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OUSE mid-level also one Ho
between Cathedral and St. Faul's. Mortgages arranged on architect's valuation. Houses, Flets and building lots negotiated. Small Investors. Tel. 630.
BOARD RESIDENCE,
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"Huntington," Stubbs Road, Telephone Central 1038, Large airy rooms, cool situation, 15. minutes from town, oar run for oonvenience of guests. Apply Mrs. R. T. Matheson.
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Lower Peak Tram Station, lady's gold wristlet watch, with Finder expanding bracelet. please return to R. Sutherland, "Jardine, Matheson and Co.
FOR SALE.
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FOR SALF Three Tetter
rers Printing Machines, with motors. Apply Manager "S.C.M. Post."
PREMISES TO LET-
FLATS FOR RENT-Orient
Building Coronation "Road,! Kowloon, ro. 5, Ground Floor No. 9, 1st Floor. No 10, 2nd. Floor. No. 11, 2nd. Floor. No.
NOTICE.
FANLING HUNT
STEEPLECHASES.
Варай
WHITSUNTIDE MEETING. "Monday, 24th May, 1926.
Saddling Bell
2.80 p.m.
First Race.... 9.00 p.m. Entrance to Enclosure and
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Covered Stands,
$1.00 Per Head:. Motor cars can be parked on the rall opposite the grand stand
$5.00 Por Car
Special Express Train to the Racea leaves Kowloon at 1,15 pm. Return Special Express Train leaves Fanling Station at 5.62 p.m. Refreshments will be catered for by the Ritz.
Hongkong, May 18, 1926.
NAVY LEAGUE.
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On Tuesday, 18th inst. there will be a lantern slide lecture given by Rev. G. E. S. Upsdell, in the Central British School, Kowloon at 5.80 p.m. The subject will be "Through Shot and Shell" (Nelson and his Times) and parents, children and the general public are cordially invited to attend.
L. M. WHYTE,
Hon. Secretary.
Hongkong, May 13, 1926.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-THIRD OR DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the Head Office. Union Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 28th MAY 1926, at 11 o'clock am, for the purpose of receiving the Roport of the Directors and Statements of Account to 31st December 1925, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOCKS of the Society will be CLOSED from May 12th to May 28th both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager, Hongkong, May 3rd 1926.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO. LTD.
NOTICE TO SHARE- HOLDERS.
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Particulars and Conditions of the Sale by Public Auction to he
held on Monday, the 17th day of
May, 1926, at 8 pm, at the Offices
of the Public Works Department.
FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926.
LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received by Order of His Excellency the instructions to soll by Public Aus- Governor of one Lot of Crown Inndtion, on
at - Shaukiwap in the Colony of
SATURDAY,
Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, the 16th May, 1928, commencing at with the option of renewal at a 11 a.m., at their Sales Room, Orown Rent to be fixed by the Duddell Street, Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for. one further term of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Yale.
Regletes No.
Locality..
Inland Lo
Adjoining Sbsukiwan No. 538
Inland Lot No. 597,
aukiwan.
Boundary Metu.
Santfest tual Sent
About 1.140
Hongkong, May 11, 1926.
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HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT,
Upact Price.
WEATHER and Ground Permitting the following programme has been arranged-
MONDAY, 17th--SEMI-FINALA 'OPEN DOUBLYS
HANCOCK & REDMOND
v,
A Quantity of Household Furniture. Terms: Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, May 19, 1926.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
WEDNESDAY, May, 19th. at 3 p.m.
(Postponed from MONDAY
May 17th.)
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
4, Duddoll Street. If you have anything you would like to soll, exchange or advertise end it to the CHINA-AUCTION ROOM,
E, V, M. R. DE SOUSA,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
OR MONDAY, the 17th May, 1926, at 2.30 p.m., at No. 159 Queen's Road Central, The Office Furniture and Fittings of the Wing Hing Bank,
- Comprising:-
HUSBANDS.
A CHANGE IN FASHIONS.
By Marion Ryan.
There are new styles in hus bands, though we hear very little about them. Everyone is so busy discussing the new styles in wo men and wives that men and hus
TRAWLER FOR SINGAPORE.
FISHERIES VESSEL WILL START WORK SHORTLY.
The first Government trawler in Singapore, the Tongkol, a rather insignificant looking vessel when she took her place with the other ships in the inner harbour yester- day, says the Free Press of May 6, at present alongside the wharf
The Undersigned has received bands get overlooked. But hus at Heppel Harbour where she will instructions to Bell by PUBLIC bands have changed very much be in dock for some days. The AUCTION, (by order of the Ldqui from the day when atately Mr.Tongkol da fully equipped-for the Noah and humble Mrs. Noah walk-work that she is to do in these dator).
ed into their ark and the children waters, but she requires a cont of and animals followed two by two new paint very badly and the Har In the first place the modern bour Board will put the filnshing only touches on her before she starts
out on her Arst trip. husband is very often not the wage earner in the family, nor le On her arrival in the harbour be the intellectual prop upon which yesterday from Middlesborough, Teakwood Desks and Chaira, all the family lenn heavily. He is which port she left on March 15, Book Cases, Partitions, Counters not the only voter, either, and he the trawler was boarded by Mr. has just as much respect for hia Green, Director of Fisheries, and wife as she has for him. He Mr. Green told a Free Press repre- One -Seater "Studebaker" Motor seldoms calls her "Little Woman" sentative that a start would be Car in good running order and any more, no does he advise her made with the work that the not to worry her head about any trawler is required to do, as soon thing outside the home, nor doce 45 possible. As far as he knew, he expect her to smile with delight the trawler would require little, if when he is pleased and tremble any, attending to during the time that she will spend in dock here, with fear at his frown...".
and Iron Safes, etc., etc.,
At the premises of "The Hong-condition. kong Telegraph" 11, Toe Housej [Street...
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Two large newspaper printing machines.
(By C. B. Cottrell and Sons.) 1-Electric Motor 1.-H. P. 200 V.
! Also.
Terms: Cash on Delivery..
E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, May 14, 1926.
The latest fashion in husbands the only thing that is needed being looks upon marriage as a partner-a new coat of paint.
ship and his wife as a delightful The Tongkol is a vessel of 293 companion. He knows that she tons gross and 103 nett, and in can beat him at golf if she tries appearance she is little bigger than hard enough, and can play as good the vessels of the numerous small a game of bridge us he does.
Head Cook.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
1-Electric Motor 5.-H. P..
The Undersigned has received
coasting fleets in service in these instructions to sell by PUBLIC
wators. Yet, she is a vessel which 200 v.
bas seen service off the East Coast These machines may be in- | AUCTION, ・ (by order of the spected. in oporation on appli-Liquidator).
Everyone talka enthusiastically of England, and will be able to do cation to the Manager of "The
on MONDAY,
about the way the New Woman has 8,000 miles without putting Hongkong Telegraph."
the 17th May, 1926, at 11 a.m., at adapted herself to the Labour port for supplies ar fuel,G
Market and all her New Freedom also
No. 22. Stanley Street, 1st Floor,
BUMJAHN & RUMJAHN, THURSDAY, 18th FINAL OPEN DOUSLES
FRIDAY, 218 FINAL OPEN SINGLES 1-Large Ceiling Fan, 200 vt. to be followed afterwards by Presentation
and. of prizes.
BONGKORG CRICKET CLUB.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT, EMBERS and SUBSCRIBERS may M
now Book BEATS at the PAVIL FUN to Witness the FINAL MATCHES. TUESDAY 18th FINAL OPEN CHAMPION: DovaLeeSeats... 81.00 FRIDAY, 21st-FINAL OPEN CHAMION SINGLES...
Ench
A Quantity of Miscellaneous Office Furniture, Electric Fittings, ete."
Terma-Cash on Delivery, the Machines must be removed with in ten days from date of sale."
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers,
$1.00 NOTICE OF REMOVAL
BOOKING will.OSE at the PAV. ILION on SUNDAY, the 16th at 8 p.. On and after MONDAY, 17th Bapklug will be at Me, MOUTRJES.
PRICE REDUCTION,
Revised pricelists for Michelin Tyres are now ready for distribu- tion and are subject to the usual discount as before.
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Notice is hereby given that on and after 17th. May, 1926, the Offices of The Hongkong" Tele.
The Valuable Household Furniture and Fittings Therein Contained.
Comprising:
She is at present in command of but no one ever gives the New Man Captain Brady and a crew of four any credit for adapting himself teen hands, but when in service 80 gracefully and efficiently to the in these waters she will be manned New Home and the New Woman by three Lowestoft fishermen and Blackwood Chairs and Long 1 dined with one of these New a crew. of Hylams of the type found Tables, Teak Dining Table and Husbands the other night. He and on the tongkangs which trade be Chairs, Chesterfield Sofa and Arm-his pretty young wife have a flat tween Singapore and the neigh- chairs, Double Wardrobes, Dressing in Chelsen, a very small income bouring islands with cargoes of Tables, Washstands, Screens, and a profession apícce. They timber, Electric Fittings, Iron Gates and cannot afford anything in the Flower Pots, etc., eac
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, May 14, 1926.
graph will be located at Nos HUGHES & HOUGH
13 Wyndham Street, (Mor- ning Post Building).
NOTICE. UNIVERSAL AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY.
All Michelin Tyres bought from 12, 1st Floor. No. 13, 2nd. Floor, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN No. 14. 1st. Floor. No. 15, 1st that the SIXTIETH ORDINARY us are guaranteed to be absolute- Floor. Immediate socupation. YEARLY MEETING of the ly fresh and reliable as our stock
OUR OFFICE and SHOW. Enquire Caine Road or Telephone Company will be held at its Head is replenished every week. Please be sure that you will not buy Q.317 between 9 and 10 a.m. Office, Union Building, Hong-
OLET-Une European flat, kong, on FRIDAY, 28th MAY cheap and old tyres offered for ROOM have been REMOVED to 1926, at 11.15 a.ti., for the pur-sale in the market which always 61, DES VOEUX ROAD. C. CUSTOMERS are requested to go Wanchai Gap Hord, Hong-
Authorised MICHELIN dis- to the above mentioned address. kong. Apply to 32 Konnedy pose of reciving the Report of the give unsatisfactory service.
Directors and the statements of Account to 31st December 1925, ftributors and of declaring Dividends, etc.
Road.
KOWLOON RESIDENTS'
ASSOCIATION.
APPLICATION FORM.
Please enrol me as a Member of the Kowloon Residents'..A sociation for the year 1926, my. subscription fee of $2 bping en- closed.
Name
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from May 12th to May 28th, both doys inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER.
General Manager! Hongkong, May 3rd 1929.
'THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD.
JOHN GIBBS & CO. Bank of Canton Building,
1st floor. Hongkong 14th May 1926. THE CANTON INSURANCE. OFFICE LTD.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS,
LIMITED.
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS. IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS & GENERAL BROKERS.
COVENTRY.
The Tongkol is a coal-burning
servant line other than a char-vessel of the Castle type. She woman three times a week, but made her long vonge from Mid- their little flat, was a model of diesborough in good time, having cleanliness and comfort. "How do called at Port Said on the way, you manage to do all the house-
work and your other work as
well?" I asked the wife, for we KANGAROO had just finished a delicious little! meal which ehe had cooked and
1
"SCARE
SPRING-HEELED JACK "Oh, Ned and I share the house- work," she explained. "Ned cooks AND STARTED MCTCRISTS far better than I do, only this hap
pened to be my day for the house- A kangaroo which escaped work, so the dinner to-night had from confinement for three days to be mine. We each take it every and nights played "Spring-heel'd other day, and in that way neither Jack" around the Kentish villages of un gets bored. Sometimes we of Ringwould, and Kingsdown, help one another. To-night, near Deal example, led will help light, for Motorists were held up at sight up, but usually we each do our own by the mysterious "bushranger, work on our particular days and while Easter holiday pedestrians leave everything to the chart on had exciting experiences. her days."
All to the Good.
The animal belongs to a Major Griffiths, who occasionally lives
The Banque de l'Indo-Chine beg to Inform all interested in safe deposit, that they have actually in their new building, 6 Queen's Road, anfe deposit Boxes at the yearly rate of $8 for the small NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.size, and $12 for the large size.
Please apply to the Cashler. The Forty-fifth Ordinary General
Hongkong, May 6, 1926. Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under-
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. signed on Tuesday, the 18th May, 1926, at noon, for the purpose of NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. receiving the Report of the General sents, together with a statement NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY SEVENTH 1st December, 1926. ORDINARY YEARLY MEET- The Share Register and Transfer Cut this out and forward toING of the Company will be held
J. M. ALVES, feq..
at its Head Office, Union Build Books, will be closed from the 4th ing, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, to the 18th May, 1926, both "days
Inclusive.
JARDINE MATHESON
& CO., LTD.,
General Agents, Hongkong, April 27, 1926.
A WONDERFUL OUTPUT.
in a tent pitched in a secluded: It acems that men do not mind spot on Court Land Pond, close Bicycles, motor-cycles, cars artificial silk yarn, ribbons is doing housework now that elec to thickly wooded firs, between there a family in Great Britain, tricity and labour-saving devices: Ringwould and Kingsdown, and to go no further, that is not using give it a scientific touch. At least was sent down in a cage. It something that had its origin in New Husbands don't. I found arrived before Easter, and was Coventry? There cannot be many that their case was not at all un-placed in a wooden hut.
From this it escaped, and roame towns in the whole world engaged usual among the people they know on such a variety of articles of young married, couples where ed the countryside, eluding its universal appeal, and there must the new fashlons in husbands would-be captors, be very few places that have hit abound. In one case the husband
upon so many profitable manu-and wife go to the same office every SOMETHING DARK... facturing notions and got away morning. In another the New Sliding down a bank one night, with them, as Mr. Babbit would Husband employs his wife to hell the animal landed in the centre day Practically overy single him in his office and pays her of the road before a party Coventry product in the course of good wage. In another the young motorists. Fortunatoly, the car's the fifty-odd years of the town's wife does all the housework but powerful headlights showed the modern history has started a draws a salary for her services obstruction in time, we toy or article of luxury, and then from the New Husband. In all The village constable later on- has quickly become a necessity the cases there is not only har countered the kangaroo. of Accounts for the year ended the 5th June, 1926 (weather permit demanding large scale production mony, but happiness and com- “I was patrolling my beat,"
Address
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Hon. Treasurer, K.BA28th MAY 1926, at 11.20 a.m., for 2, Connaught Road Central] the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Hongkong.
Statements of Account to 31st December 1925, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
All Kowloon Residents should join the the Association which is formied to protect their interests.
FOR
THIS WEEK'S BARGAINS IN MOTOR CARS
AND
MOTOR CYCLES, SEE SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE TO-MORROW'S
OR SUPPLEMENT.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from May 12th to May 28th, both days inclusive..
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
Gonoral Manager. Hongkong, May 3rd 1926..
KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB,
THE HONGKONG"&" SHANGHAI HOTELS,
LIMITED.
(Incorporated in Hongkong.)
panionship.
upon the animal bounded away. It has since been captured,"
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Third Extra Race Meeting to be held on SATURDAY, ting), may be obtained at the Raco and a system of distribution,
said the officer to a Daily Course, Hongkong Club and Cause- especially in the matter of bi-
And just consider what an un- cycles, that has linked Coventry. way Bay Stables.
ENTRIES will close at 12 o'clock with the ends of the earth. Well derstanding, companionable kind Chronicle representative," when noon on Saturday, 22nd May, 1926. might a modern. Cowper sing off a New Father the New Hua-something dark and panting sud-
band is likely to develop into deply confronted me. Hongkong, May 12, 1926.
the town."
New Daughters are going to find Then I flashed my lantern, Realms Godiva never knew themselves quite as worthy of and saw it was the escaped kan- Thy prosperity shall stay consideration as New Song, and B4100. How for luck and how far good all their ambitions will be well I flung my stick at it, where- management have contributed to
nurtured. this success is to be read between: the lines of a recent sketch telling NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the romantic story of the growth
It is un interesting fact that Prague -The latest step in The Draw for the Motor Car that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the town's industries. It was luck having auch inventive orafts- and Gramophone in aid of the of Shareholders of the Hongkong men as Humber and Starley and oysters are exactly 117 times the adaptation of Prague Tepondents of tho Jato Mr. and Shanghai Hotels Limited, will
in Great Britain. Dospite their capital has been the construction. D.A.G. Alison will take place be held in the Roof Garden of the others; it was insight and fore-cheaper in Malaya than they are to its position as a European at the above Olah on Friday, Hongkong Hotel Pedder Street, their successes, and it was, enter table molluscs are avoided by the first of its kind in Prague, sight to build so promptly on cheapness, however, these dolec of an escalator, which is not only 14th. inst. at 6.30 p.m. -
Hongkong, on Saturday, the 29th
prise and adaptability in good May, 1926, at eleven o'clock in the measure that acized on the right Europeans in this country on but also, it is claimed, the longest forenoon, for the purpose of re-moment of conversion to motor account of the conditions undor in Europa. Built on the site of cofving in Statement of Accounts cycles and cars in the one in which they grow, no attempt defunct funicular railway, it and the Report of the Board of stance and in another banked all being made to keep out contami-saves one the labour of plimbing Directors for the year ended on the on the future of a new textile fibre, ating matter from the rivers and up the picturesque but fatiguing afat Decombor, 1825, confirming It is the Coventry more than the estuaries in which the oyster beds Letha Hill, on top of which the the appointment of a Director, and Locarno spirit that Is needed in found Oysters are found in football grounds are eituated. many places along the Malayan The payment of 50 hellers (three- re-electing a Director and the industry generally and as to consta, but the principal place is farthingel entities one to make the those who bemoan the decadence Muar, whore oysters may be journey both ways on the same of British skill and enterprise, bought at any time in the shóll day. It is estime may it not be literally apt, as well
FEMINA
1st. Floor China Building Opposite Hongkong Hotel JUST RECEIVED Fine Selection of
DRESSES, GOWN & HATS
The latest amart Parisienne modela selected:
dels by our Paris Buyers.
Auditors.
By Order of the Board,
WALTER J. HAWKER,
Hongkong, May
Manager, as polite, henceforth to send them or out of it. They may also be people sled tho
had in the Singapore – markata locon to Coventry Manchester Guar- dian
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