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HOTELS.

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAR HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,

AND

SHANGHAJ

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL,

MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL SHANGHAI”

HOTELS.

LIMITED..

in association with the Gruno Huta

Des Wagons Lits. Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

1)

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone. All Trame pass in front of Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony.

Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

TEA DANCES

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MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS

THEONG" TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

ROYALTY VISIT THE EAST END.

AUGUST 13, 1927.

Entertainments

AT THE

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY ONLY,...

2.30, 5.15, 7.10 and 9.20

PRESENTED uv AUDEMO ZUKORL JESST L LASHY

Qurimor

Picture

5 to 7 p.m.

Tel. Add Victoria.

J. H. WITCHELL,

Telephone C.373.

Manager.

HOTEL SAVOY

Famous for ita Comfort, Convenie

esice, Appointments and

Cuisine.

You'll be proud to stay at the Savoy,

HOTEL METROPOLE HOTEL BOA VISTA.

22, Ice House Street.

Macao.

UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT:

KOWLOON HOTEL

F

PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOOK

Modern Toilet Systen.

Elevator and Telephones to vach floor

Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Tablo

Recently renovated throughout.

Manager's Personal Attention.

Tels. K. 608-609. Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG

1 Kowloon No. 8

H.J WiUTE

Manager

PALACE HOTEL.

Tel. Address "PALACE." Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Tarms moderate, Special terms to families on 'application to;

Mrs. J. II. 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.

ERVEN LUCAS

BOLS

QUAD-DECANTERS

Four Liqueurs in one Bottle.

A saving of time

.and

joy to the eye,

Mile End's enthusiastic greeting as the King and Queen recently drove through East London to visit the People's Palace and to inspect the L N. "E. Railway works at Stratford..

LIBEL CONTAINED IN LETTERS.

MAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS BOUND OVER.

LOVE EPISTLES NOT READ.

Sir Henry said he must express' deep egret that his client should to have so far forgot himself as have written against the lady in the way in which he did. There could be un justification for his action, and the letters. from the way in which they were published. were calated to provoke a breach of the pence.

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Defendant had asked him dxpress is regret that he should have permitted Ira feelings, which had almost grown to be- come an obsession, to be carried away in this fashion.

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The wonderful love-letters of a man of 68 were referred to at the Old Bailey recently, when William James Bromley, stated to occupy a good position in Coventry, and

A Deuble Plen.. whose adress was given at the Police Court as the Park Lane

Mr. Justice Swift-I am not so was charged Hotel. Piccadilly, before Mr. Justice Swift with sure. Sir Henry, that his regret s of außelent, or that the conditions publishing defamatory libely and concerning Grace Helen gave rise to his writing letters Sheppard and Albert Emile Wise, of that sort, and I should think that the better way of meeting head waiter, of a London hotel.

On the advice of his counsel, the charge was by giving defen- Sir Henry Maddocks, K... after dant a term of imprisonment. an intimation from Justice' Sir Henry Maddocks. expressed Swift, defendant pleaded guilty the hope that his Lordship would and was bound over himself in not be compelled to take this the sum of £250 and two surities

course, and pointed out tha of £100 each. Defendant was or coupled with his own plea, was dered to be kept in custody until the statement of Mr. Cassells thail the surities were forthcoming, and the two young people chiefly con- also requested to pay the costs cerned, had no desire

to see the defondant punished. of the prosecution.

When Sir Henry at down, Mr. J. D. Cassells, K.C., briefly defendant, leaning over the dock, outlined the charge against the attempted to address his Lord- defendant, saying that his Lordship. The Judge told him he ship having seen the documents had better leave his case in the in the case it was not necessary hands of counsel. for him to refer to them. Nor were they of such 4 character to require their contents to be

divulged.

Letters Not Road.

Defendant--Nothing has been said of what the lady has done

to me.

4

Defendant thereupon remarked that he had nothing further. in

His Lordship-Nothing that you So far as the lady in the case can ady will justify you in writ was concerned, said Mr. Cassells, she had known defendant since bel of this sort. You may 1910, and she, and the defendant speak if you wish to but you will

be well advised not to do so. during the had been friends greater part of the years that fol Imre. The letters mentioned in were in some CHAOS anonymous. They went back over a long period. But in so far as they concerned Mr. Wise they were sent to his place of business.

the ease

no

say.

Mr. Justice Swift said he had been very much influenced by the representations inade to him by Mr. Cassells on behalf of the two The two parties who had been people whom defendant had per- so painfully annoyed in this way secuted. In these circumstances had only one desire, and that was prepared to take a certain was that this form of molestation course if defendant promised ho on the part of the defendant would never write another letter should immediately and per- to the young woman. manently cease. There was doubt the language, in which the communications were written was such as to create a great deal of unpleasantness to the reelpients, and was calculated seriously interfere with the positions oc- eupied by the parties, but neither Mr. Justice Swift:-It was Miss Sheppard nor Mr. Wise had very wicked thing for you to do, any desire to see the defendant and one for which there was no whatever. Having punished. They wished him to justification. give a binding undertaking that regard to what was said by Sir this nuisance should stop

Henry Maddocks on your behalt and the generous line taken by these two people whom you have Sir Henry Maddocks, on behalf libelled, I will not send you to pri of defendant, said he was a manson, but if you do not keep the pro- of 67 years of age, and had mice you have made and come back long held a respectable position here, you shall be committed for in Coventry. There WAS some this offence. You have been vete thing more than friendship exist: wicked. You will be bound over ing between him and the young yourself in £250 and two surities] woman over many years, and even of 5100 each, and you are ordered After she left the Midlands and to pay. the costs of the prosecu came to London certain relations tion. You must remain in custody. between them were continued.

After a time these relations until the surities are forthcoming. became rather strained, and cer until the surities are forthcoming. tain complaints of anonymous letters and postcards, of which

Defendant said he would, 1, made some qualification.

Mr. Justice Swift (sternly)-- Without any qualification.

Defendant then gave the neces osary undertaking.

Man in a Good Position.

SHARE PRICES. ·

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

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

Banka.

Hongkong Bank, $1055 b. Chartered Bank, £20 p. Mercantile A. & B.. 43% n Murcantile C., 413) n. P. and Q., £9 East Asia, $68

b.

a.

Marine Ins.

Canton Ins, $590 6.

China Underwriters, $1.50 North China, Tls. 143 n. Union Ias., $281 b Yangleze Ins., $35 n

"Fire Ins.

Chi & Fires, 3210 b. H. K. Fire Ins., 600 8.

Shipping.

1.

8.

Douglasce, $32 H.K. Steamboats, $211 8. H K. Tugs, $.60 Indo-Chinas, (Prof. $30 0. Shell Trane, 02/- n. Star Ferries, $14 b. Waterboats, $16 90 n.

Refineries.

China Sugars, $15 s Malabons, $32 B.

Mining. Benguets, $1.70 b. Kailans, 45 b.

S.

Langkats, Tis. $19 n. S'hai Exploration, Tls. 31 a. Shanghai Loans, Tis. 62 n. Raubs, $1.

Tronohs, 19/3, n. Ural Caspians, 5-n

Dacks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $112 h Whampoa Docks, $35 s. Hongkews, Tis, 1851 b. Now Engineeringe, Tis. 4 20 b Shanghai Docks Tis.91 n.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

9.

H. and S. Hotels, 6 6. H. K. Lande, $53) b Realtys, $6 s. Territorials, $11 Humphreys, $12! n. Princes Bidge, $89 Rural Lands, $li

Cottons.

n..

Ewo Cottons, Tle. $7 20 b Orientale, Tle $1980 b.. S'hai Cottons, Tls $51.

Buses, Trama.

China Buses, Tis. 7 a Tramways, $20.90 b Peak Trams. (old) $14 9. Singapore Trams, 11/; s. Taxis, $1 n.

b.

Miscellaneous. Amusements,' $21 Canton Ices, $5 n. Cements (Comb 37 China Lights, $12.80 China Prov., 4 n. Constructions, $11. Dairy Farms, 315.10 n. Der A. Wing, $5 n. H'kong Electrics, 851 Macao Electrics, $37 b Ropes 10ld: $10 m. Lane Crawfords, $5

$ Mackintosh, $20 n Sinceres, 8 л. United Abastos, $15 6 Watsons $11 Powelle, $5. A Telophone 3.70

FI

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&

TO-DAY.

5,

the defendant denied the author- A remarkable situation has ship, were received by the young arion in connexion with a recent. woman. But whatever those dif-sale of pictures done by an Auso- ferences might have been, the ciate of the Royal Academy. The friendship between them was works were sold by auction in the! resumed.

ordinary way by a highly reput- Even after publication of cer-able firm of West End auctioneers, tain of the letters complained of but the artist has now requested, in the present charge there was owing to an ownership dispute, a lengthy correspondence, and that delivery shall not at present. many letters of an endearing be given to the purchasers. The character were received from the auctioneers declined to discuss young woman, and there were the matter beyond pointing out reciprocal letters from the man that so far as they were concern: to the woman, a great, deal of ed there was no mystery, the name moorland catator-760 acres near Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK which was of a wordy character, and address of the person who Newcastle is being purchased to be PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 2, Wyndham Street, in the City of but which nevertheless disclosed sent the pictures for Inclusion in preserved as an open space for the

an astonishing affection between their sale being plainly printed in nation. Victoria, Hongkong. ****

the parties.

the catalogue..

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Telephone 75 Dentral.

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WITH

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