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on THURSDAY, the 19th November, 1925, com mencing at 11 a.m., at their Sales Room, Duddeli Street,

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20 Cases Moifoo Wicks.

1 Case Burners...

Oldest Living Rector Retires,

DEATH.

UNKNOWN GAS,

MAN THEY CAN'T

ARREST.

HIGH COURT ACTION. The death of Professor Harold The Rev. Christopher Cook, Maxwell Lefroy, the famous moneylonder who has bocomo Henry Barnes Hunt, the The Undersigned have received who is 101 years of ago, and pro-scientist, instructions to sell by Public Aucbably the oldest living rector, Entomology at the Imperial arrest," was the defendant in an and Professor of famous as "the man they can't has resigned the rectorship of college of Science and Tech-action hoard in the High Court Mambilad, a little village noarnology, Bouth Pontpool, after holding it for occurred recently in St. George's Official Refereo..

Konsington, bofore Sir Edward Pollock, the soventy yours.

Hospital, Hyde Park-corner, He did not appear. Had he It is ten years since he took from poisoning by a gas known done so he would have heard the any active part in parish work. only to himself. His curate, who is more than

Official Refereo refer to the Ho had been experimenting in moneylending transactions which seventy years of age, has taken search of an insecticide gas were the subject of the case na charge. Mr. Cook's clergyman which would be harmless to illegal. harsh, void, son is also about seventy years human beings,

uncons- cionable. of ago, and the three old men

Had he lived to succeed in his Hunt has evaded arrest since live in the rectory under the care investigations, the discovery July 21, when he was committed of Mr. Cook's grand-daughter.

would have been of the groatast to prison by the Lord Chief The centenarian rector rises at

value to cultivators of plants all Justice for acting as a solicitor eloven o'clock and goes to bed

over the world.

though an unqualified person. when the chickens go to roost, was on the verge of success, for fact that the warrants for his It is believed that he felt ho He owes his freedom to the He has a wonderful appetite, and he continued his research at the arrest "run" only in London and takae a substantial breakfast of college long after the staff had Middlesex, and can be executed eggs and bacon. In spite of his left. There he was found by his only by sheriffs' officers. By youre he still goes for walks in wife, lying unconscious on the living outside the danger zone he tho villago, and enjoys hie pipe.

flour of his laboratory. The Rev. W. G. Cook, his son,

can snap his fingers at the law. When he failed to reach home) THE BRITISH POST OFFICE Cooking Utensils, Desks, Copying gave there and may other inter the previous Saturday at 8 pm

COUNSEL LEAVES COURT. usting details of his father's life. Mrs. Lefroy burried

The High Court action was. "He sometimes talks in the morn-collcge.

brought by Mr. Henry Hoes, ing and is then silent for the rest

solicitor, of Deveroux-court, He has

Strand, who, as executor of the

on

Wednesday, November 25th 1925 at 4 p.m. precisely.

A portion of that very desirable and important.

PROPERTY

known as Cadastral Lot No. 15 situate at the corner of Muse¤m (British Consular Lot. No. 581) & Peking Roads and formorly

known as

This very important property comprises LAND of a measured area of M. 2-F. 3-L. 1-B. 4. with an approximate frontage on

Peking Road of 110' 9" Museum Road of 12 S" and

"Houso, Flats, Building-Lots, Estates napotiated for ront, auc- tion, or private sule. Manage- mont arranged for cliente pro- on a lane connecting Yuen Ming ceeding abroad. Telephone C.4630 Yren Road and Museum Roud of Small Investors, 10 Des Voeux 26' 8" together with the Road."

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General Public November 19.h, 20th and 21st.

ON or about March 1926 whole and 18th.

flat or spacious suite of offices in the "French Building" "Victoria Building," No. Queen's Road Contral (between Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank.)

Apply to: Banque de l'Indochine

Chater Road,

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LOST

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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, HONGKONG.

ANNOUNCES A FREE DECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

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M: ALGERNON HERVEY.

BATHURST, C.S...

LONDON, ENGLAND.

(Member of the Board of Lectureship

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DIOMED" are hereby notified that the Cargo "will be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignee's risk and subject to torins and condition of storage at Holt's Wharf. The cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and alter 16th November.

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.

of the other Olurch. The First

All broken, chafed, and da:nag. Church of Christ, Sentist, ned goods are to be left in the Beaton, Mass. 16.)

IN THE

OLD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, CITY HALL.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2018, 1935,

AL 5.30-15.

Godown where they will be oxumined on any Tuesdays' and Fridays between the hours of 10 45 a. and noon within the free storage period.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have loft the steamor'a Godown, and all Goods

BUILDINGS THEREON providing an excellent opport- unity for the purchase of one of the finest business sites in the International Settlement.

1 Case Lamp Chimneys..

1 Case Pendants.

14

1 Case Brackets,

1 Case Burners.

100,000 Envelopes.

Alro

A Quantity of Household and Office Furniture. Comprising:

Rattan Ware, Washstand, Ice Chest, Screen, Commodes, Mirrors,

Press, etc., etc.;

and

A Lot of Miscellaneous Goods. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BRÓS.,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, November 16, 1925.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

of the day," no said.

never heard of the great war. I

WHAT LIFE IS LIKE.

to 81.

DOOR BURST OPEN.

to tho

An attendant went with her to late Mr. Frank Jarvis Arnot an determined not to lot my the professor's laboratory, and, Wildey-Wright, solicitor, claimed father ho moved out of the rectory.finding the door locked, burst it an Account of transactions He built it himself from a mere lopen. As quickly as possible between Mr. Wildey-Wright and cottage."

they had Professor Lefroy taken himself and Hunt. Ho alleged George's Hospital, and that Hunt did not become regis- there he lay until his death, tored as a moneylender until without recovering consciousness. July 1921, and that therefore all Mrs. Lefroy remained by his his transactions with Mr. side practically the whole time. Wildey-Wright before that dute Every possible means to restore were illegal. Mr. Wright and the

medical men in attendance. sciousness the stricken scientist to con-plaintiff had paid sums to Hunt

used by the far in excess of the suma lent.

Mr. Abingor said he appeared Oxygen game successfully efficiency is of administered, was constantly for Hunt, but as he had been the 23rd November, 1925, commenc-keep mentally and physically relapse.

the utmost importance, and to rallics were followed by a definito ask for an adjournment.

occasional given no instruotions he must ing at 2.30 p.m., at Nos. 9 and 10, affioient the system must be Professor

It had been hoped that Kennedy Road.

This was refused, and Mr. sustained in a clean and healthy vitality would pull him through.

Lefroy's wonderful Abinger left the court.. condition.

NEVER WITHIN THE LAW." He was the victim of a similar Mr. Simmons (for the plaintiff)

instructions to sell by Public Auc- The Undersigned bave received

Copies of Plans and Conditions of Sale may be seen on applica- tion tion either to H.B.M's. Office of Works 14 Yuen Ming Yuon Road or L. Moore & Co., Ltd., Shanghai.

The property may be inspected on application to H.B.M's Office of Works.

L. MOORE CO., LIMITED. Auctioneers, Appraisers, &c.

THE AUCTIONEERING & BROKERING Co., Ltd. 4B, Duddell Street.

The undersigned have received Mortgagee instructions to sell by order of

The Valuable Leasehold, pro situate at Victoria in the colony of Hongkong and known as subsection 3 of section B of Inland Lot No. 50 together with The Dwelling house and shop thereon known as No. 64 welling- ton Street by

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Thursday, the 19th day of Nov- ember 1925 at 3 o'clock p.m.j at their Sale Rooms, 4 B Duddell Street Victoria aforesaid by

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Term 399 years For further particulars apply

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THE AUCTIONEERING & BROKERING CO., LTD.

Auctioneers

4B Duddell Street, Hongkong.

Hongkong, 13th Nov. 1925.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

instructions to sell by Public) The undersigned have received Auction (for account of the con-

The Public 1 Cordially Invited to ronining undelivered afior the cernod at their auction room at

Attend.

MANUFACTURERS LIFE

INSURANCE COMPANY,

Toronto, Canada.

Insuranch in force

excorda

·G $285,000,000

Assets excred. G-$63,000,000

ARNHOLD & COMPANY, LTD.

Agents,

GEO, H. LYNOTT,

Special Representative.

23rd Nov. will be subject to rent. 4B Duddell Street on

All Claims against the Steamer

must be presented to the under.

FRIDAY

signed on or before the 7th Dec the 20th day of November 1925)

at 3 o'clock p.m. consisting of :- Steal safo, show case, small

or they will not he recognised.

No Fire Insuranco will be affected.

on MONDAY,

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture. Comprising:-

Dining Tables, Dinner Waggons, Sideboards with Bevelled Mirrors, Chairs, Overmantels with Bevelled

described life as like a strenuous An eminent business man has game of push-ball. To play the

Was

but

As an aid to internal clean-accident last March, when by the said Hunt had had lending liness and health nothing is better! morest chance he escaped boing transactions with Mr. Wright than Pinkettes. Takon when killed by Lewisite, an odourless and Mr. Hess, his managing.. dainty laxatives gently stimulates noeded, a little dose of these but deadly gas.

olerk, since 1918. the liver, dispels constipation,

SAVED BY SECONDS.

In addition to carrying on On that occasion he was so Moneylenders Act, there was no business in contravention of the Mirrors.

ensures daily regularity, aids absorbed in watching flies on limit to the illegal activities of Fine Bedroom Suites (by Wm. and the breath sweet.

digestion, keeps tho akin olear which he was experimenting that Hunt, said counsel. Powell Ltd.) consisting of Teak

he momentarily forgot his peril, on business as an unqualified Ho carried Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Your chemist sells Pinkettos, or and it was only when he felt his solicitor, which enabled him to Dressing Tables with Bevelled Mir-post-free, 60 cents, the vial, from lungs getting hot that he left his extort money under the guise of rors, Marble Top Washstand, Teak Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60, laboratory in a half-conscious costs which were recoverable by Desks, etc., ate.

Kiangse Road, Shanghai.

state. A few seconds longer the plaintiff. would have meant death,

The loss of Professor Lefroy hours in endeavouring to discover He (counsel) had spent many is a serious blow to science," a any mattor in which Hunt had.

Carpets, Curtains, etc., etc.,

also

Some Handsome Pieces of Blackwood Ware and Brasses, and

One Upright Piano by "Vose". Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Sunday, the 22nd November, 1925.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, November 16, 1925.

UNDERWOOD STANDARD, TYPEWRITERS

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With the dawn of every Business day nearly 3 million Underwood Typewriters go into action spooding thin world's Businoes,

Theeo atupendous figuros emphasise the unassailable supremacy of the UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER,

Choat drawer, Work Bench, Table DODWELL & Co., Ltd.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRL.dlsetric an, assorted watch and

Agenta.

15th November 1925.

MASSAGE

Mr. N. AKAJI,

Mro, E. AZAJI.

Graduate of Tokyo Asiaga Bahoo! No. 2n, 2nd. Floor, WYNDHAM ST.

HONGKONG..TEL; C.4404 |

clook glasses, Barograph_papers, Chronometers, Barocyclomotor, Watchman clocks, Telescopes, assorted clocks and Mainsprings,

All the above lots are to bel sold without reserve.,

Termis--Cash on deliveoy. THE AUCTIONEERING & BROKERING C., LTD. L. E. S. Hodge

Auo.ioneer.

Office -Equipment Dept. No. 1 Duddell Street Tolophone 4689 Contral

MASSAGE HALL Mrs. S. UZUNOYE, Expert Masseuse,

37, Qozena Road. Central.

#Zod. Flear.

BUGHES & HOUGH well-known entomologist told a acted within the law, but his

j.

LIMITED.

GENERAL AUCTIONEERS. IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS

GENERAL BROKERS.

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.

4, Duddo! Street.

it wo.g

in

representative of "The Sanday endeavours had been fruitloss. Ners."

Unfortunately, the professor the action was brought for the.

Mr. Hess, kiving evidence, said his experiments in recent years. left his widow penniless. had not published the results of relief of the ostate, as Mr. Wright & Whon a new destructive insect Mr. William John Tabrum,

appeared

Professor formerly practising as & solicitor Lefroy's task to find the means in association with Hunt, said of fighting and, if possible, the latter had been concerned in exterminating him. Ho had

many moneylending cases many victorica, and his services which the defonce was that he to agriculture will not be readily was unregistered. forgotten,

After the accounts had been Professor Lefroy was 48 years gone into, the, Official Referee of age, and leaves a widow and a granted a declaration that all the transactions referred to in the At the inquest hold Professor Maxwell Lefroy, at and unconscionable, and ordered' on claim were illegal, void, hursh, Westminster, a verdict of death that they be dealt with under the from misadventure was recorded. Act.

If you have anything you would like to soll, archange or advertise send it to the CHINA AUCTION ROOM,

E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,

⚫ Auctioneer.

Seltona

The paper for beautiful work. SELTONA

son.

FLY-KILLING SPRAY.

In the course of a lecture at

He also entered judgment for

the plaintiff for sums amounting

the Institute of Fattonters Prof. £308 8s, and fixed Hunt's

A. R. Low disclosed one of Prof interest on loans since 1920 at 10 Lefroy's great discoveries.

Shortly before Mr. Lefroy died,

he discovered, said the lecturer,

a spray for killing flies.

per cent.

Lord Headley, the famous en- The invention, which embodied gineer, addressing members of the all the attributes of a successful Royal Society of St. George, at patent-simple, cheap and focl-the Mansion House, made a scat- proof-was not at the moment on hing attack upon the Communists. is the simplest of all photographic the market. It would be solling He said Englishmen were too paper. After printing in day shortly, however, at the cost of a prone to allow a small band of light the only processes involved few shillings.

bloodstained scallywags to hold He described it as somewhat in up are firing in Hype and wasbing,

the country. Englishmen

yot Seltona prints are permanent the form of an ordinary bicyclo were content to lie down in the and without equal for their rich pump. It had no other effecte gutter while a lot of unwashed sepia tone and for their exquisite than the killing of flios.

and unholy people "wiped their gradation.

Saltona is made in the follow. ing grades --~

Glossy Matt

Cream

Antique White, Antique Cream

Sole Manufacturers: WELLINGTON & WARD, LTD, ESTREN, HERTS.

Mrs. J. CRAWFORD, Massage Hall

No. 14. Zetland Street.

Mrs. SEKAI MASSAGE

Tel. No. 0. 4489, 2nd. foor,

A laboratory at the College of boots upon our whiskers." Only Postology, where the discoverion when an eye was kicked out did of science may be applied to the John Bull wake up and do the problems of everyday life, is right thing. They should destroy suggested as memorial to the Communists as St. George Professor Lefroy.

killed the dragon.

It does not occur to one to think Mise Madeleine Blade, daugh- of poetry as a teacher of geog.. tor of Admiral Sir Edmond Slade, raphy; and yet ninety-nine En-. ox-Commander-in-Chief of the glishmen out of a hundred would East Indies Squadron, has left never have heard of Vallambrosa Paris for India. She intends to but for "Paradise Lost," Keats devote the rest of her life.and performed something of the same personal fortune in furthering service for Darien, and our ac the interests of Mahatma Gandhi quaintance with Chillon is mostly whom she describes. as hor Byronic. The woods of Birnam Mostor. Miss Madeleine Slade and Dunsinane are as famous as has spent one year in Parie, those of Vallambrosa; and how studying Mahatma Gandhi's much has the mention of Elsinore theories in association with in Hamlet" been worth in barda Romain Rolland, the Franco-cash to three centuries of hote Swiss Pacifist, and one of the keepers Even Rupert most ferventie nuwork URESN