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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1926.

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN WALES.

HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telographia Addroes: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."..

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;

MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI,” HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel

Des Wagons Lite, Poking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

VRNITIN AT LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,

TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR,

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Telophora Central 373.

Telegraphia Address

" VICTORIA

KOWLOON HOTEL

Premier Hotel in Kowloon

RATES: Daily $5.00 Upwards

Monthly $120.00 do

MODERN TOILET SYSTEM Elevator and Telephones to each floor, SALOON BAR & BUFFET.

Manager's personal attention. Tois: K, 608 & K. 609.

Tel. Address "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong

Tel Address:

"Glenealy". Hongkong,

GLENEALY HOTEL.

84, Glonealy

Wm. Harold Perry,

Manager.

Telephone C. 980.

(Near Dairy Farm). Splendidly situated with-

A first class Residential and Tourist Hotel. In easy walking distance of all business centres. Large airy rooms. Hot and Cold water. Excellent Cuisine under the personal supervision of the Propietress. Monthly and family rates at moderate terms.

For further particulare apply to:

Tal Kowloon No. 8.

MRS. FREDERICKS, Proprietress.

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely andor English Management. Electric Light and Fane through- out. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress." "Terma moderata. Special terms to familles on application to:

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY. Proprietress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every.

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,

Cables:-

** EUROPE ".

Singapore.

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.

Arthur E, Odell, Managing-Director.

ASAHI BEER

BREWED BY

DAI NIPPON BREWERY

Co., Ltd.

TOKYO JAPAN

Specially Brewed for Export,

Sole Agents-

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.,

HONGKONG.

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

Mil-

Reminiscent of the floods which Hongkong experienced in July laat was the disaster which overtook the mountain districts of Cwm, in Glamorganshire, owing to abnormal rainfall. llons of tons of rock and earth were displaced. Our picture shows the flooded scene near the school:

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share otations issued to-day

Banks,

Hongkong, $1120 sa. Chartered, Bank, £21

Mercantile A. & B., £32. n. Mercantile C., £13 n.

P. and O., £94. b.

East Asia, $84 n.

Marine Ins.

Canton Ins., $640.b. China Underwriters, $1.45 sa. North China, Tis. 145, Union Ins., 290 Yangtsze Ins., $459.

1.

POST OFFICE NOTICE

NOTICE

Registered and, Farcol Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below 'unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before" a.m. registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m on the previous day.

Correspondence for Canton will be forwarded by train if so super- scribed, Such correspondence must be posted not later than 7.30 a.m, at the General Post Office or 7,40 a.m. at Kowloon Post Office for despatch by the Express Train scheduled to leave Kowloon Railway Station at 8:05 am, and to arrive at Cafton at 12.20 p.m.

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

From

Marila

Straits

Shanghai

Manila

INWARD MAILS.

they and Europe via Siberia

Straita

Per

Shanghai and Europe via Siberia Autolycus

Fire Ins.

China Firos, $200 Hongkong Fire, 615 b.

b.

Manila..

Japan and Shanghai

Canada, Japan and Shanghai alia and Manila *** U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-

hai Shanghai

January 2. January 3.

Pres, Jefferson

Dae. ..December 29,

Takada

December 29,

Sinkiang

.December 29,

Mirzapore

Empress of Canada

December 30,

December 30.

Liangchow

December 9.

Overstraten

December 30.

December 30.

Tres. Lincoln

December 81.

Hakone Maru

December 31.

Prea. Grant

Arafura

Pres. Adams Amazona

January 3.

January 4.

Pres. Cleveland Malwa

January '6.

OUTWARD MAILS.

b.

For

Per

Refineries.

Sam Shui end >Wuchow Swatow, Amoy and Formosa Straits

Kwong Hung

Hoihow and Haiphong

China Sugars, $25 Malabons, $36

5+

Batavia

n.

Shipping Douglases, $281 Steamboats, $26 Tugs,

b. BLI Indo-Chinas, (Prof.) $32. b.

Shell Trans., 90/- n.

Star Ferrios, $57 n. Waterboate, $151

Mining.

Benguets, $1.40 n..

Kailans, 38/- n.

Langkats, Tls. 25

b.

S'hai Exploration, Tls. 4.50 n. Shanghai Loans, Tls. 8.00 n. Raubs, $4 Tronohe, 21/- b.

n.

Ural Caspians, 8-n.

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves, $115 n.

Whampoa Docks, $45

Hongkews, Tie. 170

s.

n.

Now Engineerings, Tls. 5.40 n. Shanghai Docks Tis. 111 b.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $9 s. H.K. Lands, $55 - .. Realtys, $6.15

b. Torritorials, $3. Humphreys, $148. Princes Bldgs, $89 Rural Lands, $1) n.

Cottons.

Ewos Cottons, Tls. 8.85 h. Orientals, Tls. 21. 8. S'hai Cottons, Tls. 54, b

Buses, Trams.

China Buses, $9 b. Tramways, $211 b. Peak Trams, (old) $15) b.. S'pore Tractions 158. Taxis, $2

.8.

U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang-

hai

Japan and Shanghai

Straits and Calcutta

Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., C. & S. America, & Europe via Victoria, B.C. and Europe via- Siberia (letters and postcarde specially superscribed via Siberia only)

Straits

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Manila, Australia and New Zealand

via Thursday Island

Hoihow and Haiphong Struite, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. and S. Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Shangbal

"Swatow and Bangkok Swatow, Amoy and Formosa Straits and Calcutta

Kotsu Maru

January 7.

Date.

Wed, Dec. 28, 4 p.m.

Wed., Dec. 29,

B p.m.. Glentara

Wed., Dec. 29, 5 p.m. Tean....Thurs., Dec. 30, 10.30 am. Tjikarang Thurs., Dec. 30, 11.30 a.m. Laisang

Thurs. Dec. 30.

Parcels Letters

Pres. Jefferson

.001.

.1 p.m.

Thurs., Dec. 30. Parcels.......Noon

Registration... ..2.45 p.m.

Lettera .......3.80 p.m. (Due Victoria, B.C.,. 18th Jan., 1927): Autolyens ...Fri, Dec. 31, 10.80 a.m. Haiching

Fri, Dec. 31, Noon.

St. Albans

....Fri., Dec. 81, Parcels.......Noon. Registration..1.45 p.m. Letters.......2.30. p.m. (Due Thursday Island Jan. 15, 1927). Mingsang..Fri, Dec. 81, 5 p.m.

Hakone Maru

Sat, January 1. Registration...8.45 am. .9.30 am.

Lotters (Dpé Marseillea 30th January). Sinklang......Sat, Jan. 1, 0a.m. Kwangehow...Son., Jan. 2, 8.30 a.m, Hozan Maru ...Sun., Jan. 2, 9 a.m

...Mon., Jan. 3.

Hosang..

Suiyang

Amoy

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. and S. Africa,Aden, Egypt and Europe via: Marseilles

Haibong

Amazone

CLAIM FOR $500.

. (Continued From Page 1.) to you is that this work should have been done by you before you re- ceived notice.

Parcels

..noon 1. p.m. Letters

Mon., Jan. 3, 6, p.m. ..Tues., Jan. 4, Noon.

.Tues., Jan. 4. Registration ..1.46 p.m. Lotters..2.30 p.m. (Duc Marseilles 4th Feb, 1927).

Imports and Exports Department after the Chinese New Year.

His Lordship remarked that it was clear that the salary account was not finally closed until after the work was done. It was agreed. that there were no accounts in the firm, and the accounting work had ,been deliberately loft to look after

itself until the end of May.

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BAD SHOTS.

TARGET FIRING FOR U. S. POLICE. New York The Commissioner

wealth amassed by the motor-cart industry has exercised recently on bandits from all parts of the country. Bankers and manu- facturers are convinced that their only defence against robbers under arms is a reversion to the Justice of frontier days when out- laws were peppered full.of holes Do you think it reasonable that Mr. Leask replied that the plain-of Police of Detroit has just issu-j you are going to be paid $500 for tiff was claiming something that od an order

We Only 33 Killed. five days' work when you had pre- he could not prove a contract for, course of revolver practice for all or strung to the nearest tree. viously been on a full-time salary and he could not be satisfied that members of the force.

the defendant did not in fact act He states that his men, are not! of $3007--It la reasonable.

Miscellaneous,

Amusemonts, $16. Canton Icos, $5 n. Comente (Comb.) $10 China Lights, $16 B. China Prov., $5.25 Constructions, $1.90. Dairy Farme, $181 n. Der A. Wing, $6

· Plaintiff :---No.

b.

REASONABLE CLAIM.

B.

b.

n.

H'kong Electrics, $571 n. Macao Electrics, $35 n. Ropes (Old) 810

B..

Lano. Crawfords, $8 Mackintosh, $19) n. Sinceros, $91 o.

11,

Unitod Asbostas, $20 Watsons $13. Powells, $6 n.

for a elaborate

This year 15 banks have been In reply to his Lordship, plaintiff as an accountant. He was respon shooting, straight enough. Their robbed. There have been in bulk. Though the police have said that no books were kept, only sible for, the books, and the whole bullets are hitting bandits all numerable robberies of wages in the records. No books were kept of his previous experience, as he right, but this is his chief point shot down 133 bandita, only 33

have been killed. This percent last year.

admitted, was in the capacity ofthey are not killing them.. Mr. Waller was next called, and, accountant. He submitted that

This target-practice order te

in reply to his Lordship, said only the plaintiff had not made out a but one more indication of these, the authorities feel, must be a petty cash book had been kept, cage for additional remuneration. grira situation in which Detroit promptly corrected, alteo in the and accounts were started in the His Lordship intimated that he citizens, find themselves owing to shooting 6 policemen were killed middle of May. The plaintiff was would deliver judgment on Friday, the attraction which the colossal and 16 wounded, Imade assistant manager of morning.