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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1923.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FORTHCOMING AUCTION SALES

WANTED.

BOARD-RESIDENCE

„AVISO A COMUNIDADE

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

HUGHES & HOUGH LAMMERT BROS. oh regumes her racing career

GENERAL AUCTIONEERS Comfortable and homely. PORTUGUESA DE HONGKONG,

One minute trom Forry Steamer Cuisine under personal supervis ion. Privale. Billiard

table. S ENDO muito grande

Terms very moderate. Telephone K. 357, Mrs. Steward Ogilvie.

TO BE LET.

SAND BROKERS.

Public

Comunidade Portuguesa de The Undersigned have received Hongkong e nao me sendo, porastructions

"to sell "by" ioso. possivel fazer sabar,

Auction imediatamente, por qualquer

on FRIDAY, Vabro "melo, a to los Or seus membris, qual a atitude que, the 20th July, 1923, at 2.30 p.m., at julgo eu, devem tomar perante their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Des TO LET Furon chat Gap "Foreigner", sutor de dune cartes Vœux Road, Corner of Ice House

Do "Hongkong Telegraph "Street, publicadas cartas que injusta- mente ferem & Comunidade de que sou representante, Comuni- dade que hum gesto tao patriotico

European flats in Road. Apply to 32 Keruedy Rd.

TO LET-Office Rooms at No 6 Des Voeux Road, Central Apply to The Bank of Canton. Ltd.

PACIOUS Cffices on Ground SPAC

Floor of No. 4. Duddel Street newly fitted with teak: counter: Wood Panels and auitable for Banking and other businesses. Electric Light Installation completed. Centrally located. Ready for immediate coupation. Apply to Box No #34 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph

LOST.

como comprehensivel, pt da que

PUBLIO

NEW WAR PLANES.

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received from the Manila Ob- | servatory by the American Con- aulate General, Hongkong, at noon today

The King's yacht, Britannia, Modern Ideas of Speed and

Altitude. after a year of idleness, is regarded by sailors as a lucky boat. Even Major O., C. Turner writes he AUCTION.

the building of the cutter brought follows in the Observer:

During the experimental stages THE Undersigned have receiv good forture, for it made yacht

ed instructions to sell by racing boom for many years, a of a new Service aeroplane | Long, E., 17 dég, Lat, N., moving

number of vessels being built to the Air Miniatry rightly impose north-west Public Auction on

Friday, the 20th July 1923- commencing at 11 am,

at No. 107 The Posk

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furnitüre

Household Furniture (removed to Sale Room for convenience of sale). Comprising: Double Wardrobe, Washstands, aos ous membros. juntamento! Double and Single Teak Bedsteads, com o ensino da lingua i iglesa Teak, and Iron Cots, Dining Table sejs tambem ministrado o ensino and Chairs, Shanghai Baths, Din-19th. July 1923, abrigatoris da lingua Partria, eu

ner Waggons, Hatstände venho, por este meio, que julgo ol

general sundries. melhor, visto que da todas s Portvurses SATL pedir a trdos os membros da Comunidade Portugesa Hongkong!

conhecido,

de

Que nao respondam æquaesquer cuiras cartas que, semelhanter as do "Foreigner," sejam pubic- edas debaixo do anonimato.

Que esquezam imediatamente as cartas do Foreigner, pois elas não nos devem merecer a menor consideracao.

Also

and

A. Large Quantity of Records (Black Labels, Purple and Red

Seal)

and Music Books, &c. Hongkong, 16th July, 1923,

Terms: Cash on delivery,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

DO NOT MISS- ROCHA'S

POPULAR AUCTION SALES

On View from Thursday the

Catalogues will be issued, Terms. Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

#Auctione org,

Typhoon in about 127 deg

provide competitors. During her secrecy. Once a type is adopted, 1. Cyclone, or typhoon E. of thitty years life the Britannia has and the Royal Air Force begin to Sou bera Luzon, moving W.N.W. sailed in 264 races, and she has use it, abaciuto necrecy is nolonger or N.W.

won 141 firet prizes and 29 lesser possible, except as regarde de- 2. Crolone or typhoon near or awards. She has been held to be tails of equipment and data relat over the Carolines developing.

A PUZZLE A DAY.

SENDER

ONS ABBLE MANNER

SM

LLED

the best racing yacht in the worlding to performance. It may be in a good wind, and all sportsmen taken for granted that, for almost comprising

will welcome her return to the every class of fighting machine, the Government pɔssess secret Large seak Table, Occasional regattar.

designs going one better" than tables, Chestorfeld chairs. (with covers) Carpete, Rugs, Curtains, The death of Pierre Loti recalls the best actually in use at any Brass Curtain Poles, Glassware; the fact that there have not moment.

Much care must be taken before' Standard lamp and table lamps been very many novelists who

have also reached high rank in adopting a new type, for standard. with shader, eto, etc.

the Davies of their country, Initation is necessary, and thera our own case obief raak must be must be a prospect that it will givan to Captain Marryat, endure as a type for at least five Marines rank with the Navy, and seara. A bad choice involving so include Major Drury, and for big orders for a type that is almost short stories there is" Bartimeus." immediately superseded either at The merchanta service is better home or abroad, must be avoided.

There is kena "international. represented with the illustrious name of Joseph Conrad, and there rivalry in this field, and the watch are Clark Phesell and Captain kept on other Powers is only ADMIRAL ORIENTA) LINE Bone among others. Richa riequalled by the close, guard kept UNE AL

Henry Dans may be recalled on secrets at home. The British among the Americans..

Government decided to assist

Bak up the words shown The Steamship.

the Society of British Aircraft above and re-arrange the square The death of Lord Roe, the Constructors to exhibit at the in so that six new words, will be having arrived from Manila veteran burgers of Derby, directs ternational Aero Show at Gothen-formed. The six via ports, on July 19, Con- attention to the rapidity with burg next month, and eleven should each read the same from eigneer are hereby notified that which "peerages are becoming seroplane constructors and four top to bottom as from left to their cargo is being landed at extinct through want of a suc. sero-engine makers submitted a right. The first letters to the six their risk into the hazardous cosnor. The barony of Roo is the list of propoard exhib ta. But the new words are A, M, E, N,.D, 8.

extra hazardous god-fourth title which has lapsed Air Ministry came down very making the first

Yesterday's answer: owns of the Hongkong & Kow-within the present year, the others heavily on this list, and ruled out "amends." loon Whar & Godown Co., at being the Baronies of Seaforth, all the aeroplanes, with one or

LUDICROUS Kowloon, & stored at consignees Weardale and Sanderson. Last two exceptions. British manu-

The word "ludicrous," meaning risk.

year the peerage roll was reduced facturers will have to be content!

be represented by older "absurd." or "lauzbable," is com Consignees of Cargo, must pro by five through the demise with to duce an Import nermit signed by out successors of Lord Ludlow, pes. The Air Ministry also posed of nine letters. By the ad- the Superintendent of Import Bryce, Northcliffe, Broadalbine decided against sendings squaddition of another "" the letters and Frports Hongkong, before and Lindley, although in the ese ron of the H.A.F., although may be re arranged to form the Bills of Lading will be counter of the last-named the peerage was France will send at lest three word "RIDICULOUS," which signed.

only granted for life," Altogether quadrons No doubt there are has a very similar meaning. some four bundred peerages are very good reasons for this action extinet or dormant, of which one by the Air Ministry, hot naturally

"PRESIDENT MADISON

Que acalme 1 Comucidade Portugnosa a sua justa indigna- visto que um qualquer. OSTA black Pekinese co

and/or Poodle. Finder please re- anotimo "Foreigner" nao pode

muito patriolies turn to Mrs. Vessoona 6 Minden ferir uma Avenue, Kowloon. Telephone No.laborioea Comunidade. Coneu- X, 623, Reward for Finder.

TENDERS WANTED.

ELIABLE contractors

RE

are

invited to tender for the following work:-.

Over 30.000 cub feet cut-- & ne punched

moulded

Granite

Over

35,000 -

Brickwork.

cub feet

For particulars apply to the, HONGKONG REALTY AND

TRUST CO., LTD. Ji

Architects, Powell's Building.

G.

NOTICE,

THE Public

R.

STU hereby informed that Queen's Road East between Arsenal Street and Wanchai Road will be CLOSED to motor traffic from TUESDAY, 17th. inst. until further notice.

P. P. J. WODEHOUSE, Acting Captain Superintendent

of Police:

Hongkong 161b. July 19.3.

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Jado de Portugal 'em Hongkong, Į 16.de Julho de 1923.

Cerveira de Albuquerque, Consul Geralde Portugal:

CHINA SEAS."

HONGKONG HARBOUR.

AS

S from the 23rd. July, 1923, and until further notice two' (2) jonks will be employed in taking ecundings ad Boringe in the Harb br on line from Status Pier to Holi's wharf.

Each of the said ju ks will exhibit -

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By asOn the foreinast a Red Ensign and feet below & Black Ball 2 feet in diameter,

By night-On the foremast 2 Red Lights in a vertical line one over the ather, 4 feet apart; and at the how and also at the stern one White Light, each of the White] Lights is to be placed Gfeet above the gunwhale.

All veroels are warned to give]

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Every Tuesday Thursday & Saturday At 2.30 p.m. Specialist is the Valuation of Household, and Office Furniture DA ROCHA'S MART

1A D'Aguilar St,

Phone 2917

A BEAUTIFUL CARDEN

AFTER APPLYING TEZ

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FERTILSER BAT. GUANO EASTERN AGRICULTURAL

FERTILISER CO

#5

Jaivors St. 3:6. Floor. Hergkong.

Write

to-day.

Tel. 2680.

there junk a srde berth and to THE PENISÚLAR & ORIENTAL

proceed

passing.

at slow speed when

C. W. BECKWITH, Commander R.N. Harbour Master, &c Harbour Ofice. Hongkong 1fish. July 1923.

PEAK CHURCH.

STEAM NAVIGATION Cu..

STEAM FOR SINGAPORE;

AND BOMBAY,

THROUGH BILLS OF LAD. ING ISSUED FOR EGYPT; MEDITERRANEAN AND CONTINENTAL PORTS AND

LONDON.

the remaining SUNDAYS THE Steamahip

in July and the SUNDAYSİ ** KIDDERPORE "

in August there will be Evening

R.

10%

NOTICE.

0 Owners and. Drivers of

To

Motor Vehicles. The Coas tal Rord hetween Castle Peak And Tsun-Wan is CLOSED to Motor Traffic. The Coastal Road, from the junction of the Tai Pa Road to Tsun is now open to traffic.

E. D. C. WOLFE. Captain Superintendent of Police. Horgborg, 15 L July, 1923.

Parcels will be received at the Office until 5) p.m. the day before sailing. The contexts and. value of all packages are required. For further particulars, apply

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE

& CO

Agents. Hongkong, 16th July, 1923,

to,

All broken, shafed and damag ed cargo is to be left in the Go downs where it will be examined at 10 am. on July, 26th. by the Company's Surveyors, Messr Anderson and Asbe..

All claims must be presenter within thirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognised. No claim will be recognised after the goods have left the godowns, and carge undelivered on and after July 271b. will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance whateve will be effected. "

Consignees are requested send in their Bills of Lading to countersigüsture immediately..

United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation,

Agents, ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE

4, Des Voeux Road....... Hongkong July 19th 1323.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

new words

Dow word

hundred and twenty have lapsed it has disappointed the manufac TO KEEP COOL AND WELL

zers, for the Gothenburg show within the present century.

will be more international in

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IN THE HEAT

character than any previous gero daily regularity is essential To Somerst House's estimate of

xbibition.

dispel constipation, gently stim- the amount to be secured to the Exchequer from a tax on betting SPEED RECORDS AND FIGHTING. [ulate the liver and aid the would have seemed very fantastic Occasionally it is possible to appetite, banteh biliousness and in the days when the State did obtain glimpse of foreign summer headaches, Pinketts are make a profit out of the English progress in military aircraft. As perfection. These dainty little man's fondness for taking a risk regards-the United States, appar- laxatives also clear the skin,. At the beginning of the last ently there is less relicence than sweeten, the breath, prevent

diarrhoea and dysentery: century the Government was at in Europe, and on more than one some pains to get all the prefit it occasion detaile of British aircraft could out of lotteries or sweep officially conveyed to the United stakes, and insisted on a special States have been published in the Act of Parliament for any private newspapers of that country while lottery, such as that of the. Piga forbidden in this."

The diamond in 1800, and. Boydell's) pictures in 1805. All other letter. Bervice

hes

PINKETTES

American Army Air Of dealers, or post free, G0 cents

adopted as the vial, from Dr. Williams": ies were cordacted by the State, "pursuit" plane, or scout, the Medicine Co. 60 Klangse Road. and the revenue drawn from world speed record holder, the Shanghai. then was about £350,000, in ad-Curties D13, fitted with the 400-). dition to the licenses of the h.p. Liberty engine. This machine brokers of £50 each.

put up a record of 239 miles par bcur, averaging with and against

A NEW ROAD FROM SHANGHAI

The Shanghai-Minhong Motor The Church of All Saints, the wind; and, probably, with

Service has already commenced Derby, which has ben chosen for Service équiement its speed ran the construction of an extension the Cathedral Church of the pro/is about 90-200 miles per hour. As to the road from Minhong to. posed new diocese of Derby, is m tier offset, the production of Nanjan through Siso Dong. It the restiry-place of Beas of ard- this type was undertaken at the will be about 16 li long. To suit both foreign and Chinese passen-

American

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED wick. This amazing woman was instigation of the

that an interin dividend of married four times, her husbands Government, so that it is actually gera, it is proposed to open a ter £3 per share, subject to deduction being Robert Barles, Sir William & Service type that happened to shop and bar at one side of the of Income Tax, has been declared Cavendish, Sir William St. Lo put up a world record judged by station at Minhong

for the PALF YEAR ending Captain of the Guard to Queen the international sporting

30th June, 1923, at rate of 2/3d.Elizabeth, and George Tallit authority. As to record speeds,

per dollar.

A. G. STEPHEN,"

Chief Manager, Hongkong, 10th, July, 1923.

CANCER FROM OLD WALLS ?

Earl of Sbrewsbury, She was both America and France possese

The dividend will be payable known as "Building Peas," and an advantage over Britain in that The question arises, What is on and after TUESDAY the 7th tradition says that it was foretold they can experiment over great Great Britain doing? The Royal August, 1923, at the Offices of the ber that so long as she kept on open stretches of country in Air Force is undergoing & slow Service at 6.30 at the Peak carrying His Majesty's Mails. Corporation, where Shareholders building her life was safe. But which a low-landing speed is not process of re-equipment, but Church The Preacher on July will be despatched from this port are requested to apply for while erecting some almshouses necessary. Fritish designers must particulers of the latent types 22nd will be Rey J Kirk at Noon, on SATURDAY, the Warrants,

in Derby a severe frost set in provide for a lower-landing speed, must not be publicly discussed. Maconachie and on the following 21st July taking Cargo for the The REGISTER OF SHARES and stopped the building. The and this at present (but will not It may by stated that there are: SUNDAYS the Rev A.D. Stewart above Porte..

of the Corporation will he closed mortar was dissolved in bot water always) ment a reduced top sped British types comparable with the All Seats are free,"

Particulars are now available latest French and American Silk and Valuable Cargo for from MONDAY the 23rd July to forward the work, and when Italy, France and London (under to SATURDAY, the 4th August that failed hat ale was used, but of a new French single-seater machines. We

have, for arrangement) will be conveyed 1923, (both days inclusive, during all to no purpose. The building scout, the Wibault, fitted with the example

Dew reconnaiв- ANY difficulties over consign by this Steamer proceeding to which period no, transfer of shares ceased, and Bess of Hardwick 300 b.p. Hispano Suiza engine sancs two-seater which, at

mente? Our foreign offices Bou bay and there transhipped can be registored.

died on February 13-1607, aged and supercharger. The machine, 10,000 ft., can do 120 m.p.h, and will arrange. Advertising with to the on-carrying Steamer for By Order of the Court of eighty seven. Among the famous even at a height of 16,000 feet, on Eccount of its formidable the I. T. D. gives you the Marseilles and London.

Directore.

places abe erected are Chatsworth has a speed of 177 miles per hour, armament, and special acces- privilege of using our services:

and its celling is 34:400 feet, and sorice and wireless equipment, is' House Hardwick Hall

it is said to land at 50 miles per probably as good in its class as fully. Tel. 4306

Oldcoter.

hour. It is almost entirely of any. There are at least three Idle as it may be to do so, faw duralumin, with same steel parts; new scouts with a speed range of historians of the Great Wer will and, like certain British types 60 160 h, and a ceiling ter be able to refrain from specula its metal wings are fabric cover needing 30,000 ft. And "British ting on what different course (ed. The wings are cantilevers, design and construction, follow- the great struggle might have but with some exterior bracing, ing stringent requirements of the That tubercular infection might|rakon had General Grierson and they are placed over the Air Ministry, which are based on arise from the walls or flours of survived to play his part. His pilot, so that the type belongs to hard experience and not dictated houses in whlen consumptives untimely death in a train a few the series of parasole had died, is stated by the Medical werks after the outbreak of hos- BRITISH TYPES.

performanco, are the best in the Officer of Health in reply to stilities was almost a symbol of The tremendous speeds Ard world. Ware it permitted, ex- question from Spalding Rural the long series of set-backs that altitudes attained by these and tremely interesting descriptions Council. With regard to cancer, were to be borne until victory was other types Illustrate the great might be given relating to such so little was know about the germ, finally achieved. What a great advance that has heen made det illess applied to troop-carriers BOOTS added the Officer of Health, that soldier Grierson was is revealed since the war. Too much can be torpedo places, deck machines,

it was difficult to say, although be by his blographer, D. 8. Mac sacrificed for mere performance; flying-boats, and bad known case after case of Diarmid, in "The Life of Lt. But it would be idle to pretend. And in engines our position is SHUES cancer in the same house during General Sir James Moncrieff that, on occasion, lightly satisfactory We have high-

Balf a century

Grierson (Consmble). For some superior speed and ceiling power units auch as the 1000 h.y. made

years prior to 1914 he had realised, may not nizke 1 the difference. Oub" and the 600-700 hy that war wi h: Germany was in Fighting et over 30,000 feet will · Condor "; and in the air-cooled CHINESE SEAMAN'S 7,000 DOSES avitable, writes Earl Hair in a probably for a long time to come division, the 350 h.p. Jagu

sympathetic foreword. All hist ba exceptional, yet the excep. whilst the 400 h.p... Jupiter ” has OF OPIUM.

ife was a preparation hy study.ftion may have to be provided for been adopted by the Branch, We Enough opium to provide 7,000 by hard work, by discipline, to It is satisfactory to know that are developing an cooled dosen was found under the bunk meet the menace when it should the supercharger for sero engines engine of over 700 hp and are of a Chinese geaman on a ship come. And when the trumpet has not been neglected in this not neglecting the heavy oil sero Iring in Cardiff Docks, who was enunded for battle he passed away country, and is now beginning to engine, although, it is unlikely fined £20, or two months, at from heart failure in a railway appear as standard Service that any of this kind will take the 1, D'Agular Street, Central: Cardiff recently

carriage, Lod left us to wonder, *, equipment, →

kair for at least five yearS,

My Dear, Our Home Is Like An Oasis In This Heat"

ALL FANS ORBATLY REDUCED,

With the holiest part of summer still before us, the prolase

electrio fan is the wisest investment you can-matte

ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.

THE HONGKONG, HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.

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new

styles.

ROYAL & CO. Footwear Specialists.

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