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HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
COMING-OF-AGE.
Rights Granted By Law,
It is not necessary to have lived twenty-one full years to arrive at
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL, PEAK HOTEL' | one's majority. English law does
Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."
AND
SHANGHAI
'ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphie Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAĻ”
HOTELS,
"LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel. Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KOWLOON HOTEL.
THE PREMIER HOTEL KOWLOON,
Firas Clas Billard Room & Baloon Bar. Electrio Lift and Telophone to sach Floor.
Tal. K.608 and K.609, Cable addres --EOWLOTEL, Hongkong. Under the Personal Supervision and] Management of
FRANK L. COOKE, Proprietor.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION
ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,
· TELEPHONE ON EACH, FLOOR, HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS
Talographio Address "VICTORIA"
Tel. Central' 373.
J. WITCHELL,
Manager.
THE EUROPE HOTEL.
SINGAPORE.
FOR
COMFORT-FOOD-MUSIC-DANCING
Terms: A la carte or Inclusive.
The after-dinner danses are held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Telephones in every room.
The Europe Orchestra plage nightly during Dinner, and for Tiffin on Saturdays. ROOM
GRILL
Tolograma "Europe Singapore",
Telephono 2740.
ARTHUR E, ODELL",
Managing Director...
QUEEN'S THEATRE
TO-DAY AT 5.15 & 9.15 p.m.
HONGKONG'S
Favourite Soubrette
IVY NICHOLLS
in
Charming Irish Soubrette
Chorus Hits
also
GRACE DARMOND AND
GASTON GLASS
in
"THE SONG OF LIFE".
A FIRST NATIONAL ATTRACTION
Prices of Admission;
At 5.15 p.m. $1.20, 80 cts & 40 cts. At 9.15 p.m. $150 $1.00
YOUNG PEER'S BRAIN-
WAVE.
& 60 cts.
not recognise fractions of a day. As soon as the last day required has bogun it is hold to be completo. Therefore, if a child is born, Boy, on February 1, 1900, he would came of age after the midnight| of January 30, 1921.
At a time, however, whon quas- tions of what is the dosirable age for complete manhood aro in tho air, and when it is notually debat- ed in Parliament whether the vote for men as well as for women should not be exercised till.olther sex has reached the age of twenty- five, it is interesting to consider this matter. In England we have long settled the age of twenty-one as sufficient for complete man- hood; until that age is reached no man can be elected a member of Parliament, become a physician, a surgeon, a barristor, a solicitor or apothecary. ⠀
Domand
3d/
4
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1925.
EXCHANGE.
30 dje. San Francisco and Now
(Opening Ráto: closing Rate on Page 1) SELLING.
York
568
2/31 3/3.7/26.
4 m/s. Marke
***
4 cife. France.
6 m/s. Franca-
...Nom .19.25 12.45
2/31
Nom.
Domand, Now York T/T. Bombay
...55
Domand
Bombay
mjs. T/T, Shanghai...
T/T. Singapore
T/T Japan
T/T. India
Demand, Indis
T/T. San Francisco and New
Yari
T/T. JAVA...
T/T. Marks T/T. Franca Demand, Paris
Demand, Germany
T/T. Calcutta
Demand, Calcutts On Yokohama
Manila.
Demand,
Singapore
On Haiphong
.... 651
...1351
....Nom. 11.65
On Saigon
BUYING.
4 m/s. L/O.
4 m/s. D/P
2/4.7/16 2/4.0/16 ....... 2/42 30 dk. Sydney and Melbourne 2/41
6 m/s. I/O
444
On Bangkok... Bovereign
Gold leaf por Trol
Bay Bilver, ready
forward...
8.53
1A
Nom.
Nom. 813
47.20 ...31.11/16 -.31
... 3%..
++
Bank of England rates.
New York/London
SUBSIDIARY COINS.
Hongkong 50 cents piscos @
12
5
Canton subcoins Gold leaf
@ @
Hongkong June 18 1825.
POST OFFICE NOTICES:
...4.86
par,
.3% dia. 331,00% dis
$47.20
The transmission of Radio Telegrami to Canton has boon resumed,
· Wireless Communication with watow ja resuined but Merzigen aro subject to delay.
"Telegraphic Communication with Wagion Light-house is interrupted.
INWARD MAILS:
The old rule of Imporial Rome, that no one should be considered to have attained his 'majority until he was twenty-five, has besn more or less preserved to this day in some countries. For certain purposes this age is still main- tained in Scotland; in Austria | logal manhood is roached at Straits. twenty-four, and in Spain at twenty-three.
Manita
1 From
ter
Europe vin Negapatam (Letters
Papers London 21st May)
Japan
Manila Straits Japan...
:
For
Per.
Due.
Pres. Lincoln Talanda
19th June
Lay
.. 19th
&
Marioniere
19th
Hakusan M. ..
...19th
4. Empress at Asia
...2inc
Fookhang
...2nd
Tango M,
...23rd
OUTWARD MAILS.
Although majority is attained in France and Germany, at the ago of twenty-one, no man is al lowed to sit in the Chamber of Deputies or, in the Reichstag until he is twenty-five, and if be aspires to the French Sonate he Tapan ... must have reached forty years of Saila ago to be eligible. In the United Swatow
Saigon States the age at which a man is Fort Bayard oligible for the House of Re-Shanghai. Japan, Honolulu, Canada, presentatives is twenty-five, and U.S.A., C. & S. America & "Europe
San Francisco ... for the Senate he must be thirty years old..
camouflaged as, coronets. Casual visitors might quite reasonably suppose that these had been carelessly flung on the table!
CHILD MARRIAGES. ··
It may also be remembered that as the years of infancy travel to- wards maturity the privileges of the minor increase. In English law a boy is marriageable at four- toen and a girl at twelve, and such á marriage is valid, though the promise to marry made by an in. fant has been hold to be void, and not subject to an action for broach of promise.
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447
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. & S. Africa, Egjip) &⠀⠀ Europs via. Marsoillor
Sandakan ... Amoy...
Swalew, Arnoy & Formosa
Swatow & Bangkok
"Swatow & Bangkok
**
*
11
L
Per
Date.
Maansaar M....Fri., 19 inst., 10.30 a.m.
Van Qvocalenton Chann
Halword.....
Sunli
Pres. Lincoln...
Fri, 19 inst., 11.30 a.m. ...Fri, 19 intt: 2.30 p.m.
......Fri., 10 inst., 2,30 p.m.
Fri., 19 inst, 4'p.m.
Parcala noon. ...Fri, 10 inst.. Registration. 4.15 p.m. Lotters 5 p.m.
(Duo San Francisco 15th July
& Europe vin Siberia.)
(Correspondence specially superscribed
via Siborin" only.)
Ship anila at midnight on the 19th June:
#
Hakusan M....
Hingang... Talamba
Kalgo
Yafshing...
Proa. Adams
Kingyum
Yashing
Haiching
1'
At the age of twelve an English Swatow & Bangkok... youth can take the oath of allogi-Swatow ance, and shortly after that can Manila become an officer or serve in the Swator, Amoy & Foochow ... ranks of the Navy and the Army. Saigon, "Straits, Ceylon, India, He may be, and often is, the lord Mauritius, E. & S. Afrien, Aden, of a manor, and can make grants Egypt & Europa vis Murmoiltes Porthos of copyhold land;be may be a part ner or a shareholder, or an ex- doutor; he may even present a Amoy clergyman to a benefiae which is Manila, Australia. & Now Zealand
via Thuraday Island in his gift (for it is the bishop who
་ ༢།
...Sat., 20 inst., Registration 9.45 am,
Lottors
9.30 am: (Dao Marseilles 20th July 1
Sat.. 20 inst., 10.30 A.m.
...Sat., 20 inst., 5 pi
So,, 21 inst., Pa. ...Sun., 21 inst., 9.m ...Mon., 22 inst., 8 30. ...Mon, 22 inst., 10.30 a.m. Mon, 22 inst.. 5 pim: ...Tues, 23 ipal, 10.30 km
...Tues 23 inst, noon.
Focksang
Tango M....
...Tues., 23 inzi.. Registration 1.45 p.m.
Letters
2.30 p.m. (Duo Marseilles 25th July:
......Tues., 23 inst., 5p.m.
is the judge of the qualification of
the clergyman presented); and, if he is serving in the Navy or mar-Manila cantile marine at sea, or in the Shanghai, Japan, Canada. U.S.A., C.
S. America & Europe viz Army on actual military servico,
Vancouver B.C..
(Duo
Fuersang
Emp. of Asia
ho can dispose of his property by
will. In fact, there are a number
of acts of importance which he
may perform, though in some in- Straite & Calcutta
stances it will be necessary for Swatow, Amoy & Foochow *** him either to affirm or disavow Amoy them on coming of age.-A Straits, Coylon, India, Mauritius, E. & 8. Africa, Aden, Egypt & Hallam in Daily Express.
Europa, via Marsailles
WEATHER REPORT,
June 18d. 1th 40m.-Pressure has increased slightly to moder- ately from S. Manchuria to N. Japan, and decreased slightly to elsewhere. It is moderately highest in the Pacific to the south of Japan, and relatively low over Caine the Ladrones and the Carolinen.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24) hours ending at 10 am to day, 0.34 inch. Total since January 1st, 40.38 inches, against an average of 32.51 inches.
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS
ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW,
District.
Forecast.
I Formosa Channel S. winds,
moderate.
9 South coast of
China between 8. winds, H.K. & Lamacks | moderata; H'kong to Gap cloudy. Rook.
showery,
Hoihow
Swatow & Bangkek
(Due
Kutsang Haining Anhui ..
Malwa
Chinhua Kwangting
*Correspondence boaring vessel's name only,
A NELSON DIVORCE.
Second Heir To Famous Peerage.
A Nelson who may one day suc- good to the peerage awarded to the victor of the Nile, and last, Year, at the age of 35. married a widow of 63, had ble matrimonial and financial affairs detailed in the Divorce Court recently..
He is Albert Horatio Nelson and did not opposo bis wife's petition..
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9.30 ...
Wed., 24 inst., Registration 8:45 2.5
Leitora Thursday Is. 5th July.)
...Wed., 24 in., 1.30 p.m.
Parcels 24th 5
5 p.m. ...Thurs., 26 inst,
Hogistration
9.18 a.m. Leltéra 10 0. Vancowrer B.C. 13th July.)
Parcels noon. ...Fri.. 25 inst.. 1 p.m. ...Fri, 26 inst, 2,30 p.
...Fri., 26.inst., 6p.m.
26th Parcels 5 p.m. .......Sat., 27 inst.,
Registration 9.45 a.m. Folters 10.30 a.co. Do Marseilles 25th July.)
Sun., 28 inst., Ba.. ...Sun. 28 inat... 9 n..
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be kept in the Nelson family, and purchased it for £10,000.
In May last year he left her' again for ten days. After much trouble she got him back, but he refused to say, where ho had been.
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At Easter he sent her, a, card and a chocolate Easter egg.
After evidence from the hotel, Lord Merrivale granted a decree. nisi with costs.
Later she advanced him £2,200 and had put up Brickworth for prepared to return if you wish it、. to buy a property called White sale. She instructed her soli- and if you are agreeable perhaps Farm. He said he had bought it eitor to take proceedings to re- you will arrange for stopping the and given deforred cheque. strain him from parting with the proceedings. I trust you are She gave him the money to pay property and money,
woll-Your loving husband, He noxt tolophoned from Albert. eash, and ho went off with it, leaving a note undated, saying: Chelmsford, saying that he was My doar Amelia, am sorry very ill and wanted to come to do this, but I hate scones, and home. She went there to fetch there is bound to be one. I feel him back, and found him away like a sparrow in a canary's yachting. cago, and I must feel free.
A fortnight afterwards ho camo Mrs. Nelson said sho was She received another letter back and they lived together
until Novembor 28. Thon he said LINCOLN'S LURID LION married in January 1924, at dated August 17, saying:
A large stono lion in Lincoln Paddington Register Office. Sho. I am more sorry than I can that he was going to leave hor was then a widow, aged 65, and evor say, and I don't protend to finally, as he was in love with Arboretum, presented to the city in 1872, has been covered with ber husband was 35. He was explain it. I felt suddenly stifled another woman. hoir to the title of Lord Nelson like a bird in a cage, and I,had Later she received a letter stripes of rod and green paint. of Trafalgar.
to go. Forgive me, if you can, from him dated from a London On the podestal was painted, 'Brighter Lincoln." The statue (Mr. Nelson is not heir the but don't ask me to return, hotel, in which he said:-- titlo, but oldest ROD of the Lovo, Albert,
Since it appears that we cannot which had only just been cleaned heir, the Hon. Edward AgarIn another lotter he said he live amicably together again, I was similarly treated 10 years Horatio Nelson, brother of the was staying with his brother think the only fair way out is to ago
STEAMSHIP FOUNDERS. present poor, who is unmarried.) Charlos, and added :-
give you absolute freedom. If Thoy lived happily till April I have suffered more misery the you will have inquiries made at The Italian stoamskip Cathor Per Admiral Oriental Line 6.8. Dollar, Mr. & Mrs. J. Harold last year, continued Mrs. Nelson, last two days than I ever thought the above hotel, you will get all ine Englese, which loft Odessa of their lordships' speeches. Prosident McKinley.-Miss M. Dollar, Misa O. Heffron, Miss Thon hor husband left it possible to endure, and I am the ovidence necoasary.
for Vladivostok with a cargo of Loud speakers, it is under-Bornard, Mr. & Mrs. C. Engator, Bartha Janssen, Miss L K. Kon-hor, saying he was going to
On March 27, Mrs. Nelson con-rails for the Chinese Easteran more sorry than I can say that I stood, are to be installed in the Dr. James M. Henry, Mr. Anody. Miss Mary Frances Korn, Trafalgar (Lord Nelson's seat ever came into your life to bring tinued, he rang her up on the Railway, foundered in the Medt Houso notorious for its poor Hirzel, Mr. M. W. Koyre, Mr. N. Mr. & Mrs. Ralph McGuire, near Salisbury) for a fow days, Borrow. Try to forgive and forgot, telephone and said he wanted to torranean and was lost from acoustic propertise and the Mahor, Mr. C. E. Meyer, Mrs. A Master Ralph Jack McGuire, He stayed away for a week and That was because he had takon return. He wrote her a latter cause yet unknown, says a Mos- difficulty has been to devies a E. Osmund, Mr. N. Parmonand, Miss F. D. M0010, Mr. P. Powers came back in a very unkompt away the £2,200, said Mrs. Nel saying
cow (Rosta agency) wire of Juno suitable method of disguising the Capt. & Mrs. J. R. Patrick, Mr. Murray, Mr. David B. Nowkirk, condition, refusing to tell her,, son. She found that he was not My dear Wife, I am quito 3rd. microphones.
Joseph Rosenfold, Mr. H. R. Mra, M. C. Smith, Mise J. Smith, where he had boon.
staying with his brother as he The poor's proposal is that they Soqueira, Mr. J. F. Silva, Mr. J. Miss Daphio Mary Borms, Mr. She agreed to buy the Brick said. She ascortsined that be
Printed and Pablished for the Proprietor by Frederick Poroz should be concealed beneath, or H. Taggart, Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Warner.
worth Estate in order that it might had not, purchased White Farm, Franklin. at 11, Iça House Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong
Disguised Microphones for while the wearers rested their 4 South coast of
Upper House.
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Microphones disguisod soronets is the" bright idea put bofore the Office of Works by a young peer intorosted in the efforts to improve the "reos ption".
brows.
The search for a way out of the difficulty continues.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED,
China tetween H.K. & Hainen
C. W. JESFRIES,,Director. Hongkong, June 18,
.
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