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Adverties in

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

and secure the co-opera- tion of its readers in buying your goods.

Prepaid Advertisements

25 WORDS FOR $1,00 ($1.50 if not prepaid) The following replies are await- lag collection:--

1942, 1342, 1397, 1941, 1444, 1455, 1462, 1453, 1512, 1518, 7. 26. 32, 38, 72, 80, 88,

101, 102, 161, 168, 174, 191, 104, 208, 210, 216, 226, 248 259, 265

BOARD RESIDENCE,

FAMILY HOTEL-Victoria Gar- dens. Quiet apartments and Suttes of rooms. Tull board from $95, $110, $130, monthly. Large commodius rooms,

daily also rates; five minutes from

ferry, next now Hotel, Hankow Road, Kowloon, Tel K.357.

MISCELLANEOUS.

MATSHEDS. Owners wishing to rebuild their matsheds can obtain the best possible terms from YEE HOP. Matshed. builders for 20 years. There is less chance of your matshed blowing down IF Address. YEE . WE BUILD IT.

HOP, 10, Tai Wong Lane, Wan- chal.

OPPORTUNITY exists for tactful and refined lady to join as partner in private hotel venture on joint account basis. vertiser will supply furniture and place, Cen- tral Office rooms or present vacant contra! flats required for use as living rooms" immediately. For rent-Houses, Flats or rooms, Mid- level, and Pokfulum. Furnished if required. Houses for disposal en part cash and instalment basis. Small Investors, Tel.· C.4630.

WANTED.

WANTED. A Matshed or a site for matahed at Repulse Bay. State location, price and other particulars, Box No. 266, care of i

Hongkong Telegraph."

PREMISES TO LET. TO BE LET.-Immediately. Second Floor, No. 38, Wyndham Street. Apply 2nd floor.

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

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

HAPPY VALLEY FLAT, TO LET October 1st., top flour, Rent $80, Complete furniture, $500. Apply Box No. 267, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

COMMODIOUS OFFICES to lat in No. 7, Queen's Road Central, also two small offices in 1A, Chater Road. Apply E. D. Sassoon and Company, Ltd.

TO LET.-Spacious Offices in No. 11, Queen's Road Central, cen- trally situated, very moderate rentals, Apply to David Sassoon and Co., Ltd.

TO LET-Large Shipping Offices in Connaught Rd., Central, Nos. 17 and 18, first floor; Nos. 15, and 16, second floor; Nos. 16, 16, 17, 18 and 19, third floor. Please ap- ply to S. K. Trust Ltd., 29, Con- naught Road, Central.

KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB.

The Annual General Meeting of members of the Kowloon Football Club will be held at the Club) house, Chatham Road, on Thurs- day, September 22, at 6 p.m.

W. KEATES,

Hon. Secretary. Kowloon, September 14, 1927.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS

G.

NOTICE.

R.

To Motor Drivers.

Motor vehicles may not turn or stop in Connaught Road Central opposite the Star Ferry Plor."

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The Undersigned-have received instructions from the Registrar, the Supreme Court, to sell by Pub- He Auction,

on MONDAY, the 26th September, 1927, commencing at 10 o'clock a.m. on the premises. The Goods and Chattels of The Hongkong, September, 28, 1927. Hongkong Grocery, No. 10, Ice

House Street, Ground Floor.

E. D. C. WOLFE, Capt. Supt. of Police.

NOTICE.

?

NELSON DAY.

Through the courtesy of the Hongkong Amusements Lfd. the Navy League will hold their An- nual Concert at 9.30 p.m. on Fri day, 21st October in the Queen's Theatre.

Further Particulare will be pub- lished lator.

L- M. WHYTE,

Hon. Secretary. Navy League (Hongkong Branch)

THE NORWEGIAN AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA ·LINE.

THE STEAMER, "TANA."

will lond

comprising:-

(to be sold in small lots.) Terms: Cash on Delivery

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Н

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Publle Auc- tion,

on TUESDAY, the 27th September, 1927, commencing at 11 am.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

24, 1927.

FIGHTING THE BLOW-FLY.

*15,000 CHRYSALISES FOR...

AUSTRALIA.

SAVED BY TWENTY SECONDS.

UNEMPLOYED MAN'S BRAVERY.

зел

POST OFFICE NOTICE

NOTICE

One of the most curious car-

The thrilling rescue of a goca ever despatched will leave man from being crushed to death England for Now Zealand, Aua- against the side of a ship was tralia, and the Falkland Islands watched last month at Newport, during October.

Monmouthshire. A sailor who jumped from the quay to

board the steamship Cambrian Baroness. lying about 101t. off, missed the West of Hankow is temporarily suspended.

It will consist of about 15,000 chrysalises of the ordinary Eng fish blue-bottle, carefully packed

nate it.

ladder and fell into the dock.

unem-

Was

The parcels post service to Russia in Asia via Japan is temporarily suspended.

Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 13 minutos earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close previous day. at or before 9 a.m. registored and parcel malls are closod at 5 p.m. on the

able to confiscation by the Customs. Such articles should be forwarded Datiable articlos forwarded by latter post to Great Britain are by parcel pest only.

Letters and postcards only for the United Kingdom and Europe will be forwarded via Siberia if so superscribed.

Parcels post service between Hongkong and Parts of the Yangtze. Parcels for places in Szechwan will now be accepted for transmis- sion at senders' risk. It is to be noted that parcels are liable to delay, and that the service may be suspended again at any time.

RADIO NOTICES.

in wooden boxes between layers of mosa and kept at the right tom-

Mr. Frank Hopkins, an perature so that nothing will hatch, Office Furniture, Shop Fittings, until the cargo has arrived at its ploved man, of Frederick-street, Electric hamps and Fans, Provi-destination at the beginning of jumped into the water, found the

New Zealand's summer.

man by the light of an electric and the following places-Fronch Indo-China, province of Yunnan, Can- Radie Telegraph Services are now in operation between Hongkong sions, Perfumes, etc., etc.

When the boxes are unpacked torch shone from the deck, and ton. Swatow, Kongmoon, Macau, Kwongchouwan, Fort Bayard, Wachow there will emerge not the blue held him, intending to take him and Holhow. Rates and further particulars on application to the Radio bottle but a number of small up the ladder. He also slipped Counter, 1st Floor, G. P. O. Building.

Letters and postcards for Europe and the British Isles are forwarded parasitic files which have fed on and both disappeared. LAMMERT BROS., the blue-bottle, and it is hoped Mr. Hopkins appeared again in Siberin if no superscribed.

that they will attack their natural and seized the sailor and Auctioneers.

enemy, the blow-fly, and extermi- taking him up the ladder when the

ship moved towards the quny," According to figures given to a

Spectators urged him to drop

Shanghai Own Shanghai. Pressman by Dr. G. 4. K, Marshall, the sailor and make his entomological adviser to the safety secure, but he responded, Manila Colonial Office, the damage recent- "No, I will fetch him up too." U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang- ly done in one year to sheep in The ship was still moving to- hai .. New South Wales by the blow-flywards the qúny wall and both U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan & Shanghai Pres. Monroe was £2,000,000.

were in great peril of being crush- U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan & Shanghai Pres. Madison The work of despatching para-ed when Mr. Hopkins levered Japan and Shanghat sites is being carried out by the himself up by the quay wall and Straits Imperial Bureau of Entomology, landed the sailor and himself Japan.

Saigon which began its task about three safety, amid cheers, and 20 sec-

Straits months ago with funds granted by onda before the gap closed.

U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai Pres. 'Pierce Mr. Hopkins, the Empire Marketing Board.

who

served Manila.. Dr. Marshall, who is the director throughout the war, has been un-Australia and Manila" of this bureau, said yesterday to a employed for 20 months, and was Chesterfield Couch and Arm-Daily Mail reporter:

on the dock in the hope of getting chairs, Glass Cabinet, Teak Dining The blow-fly, which is found a job. Efforts are to be made to Table and Chairs, Sideboard. Teak also in the north of England, but obtain official recognition of his and Brass Bedsteads, Wardrobes is not so dangerous there, causes bravery. with Bevelled Mirror, Dressing immense damage. Our work is to Tables, Ice Chests, Pantry and find its natural parasite Kitchen Requisites, etc., etc.

enemy, breed it, and then despatch it to combat the blow-fly.

At No. 7, Carnarvon Buildings, Kowloon.

For ORAN, MARSELLES, BAR- CELONA, ANTWERP, ROTTER-A Quantity of Valuable Household DAM, HAMBURG, and SCAN- DINAVIA. Cargo for RED SEA PORTS may also be accepted.

END OF SEPTEMBER. The ships can also take some first-class passengers. Conference ternis. For further particulars apply to:--

THORESEN & CO., 'LD.,

Agente.

CHURCH NOTICES.

Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity.

TO-MORROW'S SERVICE.

St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong,

September 25th, 1927. 15th,

Furniture. comprising:---

and

A Few Pieces of Blackwood Ware.

Catalogues will be issued..

On View from Monday, the 27th September, 1927.

Cash on Delivery.

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and

Last year we sent out to New South Wales 6,400 chrysalises, to New Zealand 6,000, to Western Australia 2,800, and to the Falk- land Isles 2,000, and reports state that the work was most successful.

We are also attacking the pro- LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. blem of earwigs, and are working on the extermination of the giant wood wasp.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

Sunday after Trinity. Holy We beg to inform our customers Communion, 8 a.m. Matins, 11 that we have removed from No.feed on the parasites themselves.

Preacher: Rev. H. Copley 16, Queen's Road Central to No. Moyle. Litany for the Sick, 1215, Queen's Road Central just op- noon, Evensong, 6 p.m. Preach-posite our old premises.

3.m.

er: Rev. G. F. S. Stopford, C. F. 29th, Thurs, St. Michael and all Angels. Holy Communion, 7.45 |

a.m.

H. RUTTONJEE & SON. Hongkong, 22nd Sept., 1927.

THE NEAREST WAY TO A MAN'S HEART

NEW COINS FROM OLD.

FLYING SQUAD'S

CHASE.

MOTOR-CARS RACE AT 65 MILES AN HOUR.

•

persons

Swatow

From

INWARD MAILS,

Shantung Yunnan Eumaeus

ter

.September 24.

.September 25

....September 25,

Siberia Maru

.September 20.

.September 20,

.September 26.

.September 27.

September 27.

September 27,

September 23.

Emp. of Canada Arafura

October October .October 3. .October 3.

Athos Il. Lahore

St. Abans D'Artagnan

Suwa 'Maru

OUTWARD MAILS.

For

Swatow. Amoy and Formosa Amoy.. Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, U.S.A., C. and S. America and *Europe via San Francisco and Europe via Sibería

Amoy Manila

Haihow, Pakhei and Haiphong Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Straits Saigon, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. & S. Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Siberia Swatow

Saigon and South Africa Formosa Sandakan

The story of an exciting motor-] car chase at 65 miles an hour from and then back to Lavender Hill, Hammersmith, W., to Richmond

Battersea, S.W-a distance of ap- But it is very tricky work, breed-proximately 10 miles-was related ing parasites, because we have to at West London Police Court last beware of hyper-parasites which month when George Towle, a sea- man, of Hazelrigge-road, Clapham, S.W., Harry Alfred Carnell, and Patrick, Warrell Forder, giving no Shanghai and Europe via Siberia. address, were charged with being Manila suspected

Shanghai, *Japan and Europe via frequently highways.

That morning, at 5.45, Dat Sergt. Scott, of the "Flying Squad" from Scotland Yard, it was stated, saw several men in a motor-car at Hammersmith Broadway taking observations of shops.

Sergt.-Scott stated that he chased them in a police car to Richmond and then back to Laven- der Hill, travelling at a speed of 65 miles an hour. At an obstruc: tion in the road at Lavender Hill For instead of buying silver the three prisoners leapt from the hullion the Mint is making shill-car and were arrested. Other ings and florins and the rest out men escaped in the ear, which was of old melted-down coins, and the travelling on at a great speed. new ones contain but 50 per cent Towle, it was alleged, had a jemmy Straits, Ceylon, India Mauritius, E. of the coins made before 1920.

SHILLINGS ONLY HALF SILVER.

Shining bright but not really worth their weight in silver would be a fair description of the new British coins that are expected to be put into currency shortly.

on him.

Wesleyan Methodist Church, Queen's Road East, Wanchai (near Royal Naval Hospital). Sunday, September 25th, 1927.. Morning Service, 10.15. Sub- ject: "Need I get converted?” Evening Service, 6.00 o'clock. Subject: "Looking for a Leader.” Preacher at both services, Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey. Meetings at Sailors' and Soldiers', Home, Arsenal Street, Sunday: 3.00. p.m. Mr. May's Bible Class. 8.15

All three men were remanded at p.m. Chaplain's Hour.:

Not since 1920 has the Mint the request of the police, who Monday: 3.00

Ladies' 0.70.

bought any silver bullion, but in intimated that they had reason to Church Aid Meeting.

is through his stomach, so wise 1925-the latest year for which believe that the car in which the First Church of Christ Scientist, wives tell us. But unless the figures are available-43,486,676 men were travelling was stolen.

Macdonnell Road, below Bowen digestive tract is in proper work new Imperial coins were issued, Road Tram Station. Sunday ing order the efforts of the good excluding Maundy Money and the Service, 11:15

Note Subject: lady in this direction are liable to Currency

Redemption "Reality" Wednesday Even-miacarry.

Therefore keep Pin Account ing Meeting at 5.30 p.m. Read-kettes handy in the house, as a

Assayed for quality the silver ing "Room at

ad-prompt corrective of intestinal or above

liver torpor, to aid digestion, and alloy goes to be smelted into bare dress,

as a safeguard againat bilions at- an inch thick, 2in. wide, and 1ft. Friday, 10 a.m. to 12noon, tacks, sick headaches and hose Sin. in length. It is next rolled, Monday and Thursday, 5 to 7 little rifts in domestic harmony tempered with heat, tested and p.m. The Public is cordially so liable to arise therefrom. weighed, and then it is ready to invited to attend the services Chemists everywhere sell Pin-have "blanks"-coins as yet un- and visit the Reading Room. kettes, also post free, 60 cents the stamped-punched upon it. Branch of The Mother Church. vial, from The Dr. Williams' Me- The First Church of Christ. dicine Co., 60, Kiangse Road, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, U.S.A. |Shanghai.

11.m

open Tuesday and

FIRE PROOF

THE

GOLD

MEDAL

"ITALIT"

REG TRADE WIRK FOR GREAT BUTRIN AND EXPORT

WEATHER PROOF

ASBESTOS

CEMENT

ROOFING

OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION

"ITALIT"

Corrugated Cement Roofing

in GREY and RED

STOCKS CARRIED '

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Bole Agents for..

ETERNIT PIETRA ARTIFICIALE (LONDON) LTD.

SHEMOZZLE DEFINED.

A FAMILY AFFAIR. "

"It was a shemozzle,” said a man

summoned at Tottenhum for as saulting his sister-in-law.

The Magistrate: What on earth is a shemozzle? Intricate mechanism seizes them The Man: I'll tell you just and adjusts their position, so that what happened and then you'll in"turn they may be dubbed coin understand. There were four of the realm by means of a blow sisters and their husbands, fa- from the machine of about 8 tons,thers, and mothers. A basin was imprinting both sides at the rate thrown by one sister at a brother- of more than 100 a minute.

Automatically the new coins are

weighed to the 100th of a grain, and before they drop into their temporary homes of canvas bags

they are automatically counted.

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.

4, 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. de SOUSA.

in-law and at once the air became thick with copperaticks, chino, brushes, flower-pots, stones and

handfuls of dirt: You got what ever came your way. I got a flower-pot on my head and a cop- per-stick in my ribs.

The Magistrate: Then a shemoz- zle is a family affair in which you pick up whatever comes to hand and throw it with the certainty that it will hit one of the shemozzle.

Tho Mon: Yes, that's shemozzle.

The charge was dismissed.

HONGKONG. TIDE TABLE.

From 38th Napt. to 2nd October 1927-

Hion WAREN.

LOW WATER.

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'kong Btandard

Time.

b.10.

t'kong Standard

Time.

$ 7 m 3 ca 6:24 80 al 3

4m 4 25

10 30 ) à ä

feer

Mon.

26 0 8 45

Fook.

17m 10 18

10 18

Wed

2810 46

IT'S QUALITY THAT COUNTS

Priday 30

Batuz.

}

11 45

Bus...

2

.1 17

Thurs, 28 m 11 12

42:

fatt

21

a

Shanghal, Japan and Europe

Siberia Heihow, Pakhel and Haiphong Straits

via

Japan and Honolulu Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Shanghai and Europe via Siberin Manila, Australia and New Zealand

via Thursday Island

Weihaiwei

Per

Kanchow... Sat., Sept. 24, 5 p.m. Hozan Maru....Sun., Sept. 25, 9 a.m. Kiungehow.Sun., Sapt. 25, 9 am,

Pres. Cleveland

.Mon., Sept. 26, Parcels...........3 p.m. Registration...4.15 p.m. Letters

....5 p.m. (Due San Francisco 20th October). Soochow ...... Mon., Sept. 26, 6 p. Pres. Monroe... Mon., Sept. 25, 6 p.m. Merado Mara Tues., Sept. 27, 8.30 a.m Haining. Tuos., Sept. 27, 1 p.m. Chicago Maru Tues., Sept. 27, 1.30 p.m

Athoa. II

Tues, Sept. 27. K. P, 0. Registration..1.00 p.m.

Letters

*......1.00 p.m. G. P. O. Registration ..1.45. p.m. Letters...2.80 p.m.

(Duo Marseilles, 28th Oct.). Aeneas Tues., Sept. 27, 2 p.m.. Pres. Madison Tues., Sept. 27, 4.30 p.m Lahore......Tues,, Sept. 27, 5 p.m. Hop Sang..Wed., Bopt. 28, 8.80 a.m Hawaii Maru Wed., Sept. 28, 9.30a.m. Hessen....Wed., Sept. 28, 10.30 a.m. Mausang..Wed., Sept. 28, 1.30 p.m.

D'Artagnan.. Wed., Sept. 28, 1.30 p.m. Tean ... Thirs, Sept. 22, 10.30 Ba, Van Overstraten

Thurs., Sept. 29, 10,80 a.m. Anyo Maru Thurs., Sept. 29, 10.30 a.m Halyang Glenbeg ..Thurs., Sept. 29, 4.30 p.m. Fri., Supt. 30, Noon.

St. Albang

Parcels

.Fri, Sept. 80,

Nood

Registration.1.45 p.m. Letters......2.30 p.m.

(Due Thursday Island 15th October). Kueichow..Fri., Sept. 30, 2.80 p.m.

and S. Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Khyber

Shanghai and Japan

Manila Shanghal, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., *G. &*8 America, "Furope. - via San Francisco and Europe vin Siberia

Straite, Ceylon, India. Mauritius, E. and S. Africa, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., C. and S. America and Europe via Vancouver, B.C. and Europe vin Siberia

.Sat, Oct. 1, K.P.O.

Parcels .30th Sept. 430 p.m. Registration 1st Oct. 2 a.m. Lettera

10 a.m.

G.P.O.

Parcels .. .30th Sept. 5 p.m. Registration 1st Oct. 945 a.m. Latters..........10.30 a.m. (Due Marseilles 29th October). Suwa Maru

Mon., Oct. 3, 10.30 am. Pres. Pierce.. Mon., Oct. 3, 4.30 p.m.

Siberia Maru

Tues., Oct. 4, Registration ..9.45 a.m Letters.....10.30 mm. (Dae San Francisco 28th Oct,}

Hector

Wed., Oct. 5, Registration...0.45 a.m. Letters.... 10.30 am.

(Due Marseilles 2nd November).

Parcels

4th Oct. 6 pan, Emp. of Canada ................Wed., Oct. 5,

Registration

.9.15 p.m. Letters .......10 mm, (Due Vancouver, B.C., 23rd October)..

**Correspondence beating vessel's male only

FRENCH - HOUSES ON A NEW PLAN.

FRENCH AIR, ROOF GARDENS, AND SUN-BATHS,

Paris, Aug. 25.

(apartment open to the sun's rays) where gardens may be cul- tivated and the tenants may enjoy sun-baths unseen by neighbours or passers-by in the street beneath. -'

But the revolution in Parision house construction Iles in the fact that the architects' first thought has been to provide the maximum

A glimpse of what the city of, of air and natural light. This has the future may be like is afforded compelled him to suppress the by a new street which has just delightful French window open- been inaugurated in Paris. It is ing in vertical bays and leading, the Rue Mallet-Stevens at Auteuil, in times when space was a less and is so named after the architect serious consideration, directly into who planned and constructed what the garden or on to the lawn. Its unquestionably is the last word in place is taken by the horizontally practical hygienic building.

opening window so common in England.

Externally, viewed from the street level, the houses in the Rue M. Mallet-Stevens has adopted Mallet-Stevens look liken series it because it is best adapted to of factories, warehouses, or-gur-ventilation, and, above all, because agen, Seen from the air they ap by building his windows length- pear like flower gardens, for the wise instead of vertically he ob houses are built in terraces and tains a much greater flood of aur. every one has its own solarium shine inside the rooms,