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THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTELI
PEAK HOTEL
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE PALACE HOTELI
HOTELSTM
LIMITED.
in association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
Hotel SAVOY
The Newest and Fines! Hostelry in THE Colony
Convenient
Cosmopolitan
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
Phone No.
K. 808 & K. 609.
Mr. & Mr. H. J. WHITE. Cables "KowLOTEL " Hongkong.
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel Kowloon No. 3.
Tel. Address "Palace.”
A First Class B sidential, and Tourist Hotel with all the Con- veni nosa of a Home. Under Entirely European Management, Cosy Lounge and Billiard Saloon. Three minutes from Ferry. Families specially sa ered for. Moderate term.
Mra, J. H. Ozberry,
Proprintream.
EUROPE HOTEL
"Renowned by Recommendation"
DANCING:
MUSIC:
GRILL:
After Dinner every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
On
the VERANDAH every Saturday from 12 no n to 1.30 p.m. and every Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m.
Telephone. 5341 18 lines) Cables “EUROPE” Singapore.
THE EUROPE HOTELLtd.
Arthur E. Odell Managing Director.
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL-PENANG
"MALAYA'S NICEST HOTEL"........ With beautiful private lawns to the Sea
MODERN THROUGHOUT
Dinner-dance' twice weekly
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD. George Goldsack.
CABLES.-"RONNYMEDE.”
Manager.
TO-DAY ONLY. at 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20.
ADOLPHE MENJOU
jo
"SERENADE”
A love Story-mellow as a cello-Adolphe Menjou's' Serenade!
THE
^* MAJESTIC
NATHAN ROAD
KOWLOON.
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WAR MEMORIAL NURSING HOME CEREMONY.
ALL TALKING
Mrs. Southern, wife of H.E.. the Officer Administering the Government, speaking after the laying of the foundation-stone of the War Memorial Nursing Home on Thursday. (Photo: A. Fong.
LAUNCHES SAFETY WOMEN & CHILDREN.
VALVES.
NEW REGULATIONS AGAINST INTERFERENCE.
NO UNDUE PRESSURE.
The Gazette notifies that Table E in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is
AMENDED RULES UNDER EMPLOYMENT ORDINANCE.
Amendments of two regulations under the Industrial Employment} fof. Women, Young Persons and, Children Ordinance are contained in the Gazette.
BRITISH EMBASSY AT NEW YORK.
WONDERFUL BUILDING WHICH
COST £200,000.
MARBLE BALL ROOM. Regulation 2 is amended to read: "No person shall employ
Washington's proud and latest its many beautiful any child in any dangerous trade." addition to This is a reversion to the original show places-the new British Em- further amended as follows:
amended bassy in Massachusetts-avenue-. regulation, which was The following regulation is in-in December last by the inclusion has now been completed. serted next after regulation: 9: of the words "young person or" Sir Ronald and Lady Lindsay
9A. No person shall by any immediately before the word will take possession in June. means interfere with or prevent "child."
The Embassy has taken two the proper working of the safely Regulation 2A now reads:-"No years to complete and is one of valve of any launch, or by any person shall employ any female the finest buildings in the world. means cause the safety valve of young person or woman in ary When the American National any launch to be under the con- dangerous trade without the writ trol of the engineer, and no enten permission of the Protector Fine Arts Commission passed the gineer shall suffer or permit the of Labour" Originally, the re-plans, drawn by Sir Edwin Lut safety valve of his launch to have galation read:-"No person shall ens, the architect, they comment- fed that the proposed edifice was any device, contrivance or at employ any women in any dan- tachment thereto which may cause gerous trade without the written appropriate for the uses intend- ed, expressive of the dignity of or be capable of causing to be permission of the Protector of
the British nation, and imbued placed on such safety valve any Labour."
with charm.” greater pressure than is allowed
under the conditions of the licence.
of the launch.
To and at the end of paragraph CHINA'S HELP TO US.
or condition 3 set forth under the heading "Extract from condi- tions of licence" on page 1007 off Vol. II of the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844 to 1923, the following is added:
No person shall by any means interfere with
BOTANIST.
DESPATCH OF SEEDS FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, Apr. 20.
of prevent the proper working) Reciprocating China's genero of the safety valve of any launch, sity in giving materials and also
It has cost about £200,000.
And so it is.
"Mid Sheltering Yews. Standing on a site of three and a half acres, on'à rolling slope, amid sheltering yews, and built of brick and Indiana freestone, it is of the Queen Anne style, two atories high, with high pitched roofs. Two L-shaped wings will be used as the chancery.
In the main section on the ground floor are reception halls
or by any means cause the safety in helping Dr. Joseph Rock, ex- and drawing rooms designed for valve of any launch to be under plorer, to obtain valuable North official functions and other social the control of the engineer, and China and Tibetan, plants and purposes. The second floor will no engineer shall suffer or per-flowers, packets of the finest be the living quarters of the Am- mit the safety valve of his launch American seeds have been sent to bassador and his family. to have any device, contrivance the National Government.
or attachment thereto which may
These seeds, which have been
Marble Ball Room.
cause or be capable of causing to sent first-class to insure speeuy Of especial magnificence is the be placed on such safety valve transmission, have been carefully ball room. Thirty-three feet by chosen in the northern states to 50 in size, it is separated from the any greater pressure than is
insure that they are such as will spacious entrance hallway only allowed under the conditions of thrive in the localities for which by pillars of Vienna marble. The the licence of the lauuch.
they are destined.
floor is of black and white marble.
ON THE PRESIDENT
MADISON.
WHO'S WHO AMONG THE PASSENGERS
Hongkong passengers by the s.5. President Madison, which arrived to-day, include the following:
Mr. J. F. Casper.--Prominent wheat grower of Walla Walla,! Washington. He is on a pleasure] tour of the Far East, accompanied by his wife.
Mr. Chan Him-fung-Importer! and exporter of Shanghai, on a business trip.
is
The Department of Agriculture Set in the walls are pilasters of at present planting seeds marble, the space between these brought from China and Tibet being panelled with mirrors ex- by Dr. Rock, Special attention tending from floor to ceiling." is being given rhododendrons, In all, the building contains 97 which are being developed and rooms. distributed throughout the country to public parks and nurserymen.
AMERICA AND CHINA CHILD WELFARE.
COLLECTIONS
PROHIBITED
Last, but certainly not least as the prohibition war waxes. hotter and hotter, in the basement are two wine cellars with heavy steel doors, to which the wine and the spirit stock purchased from ex-Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, has already been removed.
Whether the contents will be tabooed at the brilliant banquets which begin with the official In- aurguration of the Embassy in the autumn, will not be disclosed un-
IN CONNECTICUT.
Hartford, Conn., Apr. 19. The State Welfare Board to-day til then. refused to renew the licence of "We cross that bridge when we Mr. William George Clarke.China Child Welfare" to operate come to it," Sir Ronald has said. Retired Governmental Official, now in Connecticut.
in business in Shanghai. He Officials of the organization The new furnishings of the intends to return to Shanghai in were informed that they could no mansion have been chosen in Eng- a few days.
longer solicit funda In Con-land, whence they are being Mr. Donald A. Corlett.-Connecticut.
hipped by Sir Lione! Earle, who nected with the States Steamship
The ground for the action was has charge of the equipment of all Company. in their Hongkong understood to be the fact that up Government establishments. offices. He is returning from a to the present time, only a small brief visit to friends in Yokohama. part of money obtained has been
Mr. C. J. Malouf-Returning sent to China.
from a cruise in northern waters.
He will return shortly to his
estate in Sydney, Australia, his MARINES KILLED IN present home. Mra. Malouf la with him.
Mr. J. R. Porter.-Banker of Orange, Cal. He and Mrs. Porter are cruising for pleasure.
Mr. W. L. Strong-On a cruise around the world, accompanied by his wife and daughter, He is a retired manufacturer of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia.
months..
NICARAGUA.
OUTBREAK BY NATIONAL GUARDSMEN.
Expert Gardener.
As to the grounds, Lady Lind- say has taken entire charge.
Lady Lindsay, who was Miss Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, of New York, before her marriage, was a professional landscape gardener.
She is still very proud of her achievements in this sphere, which can be seen in several astates in Ohio and Long Island. W
Talking of her plans, sheer- Washington, Apr. 19. plained that she took up landscape Lieut. Veryl Dart of Nashville, gardening years ago, before there Tenn., and Sergt. James Young, were regular schools for profes.
Mrs. Tom Sue-Him-Resident of both of the U.S. Marines, were sional study, San Francisco, on a vialt to her killed in Nicaragua when National Later she took a course of ar parents in Hongkong. She will Guardsmen for some unexplained chitecture at Columbia University, remain in Hongkong about three reason overpowered a sentry and here, and botanical courses in
Misa Margaret Keating-Pro turned a machinegun on the England.
officerat quartera. Coach dn addition to her gardening minent society leader of Chicago,
Both those killed were members hobby, Lady Lindsay, is an en- Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY Ill. She is visiting friends in
Lof the officer's guard...
thusiastic, motorist, FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong for several weeks. Hongkong.
THE TRIAL OF
MARY DUGAN
Writhen
and
Directed
by Bayard Veiller
AT THE
with
Norms Shearer-Lewis Stone
H. B. Warner-Raymond Hackett.
THE tell-tale knife with Mary Dugan's fingerprints on it...... strongest link in a web of circums- Tantial evidence that seemed complete!
The most dramatic of stage mystery plays is here now as an all-talking picture that's even better! Directed by the famous author with a superb cast of store!
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
QUEEN'S A 2.30, 5.10, 7:15 & 9.20
FATE relentlessly pulls the strings in a stirring drama of to-day.
KING VIDOR'S MIGHTY PRODUCTION
THE CROWD
With
ELEANOR BOARDMAN, JAMES MURRAY
A motion picture with a stirring message on marriage.
A powerful film of truths of life and love!
AT THE
WORLD
Chinese Picture
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 5.15 & 9.20
-At 2,30 & 7,15
**The EYEING WOMAN"
Vilma Banky
Awakening
with
LOUIS WOLHEM WALTER BYRON
A Victor Fleming Production by Frances Marion
UNITED ARTISTS: PICTURE
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY At 2,30, 5.30 & 9.20
AT THE
STAR
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