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SITUATIONS VACANT.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG

KOWLOON BOWLING GREEN CLUB.

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

MEETING,

An Extraordinary, General Meeting of Members will be held

at the Club House on Tuesday 25th May, 1926, at 6 p.m.

BUSINESS:-AN posted Notice Board in Club House.

By Order,

D. GOW,

Hon. Secretary,

INDO-CHINA STEAM-

The

Forty

on

NOTICE

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926.

TELEGRAPH,

CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

NY.K, LINE.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

way Bay Stables.

ENTRIES will close at 12 o'clock noon pa Saturday, 22nd May, 1926,

Hongkong, May 12, 1926.

HONGKONG JOCKEY, CLUB.

May,

GIPSY "PALMIST" ACQUITTED.

·FOUND NOT GUILTY OF FALSE PRETENCES.

thu Hongkong cargo from rond, Exwick, Exeter,

ux 5.8. "Matsuyo Maru

Goods not cleared by the 26th January.

1026, will 1 be subject to rent. Damaged, packages, must be left in the Goodowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Co.'s representa. tives on any Tuesday and Fridays, at Perlod

RED SWORDS.

SOLDIERS FIND MAGIC IN

1

The

BLACK DOGS.:

round

WIRELESS OF 70- YEARS AGO.

SCOTTISH WEAVER WHO TELE-: GRAPHED WITHOUT WIRES.

Draft Programmes and Entry From EUROPE and STRAITS. Forms for the Third Extra Race

The Steamship' Meoling to be held on SATURDAY,

Suchien, N. Ko., May 6- 5th June, 1926 (weather perrait-

"ATSUTA MARU,"

At the Exoter Quarter Sossions Suchten is looking up in the

The story of the Scottish weavor, ting), may be obtained at the Raceving, arrived from the above ports, recently, Ida Sheridan, alia Leah, world! We have a gun fred J. B. Lindsay, who patented the first

Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- Course, Hongkong Club and Cause- formed that their Goods are being 34, palmist, giving an address at every day from one of the street vireless communication system landed and placed at their risk In the n hotel at Cheltenham, wie towers at 12 o'clock." We have in Great Britain, is told by Mr." Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and charged with stealing or obtaining been having our spring dust Ellison Hawks in the current num- Godown Company's Godown at Kow- toon, whence delivery may be obtained, by false protences £331 from storms and everyone has welcomed bor of The Wireleen World.

The man whose scientifle dis- stamer also brought from Richard Cleave, of St. Andrew's heavy rain storm. The country

during was very dry, the wheat, though coveries were subsequently to át~ good, was below its usual height tract the attention of the Prime The accused, under the title of at this time of the year, and this Minister was born in 1799 and be "Gipsy Lenh," was stated to be a rain will bring on both whent,

gan his career as weaver's ap prentice hear the little village of palinist who had appeared at corn, and beans.

Carmyille, in Förfarshire. Lator country

about, Wembley and during January

Cleave had thanks to the soldiers' efforts to his parents, by atorn self-denial, appeared at Exeter. town, and told her his wife left comparative quiet, though, within ay to St. Andrew's University,

tually, it was alleged, the defen-

rumours of a band some 4,000 mathematics and physical science, dant said that she could bring strong about 100 li from here, just and in 1829 he was appointed Lec- turer in Science and Mathematics Cleave and his wife together, and across the border in Shantong.

at different times amounting to £31. It was also alleged that the defendant had told the prosecutor that she had handed the first £100 to, Cleave's wife, who, she said, was living between Torquay and Newton Abbot, although the wife was really in North Cornwall Eventually the defendant said the wife was willing to come back and that she (the defendant) would arrange a rendezvous. This, how. ever, was not done.

A MEETING of Members will be NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. held in the Jockey Club Room, Hongkong Club Annex, on Friday, Fifth Ordinary 21st May, 1925, át. 5 p.m., for the 20 pn., within the free storage his palm read by her at the latter round up the tufci, "haa enioves were able to send the young Lind- General Meeting of the Company purpose of discussing the method will be held at the Offices of the of acquiring Subscription Griffins An engineering firm incorporat- General Managers,, Messrs. Jars for next season. The attendance ed in England) requires the ser-ding, Matheson & Co., Ltd, of all members interested is ro- vices of

COMPETENT Pedder Street, 2

Hongkong. ACCOUNTANT to take charge of Thursday, the 10th June, 1925, at its Accounts Department. Box No.

12 noon for the purpose of re- 1616, care of "H.K. Telegraph.""

ceiving

Report

the the

of Directors, passing the AccouÏl, and electing Directors and Auditors.

All claims must be presented within after which date they cannot be re- ten anys of the steamer's arrival here, him about five years ago. Even the last few days, there are Hare he distinguished himself in sognized.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

MISCELLANEOUS.

HOUSE mid-level also one be tween Cathedral and St. Paul's Mortrages arranged on architect' valution. Houses, Flats an building lots negotiated, Small Investor. Tel. 4030,

BOARD RESIDENCE.

"Huntington, Stubbs Road; Telephone Central 1038, Larte airy rooms, cool situation 15 minutes from town, car run. For convenience of guests, Apply Mrs. R. T. Mathesoự,

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE--3 New Hudson in Speedometer good condition. Electric Light and Spare Parts, Apply Box No. 1 care of "Hong kong Telegraph."

PREMISES TO LET.. TO LET One European FLAT Wanchai Gap Road, longkong. Apply to 32. Kennedy Road.

FAMILY HOTEL, VICTORI GARDENS. Quiet APARTMENTS and suites of rooms. Full pen- sion from $85, $110, $130, monthly, large commodious rooms, Also daily rates, minute from ferry, next now Hotel, Hankow Road, Kowloon. Telt K357, Mrs. Stouris Ogilvie.

o:quested,

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from the 3rd to 21th June, 1926, both days in- elusive.

J.

By Order of the Bourd, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

LIMITED,

General Managers. Hongkong, 20th May, 1926.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS,

By Order,

..

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

Hongkong, May 18, 1926, -

い

SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

The

Banque, de l'Indo-Chine beg

No fire insurance has been efectod. Cleave parted with various sums Some time since we heard often Lat the Walt Institutè in Dundee.

NIPTON YUSEN KAISHA.

Hongkong, 18th May, 1920.

N.Y.K. LINE,

From EUROPE and STRAITS.

to inform all interested in safe The Steamship deposit, that they have actually

their new building, 5 Queen's Road, safe deposit Boxes at the yearly rate of $8 for the small size, and $12 for the large size.

Please apply to the Cashier. Hongkong, May 6, 1926.

1.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the FIFTY-THIRD OR-

cany's Godowns

She

Cleave's wife said she was still living in North Cornwall, had never seen the accused and had not lived in the Torquay dis- trict.

At the close of the case for the prosecution five of the larceny counts were dropped.

EL

of the "White Flag Society" originally started by the peasants to protect themselves from the tufci. These if reports are true have degenerated, changed thoir name to the "Red Sword Society" and joined the tufet against the soldiers. Report has it they fear the blood of black doga; and in the north county, one is told, the story of how the soldiers killed 100, black dogs, and drank their blood, that they might be able to defeat the Society.

members of this

He studied th

the working of the electric telegraph as early as 1880, but he does not appear to have gone deeply into the subject until 1845, when he came out with the proposal to connect", Britain to America by a single wire,

trough. A year later he became so convinced of the practicability of his plan that (on June 5, 1854) ho Now, took ont a patent for it.

The first public trial of Lind- was held in 1854 sny's system across Earl Grey Docks, Dundee,

Signalling Across Rivera. "LYONS MARU,” Proceeded from Singapore to Shang-

The theory of his wireless system hai, direct Consignees of Care for

was enunciated in a lecture given Hongkong are hereby informed that

in Dundee ten years later, when he their goods were transhipped at

said: "By a pcculiar arrangement Singapore luto s.s. "Naguto Maiu" and the same are being landed and

of wires on the sides of rivers of seas the electrical influence can be placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

mado to pass through the water it at Kowloon,

Your correspondent has just re- self." Lindsay successfully de- LIMITED.

delivery may be obtained.

turned from a village about 100 Hmonstrated the possibility of his. Goods not cleared by the 26th May, (Incorporated in Hongkong.)

of. a

water 1920, will be subject to rent.

from here. In the beginning of invention by means Damaged packages must be eft in

the year it was impossible to stay NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

the Goodowns for examination by the

there! In broad daylight the Consignee's and the Co.'s representa" that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting

The accused said she was

tafei brought their views into the tives on any Tuesday and Fridays, at of Shareholders of the 'longkong

2.30 and Shanghal Hotels, Limited, will

p.m. within the free storago gipsy by birth. She denied read street of the village. Period,

He was very carip of soldiers are stationed be held in the Roof Garden of the that

ing Gleave's band. All claims must be presented within Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, DINARY YEARLY MEETING of ten days of the steamer's art depressed, she said, and cried. there, and are talked of by every one as "God's gift." They cer- Hongkong, on Saturday, the 29th the Society will be held at the after which date they cannot be re-He said he would give £500 to any tainly are polite men and "their and later across the Tay at Glen-

cognized. Office. Union Building,

one, who would. get his wife to No claims will be admitted after come back to him, and that he officers very strict. One carse, where the river is about" FRIDAY, 28th the goods have left the Godowns.

soldier. was caught out forenoon, for the purpose of ro-Hongkong, on

at three-quarters of a mile in width.. No fire insurance has been effected. Sheridan) and thought she could night, his one ear cut off, We are told, that Lindsay would ceiving a Statement of Accounts MAY 1926, at 11 o'clock a.m., for purpose of receiving the

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. help him. She told him she would the regiment. This is the story the Tay, enjoining them to watch and he was dismissed from station his friends on one side of Directors for the year ended on the Repers of the and the Report of the Board of the

Directors and

do what she could to advise his the villagers tell, and they have the galvanometer and note how 21st December, 1925, confirming Statements of Account to 31st

wife to return to him. The money nothing but good words of the the needle moved. He would, then the appointment of a Director, and December 1925, and of declaring

he brought her was never asked men. When one hears the awful insert his plates in the water on Director and the Dividends, etc. re-electing a

for, nor did she mention anything stories of the tufer's doings, one their side, would make a few Auditors,

about his wife being at Torquay does not wonder they appreciate momentary contacts, reversing The money had been put on de these soldiers. I heard of one the connexions a few times so as posit. Had she been given sufit-home whore the family had fled, to produce right and left doftec- cient time and brought his wife leaving an old woman to look tions of the galvanometer needle. back she would have felt that the after the house. Mad at having Then he would return and com- money had been well earned. If she had not succeeded she would have refunded the money...

May, 1926, at eleven o'clock in the Hend

By Order of the Board,

WALTER J. ILAWKER,

Manager.

Hongkong, May 1, 1926.

PALACE HOTEL

BILLIARD HANDICAP.

FLATS

RENT-Orice! FOR Building Coronation Road, Kow!

A Biliard Handicap, 250 up will loon. No. 5, Ground Flour, No. 9, 1st Floor. No. 10, 2nd Floor, be held at the Palace Hotel, Kow- loon. Silver Cups will be present, No. 11, 2nd Floor. No. 12, 1st Floor. No. 18, 2nd Floor." No. 5 ed for the First, Second and Third 2nd Floor, No. 15, 1st Floor Prizes, and a special Prize for the Immediate acetipation. EyquirHighest Break.

F. C. Li, 225. Des Voeux Road C.

or Telephone No. 04107.

H

NOTI E OF REMOVAL

Entrance Fee $3.00, Entries Close on May 23rd.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

:

FANLING HUNT RACES. Notica is neroby given that on

Whit Monday 1926. Special Race Train (1st and 2nd and efter 17th. May. 1926, the Offices of The Hongking Tutlass only) will leave Kowloon at 1.15 p.m. returning from Fanling at 5.62 p.m.

graph will be bented Nos. 1-3. Wyndham Street, (Mor- ning Pest Building).

BANK HOLIDAYS.

"In accordance with Ordinance No. of 1912, the Ekebang Banks will be closed for the transaction of Public Business on Monday, the 24th instant..

Hongkong, 19th May, 1926.

MARINE ENGINEER'S GUILD OF CHINA.

HONGKONG BRANCH.

AN ADJOURNED GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Guild Office, Sailors' Home," West Point, on FRIDAY, 21st. May, 1926, at 5 o'clock p.m.

BUSINESS.

Eclections and General

W. J. STOKES,

Branch Secretary.

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY

LIMITED.

Notice is hereby given that the Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the above Com- pany will be held at the Hongkong

Fares-First class

Second class

$1.50. .90.

A limited number of tifins (at $1.25 per head) will be served on the train., Tillins must be booked (Telephone K, 261) before 4 p.m. on Sunday the 23rd.

The train scheduled to leave Kowloon at 5.29 p.m. is hereby cancelled. A train in substitution

THE TRANSFER BOOKS 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' INSURANC C#, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHARE-

HOLDERS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the

.

Hongkong, 19th May, 1026.. OCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED. AND CHINA MUTUAL 'STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

The Steamer

had heard a

lot about her

"EUMABUS," are hereby notified that the cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kowloon, where it will eat Con- signee's risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Hell's Wharf. The jury found a verdict of The Cargo will be ready for delivery | Not Guilty on all counts, and she from Godown on

on and after, 19th May.

was discharged, Optional cargo will be landed, un- less notice has been given steamer's arrival,

prior

to

All broken chufed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined en any Tuesdays and Fridays 'between the hours of 10.45 am. and noon within the free storage period.

No claims will be admitted after

to the undersigned

Company will be held at its Houd the Goods have left the 26th May Office, Union Building, Hong-will be subject to rent. kong, on FRIDAY, 28th MAY All Claims against the Steamer 1925, at 11.15 in., for the pur- must be presented pose of reciving the Report of the on or before the 8th June or they Directors and the statements of Account to 31st December 1925, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of tho Company will be CLOSED from May 12th to May 28th, hoth days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER.

General Manager. Hongkong, May 3rd 1929.

will leave for all stations at 4.07 THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE.

p.m.

By Order, H. P. WINSLOW,

Kowloon, May 20, 1926.

THE

COMPANY, LTD.

will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIR

Agents. Hongkong, May 19, 1926,

FANLING HUNT STEEPLECHASES,

WHITSUNTIDE MEETING, Monday, 24th May, 1926. Saddling Bell ......2.30 p.m. First Race.....3.00 p.m.- Entrance to Enclosure and

Covered Stands,

Per Head... ..$1.00 Motor cars can be parked cn the rail opposite the grand stand

Per Car

....$5,00 Special Express Train to the Races leaves Kowloon at 1.15 p.m. Return Special Express Train leaves Fanling Station at 5.62 p.m.

Manager. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEET- ING of the Company will be held at its Head Offico, Union "Build- ing, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 28th MAY 1926, at 11.20 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the by the Ritz. Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December 1925, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

RITZ CATERERS Meal at all hours from 8 a.m.

¿

to 12.00 midnight

Hotel, Hongkong, on Friday 28th Now serving Special $1.00 Tiffins May, 1926 at 11 am. for the pur-

pose of receiving the report of the Morning and Afternoon Teas, Directors together with a State- Good Assortment of Fancy Cakes ment of Accounts for the year onded 80th April, 1926,

The Transfer Books of the Com-1 iny will be closed from Monday 24th May to Monday 31st May, 1926 both days inclusivo. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 18th May, 1926.

Wedding and Christoning Cakes to order.

1

ONLY THE BEST FOOD

AND WINES. SERVED.

NOWELL B. WHITE,

Proprietor. Telephone -C. 2336

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,

General Manager. Hongkong, May 3rd 1926.-

NOTICE.

Notice is hereby iven that I shall not be responsible for any. dects contracted by my wife Nora Lee Loureiro residing at No. 330. Nathan Road(1st floor), Kowloon

Dated the 14th May 1926

WALTER LOUREIRO

Refreshments will be catered for

Hongkong. May 18, 1926,

SHIPPING MAGNATE.

A

POLITICAL

to boil a cauldron of water, and which they had noted with the lost their prey, they ordered: herpare the deflections of the needle

put her in it.-N. C. Daily News. order in which he had himself made the battery contacts and on finding them to correspond, he would be supremely happy.

Tests Across the Tay.

GRACEFUL MODERN

GIRLS.

1:

con-

In August, 1854, Lindsay ducted a further series of experi nients at Portsmouth, and suc- ceeded in transmitting signals across the mill dam over a dis- tance of about 500 yards. Ho How busy women can keep seems to have repeated, these ex-

WOMAN'S RULES FOR KEEPING THE NEW FIGURE.

AL ROMANCE.

London, April 16.-The Star says Sir Robert Houston's fortune amounted to six or seven millions.

He was one of the richest men themselves healthy and beautiful periments whenever and wherever was explained by Mrs. Kathleen he had the opportunity. His most in England.

Bernett, There is little doubt that a subs- { M.'

addressing

#cross the elaborate test was

the tantial fegatee will be Lord Bir-Soroptimist Club in London. River, Tay, when he succeeded in kenhead, who was his most inti-

signalling from Dundee to Wood- The following were the simple haven, where the river is nearly mate friend, Although

les given by Mrs. Bennett: two miles in width. In Septem- that they have no knowledge of well, stand well, walk well, and ber, 1859, he read a paper before breathe well. Very few people

Lord

Birkenhead and, his wife declare

any bequest.

A

The story of their friendship is knew how to stand correctly, she the British Association at Aber-

political and

romanec.

commercial

Mr. Houston started life with one ship and built up his famous line.

He first met Lord Birkenhead when the latter was a junior coun;' sel on his behalf.

said, and if they did they would save themselves much pain, energy, and nerves. When stand- ing a person should keep the body' erect, should never bend the knees, and should keep the chest slightly over the toes.

In walking the toes should point

Sir Robert Houston immediately straight in front. recognised his abilities and after that their very warm attachment

Sir Robert Houston's dinners were famous for their fine wines, their special menus and their larga fragrant eignra,

Lord Birkenhead frequently

When sitting, a person should

deen on, "Telegraphing Without wires," and again carried out ex-

periments across the River Dee.

He had never been robust and even the miserable pittance that

panded upon the nourishment he he earned as a teacher was not ex--

should have had. His passion for purchasing books and for acquir ing the instruments necessary for his researches led him to starve iimself to such an extent that he stinted his body in order to satisfy

his mind. When at last disease.

was increased by Lord Birken-never hunch the shoulders, and the body should rest on the bones head's brilliant career.

Both represented Liverpool and not on the internal organs. divisions in the Commons, where "Our Queen gives us a perfect came upon him, he was not able example of how a woman should to throw it off, and died on June they often dined together.

stand and sit," said Mrs. Bennett. 19, 1862, after five days' illness.

She has the secret of grace, dignity, and elegance, and never on any occasion doce she allow her shoulders to become hunched." The grumbler, continued Mrs. UGHES & HOUGH accompanied Houston on cruises

in the Mediterranean aboard the Bennett, never succeeded in gain- yacht, "Liberty" He also partici-ing health and beauty, and when pated in the famous cruise in the woman felt "grumpy" she should Irish sea during the Sinn Fein immediately do a few breathing

exercises; crises with Mr. Lloyd George with IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS & whom Sir Robert Houston was re-

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GENERAL AUCTIONEERS,

CHINA AUCTION

ROOMS..

4. Duddel Street,

If you have anything you would like to sell, exchange or advertise send it to the CHINA AUCTION

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E. V. M. R, DE SOUSA.

conciled after a bitter political foud in which he described Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Churchill as "running nock and neck in the Ananian stakes."

"I think the modern girl is per- feetly beautiful, with her slim, straight figure, and none of those capital B's we used to have in the old days," Mrs. Bennett concluded. "It is delightful to watch her."

Dr. Rolleston, County, Medical Officer of Peterborough, in his annual report says there is nothing more striking than the change in the female form, which Sir Robert, Houston had few formerly was diagrammatically re- Intimates and fewer relatives. presented by three, circles of in-

When he was, â septuagenarian éreasing magnitude joined by two you!" he married the widow of the ninth isthml, and could now be describ Lord Byron.

ed by the straight line of Euclid.

It le recalled that Sir Robert Houston in 1916 offered £2,000 prize money to any British mer chantman sinking a German sub- marine,.:,

He:

"I cannot live without

She: "And I could not live. with you --Pasquino Turin,