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NOTICE.

ISLAND ROAD,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY:

OCTOBER 23, 19261

LAMMERT'S AS CITY OF CABS.

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc

The road round the Island willton, be opened for traffic from to-day

the 23rd, inst: but drivers must The following replies are await-proceed with caution, at places ing collection

"1392, 1342, 1397, 1441, 1444, 1456, 1462, 1453, 1512, 1516, 5,26, 32, 38, 72, 80, 88, X.Y.Z.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TWO EUROPEAN LADIES play- Ing Piano, Jazz-Band, harmonium and Banjo-Mandoline, open for engagements in hotels, or privaté parties. Would go any other town. Write Box No. 97, cure of "Hongkong Telegraph.

LADY

SITUATIONS WANTED.

EUROPEAN YOUNG knowing several languages asks situation. Write Box No. 96, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

where breaches in the road were made by recent storms, as only half of the roadway is available for traffic at these points.

E. D. C. Wolfe, Capt. Supt. of Police.:

Hongkong, Oct. 22, 1926.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF "HONGKONG COMPANIES

(WINDING-UP)

NO. 1 OF 1924.

In the Matter of the Com- panies Ordinance

1911-1925:

and

The Chinese Merchants Bank

Limited.

POSITION WANTED.

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. EUROPEAN LADY willing to give services as Companion, or assist Notice is hereby given that It is with Children, in return for intended to declare a second divi- passage to England. Apply Box dend in the above matter, and No. 49, care of "Hongkong Tole-Creditora, who have not already" graph.'

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.-Studebaker Special Six (29/50) condition excellent running order perfect-owner driven, any trial recommended by Hongkong Hotel Garage. Price $1700. Apply Box No. 94, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

PREMISES TO LET.

..

TO LET.-One European FLAT Wanchat Gap Road, Hongkong. Apply to 82, Kennedy Road.

TO LET-Office Rooms, 2nd Floor, New Hongkong Bank Building. Apply Sang Kee, same building.

TO LET—A three roomed Euro- pean FLAT on top floor of No. 14, Condult Road. Apply to H. 'M. H. Nemazed.

ΤΟ LET. GROUND FLOOR Offices, near Kowloon ferry Apply to Box No. 47, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

TO LET.-Spacious Office on the 'ground floor of P. & O. Building, Dev Vocux Central. Apply Mac÷ kinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

done so, are required on or before the Thirtieth day of November, 1925, to send their namee and ad- dresses, and the particulars of their Solicitors, if any, to the Undersigned, the Liquidator of the said Company, and are also re- quired by their Solicitors or per- Bonally to come in and prove their

said debts or claims at the office

of the Official Receiver, Supreme.

Court, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. or, in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.

Luted this 22nd day of October. 1926.

JOHN FLEMING, C. A.,

Liquidator.

"

on TUESDAY, the 26th October, 1926, commencing at 11 a.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

A Quantity of Household 2

Furniture.

and:

INFLATION TIME IN WARSAW,

Warsaw-Poland is in the is suffering in the present time ali trough of economic depression and the consequences of the fall in the zloty of a year ago. Warraw is, éven in the most normal of cir- cumstances, a very different place froni any, German town. But in- flation makes the contrast still more striking. For one thing. this city's streets" are full of the noise of the perpetual trot-trot of countless horse-carriages, whose fares are so low that all classes" makes use of them. Naturally they have always been commich at War-, 2 Flush Tanks.

saw, but their survival is now Terms: Cash on Delivery,

aided partly by the fact that the municipality has not enough money LAMMERT BROS, to spend on the improvements and Auctioneers.extensions that the tramways need, partly by the tariffs import re- striction Imposed on motor-cars, as on other foreign goods in the effort to redress the trado, balance.

(for account of the concerned)

Enamelled Baths.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The Underaigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion,

on FRIDAY,

the 29th October, 1926, commencing at 2.45 p.m.

at No. 5, Chatham Road, Kowloon, A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.

comprising:- Hatstand, Tapestry covered Couch and Chairs, Mantel Piece, ete,, ote.,

Teak Extension Dining Table, Dining Chalta, Teak Sideboard with Bevelled Mirror, Teak Dinner Waggon, Ice Chest, etc., etc.,

.

Teak Bedsteads with Mattresses, Teak Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Teak, and Marble Top Top Washstand, Teak Chest of Drawers, etc., etc.

Catalogues will be issued:

SPECIAL DANCE STUDIO.

Above Miss Alleen Woods is seen in the special dance studio which was arranged for her sole, use at the Hotel de Boer, Sumatra, where she met with much success during her three years' stay.

Foreign coal, stated a report to

When sentence was postponed

In small measure, Warsaw has the atmosphere that Berlin breath- ed three years ago, only without the governors of the London on two men for burglary at the the feverishness of the "milliards Hospital, produced such intoler-Old Bailey, one of them said to the to the-pound" daye. The English-

Common Serjeant: "I regarded

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burglaries."

man will find living tolerably cheap,able smoke and dirt, that patients burglary as a very serious thing though not very conspicuously so,could not use the balconies and the until I read 'Railles' and saw some The city itself is distinctly dilapid-wards near the chimney stack. cinema pictures dealing with ated. The roads are not carefully tonded, and are full of pot-holes. The shops no longer have the vari ed display of goods, especially of "Colonial" produce, that they had a year ago.. As the buildings are of plastered brick they have grown to look disreputable all the sooner;, for landlords and public authori- ties cannot afford to keep them in prompt repair.

...

The number of people who just cling on to the skirts of existence has increased. In the restaur- ants and cafes there are many at- tendants who perform no neces--

On View from Thursday, the sary function. Round about the 28th October, 1926.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

stations there are such large clue- ters that, they spend half the day in skep up against the walls. A most street-cornere war invalids are stationed who have been pro-

POST

OFFICE NOTICE

NOTICE

Dotiable articles, forwarded by letter post to Great Britain are liable to confiscation by the Customs. Such articles should be forwarded by parcel post only.

Registered and Parcel Malls are closed 15 minutes carlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertised to close at or before 0 a.m. zogistered and ppreel maila are closed at 5 pm. on the previous day.'

From..

INWARD MAILS.

U.S.A., Canada, Japan, Shanghai and Japan

Europe vin Siberia Europe via Negapatam (letters and

papors, London, 23rd Sept.) vided with tiny cigarette stalls. Shanghai.

U.S.A., Honolulu, Loungers and beggars, are many.

Shanghai And once, perhaps, some shabby U.S.A., Honolulu, gentleman, of fortune, with a Shanghai

Saigon.. Japan and Shanghai Straits

BUGHES & HOUGH flashier confederate in the back- Manilp

LIMITED.

GENERAL AUCTIONEERS, c/o. Lowe, Bingham & Matthers, IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS &

GENERAL BROKERS.

3, Queen's Road, Central,

Hongkong.

FANLING HUNT “STEEPLECHASES,

SATURDAY, 30TH OCTOBER, 1926.

Saddling Bell First Race ...

3.00 p.m. 8.30 p.m.

Admission to Enclosure .and

Public Stands.

A

Per Head

TO LET-Furnished, "Cragaide" No. 460, Barker Road, Peak. six roomed HOUSE with Tennis Court. Apply Box No. 95, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let in No. 7, Queen's Road Central, also two small offices in LA, Chater Road. Apply E. D. Sassoon and Company, Ltd.

TO LET-European Houses Nos. 63 & 55, Kennedy Road and Nou. 1 & 2, Broadwood Road, with all conveniences. Apply X. Y. Z. care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

TO LET.-From 1st November, Furnished, No. 402, Severn Road, Peak, Eight roomed house with Garden and Tennis Court. Apply Special Manager, Russo-Asiatic Bank.

"

$1,00

Motor Cars can be parked on the rall opposite the Grand Stand.

...... $5.00

Per Car...

Members are advised that they must show their badges to obtain admission to the Members Enelo- aure.

Special Express trains to the Races leaves, Kowloon 2.07 p.m. arriving Fanling 2.84 p.m.

$1.50 First Class Return fare .... Second Class Return fare. 0.90

Refreshments on the grounds.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO.,

LIMITED.

TO ́LET—First Class European Residence 3, McDonnell Road, two storled, with gar ge, phone, light, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. gas installed. Moderate rental. Apply Box No. 86, care of "Hong-| kong Telegraph.".

CHURCH SERVICES,

A CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR 15 BEATHE FOR NOTICES UNDER THIS HEADING

Per

Fres. Jefferson Haruna Maru

Due.

Kutsang Soochow

October 23, October 28,

October 24, .October 24.

Japan

and

Pres. Monroe

October 25,

fapan,

And

Koroa Mhru

Empress of Canada

Angkor

Chambord

Devanha

and

Pres. Cleveland.

Khyber

Kashima Mara Tanda

U.S.A. Honolulu, Japan

Shanghai

ground, will sidle up to you as you walk and try to sell you some- thing. Certainly the best restaur- ants are gay enough, and many Ujazdowskie dress with some dis- Australia and Manila Warsavians promenading on the. Shanghai

Straits

tinction. But over the greater part of the city the chief element of smartness in the street, is pro- vided by the many army conscious ly array is conscientiously and con- sciously spruce.

In this latter connection it is interesting to note that pletures St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, of Mussolini are frequently to be October 24th, 1926, 21st Sunday seen in the shop windows. The after Trinity. Holy Communion, advent of Pilsudki has apparently 8 a.m.; Matins, 11a.m. Presch- į brought dictators and uniforms er: Rev. J. F. Stopford, C. F. into popular favour. Litany, 12 noon; Evendong, 6 p.m. Preacher: Rev. W.-T. Beckerson, CF.

BAN ON WOODEN CROSSES.

For

OUTWARD MAILS,

Per

Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, D. & S. Africa, Aden, Egypt and *Europe via Marseilles

Formosa; Mania...

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, *U.S.A., C. and S. America and Europe via San Francisco and Europe via Siberia (letters and postcards specially superscribed

Via Siberia" only)

Amoy

Macao...

ORDER FOR REMOVAL FROM CEMETERY,

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Macdonnell Road, below Bowen Rond Tram Station. Sunday

Holhow and Haiphong Macao Service. at 11.15 a.m., Subject:

Kongmoon "Probation After Death."

Bangkok Wednesday Evening. Meeting Indignation has been caused Manila at 5.80 p.m.

Arioy Reading Room among many of the poorer people Shanghai and Japan at above

address open at Wallasey (Cheshire) in con- Saigon, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E- Tuesday and Friday to a.m. to sequence of the corporation order- and S. Africa, Aden, Egypt and 12 noon, Monday and Thursdaying the removal of wooden crosses Europe via Marseilles

5 to 7 pm. The Pubile is cordl-and-similar simple memorials from ally invited to attend. the Ser-the cemetery on the ground that vices and plsit the Reading they spoil the beauty of the place. Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Room,

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Bereaved persons who cannot | Amoy ..

October 25, .October 25. .October 26. October 26. .October 27.

October 28, .October 29, October 81: November 1,

Dato,

.Spt:, Oct, 23. 45 pm 2.30 p.m.

Haruna Maru

Registration Latters (Duo Marsailles 22nd November). Kohoku Mara.Sat., Oct. 29, 3 p.m. Pres, Jefferson Sat.. Oct. 28, 3.80 p.m.

Pres. Lincoln'

Sat., Oct. 23. Parcels

8 p.m. Registration 4.15 p.m. Letters

5 p.m. (Due San Francisco, 17th November). Klungehow ....Sat, Oct. 23, 5 p.m. Taishan Sun, Oct, 24, 8.16 a.m. Tean

Sun, Oct, 24, 9 a.m. Sul An

Oct. 24, 1.15 p.m. Wing: On Chinhua... Mon., Oct. 25, 10.30 am. Pres. Monroe....Mon., Oct. 25, 5 p.. Soochow

.Mon., Oct. 26, 5 p.m. Chambord...Tucs., Oct. 26, 1,30 p.m.

Angkor

Sun, Oct, 24, 6 p.m.

Tues., Oct. 26, Registration 1.45 pm, Lettere 2.30 p.m. (Due Marseilles, 26th November), Haiting

Tues...

Oct. 26, 3. p.m. Kingyuan. .Tues., Oct. 20, 5

an order banning any but approved,

afford the customary stones have Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E

and S. Africo for some time been concerned by Straits and Calcatta

Nyanza

Hosang

stone memorials. Many have been

afraid to give particulars of pro- Shangha!

Suiyang

C.

For Straits, Colombo, Australia,poned headstones for fear of re- Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A.,

Bombay, Egypt, Mediteranean

Ports and London.

jection, and have surreptitiously affixed even less pretentious mem- orials, and crosses, which are now

Through Bill of Lading Issued to go.. for Batavia, Persian Gulf, Contin- Poor people complain that the ental; American and South Afrl-council is taking the part of those can Ports.

who can afford expensive mem- orials.

The Steamship,

Assurance that the utmost dis- The FIFTH ORDINARY · AN-

"NYANZA,"

cration" will be observed in re-. NUAL MEETING, of SHARE-

Captain L. M. Gordon carrying moving the crosses and other fix- HOLDERS in the above Company His Majesty's Mails, will be de- tures was given by Councillor D. P. will be held at the Company's patched from this port on or about Charlesworth, chairman of the COMMODIOUS Ground Floore of Town Office, 2, Lower Albert Road, Wednesday, the 27th October, Health Committee. "We are act Nos, 15, 16 & 17, Connaught Road Hongkong, on TUESDAY, 2nd Day 1926, at Noon taking Passengersing with reticence," he said, "but C., and First Floor of No: 16. of November, 1926, at Noon, for and Cargo for the about Ports. something must be done to main- Next P. and 0. Bldg. Suitable for the purpose of presenting the Re Silk, 'Valuables and Ten fortain the orderly appearance of the shipping offices: Apply S. K. Trust port of the Directors and State Italy, Franco and London (under cemetery. Ltd, 29, Connaught Road C.

ment of Accounts to 31st July arrangement) will be transhipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London.

ذا

1926.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the FOR QUICK disposal ene No. 77 Company will be CLOSED from Mimeograph cost $326.00 also one 19th October to the 2nd November, Corona Typewriter for cash imme-1926, both days inclusive.

ately $195 and $55 respectively. Mimeograph will be kept in good By Order of the order and cleaned free of charge for 12 months from date of pur- case. Present owner getting Marger machines is reason for dis

posal. Address Post Office Box 484 or Tel. 0.4680...

Board of Directors,

J. D. THOMSON,

Acting Secretary," Hongkong, 16th October, 1926.

Parcels will be received, at, this office until 5 p.m. the day before salling. The contenta and value of all packages must be declared.

For further particulare, apply to MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & COMPANY,

Agenta. Hongkong, 22nd October, 1926.

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.

Duddell Street.

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

E. V. M. R. do SOUSA.

and S. America and Europe via Vancouver, B.C. and Europe via Siberia (letters and postcards apecially superscribed via Siberia" only).

Wethaiye!

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Straite, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. and S. Africa, Egypt and Eurapo via Marseilles

Sandakan Bangkok

Khyber

in Wed., Oct. 27, 10.30 am. Wed., October 27, Parcels

.Noon Letters

Wed, Oct. 27, 5 p.m.

8 p.m.

p.m

Oct. 80. Sat., Registration.9.45 a.m. Lotters

10:30, n.m. (Due Marseilles 27th November). Hingang....Sat, Oct. 30, 12.20 p.m. Kwoiyang Sat, Oct. 30, 2.80 p.m.

TIN GAMBLING FEVER.

WORLD PRICES, FIXED BY 95 MEN.

Tin is beginning to climb in price again, says the Daily Ex pross, and speculators anticipato new opportunities for making for- tunes S

Thirty-five men, sitting in n cir- cla of leather-cushioned mahogany benches, rula the metal prices of the world, 7.

· That figure of thirty-five la the average attendance of brokers and dealers “in, the ring” of the London Metal Exchange; the most compact and expeditious machine for business, money, losing and money gaining in the whole of Britain.

No other commodity market place is quite like the Metal Ex- change, set in its backwater from Citytraffic, in Whittington- avenue, behind the tall offices of Leadenhall Street.

For one thing, the metal market nover becomes slack, and never will while the world is short of tin the precious metal of specula-

tion.

Orders from Everywhere.

For example, yesterday (August 28), with tin at £294 a ton-only a month ago it was £20 lesh-the exchange was humming with work.

Orders from everywhere in the raw. metal lines have to be com- pressed Into ninety minutes of dealing, for the hours of opening are from 18 to 1.30 only. The time is subdivided; ten minutes for copper; signal bell, then ten minutes for tin and an interval.

Copper and tin for ten minutes. again in their turn and after them spolter and lend, with a final Ave minutes each for copper and tin..

A member would be fined if he Hold tin in a copper ten minutes. Prices are shouted across the ring, and sules and deliveries booked in a babble of noise.

Selling in a Ring.

Tin is product over which peo- ple try to make fortunes," because there are auch heavy fluctuations in prices levels.

Six years ago this metal went to £418 a ton; four years back it had dived to £129, and now it is climbing again towards. £300.

When the price may move either way $10 in a week a gambler in margins makes (or more probably losses) a substantial amount' of money.

P

Brokera state that they have all manner of people on their books. Grocers, clergymen, soldiers, doc- tors, and a variety of men and wo-" men have been bitten with the tin gambling fever.

Fewer than 300 principals and authorised clerks have the right to appear on the Metal Exchange, and about 100 heads of Brmé can sit within the ring, where a place on the cushioned mahogany is a prize.

"GIORGIO BERNARDO."

MR. SHAW'S ITALIAN

HOLIDAY.

Rome. The choice of Stresa,. on Lago Maggiore, as a holiday re- sort by "Giorgio Bernardo Shaw"" was hailed with joy by Italian journalists as an inexhaustible süb- Ject for articles during the slack, Benson, but his arrival proved a sad disappointment to their hopes of "copy." He would give no Inter views or autographs, "The thea- he had not any tre?"no, idens to impart about the theatre. He was heard to ask the con- cierge his opinion of the local cinematograph, and to say that he would go there that evening. All that remained for journalists to do' was to describe minutely the holiday attire of "Giorgio Ber nardo, and his menu and how he seems to enjoy It.

All expected to find a revolu tionary who fired off paradoxes without ceasing,

ng, but they notice

Empress of Canada..Thurs., Oct. 28.

• Parcela Registration.4.15 p.m. Lettore 16th Nov.) (Due" Vancouver, B.C. 15th Kueichow.

...Fri, Oct. 29, 2.30 p.m. 'Halching. ..Fri, Oct. 29, 3 p.m.

Parcois 20th, 6 p.m. that the further away from Eng- land he gets, the more British "G. B. S. becomes. He is only. a revolutionary for fun," s876 Arrigo Cajumi, the correspondent of La Stampa. He is playing tho good bourgeois on, Lago Mag- glore: he dines with great atten tion, even with a worldly appli cation," and reads "The Fortunes of Nigel" in a cheap binding, often drawing the attention of his wife to the passages which amuse him. But how to explain the pheno- menon of a chastened G. B. S.T Cajumi tries again: parhaps all arrows would be blunted, even those of G. B. S. drawn from his how in this luscious southern land- scape, under the blue sky, questa Italia calda a multiforme, antica ed esperta.

Correspondence bearing vessel's name only.

Shanghai, Japan and Europe vla Siberla (letters and postcards specially superscribed

Siberia" only.)

Amoy

Holhow and Haiphong

Straite, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. and 8. rien, Egypt and Europo vis Marseilles

Shanghal

Japan Straits and Calcutta

Mon. Nov. 1, 10:30 nm. Món, Nov. 1, 5 pm. ¿Tues., Nov. 2, 8.30 0.m.,

Kakima Mary

Anking Mingsang

Rhexenor

Tuca, Nov, Registration.

1.45p. Lettore, 2.30 pm (Dao Marsolles 1st December) Fooshing Fri, Nov. 5, 8.80 p.m. Fri, Nov 6,5 p.m.

Booksang

* Tues., Nov., 9, Parcols.

Noon Lotters