolls.

3. Fried Boa Snails and Chicken Livers,

4. Steamed Pigeons and Iam.

6. Milk and Almonde, Sweet Gruel.

6. Steamed Glutinous Rico, Stuffed with Lotus And

-Sweet Mixture.

Price: $2.00 per dinner per person, (one portion cack person.). Note:--Patrons can choose another dish of Steamed Rice Mixture

or Nogales in Rice Boup or Fan Pastry instead of Steamed Glutinous Rice, Stuffed with Lotus and Sweat Mixture.

"A la Carte"

There is a special à la carte menu in English, from which patrons can order other dishes, the charges in all cases are very moderate and you can chooze according to your taste chicken, duck, awabi, sharkfins, pigeon nesi soup, boiled and fried garoupa, as well as manny other delicacies too numerous to enumerate.

Special arrangements can he made for wedding. feasts, dinners and tos parties at special prices.

The Restaurant is open daily from 11 a.m. to 2.1. Ma Jong sets are ready for patrons desiring to play this fascinating game; free of charge.

SPEND A FASCINATING EVENING IN ONE OE THE RESTAURANT'S ARTISTICALLY FAT CHINESE, CHOW, FURNISHED ROOMS. PLAY MA JONG, AND ENJOY YOURSELF.

THE CHINESE RESTAURANT, LTD. No. 28, DES VOEUX ROAD, CENTRAL. TELEPHONES: OFFICE-23896, lar Froon-23868, 2ND FLOOR-23893 and 3RD FLOOR-23904.

MAXWILL

SILICA FOR SALE,

Silica of best quality from Tak Eha Wu, Walchow, Kwangtung, Wholesale and Rotail Pricen moderate.

For particulars apply to

SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP REPAIRERS,

TAI LEE MINING CO.,

c/o THE CHINEat Restaurant,

Mackle

WHISKY

"RED HACKLE" Whisky.

A welcome change.

If you are not drinking "RE HACKLE" you are not drinking the boat.

Try it for a change, You will continue to drink it from obolen

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لام

Competition open to whiski's at the Brewers' Exhibition in London.

Try it! and judge for yourself. AGENTS:

BOILER MAKERS,

FORGE MASTERS,

OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL AND

ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERS.

W. R. LOXLEY & CO.,

Hexe Kost,

-DRY DOCK-

Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet. Depth on Contre of

OF HONG KONG, LIMITED. THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

Salvage Tug "TAIKOO" WIRELESS CALL

V.P.G.N. 000 Merizs,

SM (H.W.0.3.T.) 34 ft. 6 ins. THREE SLIPWAYS.

Capable of Handling Ships Up tɔ 4.))), Toax Displacement.

Electric Crane at Son Wall, Capable of Lifting 100 Tons

́ ́at 70 Feet · Radios -

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents,

HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN.

TEL: "ÁÐÐARG5 4. "TarKOODoor,- Home. TYLIPHONIS 37211

Call, Fram: “0” Ovxz “Am. Pasmani

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1931.

TWO INSEPARABLE

BROTHERS.

HOW RAIL DISASTER PARTED THEM,

Among the right dead in the Paris-Bordeaux express disaster; at Etampes, was an Englishman, Mr. Francis Edward Hatcher-Wertman, of Westmead, near Reading.

His brother, Mr. Walter Hat- cher-Weetman,, received broken ribs and now is in hospital. These on, inseparable companions, were at dinner together when the rostur ani car of the express jumped the ails and struck a stationary train, Mr. Walter Hatcher-Woetman as one of the first injured found

MINOR EPICS OF THE SEA.

SHARKS AND GALES.

Real life tales of herniam at sea, reminiscent of the more vivid pages of adventure, books" for boys, lay behind a list of awards recently issued by the Royal Humans So. ciety..

The first concerns G. Jenkins, of London, cook of the auxiliary schooner, John William V., who re coives the society's silver medal.

Bound for Fiji, the schooner found herself in a "south-west gale and confused swell." A BA

on the jib-boom, was

Alex.

by the rescuers. He had been pin-andler Samuel, furling the inker jib ned beneath the debris of the

swept over. smashed table at which he had been sitting with his brother.

I Am All Right.". "I am quite all right, and can get out by myself," he said. "Planse leave me and attend to rthers who need help more."

His brother had been killed out- right by a blow on the head. Mr. Walter was not informed of his brother's end until the following day.

He asked that he might see the ody before its removal for burial. Among the 41 passengers' in the wrecked dining car was another Englishman, Major Alexander, travelling from London to Pau with his 10-year-old son.

"We were imprisoned in the dining ear for half an hour," he said, "though neither of us was in the least hurt."

Dead Before Orasă.

A strange circumstance of the dianster was that a passenger in one of the wrecked conches was atrendy dead when the erash ramu, She was Mine: Paul Colin, who ras being taken to the South of France by her husband on account of her weak health.

board. Before the ship could be stopped Jenkins plunged overboard and for twenty minutes; in ey water, searched for his friend, but without success. He was picked up

exhausted.

More success attended the efforts of John Gallagher, seaman, of Blay- don-on-Tyne. Gallagher jumped from the s.8. Denham in a sea that was not only choppy and covered with gulf weed, but also infested with sharks, to save the life of Otto Jansen, a Danish member of the crew, who had fallen overboard. Gallagher is awarded the bronze inedal.

Another reeipient of the bronzz. medal is W. B. Kingswell, of Cape Town, who rescued ʼn friend who fell into the sea in Table Bay. The water was rough, and Kingswell had a hard fight and a long awing before he achieved his object,

Sidney Richardson, a clerk, of Oxberry Road, Brockley, is award- ed the bronze medal for rescuing Sarah Glew froin the Thames at Westminster. In spite of the fact that he was a poor swimmer and Jarred by the movement of the that the water was bitterly cold, Richardson went after the, woman, train, she grew, suddenly worse and died from heart failure short-struggled with an ebb-tide, and brought her to shore 100 yards from ly after leaving Paris.

where she fell in.

After the wreck rescuers found her body stretched on a carriage sat, her husband prostrate at kor fect, where he had been kneeling in a paroxysm of grief at the very

moment of the disaster.

He had been slightly injured only, it was unconscious.

QUEEN'S WHISPER.

GIRL GUIDE BUILDING OPENED.

When the Queen opened the new Girl Guide Tuperial Head-quarters in Buckingham Palaco-rend, Lon- „don, she” was saluted by Princess

Mary with the Guides' salute,

F. S. Baxter, a hand employed on the Grimsby trawler Rosmilo, is awarded the In Memoriam bronze medal for a North Sea rescue at- tempt in which he lost his life. He jumped overboard after a cou- rade, but the man ask before he gould reach him, and Baxter him- self, exhausted and half, drowned, was hauled aboard the trawler, dying shortly afterwards.

HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAI

REGISTER.

Hong Kong Observatory, April 27,

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4 p.m.

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af 4 p.m. 10 a.m.

The Princess is President of the Barometer... 29,00

29.05 Temperaturo 'Girl Guides' Association, and wore Hamidity...

79*

the Guide uniform.

Wind

Direction The showroom of the shop was

Foroo used for the occasion, and Dame Weather ... Helen Gwynne-Vaughan welcomed Rain...... the Queen. There was an amused Lowest open-air Temperature, 27: 71 Highest open-air Temperature, '10: 77

smile on her Majesty's face as she looked at the rowa of gaily-colour ed jugs and teapots which decorat red the walls on one side. They were silent witnesses to the cam- Fing activities of the Guides.

I hope this house," said the Queen, "will bring great happiness and be of good use to you all."

As her Majesty left the dais with the Mayor of Westminster sho whispered: "This is a wonderful movement."

B-Bing sky; O-Cloudy; D Drizzle; "F-Fog; L-Lightning: M-Mist; 0-Overcast; P-Passing showers; Q-Squalle; R-Rain; 7- Thunder,

́HONG KONG "TIDE TABLE,

· From April 28 to May 4, 1931,

Days of

Week

Date of

Height,

Kopg

Standard Standard

Time.

Height,

HION WATE, & Low Wazung

Hong

Hong

Kong

Time...

07 50 14 5 18105

00 20 1 0

07 58

Apart from one or two special deantiona' and grants the whole of AA the money required for, the build- ang has been raised by the girls | Tam themselves. They have given money

Wod. 20 for bricks, windows, doors, corner. stones, and so on. There are South Thur. 30- African windows, Bombay... doorn

-Fri. Hong Kong cupboards, West In dian corner-stones. India, is to Bat. provide n, £660 room, and Austra ha has collected over £100 for a

farge committee room. - London is providing the money for the res, taurant and kitchen.""

1925

-(810-10.

-18 18

2026 58 04010 01

1113 13 0 UF 04 1 1 159 12 8.

01 40

20 26

1862

1

02 15.

21 22 15 71441

2

090805

02 46

9:0

221054

*15 30.

09 38 169

03 15

2310 5.0

18 19 10 3

Mon..

But it's not a New one

It has just come back from the

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A SUGGESTION: Why not Bend your Winter Suits and Costumes to us, before storing, so that you can pack them away, feeling confident that they are free of motha nud all insecta, und with, the knowledge that when you are ready to wear them again they will be fresh and clean.

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COLOMBO and EUROPE.

SAILINGS TO EUROPE,

DESTINATION.

LEAVING HONG KONG M.V. "VOGTLAND" *(1) Genoa, Marseilles, Hotterdams

& Hamburg D. May M.V. RHEINLAND" '(3) Genoa, Marseilles, Havre, Antwerp,

Rotterdam & Hamburg 18 May M.V. DUISBURG " (1) Genoa, Rotterdam & Hamburg 23 May M.V. BAVELLAND" (3) Genoa, Botterdam & Hamburg

Other Ports of Call it Inducement offers.. ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE.

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13 May

24 Jane

7 June

(1)

Subject to Alteration without Holles.

(1) Excellent Accommodation for Fassengers, Qualified Surgeon carried.

Fare from Hong Kong to Genda from £70.0.0.

(2) Limited Passenger Accommodation, Qualified Sargoon carried.

(8) dargo Boat.

For further particulars please apply to Agenta

JEBSEN & CO.

'AGENTS.

12, Fadder Street, Hong Kong, A

Tel. 26661.

NOTICE TO CONSIONERS, **

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL- STEAM NAVIGATION_Co.'s STEAMER "ALIPORE."

ARRIVED HONG KONG ON

27 APRIL, 1931.

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

ONSIGNEES of Cargo by tho aboro-namel Vessel are hereby in- formed that their Goods am baing landed and placed at tusi 1ax in the Hong Kong and Kowloon What! had Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where coob

by Malment will be sorted out Mark and Delivery can be obtained at Goods nd landed.

155

This. Vesaol brings on Cargo from Persian Gulf

Gulf ex B.I.B.N. and D. & P.S.N.

mera,

Crab

unlear

tho

Goods will be landed hore Instructions have been given to

the Steamor.

Six hours bafors arrival of

Goods not cleared within 6 days ja. alading date of arrival will be subject to Roat

No Fire Insurance will be effected l

caso whatever, Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for ammination by the Consignees, and the Company's surveyors, GODDARD Douglas, at 10a.m.

00

Free

Le

and Thursdays, within the torage period.

All Claims against the Steamer must the Undersigned on.or

Lofted

17th May, 1931, or they will not be recognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have loft the Godown. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.,

Agents,

Hong Kong, 27th April, 1931.

(059

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP 00., LTD.

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVI-

GATION CO., LTD.

CONSIGNEES por Co. Vossal

ACHILLES" FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIA SINGAPORE

are hereby notified that their Cargo will

be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, whore it will lie at Consigases' risk and abject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf · The Cargo bs ready for Delivery from Godown

will be

on and after 27th

I not be landed hers

Optional Cargo will

Notice has been given prior to Vessel's arrival, but carried on from

to part

port

to the final port of call to which the option extanda

All broken chafod and I damaged Gooda aro to be left in the Godowns, where they wil be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10,45 AM. and Noow, within the Fres Storage period.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Voel's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after The 4th May will be subject to

Rent

All Olaims against the Vessel mart be presented to the Undersiqued on or before the 18th May, or they will not be recognised..

No Fire Insurance will be affected,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRB,

Agenta

[660 27th April, 1931.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE Motor Vornel

"DUISBURG" karing arrived, Consignees of Cargo are tereby notified that their Goods ar being landed and placed at their risk in the Hong Kong Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company's godowns at Kowlson, whore Delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.

Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Noties has been given prior to Vossel's arrival.

No Claims will be admitted after the foods have left the Godowns, and all Goods romisining undelivered after the 4th May will be subject to Eat.

All broken, shafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 2nd May. st 10 am, by our Surveyors, Mesars. Goddard & Douglas,

All Claims must reach us before the 18th May, or they will not be recognised,

No Insurance will be effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.

JEBBEN & 00,

Agenta, Hong Kong, 27th April, 1931. (604

"CLEN" LINE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIA

PORTA.

THE Steamship

GLENIFFER having arrived from the above_Porte, Consignees of Cargo by her are horoby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Herng

Kong

And Kowloon Wharf and

Company, Limited; when from the hayo, Delivery may be obtained.

Goode not cleared by the 4th May, 1931, 814 Phaled and damaged will be subject to Rent All broken, left in the Godowns, Package are to

where they will be examined in the

Монго presence of Consignem by Goddard de 'Douglas, - on 2nd May, 1981, at

at 10 am. Claims against the Sleaurer, i

including those for Cargo short

Poecial must be

ba

presented on the

Form provided, and must also

submitted within 30 days of arrival,

otherwins they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insuranca: will bo

o effected

by us in a any case whateverin junglegt

br

Bills

of Lading will be countersigned JARDINE MATHESON & Co., LTD,

Agenta,

Hong Kong, 17th April, 1931.