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GENERAL EEWS

Another, Golf Story.

Atrokes to land the bill in the

JACK JOHNSON.

"Not to Appear at Present."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1913.

SERVICE MATTERS,

H.M.S. Highflyer.

Having been paid off from temp- orary service in the Third Fleet at the Nore, the light oraiser Highflyer, which has been making

ammunition at Sheerness, left for

a

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Prepaid Advertisements

ONE_CENTE÷BR_WQR2D gyomor "THREE

·FOR EACH. INSERTION.

TO LET.

TO-LET.

flat of two rooms in Kow- | +. ed House: 5 rooms near

Europeans, Aley

in

To lot ur for sale, GLEN-

'i

TO LET "Peak, One Room with board for Gentleman, Apply:-"HOME" c/o "Hong- kong Telegraph."

Plantation Road from

OLET.-Strawberry Hill,

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CASTLES

CIGARETTES.

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BUT WE WON'T

WE WOULD MAKE THEM BETTER

BUT WE CAN'T

W.

SAVE THE COUPONS

D. & H. 0. WILLS,

This golf et ry is told by Mr. A conference was held to-day John D. Rockefeller, He was says the Globe of August 25, be playing one day on thỏ linka at Augusta, Georgia, with a friend tween the directors of the syndi. who handled his clubs rather cate owning the halls at which awkwardly. Halfway across the Johnson, the negro boxer, whom service as g-hip on the toon; suitable for middle-class Tram. Very moderate rent. WE COULD MAKE THEM CHEAPER

good defects since paying offTLET Finely appointed TO LET. At Peak, Furnish. links the friend disappeared into announced to appear to night and East In lies Station, was recom- a hollow in pursuit of the ball, and Mr. Rockefeller heard hit the negro himself. Jolinson armissioned at Chatham on Auguet Bath Rooms: Kitchen: Moderate

good Apply"HARBOUR VIEW" locality; Electric Light; Water; Hongkong Telegraph."« hit the sphere eight times: rived at the headquarters of the 30 by Ospt. II. T. Baller, with rent: Apply H. RUTTON- Finally the friend came to the syndicate shortly after 11 and. Devonport rative crew for ser JEE," Royal George Hotel. puting groen, and took three when asked by a Press representa vice as a training ship for naval hole low many strokes did tive, if his appru-ance at the halls cadels. The Highlyer, after ad MEIRION, No. 10, Peak, furnished or unfurnished. it inke you to make this hole?" night was certain, he repliedjusting compasses and receiving Rooms. Cheap Rental. arked the oi! magnute. "Sover with a beard emile, “Sure." At Devonport, to prepare for her SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124, replied to frirodi. But I heard the cocofurion of the conference, Der duties ant to have her crew Peak, 5 gooms from 1st March, you make eight when you were behind the hill," ohjeered Rocke however, it was state th John augmented to a special cumple 1913." feller. Oh,

explained the son wa

mont. The Highlyer was man 'nel to appear at presned by the crew of the light other fairily, thos were the sent." celin."

cruiser Sapphire, which was paid off at Chatham on the Se

No. 1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Peak. cond Fleat, and was at once re- from the Nore Naval Depct for five bedrooms. With ground for inmissioned with a reserve crew Bungalow containing drawing. dining and smoking rooms and service in the Thri Fleet sa ten-Tennis-Court In secorda ce with our previder to the Aboukir, The Sapphire intention- t- discuss with Joln enn on his arrival the question of his appearing, we have tray scen him and have explained the prosent position. He desires to deal thoroughly with the criti cisma medo, and with this object

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Fire Epidemic In Java, There has been quite in demicofserious firesin Javarro-til- ly. At noon on August 31, a fire broke out again at Kwing in Batavin, where, only eix week before, a whole vilinge hnd 'börn destroyed by the sume agency This time, 180 native houses were wiped out, owing to the fact tha the fire hours could not reach the kampongs. The following day there was a fire at Manga the suburbs, a small kampong seven native houses being bármi down. On the ev ning of Augu 30, twenty-one uses were but

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Subs qu nily, the following an ndunerment was made by the managements of the two music halla o prorned:

To lotROGATE.", Austin Road, Kowloon; from 1st October.

For Salo or To Let: from lat November, 1913

1st December, 1913. Furnished.

Apply

..

DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON

& HARSTON, ·

2 Minder loon, Five Rooms, Tennis Court- TO LET.- No.

Villes, Mody Road, Kow-

· FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Granville Avenue and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, Cheap rentals. SHOP with GODOWN attach- Nathan Ed., KOWLOON. Kon loon Marine Lot No. 48 with Wharf. Apply to.

No. 116 Peak "LEWKNOE" will shortly be replaced as atisch Furnished or Unfurnished. 5 od cruiser to the Fifth Battle rooms. Squadron by the light cruiser

No. 68. Poak, Mount Kellett.ed, Diamond, which is at present in (Church Mission Society Bunga dockyard hands at Chatham un-low) from 1st October, 1913, till

30th May, 1914. dergoing an extensive refit,

FOR SALE.-HARTING and ROGATE, on part of Kowloon Ia- land Lot No. 1154.

Specialist Engineers.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LTD:

Alexandra Buildings

FOR SALE." LADBROKE.". No. 9 Condult Road. Fine View of harbour; 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, Garden and Tennis Court. Ac To Le front dat View, 1913) comodations for 30 Servants.

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Building

The whole of the fint batch of is arranging certain interviews fuerenteen #fficera selected to and t-ki golfer measures to most qualify at Greenwich as Lieu the allegation. In the antime, enquis (E) are taken from the down in tho vil go of Kudj k #:

Block of midabipmen with an, at Bandreag. At Cut, as earing in the view of the seniority of May and September, which cecurred the night of management that for the present 1908, and a scrutiny of the cart the Ist in destroyed fifty his appearance as or anged would ificates which they gained in native houses. On August 30 be inadvianble, he his equested engineering at the passing out. Hongkong, 27th June, 1913 (211 jungle fire, caused by the great the postponement of h's engage allege course, provides a good 10 LET.-No. 150 "Magazin

examination on completing the drought, bruke out on the ploper' of Mount Tycemi. A thousand ment.

index of their initial qualifications Gap Peak, from the 1st bouws of coconut and other plant-

for the duties in which they are October. ah: ut specialiar. Eight of the Buildings" aliopa were daringed. The fre attracted many sightseers to the

Mr. Jenkins, Johnsen's Lonkeventeen gained firsts, viz., Inality. The prevailing drought agent, interviewed this after an Lients. Mark-Wardlaw (who ob is causing fires daily in several stated that the contract had not tained first in all the subjects in Bogaroine plantations.

been oar celled, and expressed the the examination for the rank of lieutenant). Ottley, Micklem. Chat- personal opinion that Johnson,

ley, Rideil, Sidwick, Sebastian, Alert I. writing in the

would be showing in London and Mulden; three obtained Financier last month, raya

before, very

ling. Johnson was arconde, viz, Lionte, Gibson, Thackeray, once ex osed his wonder as to what lecamo of qui'e agrera te," he said, "to Ford, and Tyrrell; and the re- mainder got thirds, viz Lieuts

The Devil He Is,"

What the Public Wants.

1, B

Houses in "Torres Kimberley Road.

Kowloon. Apply to-SPANISH

DOMINICAN PROCURATION,

TO LET Ranfurly, No. 11

Conduit Road. GODOWNS,94, Wanchai Road. 102, Praya East. Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd.

LET-(from 1st July

Peak. Apply LINSTEAD, & DAVIS. Hongkong, 9th June, 1913, [345

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LET.— 104, A, The Peak, from 1st November, 1913, partly furnished...

Apply S. J. DAVID & C...

Prince's Building,

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Keblis, 76 The Peak, 7 rooms, box room, lawn and garden, Central heat- ing, trai 7 min. by rickshaw.- Appy Harbour Master.

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GOOD GLASSES PROPERLY FITTED

There is no economy In going

your eye-sight depends.

money that was lost it cards, for the ques ion flis appearance Milward, and Sub-Lients. Heath, he had noticed (as many others being left in abeyance for a few Phillips, Sankey, Littledale, and have done to extraordinary

Fatal Revolver Accident to an phenomenon that nobody in the days in order accurately to gauge Tudor. It does not, of course,

Officer. room ever serme to five won it public opinion. If the general follow that this classificati

Major George Bachanan, R.A.- Firding no other reason, he as public do not want Johnson, benny criterion of the future of

is not desirous of thrusting him the officers, as talent may de-M., was accidentally shot at his crited it to diabolical agency self upon them

A whether lup in some at an earlier stage residence, Harvard Court, West It almost appears that His Fatunic Majesty must have had a band (or the public and cekily the ran in others, and the homely Hampstead, last month. He was hoof) in Stock Exchange transac music-hall jublie do want 'm, proverb that "the proof of the showing the revolver to a friend, to an optician of doubtful ability tions during the rear ni bid times.quation which helps pudding is in the eating" has to believing it to be unloaded, when to purchase glasses upon which Clients say they have dealt and dece, by person inves izbe applied to all the batch when a single live cartridge which had lost money, while the jobbers with ion. He began t campaign they get into the engine room inadvertently been left in it ex- whom the bargains were done

as soon us ho lol Mr. Toz's department of the fleat, It is, ploded. The major was wound profess, and quite loudly, thatffice this morning, em- however, a good sign that seven-ed in the stomach. they have not made a furthing: menced is by calling upon several

editors.in Fleet-atrert in fact, one of them told me that

With his white wife, Johnson ho had been away for six weeks, and reckoned that his bliday arrived in London yesterday. had saved him ten pounds a week. When he reached Folkestone a Now, somebody must have been crowd of spectat re was on the making this money. It isn't the pier. It was intended that John clients, it isn't the jobbers; itern abould catch the boat train most certainly isn't the brokers to Charing Cro-a, but he prefer- Therefore, I think the old gentle red to travel to London in his man must be saving up for one motor-car. of his devilish booms.

Warted to see Tsar.

St. Petersburg, the other day,

which bas only just become

koown.

Boxer and the Rev. F. B. Meyer.

teen candidates should have come forward at the first call for special- ist engineers, "na compared with entries of twenty-two each for the Excellent and Vernon.

An Important Admiralty

Feparture,

Personal attention is given to the examination and the fitting of lenses that will relieve all trouble. The only charge is for the glasses.

N. LAZARUS,

Ophthalmic Optician. 1A, D'Aguller Street.

The Only European

Telephone 1292.

THE FAIR FARM.

and

A Bygone Tragedy, The following singular circum- stance occurred this last week to a foreman in the employ of a re- epectable undertaker, in the neighbourhood of Leicester Note: square, who, on being sent to One of the most commendable measure a dead corpse, to his things in the constitution of the great surprise, discovered the Optician in D'Agullar St. Board of Admiralty for Gredeceased to be his own son, whom Britain is its flexibility and its he had not seen nor heard of for accessibility. It is so constituted upwarda of 20 years; who, it that it keeps in close touch with appears, ran away at that time in IS Located, in The Healthies An extraordinary scene WIS Johnson received a number of all that is latest in ship design consequence of a family quarrel, District of Kowloon, and Supplies onco'ed at the Winter Palsco, Prese representatives last night and improved routine, together and had gone over to the Wes! us daily with the Choicest

EGOS, at the private house where he is with the possibilities of each new Indies, where be made an ample VEGETABLES, staying. He said he intended to group of ships to join the fight fortune, and had only a few weeks POULTRY, A man passed ap to the undertake the role of lecturering line, by constantly shauging ago returned again into this The Farm is under EUROPEAN- inner entry of the palace frem and would invite questions from ite personnel by drawing its new Country; and all his endeavours, SUPERVISION and every atten the Neva quay and threw him the audience, Elis anlary would blood straight from sea service. to find out his aged parents had tton is paid to the PROPER self on the door keeper, skonting be about $5000 a week. He also In fact, this year, another de proved in vain. The suprise aud GROWING OF VEGETABLES, ang ily that he musten the Taranid He was going to send the parture has been inade, and the grief of the father on this occasion and the Poultry of EUROPEAN His Majesty then in residence following letter to the Rev. F. B Second and Third Sea Lorde, who can easier be conceived than STOCK. Try Our Delicious in Poterhof. The stranger said Meyer

helped to arrange the programme, descrit ad-Bell's Weekly Mes

CRISP SALADSE". he was a genius and an inventor, Den Sir,-As a visitor to for this year'e manoeuvres, also senger, September 1813."" whose great work was being London, I have seen by several left their desks and hoiated their ignored. He struggled violently papers your own view regarding flags in charge of squadrons with the janitor, who managed my character and so forth. I would which carried cut the programmes to seize the alarm apparatus, and like, sir, very much for you to settled by the whole Board at soon hundreds of be la were set come and have an audience with Whitobali. As the manœuvres ringing and guarda rushed.

me for cas half bear-namely, are undoubtedly the most stren to bia aseistance. The in- Wednesday alte noon. et four nous and informing part of the truder was over-powered ando'clock. I shall ask the Press to whole year's work performed by taken struggling to the neighbo prinYours truly, Charm the Fleet, some of the members bouring police office. There his

of the Board have thus actually identity was established as Serge pion Jola Arthur Johnson."

"I will talk to this rev. Centie. gained experience in the very latest movements of huge fleets,

Utotchkin, one of the earliest and man about anything under the and have gone back to their

obairs at Whitehall with the

beat of Russian aviators. Hel

ag-about the sun, the moon, Or talked excitedly but coherently the stare, anything you like to enough. He had fallen from one mention," cried the pugilist. "La zone of the sea still in their misfortune to another. Fr several nights be had slept in th him have a chat with me and see bodies. If this practice is con- what sort of follow I am. Th

Then

tinued we shall always have open, and he was nearly starving. let him judge me as he may."

members of the Board of Ad-] He had wandered about the

miralty each year renewing their streets, and when he was crossing The Rav. T. B. Meyer left Lon-actual sea knowledge and exper- St. Isado's Equare be sudden y don for Wales this morning. Stenience, and ready at any time, on determined to make straight for by a Press representative just as an emergency, if it should be- the Winter Falace and fell of his he was leaving M Meyer said he come actually desirable in time of troubles. For the time being he had received no communication war, to take up an active com is confined in a lunatic Beylum, from Jack Johnson, and added mend it full possession of all the described areaffering mm grave that he would be away certainly intentions of the Board of Ad

till after Wednesday,

miralty psychical disturbance,

Habe

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