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NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE CANTON INSURANCE

OFFICE LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1926.

LAMMERT'S SHANGHAI COUNCIL

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION, TRAN

MONDAY

The Undersigned have received The Forty-fifth Ordinary General instructions to sell by Public 25 WORDS FOR $1.00 Meeting of Shareholders will be Auction on

held at the Offices of the under- (51.50 if not prepaid)

signed on Tuesday, the 18th May, The following replies are await-1926, at noon, for the purpose of ing collection

receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1926.

1314, 1376, 1384, 1385, 1992, 1342, 1997, 1409, 1418, 1375, 1441, 1444, 1456, 1462, 1453, 1500, 1499

MISCELLANEOUS.

HOUSE mid-level also one

between Cathedral and St.

Paul's. Mortgages, arranged on architect's valuation. Houses,

The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 4th- to the 18th May, 1926, both days inclusiva.

JARDINE MATHESON

& CO., LTD.,

General Agents. Hongkong, April 27, 1926,

Flats and building lots negotiated. ROYAL ARTILLERY ATHLETIC Small Investors. Tel. 630.

BOARD RESIDENCE.

ره

MEETING, 1926,

U.S.R.C. GROUND; KOWLOON.

Lieut. Colonel W. A. Edmeades, "Huntington," Stubbs Road, D.S.O., R.A, and the Officers Royal Telephone Central 1038, Large Artillery, Hongkong, will be AT airy rooms, cool situation, 15 HOME to any of their friends be minutes from town, car run for tween 8 and 6 p.m. on Friday, May convenience of guests. Apply 7th. Mrs. R. T. Matheson,

FOR SALE.

Hongkong, April 25, 1926,

ROYAL ARTILLERY ATHLETIC MEETING, 1926,

FOR SALE. FORD Tour to be held on the United Service ing Car in good running Recreation Ground, Kowloon, May order. Price $450.00. Apply Box] 6th and 7th.. No. 1501 e/o "Hongkong Tela Open Event.---7th May, timed for grapb."

3.10 p.m., ONE MILE Flat Race. Open to Royal Navy; European FOR SALE Three Jetter Garrison (including H.K.V.D.C.) Frees Printing Machines, and Hongkong Police; British Resi- with motors. Apply Manager dents. "C.M. Post."

Sports to commence at 2.00 p.m. each day,

STEAM

OR ΒΑΣΕ. -

LAUNCH about"-60 foot in excellent condition and for Harbour and River Apply Box 1439 c/o

dongkong Telegraph."

PREMISES TO LET

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Hongkong, April 25, 1926.

SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

The Banque de l'Indo-Chine beg to inform all interested in safe deposit, that they have actually in their now building, 5 Queen's Road, safe deposit Boxes at the yearly rate of $8 for the small

FELIXVILLAS,At the size, and $12 for the large size.

TERMINUS of the new BUS SERVICE European re- sidences oquipped with modern sanitation, electric light, gas, as woll' as garage and comprising aix rooms, four bathrooms, servants quarters

etc., at

Please apply to the Cashler.

HONGKONG BENEVOLENT

SOCIETY.

It is proposed to hold a Jumble sale on Wednesday May 5th. Con-

$150. and upwards. These com-tributions of clothing, etc., will be fortablo residences on Mount Davis Road, face South and are gratefully received at the City Hall situated in one of the most de-on Monday, 26th, Thursday, 29th lightful localities in Hongkong. and May 3rd, 4th and 5th at 11 Apply to the Hongkong Land a.m. Investment & Agency Co., Ltd.

TO LET Three Roomed un-

furnished flat Kowloon, for) English family, pleasantly situat- ed with garden and servants quaitors. Forry convenient, Ist. May, Ront $70.00 Apply Box 1500 c/o Hongkong Telegraph."

H. G. GOLDSMITH, for Hon. Treasurer, Hongkong Benevolent

Society. Hongkong, April 25, 1926.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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The charge for admission to monthly, I minute from Ferry. Next new hotel Hankow Road, the Public Enclosure will be $1.00 Kowloon, Tol, K.357.

for all persons including Ladies.! Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.

3rd, May 1936, at 12 noon, at their Sale Room, Duddell Street.

One 7-Senter "Marmor” Motor Car, 37 11.P. ing

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NOTICE.

RATEPAYERS' DECISION:

SENT TO PEKING.

JAZZ A CRIME.

FABULOUS FORTUNE:

BERLIN STORY OF EX-KAISER."

EARLY MOTORING

HOW LORD DEWAR CRASHED IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE.

INVENTED TO MAKE SLAVERY TOLERABLE

Berlin, March 20.-In ideal | Shanghai Municipal Jazz is degrading in that it The

the `confisontion, without.com- Lord Dowar gave a humorous Council has forwarded to the tends to lower the white races to weathor the polling in favour of Doyen of the Consular Body, the the level of the lesser broods men-I text of resolution VI, passed at tioned by Rudyard Kipling the pensation, of properties of the de-account of his experiences with one of the earliest motor-cars, throned dynasties goes on. it Wednesday's annual meeting of jazzista may tako

for

Lorries crammed with singing when handing over the Dewar Republicans, many of them Trophy, for the best performance ratepayers, expressing the de-granted that their number is up. sirability of admitting three The above statement was made. Chinese members to the Council by Dr. Henry Coward, conductor flaunting red flags, sweep through of the year, to the Rover Motor A covering letter expresses the of the famous Sheffield Choir, at the streets calling on all voters Co. at the Royal Automobile Club Council's request that thea meeting of the local Rotary Club to do their duty and "repulse the recently,

One of this company's standard Hohenzollerns and their grab- There have been strong pas- Consular Body forward the

cars, In a Royal Automobile Club: resolution to tho Diplomattoeages at arme between Dr. Coward all ways."..

Streets are placarded with certified trial, olimbed the famous Corps in Poking so that the and Mr. Jack Hylton, an expon- matter can be regularized and ent of jazz music, on the merits violent anti-Hohenzollern posters, North Wales mountain pass Newspapers of the Com- Bwich-y Gross 50 times con- the ratepayers' wishes carried and demerits of jazz, and the con- Into effect.

troversy has aroused keen interest, munists, Socialists and Democrats secutively in 12 hours.

Those, he said, who, like him The text of the resolution, "I have been to the perform are raking up the annals of the which is of historic importance, ances under the promise of German dynasties for incidents self, were getting mellowed--Lord discredit the German Dewar is 62 could well remem- reade

hearing good jazz," said Dr. to

ber the historio firstrun of motora That in the opinion of this Coward. "At the Bras Monarchical system.

The old story of the sale by to Brighton, the day after legisla meeting the participation of heard desiccated jazz; but at Chinese residents in the govern- the second desecrating jazz It German princes of it Hessian tion abolished red flag from the ment of the Settlement is was as though the features of the peasants to fight in British armies roads.

Three days later he purchased desirable; and that the Council theme were distorted by a hideous is being worn threadbare.

Tales of a more modern flavour one of the cars that actually be hereby authorized and in-make-up and wig. The trumpets include a Berlin yarn of the or- arrived at Brighton, and engaged

make forthwith flared away with quacking blare structed to representations to the powers and with fraquent, spasmodic Kaiser having recently amassed as driver a man who was per- concerned with a view to securing rushes which sounded like the fortune by speculating in rub forming on a motor-nar at the

Alhambra. the addition of three Chinese tearing of calico. The saxophones Members at an early date. hoated, but at times suggested

"How the terms of the resolution the mocing of a cow. will be fulfilled is not known.at! "To me the whole was hideous, present, but details will be arranca sacrilege, a ozime. It was as ed after diplomatic assent has though an actor was reciting been given to it. Nevertheless, Shakespeare and putting in smart there is no abatement of the gags such as "To be or not to be." Chinese feeling of opposition to Have you any bananas ?) That NORFOLK HAUNT OF RARE the resolution. As a result of is the question.' (None to-day,) | the meeting held by the Chinese "The whole performance illus. Ratepayers Association, a com-trated to perfection the lines:

A syncopated orchestra is good mittee is busy drafting up the declaration of opposition decided at killing time, upon at the meeting.

Or turning into balderdash According to the Chinese news-symphony sublime. papers, which reflect this opposi- "The trombone," continued Dr. north Norfolk coast, have been presentatives. As it went on its tion, a representative of the Coward, "is a noble instrument purchased by a few ornithologists, rounds, whether by the engine or National Students' Union called if played in a legitimate manner, who prefer to remain anonymous, by the assistance of a horse, it on the Chinese General Chamber but when made to bray, and with the object of securing the was always accompanied by a of Commerce to obtain an expre- guffaw, to represent a laughing property for all time as a bird-considerable crowd. saion of the Chamber's view on jackass, it raises a vacant laugh nesting sanctuary. To this 407

It became popular with licens- the question, and was informed once or twice, and then its coarse- acres of partially inundated ed victuallers, for when a crowd that the Chamber intends to ness is revealed. Jazz is blatant, marshland, ducks and waders of surrounded it outside a house appoint a delegate to go with grotesque and boisterous." many apecies have resorted for where light refreshments could delegatee appointed by other

nesting purposes since TO MAKE SLAVERY TOLERABLE. breach in the defensive concrete to go inside to discuss the mon- the be obtained, a fair number usad associations und register a protest: with the Foreign Office at Peking,

SERIOUS RUSSIAN

FLOODS.

ber.

NEW BIRD SANCTUARY.

MIGRANTS.

It will be a source of great satisfaction to all who are in terested in the preservation of alour rarer nesting British birds that the Cley. Marshes, on the

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

ed the town of Orekhovo, 45 miles Recently, however, rich Amie- prepared and main-

east of Moscow. Eight persons rican decadents, looking out for tained by our

have been drowned, eleven bridges something novel, introduced this Own

destroyed and many textile mills sort of thing, dressing it up in its Advertising Depart-

idled. Loss of life is also reported beet attire. Having had sed ex from Rybinsk, where the Volga is perience of its tendency, we can ment.

fifty feet above its usual level. now say that it is time to put the Scores of villages are flooded and brake on."

The Sheffield Choir celebrates inhabitants have taken refuge on the roots. Detachments of the its jubilee on March 24, when Dr. Red Army are blowing up ice jams Cowardo, founder of the choir, will in the rivers, in order that the receive the freedom of the city of

Sheffield. waters may How their natural course-Reuter.

All enquiries should be addressed to the Manager.

Telephone No. C. 1.

On their first drive they got into Trafalgar-square, where one of the old bus drivers deliberately ran into the car, amid loud cheers from other busmen, and smashed. three of the wooden spokes' of . one of the wheels.

A SELF-SUFPORTING CAR, It would have been futile to ask the bus driver's name and address, for at that time it was doubtful if a jury would convict any individual who shot at sight a man altting on a motor-car.

Afterwards he handed the car over to one of his business ro

A

"What of the genesis of jazz ?" sea wall which resulted from the strosity. asked Dr. Coward, "To make memorable high tide of December Although that "oar was not slavery a bit tolerable the slave 31, 1921, flooded the area and self-starting, it was certainly self- owners at certain intervals on- transformed it into the ideal supporting. couraged orgies in which semi-breeding and feeding ground that Lord Dewar then treated the barbaric music played a great it now is. For several genera company to some of his famous part. VOLGA FIFTY FEET ABOVE

tions the property has beed epigrama

Most men did not wake up to "This was well known, and the owned by the Cozens-Hardy NORMAL.

low negro plantation music, with family, and the late Mr. A. Wfind themselves famous; they Moscow, April 27. its twanging banjo, bones, and Cozens-Hardy, by whose execu-usually dreamed they were The river Volga and its upper clanging pans, was taboo amongst tors the marshes have just been famous, then woke up. tributaries have overflowed their the whites, unless they were per- sold, kept them as undisturbed as Avoid the beginner who drives banks. The river Klazma has flood-sonating Giggers.

possible during the breeding sea-with one hand on the wheel be- son and enjoyed first-rate, duck- tween accidents, all Sunday. shooting on them in the winter. Avoid the pessimist his whoof.

During every year such rarities of fortune always suffers from a as the soon-bill black tern, ruff punctured tyre.

A man like match to see if his avocet, and other rare waders. arrive as passing migrants, and it petrol tank was empty--it wasn't is hoped, and indeed is, probable, Aged 65. that under the strict protection To possess a motor-car to-day from all disturbing influences has become a habit. The world will henceforth is governed by customs and these birds receive throughout the breeding habits.

From the force of habit some. season, some of them, at any rate, will remain and nest on the mon try to blow froth from the area. It is not more than 100 top of a glass of water. A re- years ago when the avocet nested tired dairy man, said from force on the adjoining Salhouse Broad, of habit he never could see a separated from the marshes by a bucket of water without fooling sea bank only; and as recently an irresistible desire to put some as 1922 a reeve's nest, containing milk in it. four eggs, was found on the

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NEW BISHOPRIC REFUSED.

SHREWSBURY SEE.

ANCIENT STATUE.

LORDS REJECT PROPOSED marsh. This is one of the strong- bolds of that most handsome of all the ducks, the shelduck; and within the past week the writer) Many exclamations of surprise found that already 12 pairs of were heard in the House of Lords these birds had returned to begin RELIC OF FIFTH CENTURY. on a recent evening when the ro- prospecting for nesting sites. In solution asking the King to give 1923 that most uncertain of all Rome, March 11-Excavations the Royal Assent to the Bishopric the terns, the Sandwich tern un-in the Street of Abundance in of Shrewsbury measure was expectedly arrived and nested in Pompeil have brought to light a defeated by 61 votes to 60. considerable numbers. In fact, bronze statue believed to be one

Moving the resolution, the 180 neste..were "counted, and in

Bishop of Manchester said the addition, over 100 nests of the of the best examples of Greak measure created a new See, of common tern were found on a school of approximately the fifth workmanship of the Phydish. Shrewsbury by taking portions of adjacent area of the marsh.

öentury D. CA the Sees of Hereford and Litch- As a winter duck-shoot the field. It was the last of a series marshes must be unrivalled in of such measures recommended to this country, and although the the Church Assembly by the New, primary object of the purchasers perhaps of Apollo. It stands on Sees Committee, of which he was has been to secure the ground as found candelabra which probably A circular base. Near by were Chairman..

The bronze, which was intact, a lifesize figure of a youth or

a strictly preserved area through- out the whole of the nesting set were held in the statue's upraised son-that is from early spring.

hand.

The opposition came only from the County of Hereford.

Lord Forester, on behalf of the to late autumn there is no valid The statue is believed to have diocese of Hereford, moved the reason why their intention should been destined as a decoration for rejection.ONE

be frustrated by the marshes be- rich Pompeiian's house, but it That diocese had existed in its ing lot for the winter shooting time of the eruption, being lodged had not been placed there at the present form for 1,250 years, and In fact, such an arrangement has Sovie cogent reason

should already been made, and indead in store room. It was entirely be

unbedded in volcanic ashes, which given before it was is necessary as a means of help acted as a preservative, broken up. They were merely ing to raise money to meet the told that it was for more efficient expenses of upkeep. Church work."

Sentimentalists may deplore this policy, but experience gained at Hickling and on some of the Dutch" meres. proves that this A former Blahop of Hereford, shooting in no

way acta de- Mr. Henson, Bishop of Durham, trimentally to the reqular spring said Hereford was one of the return of the nesting birds, amallest dioceses in England and Observer

SMALL AND EFFICIENT.

a very efficient one. He opposad the measure,

Support came from the Arch-

bishop of Canterbury, and from

TO-DAY

the Bishops of Hereford and LichDollaron demand

| field whose dioceles would be

reduced by the proposal, but the [House, as stated above, refected

still be traced, and the lava only

· The gold leaf decoration can. slightly damaged one log by roughening the surfaces vice The status will be conditioned and taken to the Museum of

Naples where it will be put in a place, of honour among the choice examples of antiquity

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