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· WANTED.

EUROPEAN Ladie's Maid to accompany a Lady to Lon- don vis Canada, leaving about end of May. Apply Post Office Bor 259,

LOST.

LOST Last Thursday

Hongkong Ladies gold Wrist Watch with black silk ribbon and monogram "H. K." on back. Please return to Russo- Asiatic Bank or Telophone C. No. 4730.

PREMISES TO LET

no

TO LET From May 1st.

furnished 5 roomed house

at the Pouk. Apply Box No. 1495 Hongkong Telegraph.

TO LET

L

BOARD RESIDENCE,

"Huntington", Stubbs Road, Telephone Central 1038, Large airy rooms, cool situation, 15 minutes from town, car run for! convenience of guests. Apply Mrs. R. T. Matheson.

MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED TO BUY used Hongkong and Ohina Po- stage stampa. Any quantities and denomination, Send to Moncrief P. Ford, 156, Edmund St. Birmingham, England."

FOR

OR RENT six roomed house

middle level. House want- ed Peak with tennis court long saso. We have houses and land for disposal. Small Investors. Tel. 4630,

FOR SALE.

FOR "SALE. Gramaphone

Columbia G. 2. Cabinet]

c/o

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

- NOTICE.

HỌNGKONG WATERWORKS.

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1928.

SPANISH FLYERS ON MADRID-MANILA FLIGHT

LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION

The Undersigned havo'received Instructions to sell by Pubile Auc-

SATURDAY,

It is hereby notified that on tion, on and aftor Saturday, the 17th inst., the supply of water by Street Fountains in the Rider. Mains the 17th April, 1926, commencing will be brought into operation. at 12 moon, at their Sales Room,] Water will be turned on to each Duddell Street, Rider Mian 'daily for two" "con- socutive hours. Information as

to the Hours of Supply to any Particular. Property may be obtained on application as the office of the Water Authority, the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, or at the Tung Wah Hospital.

HAROLD T. CREASY, Water Authority. Public Works Department. Hongkong, 15th April, 1926.

CHINA UNDERWRITERS,

LIMITED. ལམ་

A Quantity of Medicines, Cod Liver Oil, Dental 'Cream, Shaving Cream, Powdered Borax, Epsom Salts, Tollet Articles, etc., etc. And

A Quantity of Toys and Miscellaneons. Goods. Terms-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.

"Hongkong, April 14, 1926,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The Undersigned have received

Model. Nonset Self Stopping, NOTICE is hereby given that instructions to sell by Public Auc- Excellent Condition. $175. Apply the second Ordinary Yearly Meet-tion, ou Box 1453 Telegraph.

Hongkong ing of Shareholders of China

SATURDAY, Underwriters, Limited, will be held at the Offices of the General the 17th April, 1926, commencing Managora,

Morars.

at 11 am.. at Godown No. 6. The Shewan,

FOR SALE. Three I etter Tomas & Co., St. George's Build- Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf &

Press Printing Machines, ing. Chater Road, Hongkong, Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, with motors. Apply Manager on Monday the 26th day of 159 Sacks Flour." "S.C.M. Post."

April 1926, at 11 o'clock in 14 Empty Casks. the forenoon for the purpose of 40 Empty Cases. receiving the Report of the 85 Cases Cordials.

FOR SALE -- Small cruiser General Managers and a State-72 Casks: Wine.

yacht "Coquette." Winner ment of Accounts for the year R.H. K.Y.C. champ onship 1924, ending 31st December, 1925, and runner-up 1925. Apply Box No. of electing a Consulting Com- 1482 c/o Hongkong Telegraph." mittee and Auditors."

O

CORNER SHOP. facing Queen's Road Con-

OR SALE. tral and the new street, and also

STEAM LAUNCH about 60 foot OFFICE ROOMS on upper floors of CHINA BUILDINGS. For long, in "oxcellent condition and terms apply to Chinese Estates, suitable for Harbour and River Apply Box 1439 c/o Work. "Hongkong Telegraph.”.

Ltd., China Bulldings, 5th Floor.

TO LET A SPICIOUS SHOP: 2, Ice House Street. Immediate Possession. Apply- GANDE, PRICE & Co., Ltd. (Next Door.)

TO LET.-Modern 3-roomed

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

NOTICE.

COMPAGNIE DES MESS- AGERIES MARITIMES

The undersigned, poing home on leave, begs to inform that Mr. Limage has been appoined local Agent of the Compagnie TO LET. For the month of dos Messageries Martimes with

June, a BUNGALOW at effect from the 13th instant. Wei-Hal-Wei, on the Island, 3 Bedrooms, 2 Sitting rooms, Ten- nis Court and Garden. Rent 200 taols for the month. Apply

C. R. MIOLLIS,

Acting Agent.

Bungalow c/o Hongkong HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB Telegraph.

TO LET Offices, spacious and airy in best locality Queen's Road about 2500 feet in one or two lo's, attractive rental apply Pox No. 1489 e/o "Hongkong Telegraph."

TO LET For period of six

months, fully equipped and furnished modern flat of four rooms two baths, servants quar- ters and electric light. Box No. 1484 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."|

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PO LET.—One European dat,

Wanchai Gap Road; Hong Long. Apply to .32 Kennedy Bond,

"

ENTRY FORMS, SECOND

EXTRA RACE MEETING.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 19th. April 1926 to 26th. April 1926, both days inclusive.

of the General By Order Managers,

R. FARRANT, Manager & Secretary. Hongkong. 14th, April, 1926.

NOTICE.

THE SIMPLEX PLASTER COMPANY, LIMITED.

:

1 Bundle Galvanised Iron Pipe. 4 Pieces Flat Irpn. Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 14, 1926,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public

Auction

on WEDNESDAY, the 21st April, 1926, commencing at 2.45 pm, at No. 10, Eastern House Top Floor) Hart Avenue, Kowloork

+

A Quantity of Valuable Household

Furniture. Catalogues will be issued..

On view from Tuesday, 20th

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Second Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at their Registered Offices, 2nd Floor, Powells' Build-April, 1926. ing, on THURSDAY, 22nd April, | 1926, at 9 o'clock in the afternoon,; for the purpose of receiving the with a statement of Accounts for Report of the Directors, together

the year ended. 31st December, 1925.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from the

The distance for the first race, 15th to the 22nd April, 1926, in-{ the Colonial Stares should read, clusive. "Six Furlongs.".

By Order,

C B. BROWN,

Secretary.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Second Extra Face Mooting to be held on Saturday,

| 1st May 1926 (weather permitt-

O LET. - From 1st. April to ing) may be obtained at the Race

1°

THE HONGKONG EXCAVATION, PILE DRIVING & "CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD..

General Managers. Hongkong, April 14, 1926,

CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

31st Decembor," furnished, Course, Hongkong Club and meeting of the shareholders of the

top floor flat of four large rooms Causeway Bay Stables.

with kitchen and gas stove, Entries will close at 12 o'clock pantry, store room, bathroom with noon on Saturday 17th Apr. 1926. geytar, etc. Apply W. 3. Bailey,

4 Armend Bldga, Kimberly Road.; Kowloon.

WO large rooms excellently

situated for offices on the 2nd, and 3rd Floors of "at. George's" Buldi g facing Ice| House Straet. For terms and particulars apply to Hongkong and Territorial Estater, Ltd., St, George's" Building.

ON or about March 1926 whole flat or spacious suite of offices in the "French Building" ex "Victoria Building," No. 5, Queen's Road Contral (between Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank.) Apply to: Banque de Indochine Chater Road.

1ROUND FLOOR PRE- MISES "ST. GEOR E'S BUILDING, opposite the STAR FERRY PIER, best locality in Hongkong for shipping Com- panies or Shops. Single Offico room, or whole suite of 3 Office rooms for short or long lease. For torms and particulars apply to Hongkong and Territorial Estates, Ltd., "St. George's" Building, ist. Floor, 10 LET

Married Couple having acquired a cool house won the Peak for the Summer, would welcome Bachelor to share. A he came, Apply Box No. 1491]

NOTICE.

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Notice is hereby given ́that THE “HONGKONG TELEGRAPH has not entered into any ar- rangement with any person or agency em- ployed in canvassing

for advertisements.

Advertising sugges- tions are submitted free, and schedules prepared and main- tained by our Advertising Depart- ment::

own

All enquiries should be addressed to the Manager

Telephone No. C. 199

The forty-eighth ordinary annual

above company will be held at the offices 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 81st December, 1925.

The Transfer Books of the com- pany will be closed from 8th to 22nd April, 1926, both days inclu- sive.

JARDINE MATHESON

& CO., LTD.,

General Agents. Hongkong, March 26, 1926,

NOTICE.

NORTON'S ORCHESTRA,

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 18, 1926,

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.

4. Duddell Street.

If you have anything you would

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

E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,

LLOYD TRIESTIN › NAVIGA

TION CO..

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

The Steamship FIUMEL

From Trieste, Venice, Brindisi, Karachi, Port Said, Massowab, Aden. Colombo, Penang

and Singapore,

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are

hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, at Kow." Icon, whence &d/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained Optional Cargo will be forward-

unless notice to the contrary be

given before 15th instant.

No claime, will be admitted (the famous "MELODIANS"), after the Goods have left the will be available for all kinds of Godowns, and all Goods remain- DANCEL, AND INDOOR instant will be subject to rent.

ing undelivered after the 21st.

ENTERTAINMENTS All claims against the steamo. must be presented to the under. during the Summer Beason.

signed on or before the lat. prox.. or they will not be recognized. Apply The ANDERSON MUSIC STORE. ed Goods are to be left in the All broken, chafed and damag-

Godowns, where they will be examined on the 21st Inet, at

BUGHES & HOUGH 10 am, by our surveyors Messrs.

LIMITED

GENERAL AUCTIONEERS. IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS

GENERAL BROKERS.

Goddard and Douglas.

* No Fire Insurance nas boen affected.

Bill of Ladlog will be count orsigned by

DODWELL & Co. Ltd.,

MADRID

MANI

KARACHI

CALCUTTA

The above is the first picture to arrive in Hongkong of the three Spanish aviators who are now trying to fly by an overland route from Madrid to Manila.

On the right is Capt. Eduardo Galiarza.

...

In the middle is Capt. Rafael Estevey, who was compelled to make a forced landing in the desert after leaving Cältö, and for whom an aerial search is now being made,

On the left is Capt. Don Joaquín Loriga.

In to-day's cables news will be found a Reuter's message from Karachi saying that Capts. Gallarza and Loriga. have arrived there..

MEASURING THE UNIVERSE.

WHAT'S A FEW MILLION MILES?

United States for a year's study by variation in the brightness of of the heavens through American: telescopes, said:""

stars.

The German astronomer expects "We are only a tiny speck in to spend several months at Har- the centre of the Milky Way, with vard with Dr. Shapley and then a diameter of 25,000 or 30,000.

light years, and with the encromua to carry on hia work at other telescopes in the United States we observatories. can see through our own Milky

Professor Moulton has fixed the Way into thousands of other milky date of the end of the world. But [ways, just as large as our own.

How large is the universe? Anyone's guess seems to be as good as those of the experts. by astronomers in Estimates Chicago and at New Haven re- The nearest star in our nebula is there is no immediate cause for cently show a wide divergence only three light years away. alarm. You may figure it out by something like a million or so light While the nearest separate cone-yourself, he says, like this: years, according to the Associat- Itellation, known as Andromeda, is ed Press.

more than 1,000,000 light years away."

The earth is two-thousand mil- Professor F. R. Moulton of the

lion years old. The average life University of Chicago, pictured

of such a planet is thousand

県 Dr. Bande declared that only. the universe as a vast space, 30,000 light years from top to the first page of the volumes times a million times a million bottom and 200,000 light years which are still to be written about years, or 1,000,000,000,000,000, one. from end to end-watch-like the distances of the stars in the

quadrillion years.... So it will go" disc. Light years are based on Milky Way had been completed the travelling speed of light, and he gave most of the credit on whirling on its orbit for an- 186,000 miles a second.

for the measuremente that had other 500,000 times as long as it been made so far to Dr. Harlow had already whirled. And when At New Haven, Dr. Walter Shapley of Harvard University, that time comes the sun will get Baade, noted German astronomer, who during the World War deve-too close to this planet, and poufl who has just arrived in the loped a system of measurements It will melt and he destroyed.

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