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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

PEAK RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1926. |

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

The last dance of the - season

WANTED TO BUY used A meeting of Peak Residents will will be held at the Hongkong Hotel

Hongkong and China Po-

be held at the Peak Club on Mon- Root Garden on Friday, 16th Inst. stage stamps. Any quantities and denomination. Send today, the 26th April, 1926, at 6 pm from 8.30 p.m. till mid-night. Moncrieff P. Ford, 156, Edmund and a General Committee for the may be obtained from the Club- for the purpose of electing Officers Admission by ticket only, which St. Birmingham, England.

house.

current year,

Ladles are cordially invited to

FOR RENT six roomed house

middle level. Houso want-|attend." Peak with tennis court long Dase. We have houses and land for disposal. Small Investors. Tel. 4630.

The following replies are awaited ing collection~~

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1314, 1376, 1384, 1985, 1392, 1342, 1397, 1409, 1418, 1375, 1441, 1444, 1456, 1482, 1487, 1489

PREMISES TO LET:

10 LET.-Modern 3-roomed TO

European Flats at Tsim-sha- tsui, Kowloon. Reasonable rent. Apply Compradore Department, H. M. H. Memazee, Tol. C. 930.

FOR SALE.

E. B. C HORNELL,

Hon. Secretary." Hongkong, "April 12, 1926.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

OR SALE. Three etter FOR

Press Printing Machines, A General Meeting of Members with motors Apply Manager will be held on FRIDAY, the 16th April, 1926, at 4 o'clock.p.m., 'in "8.0.M. Post."

the Chamber of Commerce Room,

the

FOR SALE-Small cruiser City Hall, to nominate a Member yacht "Coquette." Winner of the Chamber to serve on the R.H.KY.C. champ'onship 1924. Legislativo Council during runner-up 1925. Apply Box No. absence from the Colony of the 1482 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph." Honourable Mr. P. H. Holyoak.

Notice in writing of the Names FOR SALE. STEAM

“O LET. — for the month of To

June, a BUNGALOW at Wei-Hal-Wei, on the Island, 3

LAUNCH about 60 feat of candidates and their proposers Bedrooms, 2 Sitting rooms, Ten- nis Court and Garden. Rent 200 long, in excellent condition and and seconders to be lodged with taels for the month. Apply suitable for Harbour and River the Secretary at least 48 hours Bungalow" c/o Hongkong Work. Apply Box 1439 e/o before the time appointed for hold- Telographe

"Hongkong Telegraph."

ing the Meeting. By Order,

TO LET Offices, spacious and airy in best locality Quoon's Road about 2500 feet in one or two lata, attractive rontal apply. Box No. 1489 c/o "Hengkong Telograpb."

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HONGKONG JOCKEY Club,

Forms for the Second Extra Race Draft Programmes and Entry!

Meeting to be held on Saturday, 1st May 1926 (weather permitt- ing) may be obtained at the Raca: Course, Hongkong Club and] Causeway Bay Stables.

~O LET. — For period of six months, fully equipped and furnished modern Lat of four rooms, two baths, servants quar. tere and electric light. Box No. 1484 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."noon on Saturday 17th Apr. 1926.

VICTORIA HOTEL, QUIET

Entries will close at 12 o'clock

BASEBALL

A meeting of members of the)

M. F. KEY

Secretary, Hongkong, April 8, 1926.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

FOURTH ANNUAL ORDINARY

GENERAL MEETING.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Fourth Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Office of the Company, Royal Building, Ice House Street, Hongkong, on Saturday, 24th April, 1926, at 11 a.m.

RESIDENTIAL APART- MENTS.-Full board small rogm $95. monthly. Medium sized

The Transfer Books of the Com- room $129 inclusive Large com- modious bedsitting-rooms $130 Hongkong Baseball Association pany will be closed from. 16th April, monthly, 1 minute from Ferry, and others interested, will be 1926 to 24th April, 1926, both days Next new hotel Hankow Road, held in the Office of the American inclusive. Kowloon. Tel. K.357.

at

Consulate General by kind por-By Order of the Board of Directors. mission) on Wednesday, 14th)

S. J. JORDAIN,

Secretary. 5.15 p.m. to electi

discuss arrange- Hongkong, April 12, 1926.

TO LET-Une European flat, instant,

Wanchai Gap Road, Hong-Officers and kong. Apply to 32 Kennedy ments for forthcoming season. Rond.

10 LET. From let. April to

31st December, furnished, top floor flat of four large rooms with kitchen and gas stove, pantry, store room, bathroom with goyter, etc. Apply W, s. Bailey, 4 Armond Bidge, Kimberly Road. Kowloon,

WO large rooms excellently situated for offices on the 2nd, and 3rd. Floors of "st. George's" Building facing Ice House Street. For terms and particulars apply to Hongkong Bid Territorial Estates, Ltd., St, George's" Building.

ON

5,

N or about March 1926 whole flat or spacious suite of offices in the French Building" ex "Victoria Building," No. Queen's Road Central (botween Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank.) Apply to: Banque de Indochine Chater Road.

GROUND FLOOR PRE-

MISES "ST. GEORE'S BUILDING, opposite the STAR FERRY PIER, best locality in Hongkong for Shipping Com- panies or Shops. Single Office room, or whole suite of 3 Office rooms for short or long lease. For terms and particulars apply to Hongkong and Territorial Estates, Ltd., "St. George's" Building, 1st. Floor.

TO LET-Large and bright suite of offices facing Pedder Stroot and Queen's Road, over 2,000 square feet, wide veranda all around, Sacrifice at $300 00 per month. Apply P.O. Box 272.

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TO LET. Married Couple having acquired a cool house on the Peak for the Bummer, would welcome Bachelor to share the same. Apply Box No. 1471 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."

CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

The forty-eighth ordinary annual meeting of the shareholders of the above company will be held at the ffices of the General Agents, Ped- der Street on Thursday, 22nd April, 1926, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1925.

The Transfer Books of the com- pany will be closed from 8th to 22nd April, 1920, both days inclu- elve.

JARDINE MATHESON

& CO., LTD.

General Agents,

Hongkong, March 25, 1926,

NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES MT8S-

AGERIES MARITIMES

The undersigned, roing home on leave, begs to inform that Mr. Limage has been appoined local Agent of the Compagnie des Messagories Maritimes with effect from the 13th instant.

C. R. MIOLLIS,."

Acting Agent.

NOTICE.

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Hongkong, April 11, 1926.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

ENTRY FORMS, SECOND EXTRA BACE MEETING.

The distance for the frat race,İ the Colonial Makes should read) "Six Furlongs."

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

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***MADE IN LONDON LARDA TH TOBACCO Co., Ltd.,

QUICK FLYING.

DAYTON TO BOSTON IN RECORD: TIME.

Boston, Feb 28.-An army aeroplane set what is said to be a

LOCAL SHIPPING ITEMS.

FORMER DOUGLAS STEAMER SOLD.

The former Douglas 8.8. Com-

CARNIVAL DANCE.

"NOVEL FEATURE AT WELLINGTON BARBACKS.

The members of the R.E.W.O.' new record to a flight from Day. pany's steamer Halfoong, which and Sorgts' Mess are to be con ton, Ohio, to Boston to-day, when about five weeks ago was sold by gratulated on the successful fancy dross and carnival dance given by it flow 723 miles in five hours and her local owners to the Sam Poh them in the R. E. Theatre, Wel- 15 minutes.

Steam Navigation Company, of lington Barracks, on Saturday at The flight, non-stop, was to test

This was undoubtedly the most new instruments to facilitate fly- Shanghai, has now been put on successful and enjoyable of the ing through fog and above clouds. the river trade between Shanghal many similiar functions held under At the Bonton airport, where the

aviators finished, it was described and the lower Yangtze ports. The their auspices, very fittingly ter- the minating the present dancing sea- steamer, formerly called as a complete success.

вод.

The trip was made by Lieuten-Tungus, le an old-timer on this By 9.80,--over 250 guests were ant Lyman P. Whitton and coast, and formerly belonged to the Bradley Jonas, test pilot and Wilhelm Wilhelmsen d.s. Co., of present, the majority of whom of the officers of the Royal En- Instrument engineer, respectively, Tonsberg, Norway, which, by the were in fancy dress. The whole at McCook Field, Dayton. Neither way, is the biggest steamship com reported feeling ill effects from many in that country. The Hai-gineers were present, together with son, the fancy dresses and the uni the flight, made at an average foong is a steamer of 2,300 tons many other officore of the Garri- altitude of 8,000 to 9,000 feet, with a length of 271 It forms making a wonderful splash The trip took an hour less than breadth 36 ft. 8 inches, and mould- of colour. Norton's Jazz Band expected.

ed depth 22 ft. 3 inches.

supplied the music, dancing being The aviators were guided, it draft fully loaded is 17ft. and she kept up to the small hours, the was said, entirely by the now makes a speed of 7 to 8 miles pes last dance concluding at 2.30 am. earth inductor compass, a new hour on a consumption of about Shortly after the interval, the drift indicator and other instru-16 tons. She has a Hongkong pa- President of the General Com monts. The direct course they songer licence for carrying 22 mittee caused some consternation were able to follow was said to account in part for the fast time, first-class, 30 second, 80 third and by announcing that the prizes for 560 deck, passengers.. Messrs the fancy dresses had been taken. an average of 125 miles an hour, Eric Moller & Co., of Shanghai, All that was left was a monster. in a regulation DH4 B3. They

Her

were helped also by a favouring were the agents for the sale of this Easter egg, which it was proposed wind. Carrying 150 gallons in ship, and Captain Edmund. Hasse, to present to the worst dressed special tanke, the aviators had 20 the senior captain of the Sam Feb couple in the hall. These turned gallons of their reserve left when S. N. Co., has been appointed mas out to be Ye Host of the Dew Drop they reached Boston.

ter of the Haifoong, which name, Ian, Mr. Icon Dewum (S. S. Waller now been R. E.) and his worthy spouse.

J

The new instruments are de- we understand, has signed to enable an aviator to fly changed to that of the 3.s. Foh Ng (S. S. Daniels, R. E.). The cr out of sight of the Garth Ning.

jon being presented by Mrs. Mackin- through cloud or fog, without When the Haifoong many years

tosh, was opened, when little Miss P. Hewett, dressed as, Carnival, ago, during the Russo-Japanese

losing his course. Thus a flier! might fly through heavy fog or climb thousands of feet over a war, was on the China coast under was disclosed, and she admitte storm or clouds aud not deviate, the name of the Tungus, she had that she was the culprit who had from his course::

a young skipper on board by the taken the prizes and hid them and name of J. Halvepson, who suc-little act was well received, Mira herself in the boaby prise. This ceeded in breaking the Japanese London, Mar. 15-A hunting than three times. He brought un-

blackade at Port Arthur not less Carnival being loudly applauded.

Mrs. Mackintosh then presented. tragedy occurred in Leicester told amounts of cargo consisting of the prizes as follows: shiro in which the six months bride

of Mr. Edward Grenall succumb-provision, arms, anumunition and

Ladies' Fancy Dress,--1st. Prize Ito Miss Goddard, The Daughter of

od to injurios from a fall while stores for the beleagured Russtatthe Regiment; and 2nd Mrs.

Saunders, Tea for two,

Ladies' Original Dress,--1st:

out with the Quorn Hounds. The fortress at that time. The Japan- Prince of Wales and the Duke of ese caricaturists at that time had York were at the meet at the time no end of fun depicting the suc Mrs. Turner, Acroplane; 2nd. Mrs. of the accident when Mrs. ceas of the little foreign coaster Waller. Spinning Top. Grenall's horse took a high fence in eluding the watching sentinels and landed on.rough ground. Thej of the Japanese Navy. rider was 'thrown head foremost on the grass. By the express wish of the bereaved husband the Bolvoir hounds met se arranged two days later at his residence where his wife's body was lying.

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS,

4. Duddoll Street.

NEW CHARTER.

Gents. Fancy Dress,-1at. Berg, Major Goddard, Glaxo Baby; End Mr. Pryde, Knight of the Bath.

Gents. Original Dress,Ist coaster Fronto, Capt., Olaf Paulsen. 2nd, Q. M. S. Hayster, R. E, Nero. The practically new Norwegian Sergt. Major Hewett, Easter Egg; was chartered again last Friday for another year in the China Mrs. Nowberry and Sgt. Johnson, Winners of the Spot Waltz were coastwise trade. She is to be mainly employed in the passenger

R. A. S. C... trade between Swatow und Singa-s. M. Hewett, thanked the officers The President of the Committee, pore but will at times also make and the guests for their keen sup odd trips elsewhere.

She is a

steamer of about 8,000 tons dw.port throughout the season, malc with a draft fully loaded of 17 feet ing, as it had done, the most auc-

If you have anything you would and makes a speed of about 12 cessful season of the past two or

20 tons of coal per 24 hours. She knots on a consumption of about three years.

Lt. Col. Mackintosh, R. E. re-

like to sell, exchange or advertise send it to the CHINA AUCTION ROOM.

E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,

AUGHES & HOUGH

LIMITED.

· GENERAL· AUCTIONEERS, IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS &

GENERAL BROKERS, -

S. S. "ANGERS"

DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

is fitted with wooden tween decks, plied, eulogising the work put into has four sideports, and is well suit-these functions by the committee, ed for the coolie carrying trade on thanking them and Lt. Col. Trevel- the Chinese coast. She formerly lyan, who had been so good in sea- ran regularly between Saigon anding that the Theatre was kept in a this port, but has not been seen good state of repair, for a very here very often since the com- enjoyable time. mencement of the boycott. Messrs. Karsten Larsen & Company are the local agents for the vessel.

THE "DERWENT" ARRIVES.

The Chinese steamer Derwent, formerly of British registry, arriv

Col. Trevelyan, when called upon for a speech, gave vent to an old Corps maxim, in saying that when the Sappers set out to do a thing. they did it, and were not satisfied unless it was done well.

Mr. C. Grimes, on behalf of the

ed yesterday from Amoy in charge many ex-R. E. present, thanked the af her new master, Captain E. C. present members of the Mess for Lewis, previously captain of the s.s. providing such good entertain Haldis. Mr. R. Simpson, for a long ments.

time master of the Kongmoon

steamer Kwong Fook Cheong, is

now first officer. We regret to state

EASY. DIVORCE.

that Captain E. Brewer, MUCH MARRIED JAPANESE Consignees of Cargo from juntil very recently her master, Ja MARSEILLES &c.

WOMAN, now very in hospital. It is of

The easy practice still survives

In connection with above Stes.interest to note that the Derwent mer are hereby informed that carries a full cargo from Hongkong in Japan of getting rid of a wife their goods with the exception of up to Amoy which then has to be by giving her a letter of divorce, Opium, Treasure and Valuables re-shipped from that port to Swa- and the Japan Times publishes are being landed and stored at tow. From Amoy she also general the story of a woman who is their risks into the Godowns of ly has quite a few passengers blessed with no fewer than 36 the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf bound for Swatow, Under normal letters of divorce. A ricska man and Godown Co. Ld. Kowloon conditions the ship would naturally and a comely young woman wore, whence delivery may be obtained first carry a greater part of her seen fighting in Shimo Itabashi, immediately after landing. cargo to Swatow, and from there in its northern suburb, recently

Optional Cargo will be forward proceed to Amoy.

and the onlookers persuaded the ed on unless intimation is recely.

fighters to betake themselves to

ed from the Consignees, before 9 We note that the old master of the Itabashi Police Station, there a.m. to-day requesting it to the Derwent, Captain Rt. Benstead, to be advised how to settle their be landed here..

has now returned from an extend quarred. Then the story of the Bills of Landing will be countered holiday, which he spent mostly woman's carly pareer and first.

After that signed by the Undersigned, Goods in England. He was formerly in divorce came out. remaining unclaimed after Tues-command of the Derwent for more divorce she had been making day the 19th, inst., 1928 at noon than six years, and is a well known a practice of marrying soft will be subject to ront and lad- figure in the shipping circles of sort of fellows and then running ing charges.

this Colony

All olaims must be sent in to

me on or before the Wednesday, the 21st. iust or they will not be recognized.

VESSELS WITHIN CALL.

away with things not belonging to her, each adventure bringing hers letter of divorce. The question-

At noon, the following vessels ing of the police has revealed the All damaged packages will be communication with Hongkong to In addition to 24 more stored were expected to be in wireless fact that the woman had got in her own possession 12 such letters examined on Batorday, the day!

away at bor mother's home,

17th inst, at 10a.m. by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas,

No fire insurance has boot effected.

C. R. MIOLLIS; NOU Acting Agent. Hongkong, 12th April, 1920.

Yuensang, President Pierce, ricsha man who had Angers, Tilpanas, Calulu, President quarrolling with her, as her Van Buren, Meriones, Hozan Maru, husband, went away Président McKinley, Anhui, Rosan- frightened when he learned dra, Saarland, Paul Lecat, Glaucus about this very much mat and Delta,

woman'