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THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1924.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

Tickets will be lasued for Round Trips during the months of July to October, from Heng kong to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and return, calling at Swatow and Amoy on both the upward and downward Voyage, -by-the-Company's-now, fast, woll- appointed steamer "Hai-Ning" al the reduced rate of $80, for the round Voyage, including Meals

EUROPEAN standed in Hong-while the steamer is in port.

kong (carpontor, cabinot

These Special Tickets will be maker, generally handy) wants available for return only by thir work any kind. At present try-stoamer, either by the Voyage ing for job on ship and awaiting for which it is issued or by her Meantime following sailing from Foochow monoy from home. urgently noods joh Sober,

Duration of stay at Fooohow 48 middle aged. Box No. 1209 of hours.

Hongkong Telophone".

JAPANESE LESSONS WANT ED-By English or Chino-o- sporking tutor Only Japanese nood apply. Write 9.Y., 47 Con- duit Road,

TO BE LET.

то LET.-Office

Room in Central position. Apply: Linstead & Davis Alexandra Building.

TO LET.-In Mongkok Tsui, To

Coronation-Road No. 14, Ground Floor, No. 2B, First Floor, Throo Rooms with Kitchen, bath, & servant's quarters suit- able for European familios apply to In Shiu Ke c/o international Bank.

LIFT FOR SALE

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The Trip occupios 8 to 9 days and the steamer will losve Hongkong from the Company's

Wharf at 5 p.m. arriving at day light on hor return (Weather permitting),"

The Company's Steam Launob will convey passongors from Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, If required.

For further particulars and daton of sailing Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.

General Managers, Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd. -

NOTICE.

THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS CO., LTD.

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ITH a viow to establishing a more regular.service to Lai |Chi Kok and the Now Territories for the convenience of the public, it is hereby notified that arrange- NE "Pickerings" Lift suit-ments have recently been made able for 60 ft. high building-between this company and the Cables, motor, controls in good Chun Hing Motor Bus Company -order, suitable seven-passengore, whoreby our buses will run from Motor 100 vclt, 60 cyclo, single Taim Tea Teui to Lai Chi Kok! phase or can supply now motor whence the latter company's

and controls for different voltage. busos will transport passengers Apply P. O. Box 107, Canton. to Tsun Wan, Kwai Chung. Cas- tle Peak, Sheung Shui and Un Long.

HONGKONG. JOCKEY

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RAFT Programmes and. En- try Forms for the Six Extra Raco Meeting to ho held SATURDAY. 8:11 November 1924, (weather permitting) may o obtained at the Race Course, Hongkong Club and Causeway Bay Stables.

Entries will close at 12 o'clock NOON on SATURDAY. 25th. October, 1924.

NOTICE.

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.,. OF CHINA LTD..

DURING the absened of Mr.

A. B. Raworth and until further notice, I have this day appointed Mr. N. G. Beale Manager

Hongkong Branch.

f

Our

PERCIVAL II. NYF, Managing Director.

The General Electric Co..

of China Lid.

The following is the schedule of our service from Tsim Tsa Tsui to Lai Chi Kok -

From 6.30 a.111 to 10.00 .17).

--30 min. sarvico.

From 10.00 ani. to 6.00 p.m.

-15 min. service. From 6.00 pm. to 10.0 p.m.

--30 min. servico. The fares are as follows:- First Class - 26 conis,

passenger. Second Class 10 cents. por)

passonger.

per

Hongkong, October 13th., 1924.

BARBOUR RACES.

NTRIES

for the Harbour Races close to the Hon. Secretary, V. R. C, on FRIDAY. 17th. inst. All entries to accom panied by Entrance the $1.00 MONDAY. 20th Oct. Opon TUESDAY, 21st

Ladies WED., 22nd

Chinose

取养

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Hon. Soc., V.R.C.

Opening Night---THURSDAY, October 16th.

Location: KOWLOON.

Direct from Terrific and Triumphant, Succossess in Singaporo Kunia Jumper, Manila, Colombo, Java and all the large contras

in the F.M.S.

Messrs. Churchill & Tail present

THE ORIENTAL SHOWS

Under the personal direction of Mr. Hy. Schram,

An avalanche of attractions and amusements from America, the Orient and the East.

The Giant Seaplane, The 10 in One, Show," The Boxing Champions, The Chinese Giant, The Miniature Zoo,

Merry-go-Round De Luxe, The Crazy Cottage, The Whirling Frolic, The Chinese Dwarf,. The Bula Bula Dancers,

Goliath, The largest snake in Captivity, 33 ft: Bigh Lee, Height 8. Feet 3 inches. Figh Low 34 inches. Spidora, The mystifying and Dewildering Illusion.

Mother of Pearl, The Girl in the Oyster Shell.

The Filipino Band, Tho Jazz Champions.

Stalls, Side-Shows, Acrobats, Clowns, Dancers, Vaudeville Artistes, etc., ete.

Undoubtedly and Undeniably the Largest and inust Unique

and Original Show in the East.

10 cts.

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ADMISSION TO GROUNDS.

cts. 10

FORTHCOMING AUCTION SALES

PUBLIC AUCTION.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE

MORETS, LAMMERT BROS.. have rosacolved instructions to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

on THRUSDAY

The 16th day of October 1924' at three o'clock in the afternoon at thoir Balesroom in Duddoll Stroot, Victoria Hongkong, THE VALUABLE LEASE-

HOLD PROPERTY situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and boing Section D of Fubsootion 3 of Section of Marine Lot No 40. The property consists of:-

CHINA AUCTION Hughes & Hough

ROOMS.

China Building. Ground Floor.

to

IF you have anything you would like to soll, exchange or advortino, sond it tho CHINA AUCTION ROOMS. E.V.M.R. do SOUSA,

Auctionoor.

Tol. O. 4453;

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undoraigned has resolved instructions to All by Public Auction for account of the concerned, on

FRIDAY, the 17th October, 1924 |

All That pions of parcol of ground situato

Victoria ot aforesaid and registered in the at Land Office & Section D of Marino-Lot No. 40 Togathor with "A" the mossusges and buildings thereon now let out as and known as Nos. 8 and 10 AMOY Street, The area of the proparty is about; 1354 sq. ft. and is hold under a Crown Loaso for a torm of 979; years.

For further particulars conditions of salo apply to

and

Mossrs. DEACONS,

1 Des Voeux Road Central, Vondors-Soleitern. or to

Messrs. LAMMERT BROS,

The Auctionsors.

Duddel Stroot, Hongkong, 2nd, October 1924,

Our Portrait le of Mrs. M. MAGE, & 37, Grettell Lane, Stourbridge, England, who write —

"Fer 8 years I suffered with a terrible wound stretching from the abdomen to the right hip; during that time I tried doctors' and patent medicines innotuer

At Jagth able, but without success. i was persuaded to tey Clarke's Hood Mister, mud after taking the first bottle began to see in liprovement, which has continued, with the resul that any wound is bealed and 1 now have no pain. I am writing this inti mony so that other sufferers like myself may have the benefit of your mare Pous 1acdicine.' ha further re ut feuer,. nearly two years later, Mrs. Much writes: "I am happy to say that there has been no recurrence of my complaint. and consider my case a very satisfactory Cure,"

from Bad Lige Abscount. Ulcers Sufferers Gandler

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Clarke's Blood Mixture

**Everybody's Blood Purifier."

Hongkong Telegraph

FOOTBALL SUPPLEMENT

Copies of the Special Edition of the above are on sale at the Offices of the

"Hongkong Telegraph" PRICE 10 CENTS.

At 4.30 p.m.

the CHINA AUCTION ROOMS, China Building, LARGE ASSORTMENT OF BLACKWOOD AND TEAK WOOD FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLD SUNDRIES,

&c., &o.. comprising:-

Chesterfield Sofa and Arm- chairs, Sideboards, Dining Tablo, Glassware and Cutlery Ward-

Tables robes, Drossing

and Chairs, Washstands, Toilet Sots, Double Brass Bodālēūds, ron Bedsteads and Wooden Rod- steads, &c., &c.

also Blackwood Wardrobe, Black- wood Writing Table, Blackwood Chairs and Stands, Blackwood Mahjong Table, Tientsin Carpots, Rugs, Silk Hand Embroidured. |Pictures, &c.

1 PIANO by J. and J. Hopkin- son, London,

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LIMITED

IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS AND GENERAL AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE, ...

A VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY.

Situate at Mongkoktaul, In the dependency of Kowloon, tho Colony of Hongkong,

And Known as Section A of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1182 with Mossuages and erections thereon

Now Known as. No, 143, Portland Street, to be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, In One Lot

on the 15th day of October, 1924, at 2.30 o'clock p.m.

At their Sales Rooms,

Ice House Street, Victoria, Hongkong, by MESSRS. HUGHES & HOUGH, LIMITED Auctioneers.

For further particulara and con- ditions of sale, apply to:-

MESSRS. LEE & RUSS, Solicitors for the Vendor, or to MESSAS. HUGHES AND HOUGH. LTD., The Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 6th Oct., 1924,

PAUPER'S FORTUNE.

Leipzig Story of Millions. Thirty good citizens of Leipzig in 1911 formed a soloin league and covenant to help one another to got rich quickly in a manner THE Undersignod has received that promised some handsome re- instructions to sell by Public turns with a minimum amount of Auction for account of the con-risk and effort. It was morely a corned on

matter of going about the business SATURDAY, the 18th Oct, 1924 in hand in the right way. The

at 2.30 p.m.

sum they expected to earn was tho CHINA AUCTION ten per cent. on £22,000,000 that ROOMS, China Building,

in to say, £2,200,000, so that each member expected to earn £75,000, Their dreams have not yet been realised, and they have in con- sequence adopted a plan of trying to awake public interest in thuca50 of Bernard Gotze, formarly a labourer employed by the municipality of Leipzig, now 70 of age and obliged to keep him- Bolfand his aged wife on a pension of 6 marks a week. Why the thirty good citizons could not immediately relievo the distress of their foundling by supplement- ing his old age pittance is not explained.

I ZENITH MOTORCYCLE

(NEW)

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Auctionsor.

C. E.

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& CO., LTD..

SANITARY ENGINEERS,

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INSTALLATIONS.

TALIAN MARBLE... POLISHED and/or FINE PUNCHED UONGKONG GRANITE

The story is that John Christopher Gotzo, a Leipzig citizen, joined the Dutch Army in 1818 and did.continuous service and wag mado Governor of Batavia, Bosides accumulating an imnionse fortuno in Java, ho inherited £8,000,000. Ho thore.

in 1831

HOT WATER SYSTEMS-&c. fore left the Dutch Civil Service and went to South Africa. There ho inherited another fortune in Specialists in Monumeta! Work gold mines, plantations, and land,

which he loft" cut from

to relatives in Germany. | The money accumulated in the bank because it was im- possible until 1867 to find any of Gotzo'a relativos. By this time legal diffioultion had arlson about paying over the money, and those have never been overcome, ovon though at one time the Government of Saxony and a onotimo British Ambassador in Borlin interested themselves in the mattor.

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The agod Bernard Gotze That's due to weak stomach Society Limited agreed to take indigestion! You noad Bisurated up his caso if Gotze would pay Magnosia, 48 proscribed by ten per cent. on what they re- doctors and used in hospitals covered. And so the treasure This wonderful romedy is quite romaine, says tho Gotze Limited, harmloss, but it prevents all pos- as the thirty good citizons stylo sibility of pain or stops it instant themselves, buried in the vaults ly if it has startod. Try it onco of the Bank of England while a and soo the difference at your penniless millionaire is starving next meal. Bisuratod Magnesia in the busy streets of Leipzig. Costs very little at any chemists, and thoro in no doubt it is the world's surest, safoat, chonpost curo for all stomach troubles and for ills

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ROMAN HOARD.

Thousands of Coins of Third Century.

When wo were told at second

RUBBER IN PHILIPPINES.

Production Expected By

American Interests.

American rubber interests aro

or third hand that more than a looking to the Philippine Islands thousand Roman coins had just to furnish a rosorvo supply of been found in a field at Clapton- rubber in the future, according to In-Gordano, wo naturally allowed G. H. Nason, representative of something for exaggeration in the the Hood Rubber Company, who tolling, writos a Somersetshiro arrived here récontly on the ecrrespondent-of-the-Times: Canadian Pacific" linor Empress Particularly since, with fine im- of Russia for a stay of several aginativa offort it was added that weeks here and in the southern some of the coins were marked islands, says the Manila Bulletin. B.Q. Investigation, however, "My company doos not showed that if the coinors had contemplato expenditures, for the boen less considerate of posterity present at least, in development in the matter of date thoy and of Philippine rubber, but wo aro timo had loft

image and interested in the project," he said. superscription cloan, and that the Thors seems to be little doubt: number was a timid understato- that rubber production can be mont. There wore, in fact, more brought about bere on a large than 3,500 Roman coins, and stray scale. It is only a matter of onos are being added from day time when plantations will be to day.

Ostablished on a producing basis, The place and the manner of "I do not think the future rub their finding desorve some do: bar industry of the Philippines-le- scription. The field, broken from going to be loft in private hands. grass some years ago and cropped Thore seems to be a widespread. sinco

with

potatoes, wheat, opinion among rubber interests in and

within turnips, lles

the United States that the rubber mile or so of Cadbury Camp, industry hore will be made a under the range of hills which, government owned Industry: Tho running from the Avon gorge to United Staten as a nation neede a Clevedon, enclose Gordano on the resorve supply of rubber and there south. Sloping inward to the is a potential one here. All that hills. between Clapton rectory remains is to develop it When and Clapton church, the field production is begun American makes a lap above the valley, private consumara will purchase hearing on its knees, as it were, afrom-the-government. In this roughly rounded ominence once way, the source of supply will not wooded and now covered with pass into private hands. undergrowth with rock outcrops.] "The rubber industry in the which to the inexpert eye looks United States has grown to tre- uncommonly like a barrow. But mondous proportions and buyers since from time to time this neigh-are going to all parts of the would bourhood has been worked in a de- fora high grade product. Most of it sultory way for minerals, coal, is coming from the Malay Statis iron, lead and oven strontia, it although thero is a small amount. would be rash to say more than from South American areas. that the eminence does not look Other producing districts do not natural, and that in one place produce as high a grade of rubber there are hints of a cave dwelas is being demanded. The" ling or sepulchral.chamber. It Philippines. aro capable-of-pro- is as a contribution to atmosphere ducing an excellent grade of the in a region which conveys the raw product and judging from the indefinable impression of his experimental work done bore and tory, substantiated by survivals, the production now aviable the that the mound concerne us. Philippines is destined to come Standing upon it you command before the eyes of the world as a the whole valley from the Avon great rubber producing center." flats to the convergence of thes Following his stay in Manila hilla by Clovodon and; turning Mr Nason was to proceed to the about, look up at the wooded Malay Statog to. purchase rubber range which bares at Cadbury, for the Hood interests. Westward the field of the coins

alopes down to a wooded glon

tho

curving out from the flank of the metal or low-grade bronze, thick- hill to Clapton Court with its 15th ly patinated. So far as oxamina- contury battiamonted tower bear- tion has gone they are all of the ing

Arms of the third century A.D., but of soveral Claudius, Arthur family. Particularly at empires-Gallienus, evoning tho atnianphere of the Aurelian, Tacitus, and Probus place is history haunted. Any. being some of the images and thing might have happened thero, superscriptions made clear by anything might be found there. careful rubbing. Without com-

plete examination it would be too -PLOUGHMAN'S FIND.--

much to say that no two of the ~- About two years ago a man reverses are alike, but thoy pres- ploughing the field turned up ent an extraordinary variety of some two dozen Roman coins. symbols-figures of Victory and Fortunately they were shown to Fortune, altars, charioteers, a young local archaeologist, Mr. eagles, contaurs, and sphinxes, Godwin, of Portishead. Ho A coin of Probus made bright advised communication with the again shows the head lifelike in British Museum, where the caine character and a very spirited were sent and returned corrost charioteer, with the horses in ly dated. From time to time perspective, on the reverse.

But another stray coin was found, but the interest of the diecovery does nothing of consequence came out not end with the number and except a ploughman's story that variety of the coins. Observing aome years earlier he heard that the soil where they were rumble behind him and turned to found was reddened, as if by find that the ground had fallen in exposure to heat, Mr. Godwin to the depth of about five feet. sank a pit saveral foot deep and Apparently the hole was filled in crossed it with trenchea at right without examination. Then angles, finding a fow more coins, about a fortnight ago Mr. Godwin what. appear to be unatamped heard of moro coins. Going to disks of bronzo, fragments of the spot indicated ho found yet potters, rod and black-some more, until late at evening and with tmoes of incised linost in heavy rain he was putting decoration-scraps of coal and them into pocket "by fool." The cinder, small irregular sluge of next day be went to the placo para load, and lumps of Ironstone; with a digging fork, a riddle to and on the eldes of the trendbes sift the soil, and a small tin box the red colour can be seen dying for the coine; what he found away into the soil around.' can best be described by saying Taking into account the variety that the coins came home in the of the coins, the suggestion of a riddle. They turned up. he says,mistor at any rate a workshop by. fifties and hundrede, stuck of some sort is difficult to avoid. together, with every spit of soil. A few yards from the place of the to the total number described. coins Mr. Godwin, found large Careful examination showed that flat stones irregular in outline the coins had boon plac-but. evidently flattoped artificial- od originally in akin bagly, with fragments of pottery. enclosed in an urn or vase which beneath! and extending his had been subsequently shattered researches from here he bas by the plough with the partial come upon what seems to be a dispersal of the coins. The urn, of rude, ourving causeway, com black unglazed, but glossy pottery, pored of several kinds of stone, had no bottom, but stood upon a including lumps of a red sand place of wood which rested in turn stone not common in the locality, jupon two stones, the foot of the arranged with some skill, the urn being hooped with iron. En outer stones at the shoulders. ough ploces of pattory, fragmenta of tho curve being tilt- of skin, and corroded arcs of iron, ad inwards as if to give support. besides the wood and stone, have Carofully scraped away, the soll been recovered to make the above continues to yield frag- original arrangemant reasonably ments of pottery of different kinds. cortajn, and the skin and wood, bear the impress of coins, }.

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OLD EMPIRES.

There, for the moment thou matter reste; and it bood only [be udded" thẩl Mr. Godwin, whong How this board compares/in) is in touch with the Britishy numbers with previous findings) Museum and hea aiready fando would need familiarity with considerable" collection of flint t readrds to say, but to the layman from this neighbourhood, is proží It seems remarkable. The coins, ceeding fo his works with cli ranging between a halfpenny and most exemplary care and th

■ farthing, in-sise, are of base pughness.

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