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'PREMISES WANTED.

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bachelors WANTED.-European- want well FURNISHED FLAT with aplern conveniences. Letters stalleg full partienkurs to Box No, 6, care of Hongkong Telegraph.

PREMISES TO LET.

TO LET-One European FLAT Wanchai Car Road, Hongkong Apply to 32. Kennedy Road.

NOTICE.

BANK HOLIDAYS,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

In accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, the Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of Public Business on Thursday, 3rd June, 1926.

Hongkong, May 30, 1926.,

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

MONDAY, MAY 31, 1926.

LAMMERT'S BUGHES & HOUGH CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

AUCTIONS

"

PUBLIC AUCTION, The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by public Auc- tion..

on WEDNESDAY

LIMITED.

GENERAL AUCTIONEERS. IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS

GENERAL BROKERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

:

The Undersigned have received the 2nd June, 1926, at Godowns instructions to sell by Fublic Auc- Nos. 17 and 18, The Hongkong Whorf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kow-on (for account of the con-

cerned), TO-DAY,

loon.

A Quantity of Miscellaneous

Goods"

The Third Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley on Saturday, 5th June 1926 commencing at 3.16 p.m.comprising: The first bell will be rung at 2.45

p.m...

The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be 51, for all persons including Ladies, Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.

Member are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain dmission to the Members' Enclo- sure.

Each member has the right

to introduce 2 non-members to the

Members" Euclosure, tickets for

Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2.-Each member can ob- tain, upon application to the Secretary, Badges for the admis- TO LET-Ofice Room "in Newsion of 2 Ladies, free of charge. Bank Building, inmediate possion. Apply to SANG KEE, ja, Des Voeux Road," Central, 2nd Floor."

NOTICE.

GIVEN

Matches Cottons, Porcelain, Glass Ware, Paper, indow Glass,

Paint, Iron Bars, Ton Siveepings: Angle, Round and Fint Iron, Fish- Paper, canned plate, Tissue

Goils, Groceries Samples, Muscat Sardines- Grapes,

Spinach, Shrimps, Cherries, Rubber Tyres, wire Milk, Penches, Pears, Aspar agus, Salmon, Apricots, Sour Mix) ed Pickets, Sugar Peas, Old News- papers, Coment, etc., etc.,

Terms-Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong 27th May, 1926.

PUBLIC AUCTION..

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

NOTICE IS HEREBY that the Undersigned formerly of

Auction, Jm- Pedder Building is now located at 39A, Queen's Road Contrat.

TO LEN--Two-storied hotise, No. 9, Hart Avenue, Kowloon. mediate possession. Terms moder- ate. Apply to Box No. 6 Cure of "Hongkong Telegraph."

TO LET Soon vacant, half de- tached house.. Magazine Gap. Ideal, position, ecol, excellent views, "consists of suite of five

YEE CHEONG CO.

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THE HON. SIR CATCHICK PAUL CHAFER, 0.M.G. (Deceased),

All claims against the Estate of rooms, two bathrooms, hot and the above named deceased must be cold water, use of telephone, lawn sont to the undersigned forthwith.'

Ample servants' quar-

garage,

ters, entirely self-contained.

Furnished.

$275.

Unfurnished

also

$250 For sale or rent, "Derring ton'. Penk Road, beautiful house in spacious grounds, centrally located. Smaller, houses available. Houses, flate, building lots negotiated. Small Investors, Tel. 4630.

VICTORI FAMILY HOTEL, GARDENS, Quiet APARTMENTS and suites of rooms. Full pen- sion from $95, $10, $130, monthly, large commodious rooms,... also daily rates, minite from ferry. next new Hotel, Hankow Road, Kowloon. Tel. K357, Mrs. Stuart Ogilvie.

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DEACONS,

Solicitors, &c.,

1, Des Voeux Road, Central,

Hongkong. Hongkong, May 29, 1926.

NOTICE.

District Grand Lodge of Scottish Freemasonry of Hongkong &

"South China.

A Memorial Service for the late. Right Worshipful Brother Perey Hobson Holyoak, E.C., will be held in St. John's Cathedral, on MON- DAY, 31st May, at G' p.m.

Brethren of the Scottish Lodges wishing to attend will meet in Zet- lahd Hall, at 5.30 pm.

By Order of the District Grand Master,

A. W. HILL, District Grand Secretary.

Hongkong, May 29, 1926.

· SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

on FRIDAY,

the 31st May, 1926, at 2.30p.m., at No. 405, The Peak, Severn Road, on view on Sist. May 1926-

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture, therein contained. (Particulars from Catalogue). On view on 30th May, 1926, Terms: Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH, LTD.. Auctioneers: Hongkong, May 25, 1926.

CHINA AUCTION"

ROOMS...

Duzde! Strool:

If you leave anything you would like to sell, exchange, or advertiąg send it to the C. IN V AUCTION ROOM.

"E. V. M, R. DE SOUSA,

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.

PUBLIC AUCTION of the Valuable Leasehold Property,

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·N. Y. K. LINE,

From EUROPE and STRAITS.

The Steamship.

KASHIMA MARU," having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby in formed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongtong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown, Company's Godowns at Kowloon, whence delivery may be

obtained.

Good not cleared by the 7th Juno, 1926, will be subject to rent...

Damaged packages must be left

CLEARING THE SPHINX.

HOW THE DESERT ENCROACHED.

"As the result of six months' labour," said an official of the Egyptian Government to The Daily Chronicle Special Correspondent? future visitors to Egypt will have 蟲 more complete view of the mysterious old monument than has been obtainable for perhaps 4,000 yeurs." "

Sand that had engulfed all but the head. shoulders and part of in the Godowns for examination by the mammoth figure that is sup- the Consignco's and the Co.'s ropre- sentatives on any Tuesday's & Frl-posed to represent the Sun-God, days, nt 2.30 p.m. within the free Harmachis, has been cleared storage Period...

Cultural away,

Each gang, it appears, has n specially hired singer, generally a small boy. With a finger in ono ear and a highly-pitched voice, this youngster continually chants some phrase with a special signis- cance for the youthful Arab.

A popular one was "Dia Malco kla haloo"translated to me, as "He spent all his money on himself."

This phrase, chanted by the hired minstrel, is "repeated in chorus by all the little hired workors composing each "gang" as they file down into the pit with their empty baskets, or stream out again carrying them. Alled with annd.

These youngsters are paid at the lordly rate of from 8d. to Is. a day. The sand they bring out in their little bankets is poured into trucks, which, when filled, are period of the Ptolemya, saya the pushed along a small gauge rail- Cairo correspondent, the Sphinx way, and emptied at a spot farther has been completely excavated-along on the eastern side of the perhapa, indeed, since the VIIIth. Fyramid plateau..

All claims must be presented-with- For the first time since the in ten days of the steamer's arrival hore, after which dite they will bo recognized,

No claims "will be admitted after the goods hure left the Godowns.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

NIPPON YUSEN. KAISIA. Hongkong, 31st May, 1820,-

and

"It is planned, when the excava- Dynasty, roughly 1700 years B.C.

The work of excavation and tion has been complèted, to build restoration is of great" romantica containing wall all round the interest and immense archeologi- Sphinx to prevent the sand from

covering it again.

cal value.

That it has attracted comparn- tively little attention is probably

OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD., due to the greater glamour of other recent events in the Land of the Pharaohs, notably the removal of Tutanhamen from his inner coffin of pure gold, and the dis- covery by the Harvard-Boston Steamer,Expedition of another Royal tomb,

CHIINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Consignees per Company's

"PHEMIUS."

terms

are hereby notified that the care will he discharged inté Holt's Wharf Kowloon, where it will lie at Con- signee's risk and subject to and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after

31st. May,

Optional cargo will be landed, un- less notice has been given prior to

the 4th June, 1926, commencing at 2.45. p.m., at No. 2, Armend Building Ground Floor), Kow-situate at Yaumati in the Depen-steamer's arrival,

loon..

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Thursday, the 3rd June, 1926.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

L'AMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, May 29, 1926:

AL

THE AUCTIONEERING & BROKERING Co., Ltd.

4B, Duddell Street

FURNITURE AUCTIONS

every TGESDAM & FRIDAY, at 2.30 p.m.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction for account of the con Furni cerned), the Household tures & Effects of Astor House

IN DIFFERENT LOTS

ut Queen's Road Contral,

The Banque de l'Indo-Chine beg | Hotel. to inform all interested in safe deposit, that they have actually in their new building, 5 Qusen's Road, safe deposit Boxes at the yearly rate of $8 for the amall

ize, and $12 for the large size, Please apply to the Cashier. Hongkong, May 6, 1926.

NOTICE.

District Grand Lodge of Scot- tish Freemasonry of Hongko ta and South Chinu..."

A Memorial Serivce for the lat Right Worshipful Brother Perey Hobson Holyoak, D.C, will be held in' St. John's Cathedral on Mcn day 31st May at 6 p.in

Brethren of the Scottish Lodges wishing to attend will meet in Zetland Hall at 5.30 p.m.

on

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY

and

THURSDAY,

the 1st, 2nd and 3rd June, 1926, at 2.30 pm, at the Premises thereof.'

Consisting oft-

(Single and Double) Bedsteads, Wardrobes, Dressing tables, Toilet

tables, Bed Sheetings, Pillows, Bath towels, Mosquito nettings, Bed Chambers, Chamber 'pots, Round tables, Chairs. Blankets, Counterpanes," Cloth stands, Soap dishes,. Chamber buckets, Wash basins, Window curtains, Sofas with, cover, Arm- chairs, Rugs, Mirrors, Mat, Desks, Cups & Saucers, Soup plates, Dinner plates, Electric fans, Screen, Swing doors, Ornaments, Bookshelves, Vases, Side-boards, The Forty Fifth Ordinary Table cloths, Napkins, Forks, General Meeting of the Company Knives, Spoons, Glasses, will be held at the Offices of the chests, Tea 'pots."

By Order of the District Grand Master,,

A. W. HILL District Grand Secretary,

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD.

General Managers, Messrs. Jar

dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

Pedder Street, Hongkong, 04

Also

Iee

1 Large Stove, 1 Ten Strainer..

Thursday, the 10th June, 1926, at 2 Brasa. boilers, 4 Iron boilers,

12 noon for the purpose of re- Water tank, Frying pans, Safes, ceiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts. and electing Directors and Auditors.

The Transfor Books of the Com- pany will be closed from the Sri to 24th June, 1926, both days in clusive..

By Order of the Board, JAKDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

LIMITED, General Managers. Hongkong, 20th May, 1926.

and

A Large Quantity of Sundries,

etc., etc.

Terms: Cash on delivery:

The Auctioneering & Brokering

Co., Ltd.,

L. E. S. HODGE,

Auctioneer,

Hongkong, May 29, 1926.

dency of Kowloon and Colony of Hongkong and known as Section A and. B of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1188 together with the messuages erected thereon and now known as Nos. 201 and 203 Portland Street.

Area 1,872 square feet. Annual Crown Rent $3.95 and $1.26 respectively

to be sold by

PUBLIC AUCTION. on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd June, 1926, at 3 o'clock. p.m., at the China Auelton Rooms, 1. Duddell Street, Victoria, Hong- kong,

by

MR. `E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer.

For further particulars and con- ditions of sale apply to:

MESSRS. HALL & HIND,

Solicitors,

China Building, Hongkong,

or to MR. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,

The Auctioneer. Hongkong, May 20, 1926.

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Sole Agonte..

All broken chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45. a.m. and noon within the free storage period.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godwens, and all Goods remaining undelivered after 6th June, will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 20th, June, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRD

Agents,

·Hongkong Sist May, 1926.

only about a quarter of a mile away from the Sphinx, that is now believed to be that of the mighty, monarch Senefru.

,

LION-KING.

It would be impossible, I wast informed, to prevent the winds each winter from depositing a cer tain amount of sand.

Once the wall has been built, however, the annual removal of this' amount of wind-blown sand will be a comparatively trifling. business.

Forty years have passed since the last previous, and only partial, excavation, of the Sphinx.

PHARAOH'S DREA LÍ

The whole of the Sphinx has now been disclosed to view, except a bit of his hindquarters,

They

were

by

Older, perhaps, even than the Pyramids, the "Sfink-es," as the natives call him. was hewn out of the natural rock. With added His imposing forelegs, which blocks of stone,' he was moulded constitute a shrine containing an into the shape of a couchant lion, altar and a great inscribed tablet, with the head of a king wearing have been made visible for the the royal headcloth, adorned with first time in two decades.

discovered the royal serpent.

Exactly who did this mightyCaviglia and Perry, the former an work, or when, nobody has ever Italian, and the latter an English- been able to determine. But who. man, who excavated the fore part ever did also quarried away the of the Sphinx in 1817. Both the rock on both sides of the Sphinx, altar and the tablet are of red The ingeription on the thus leaving him in a kind of pit, granite. below the level of the surrounding tablet, or "stela," rolates. a strik desert.

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. It wasn't foreseen,. apparent- ly, that the wind-blown, sand from the desert would fill this pit, and gradually bury the monument itself; but this is what has been happening during all the thousands of years since.

ing story.

It tells how a youthful prince, Tothies, of the 18th Dynasty, hunted lions in the desert round the nearby Memphis,

"SHADOW OF A GREAT ROCÍC

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At midday, wearied by the

It was aboard, of a peevish chase; he rested in the shade of camel, infelicitously named the half-burled Sphinx, and, fall- "Gladys," that I realised the ing asleep, dreamed that the Sun- dream of years, and rode to the God, Harmachis, to whom the Sphinx along the sandy waste that monster was shered, appeared, to slopes downward from "the rock him and assured him that he platen on which the near-by would come to the throne, but Pyramids stand. I had been told made him promise-Y that an interesting sight awaited 31 me, and it certainly was animated and colourful one that I beheld..

དྷཱ

To dig away "the sand whoro on I have my being, which has closed me in on all sides."

It goes on to record how the prince daly became King Tothmes SONGS IN THE DESERT.

IV, and how, in the first year of With a thrill one's eye first his reign, he had the Sphinx com- takes in the details, of the impres-pletely excavated and restored, sive figure, its face battered alike

Holyoak, Massey & Co., Ltd. by time and by man, Around it

Distributors.

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Tel: 0.679.

CHAIR OF SPANISH.

COMMEMORATION OF THE PRINCE'S TOUR.

KING OR GOD?

an army of workers are swarming. The inscription, on this tablet, Then, suddenly, the sound of which is only partly legible, seems singing reaches one's cars. to state that the Sphinx was con- As one approaches nearer, it structed by Kepheron of the becomes evident that this proceeds Fourth Dynasty (which flourished from an apparently endless pro-about 3,500 years, B.C.), whose cession of quaintly garbed Pyramid, second in size only to humanity that files, ant-fashion, the "great" one, stands about 600, down a wooden incline into the yards to the westward. A pit that surrounds the Sphinx-

that circles the monster-and

then pours upward in a steady CINEMA ULTIMATUM.

stream on the other side.

they bear on their heads) the san! that is steadily being dug away from the sides of the Sphinx."

There are about 800 of them, and one discovers, that at least three-quarters of them are children!

These are the workers that are An amount of £25,000 is re-primitively engaged in carrying. quired for the establishment at in baskets which, when filled, Oxford University of a King Alphonso XIII. Chair of Spanish, to commemorate the Prince of Wales's South American tour The committee have now address- ed an appeal to the publle, and in the list of those who have already sent in subscriptions appears the name of Sir Charles Wakefield with a contribution, of $1,000.

NO MORE AMERICAN FILMS

FOR HUNGARY,

Budapest, April 19 The negotiations between the Ameri- can and Hungarian Film Societies, which have been agitating the cinema world for some weeks, Boys and girls in about equal have come to a sensational end. numbers, these youthful workers An agreement had been made range from little children of six by which the American represen or seven to youngsters of perhaps tatives accerted the final conces 14 or 16,

sions of the Hungarian Govern- Arabs all, recruited from native ment; which had demanded' 4,500- villages in the neighbourhood, crowns per metre as manufactur- The movement has the active

they constitute about as pictures-ing fee, and import duty on the support of the Prince of Wales, que a rabble as one could find. American films brought into the who has publicly referred to the All their heads are turbanned, and country. On the following day, matter on more than one occasion, they wear flowing robes of dif- however, Mr. Lawry and Bir. "We are of the opinion," the ferent hues, black and white pre- Brinch called upon Dr. Walko Here and there (Minister of Commerce and committee write in their appeal to dominating.

the public, that there is no more noticed one clad in an old khaki Foreign Minister) and declarel fitting and practical method of tunic, coming down almost to its showing how greatly we appre-small wearer's heels ciate the Prince's efforts to further British interests in South America than by assisting this movement, which he has so much at heart.

that the bum was too high, and that they had changed their These children assemble every minds, following a conversation morning at 6 and start work at 7. with their Budapest agents. They At noon they stop for an hour, then offered to pay. 3,000 crowns per metre on their films, but no and then carry on until 4.30.

They work in gangs, each under manufacturing, feo, Dr. Walko an overseer armed with a big did not accept the new offer, and We hope, therefore, that you whip, which he, frequently bran- the negotiations were broken off. will contribute promptly ant dishes threateningly, but seldom, The Americans generously to the fund, as it if ever, uses in earnest Or so I Budapest, desired to Inaugurate the chair en was assured..... the occasion of the approaching Anyhow, the youngsters seem visit to this country of their happy enough; the way they sing Majesties the King and Queen of an they work is evidence enough Srain

of that.

have left

The Budapest agents of the American concern are stated to have received orders to dismiss their employees and to show no more American films in Hungary