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TO-DAY'S WANTS. New Advertisements.

25 WORDS

.$1.00, ($1.50 If Not Prepaid.) The following replies have been received:--

644, 545, 547, 550, 556, 566, 593, 595, 598, 618, 634, 638, 639, 642, 650, 667, 671, 678, 683, 685, 691, 695, 705.

NOTICE.

Some of the shareholders of the Hongkong Realty and Trust Co., Ltd. have prepared a Requisition to be made to the Directors for convening a Meeting to pass cer- tain important Resolutions affect- ing the Company.

SERVICES OFFERED.

Any shareholder desiring to see YOUNG LADỶ (Engilsh) offers ser-or sign the Requisition should vices as travelling companion in re-apply personally to the under- tura for passage to England. Ex-signed during office hours when be gladly perienced with children. Please write full particulars will Box No. 706 "Hongkong Telegraph."

LOST.

LEATHER TRAY PURSE containing small sum of money and three keys. Finder please communicate with. Box No. 701, "langkong Telegraph."

WANTED.

WANTED, & Programme Secretary for

Broadcasting the Hongkong Studio. Reply, stating full particu lara, qualifications and salary requir ed to Box No. 708, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."

LIGHTWEIGHT MOTOR CYCLE

Must be cheap exterior immateria providing engine good. Write Box No. 702. "Hongkong Telegraph."-

supplied.

HONGKONG SHAREHOLDERS*

ASSOCIATION,

O. F. RIBEIRO, Hon. Secretary.

1st floor, Bank of East Asin Building,

10. Des Voeux Road,

HONGKONG REALTY- & -TRUST

COMPANY, LIMITED.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND. of thirty cents per share, in respect the year 1930, will be payable on Thursday, the 4th September 1330, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on ap plication at the Company's Office, Exchange Building.

SITUATIONS WANTED.

YOUNG MAN (British) seeka posi-

The Transfer Books of the tion na salesman, or in clerical capacity. Good references. Please Company will be closed from communicate with Box No. 703, Chursday, the 28th August, 1930, "Hongkong Telegraph."

to Wednesday, the 3rd September. STENOGRAPHER' (lady), desires 1930 (both days inclusive) during position in Hongkong, experience with which period no transfer of shares filing systems. Write Box No. 704, an be registered. "Hongkong Telegraph."

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-A.J.S. 2% H.P. Motor-1 cycle, in good running order. Price $140. Apply A. A. Lopes, 11, Queen's Road Central.

by order of the Board of Directors.

C. P. V. RIBEIRO,

Acting Secretary. Hongkong. 9th August, 1930.

HOLY GHOST SCHOOL...

(Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1930.

Lammert's Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The undersigned have received. Instructions to sell by Public Auc. tion,"

on FRIDAY,

the 22nd August, 1930,

commencing at 230 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street

A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.

comprising:-

Teak Hatstands, Glass Cabinets, Chesterfield Couches and Arm- chairs, Desks, Gramaphones and Records, Pictures, Ornaments, Curios, Vases, Flower Pots, Table Fans, Carpets, Rugs, Planos, War drobe Trunks, etc., etc.

Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Sideboards with Bevelled Mirrors, Dinner Waggons, Ice Chest, Dinner Crockery, Glass Ware, Adding Machines, Kitchen Utencils, Stoves, Bookcase, Brass Ware, Cabin Trunks, etc, etc.

Teak, and Brass Bedsteads, War.

Tables, Cheat Dressing drobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Drawers, etc., etc.

and

A Quantity of Blackwood Furniture.

including:-

of

Joss Tables, Curio Cabinets, Tea Poys, Jardinieres, Chairs, Opium Stools, etc., etc.

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On View from Thursday, the 21st August, 1980.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT. BROS,

Auctioneers.

PUBLIC AUCTION."

QUICK SALE, owner having left Colony, motorcycle newly overhauled and repainted. Good condition $100. Also outboard motor which can be scen nt A. King's Slipway, $300. Write Bus No. 707, "Hongkong courses and private lessons: Chin-instructions to sell, by Public Telegraph."

APARTMENTS TO LET.

AIRLIE HOTEL-23-25 Nathan Road, Kowloon. Under European Management Excellent Cuisine, Modern Apartments. Terms Moderate. Three minutes from ferry. Tel 57357.

PREMISES TO LET.

Hongkong

TO LET.-Office Rooms, and Shanghai Bank Building. Apply to Sang Kes, same Building.

GUIDE TO THE

COMPANIES' ORDINANCES OF

HONGKONG.

In The Form of a Detailed

*Index

(131 PAGES), COMPILED BY WALTER J. HAWKER, A.Č.i,S.

JIONGKONG.

Below are some opinions by pro- fessional men who have been favoured with advance copies.

"I have tested it in several} instances, and found that in each of those instances, the work fully ancets the test."

"For years I have complained bitterly of the lack of an Index to the Companies" Ordinances of Hongkong. The volume will be of

great service."

Reopen September 2nd: Regular

ese, English, French, piano, organ, viola, painting, etc

Boarders received.

94, Pak Mai Hong, Canton, near Cathedral.

CRÉDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME- ORIENT.

Mortgage Bank & Estate Agents. "PEAK MANSIONS" Prince Edward Road, Kowloon

Detached and Semi-detached villas. Modern construction with garage. "Cambay Buildings" Flats with modern conveniences.

M

ASSEUR K. SHIMIDZU, ASSEUSES 8. HONDA. ASSEUSES 8. KISAKL Kecommended for many years by Government Civil Hospital, Peak Hospital, etc., and by the local doctors.

*Tel. 24945.

24, Wyndham Str

MRS. MOTONO.

Massage.

Hand and Electric

31b, Wyndham Street.

"The work is excellently con- ceived and very well worked out.” Four men working in a sewer "Every solicitor, barrister and 32ft. below the road were gassed auditor and company secretary in Birmingham. Two were able will find the work indispensable.” to escape, a third was overcome, and the fourth man fell and dis- "I heartily congratulate. Mr. located his shoulder. A police- man descended and, fixing a rope round the injured man, William Watson, had him drawn up to safety. Watson's companion,

Hawker on his work."

Price $5.00

Printed and Published

by the

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, Joseph Grimmett, was then simi-

LIMITED.

"Morning Post Building,"

3, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.

FOR THE

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The Undersigned have received

Auction,

on WEDNESDAY, the 27th August, 1930,

commencing at 10.30 a.m.

at Godown No. 18, The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon,

A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods comprising:

Flour, Sulphate of Ammonia, Iron, Steel Sheets, Glass Bottles. Old Newspapers, Sugar, Matches, Personal

Hair Oll, Effects, Cigars, Cigarettes, Wire, Acid Bar Ends, Wood, Salt Fish, Tea, Razors, Plate Cuttings, Wire Rope, Oll, Cotton Ware, Enamel Ware, Hemp, etc., etc.

and

One Steam Launch "SEAGULL" lying off the Godowns,

One Locomotive Boiler One Stationary Steam Crane (Smiths Lead), 5 Tons 18' Radius (On Veiw at KM. Lot 49). Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The undersigned have received instructions from The Executrix. of the Estate of the late Mrs. Brotherton Harker to sell by Pub- lic Auction,

on MONDAY and TUESDAY, the 25th and 26th August, 1930, commencing each day at 10.30 am. at

No. 3 and 4, The Albany A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.

comprising:-

larly rescued. Watson bad walt ed in the sewer to help Grimmett

Teak Hatstands, Chesterfield along, but was overcome when

Couches and Chairs, Bookcases, half way up the manhole ladder. Side Tables, Pictures, Silver and

CHILDREN

First Class Summer Schools. FOR CONVALESCENTS An up-to-date Sanatorium FOR EVERYBODY Sea-bathing from a wonderful beach.

These

Write

Brass Ware, Fenders, Ornaments, Curios, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Mauritius Palms, Plates, etc., etc.;

Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Teak Sideboards, Teak Ice Chests, Dinner Waggon, Din- ner Crockery, Glass Ware, E. P. Cutlery, Table Fans, Electric Lights and fittings, Kitchen Uten- cils, etc., etc.

Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Teak Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirrors,

Chests Dressing Tables,

of Drawers, Washstands, Desks, etc.,]

etc.

also A Quantity of Blackwood Ware. and

the

are but a few of attractions of TSINGTÃO

Box 225 for any information required

Tsingtao Pos

One Fine Limoges Dinner Ser-

'vice.

Jacobean Bedroom,

and

Sitting-Room Sulte.

Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Saturday, the

23rd - August, -1930.

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

SHARE PRICES. TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS,

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

Banka

Th+

Rongkong Bank, $1440 sa. Chartered Bank, £1ft n. Mercantile & B., £28 n. East Asia $121 Π

Insurances. Canton Ins.. $945 Union Ina., $438 b North China Ins., Tla. 160 Yangteze Ins., $30 n. China Underwriters, $2.65 b China Fires, $400 h. H. K. Fire Ina, $972). b.

Shipping.

b Douglases, $27 H. E. Steamboats, $25 Indo-Chinas, (Def.) $45 ... Union Waterbeats 332 n... Mining.

Benguets, 88, n. Kailane, 26:3 D. Langkate, Tle. 8 n.

KA

S'hal Explorations, Tis. 1.30 b Raube, $22) 6. Tronabs, 21/- n..

G..

Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $165 Whampoa Docks, $39 5. China Providents $5 10 Hongkews, Tls 260 b. Shanghai Donka. Tls. 117 b New Engineerings, Tls. 74'n

Cattons,

Euro Cottons, Tis. 12. s "S'bai Chitons Tis. 83 old)

Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and 8. Hotels, $10.50 b H. K. Lands, $80 #.

do. 76 m. x Rights do. Rights 15 n.

S'hai Lands Tla 287 n Humphreys, $16's Realties. $9.40 h Chinore Estares $97 .. n

Public Utilities. Tramway #18 4 h.

Peak Trams 'old' $12) b Star Ferries, $285

n

China Lights, Old) $237 » H. K. Electrics, 377 b Macao Electrics, $23 n Telephones $337 b. China Buses, Tis 181 b. Singapore Tractions. 10/- 4. Industrials.

China Sugars, $1 b.. Malabons, $27.

BA.

B.

A

Caid: Macg. Ord: Tls. 10.40 o Canton Icos, $2.10 Cements (Comb.) $17.95 Ropes $10.75 s. United Asbestos $5 Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $25 b. Watsons, $12 K. Der A. Wings, $1 b. Lane Crawfords, $3. Mackintoshs, $181 b. Sinceros, $11.50 b.

Miscellaneous. Amusements. $26 . Constructions, $1.90 b. B'que Ind. Bonds, 62% n. HE.G. Lost 84% Pram.

ท.

WATER LEVELS.

ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

POST OFFICE NOTICE -

Individuals and

RADIO NOTICES. -

Arena are recommended to register their telegra- The following table, issued by phie addresses at the Radio Office. No charge is made for this.

NEW POSTAGE RATES. the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English foot). the water levels on the West (other than postcarda? addressed to the following destinations River, North River and East River, on the dates named:

Shiuhing

Samshui

Tsingyuen

Sheklung.

Aug. 18. Aug. 19

11.2

-10.4

5.5

5.4

6.9

5,2

2.1.

1.7

The highest levels on record are:-Shiuhing, 41 feet; Tsing- yuen, 29.2 feet; Samshui, 27.3 feet, Sheklung 16.5 feet.

The lowest level on record at Samshul is minus & feet and at Sheklung minua 2.7 feet....

',

The following rates of postage are now being charged on letters

Destination

Places in the Colony

United Kingdom and ·

British Possessions and Protectorates Масло.

China proper, excluding

Sinklang, Mongolia and Thibet

Foreign Countzioa generally.

Rate of Postage

3 cents for each of, or

part of an OE

B'cents for each of, or

part of an ok.

4 cents for each os, or

part of an on-

14 cents for the first os and 8 cents for each additional es or part of an os

The special rate of 2 cents per 4 ozs, on newspapers published in the Colony and addressed to Hongkong, United Kingdom, British Possessions. “ and Protectorates, China and Macho has been Pholished and the rate of 2 cents per 2 ozs, substituted therefor,

EXCHANGE RATES.

Circulars for addresses in the Colony or Woi Hai Wel, which are posted in batches of not less than ter of uniform aire and weight, and London, Aug, 19.

123.82 which are posted by being delivered to an officer of the Post Office, are now 25.04 charged postage at the rate of 2 cents for each 2 ors, or part of 2 om. 20.39 instead of 1 cent per 2-doxa as heretofore.

INWARD MAILS.

Paris

Geneva

Berlin Oslo

18.17

Helsingfors

.193.7/16

From

Athens

375 Shanghai and Swatow

Buenos Aires

.40.9/16 Shanghai and Amoy

Hongkong

.1/3% Amoy

New York Amsterdam Stockholm

Vienna Madrid Bucharest Bombay.. Yokohama

Brussels

Milan

Copenhagen Prague Lisbon

Rio

Shanghai

4.87% London (parcels 17th July) and 12.08%%% Straits

Per

Due.

Soochow

.August, 21..

Sinkiang

August 21.

Talamba

August 21.

Patroclus

.August 21.

.18.125 Japan and Shangha!

.34.455 Europe via Negapatam (letters and

45.25 ..818

Kamo Maru

.August 21.

1/6%

Papers London, 24th July).......... Hakone Mars

Shanghai and Europe vla Siberia (London 29th July)..... 2/0.11/32 Japan

„August 28.

Kamo Maru

August 22.

Ginyo Maru

August 23.

Pres. Polk

August 25.

Shirela

August 25.

President Lincoln

August 24.

Tjisalak

August 24

Pres, Cleveland Angera

August 25.

.August 28,

At Empa. of Canada OUTWARD MAILS

.August 27.

34 USA., Honolulu, Japan & Shanghai .02.08

(San Francisco 25th July)

18.165 Calcutta and Straits:

164.5/32 Monila

.108.25 Amoy

4.29/32 USA., Honolulu, Japan & Shanghai

.1/7

(San Francisco 1st August)

Silver (spot and forward). 16.13/16

--British Wireless.

1

Japan and Shanghai ***

Canada, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (Vancouver B. C. 7th August).

Begistered and Parcel Maile are closed 15 minutes earlier than the me given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel malls are closed at. & p.m. on the previous day,'.

Per

For

Straita

The Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports for the week ending the 9th inst. shows the following cases of Infectious diseases and deaths resulting therefrom: Plague, Alexandria 2. casea death, Baghdad 3 cases 2 deaths, Rangoon 1 case 1 death, Bangkok 2 cases 2 deaths, Pnom-Panh 2 deaths, and Beirut 1 case. Cholera, Bombay 2 deaths, Calcutta 10 cases 7 deaths, Manila 1 cose, Cebu 4 cases 1 death, Ilo-Ilo 19 eases 18 deaths, Prom-Penh 3 cases 2 deaths, and Saigon 2 cases Straits- Swatow 1 death. Small-por Bombay 3 Nauru and Ocean Island cases 4 deaths, Calcutta 6 cases 51 Saigon deaths, Cochin 2 cases, Madras 12 cases 6 deaths, Penang 1 case, Batavia 1 case 1 death, Palem- bang 5 cases 2 deathe, and Sal- gon 1 death.

Sam Shui and Wuchow

algon

Formosa Amoy Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, D.S.A.,

Canada, Central

South and America and Europe via San Franciscs and "Europe via Siberia

YOU CAN DEPEND ON THEM!

In Waiting,

• Of Dear!

-OR WHEN gol. 1.

GET IN TROUBLE-

~WHEN YOU GET IN DICA-

Holkow, Pakboi and Haiphong

Manila, Australia and New Zealand

via Thursday. Laland

Straits

Wei Hai Wei vin Swatow and Foo-

thow ...

Swatow

Amoy and Foochow Shanghal, Japan and Europe via

Siberia

.Tourene

Date and Time

Honolulu Mara

Wed., Aug. 20, 3.30 p.m. Tai Hing......Wed., Aug. 20, 4 p.m. Haldia.....Wed Aug. 20, 4.30 p.m. Takai Maru. Wed, Aug. 20, 5 p.m. Tainan

Wed., Aug. 20, 5 p.

Tatsuta Maru ................Thurs., Ang. 21. Registration..Aug. 20, 6 p.m. Letters...Aug., 21, 8.30 am. (Due San Francisco 11th Sept.) Menaco Maru

Thurs., Aug. 21, 8.30 A.I. Dardanus.Thurs., Aug. 21, 2.30 p.m. Hydrangea .-Thurs. Aur, 21, 3 p.m. Apoey .Thu, Aug. 21, 3.30 pm Shunchih Thurs., Aug. 21, 4.30 p.m.

Changte

„Fri., Aug. 22. Parcela.......21st. 5 p.. Registration...........22ad 9.45 km. Letters......22nd. 10.30 .. (Dug Thursday Island 2nd Sept.) Irisbank

Huichow Haiching

Hakone Maru Chungkong

Hothow, Pakhoi and Haiphong... Chongtu Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Central and South America and Europe via

· Victoria B. C.

Switow, Amoy and Formosa

Sandakan

Kamo Maru

..Fri., Aug. 22, 10. 8.

Fri, Aug. 22, 10 a..

„Fri., Aug. 22, 1 p.m.

Fri., Aug. 22. 8.39 p.m. Fri., Aug. 22, & p.m. „Bat, Aug. 28, 8.30 a.m.

„Sat., Aug. 28. K.P.O.

Registration Aug. 22, 4.80 p.m. Letters.......Aug. 23, 9 a.m.

G.P.O.

Registration Aug. 23, 8.45 a.m Letters

9.30.

(Due Marcelles 22nd Sept.)

Protesilaus

Registration Letters

Sat., Aug. 23,

.9.45 ..

.10.30 ..

(Dus Victoria B, C. 16th Sept.)

Pres. Polk

.Sat., Aug. 23, 5 p.m.

.Sat., Aug. 23, 5 p.m.

Sun., Aug. 24, 9 a.m.

Mausang... Mon., Aug, 25, 10.20 a.m. Mon, Aug 26.

Manila

anhh

Amoy

Hozan Maru

.Sun., Aug. 24, D a.m.

Bangkok via Swatow

Kwangchow

Straits and Calcutta

Namang

Parcels

Letters

Batavia

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow ... Saigon,

Haiyang

Noon. .1 pil. Tjisalak..Tues., Aug, 26, 10.30 a.m. Tues., Aug. 28, 1 p.m.

Waiting

Darling

*Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Angers

Registration'. Letters

Registration

..1 p.m. ...1 p.m..

G.P.0.

..145 p.m... ..2.80

F..

I

Amoy

Amoy

Tues., Aug. 26. KPO

YOU GET IN

LATE

Manila

Swatow

Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco

and South American Ports

Manila

Letters

(Due Marseilles 27th Sept.) Pres. Cleveland

Tues, Aug. 26, 4.20 p.m. Kwai Sang.. Wed., Aug. 27, 8.30 am, Ginye Mara Wed., Aug. 27, 10.30 a.m. Emp. of Canada

Taiyuan Hosang

Hai Ning

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africe, "Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles Kashmir

Wed, Aug. 27, 3.30 p.m.

Wed., Aug. 27, 5 p.m., Thurs., Aug 28,.5 p.m. .Fri, Aug, 29, 2 p.m.

.Sat., Aug. 30. K.P.O.

Parcels....Aug. 29, 4.30.p.m. Registration

Aug. 80, 9 am....

G.P.O.

.Aug. 29, 6 p.m.

Registration Aug. 30, 9.46 a.m. Letters

10.30 am.

(Due Marseilles 27th Sept.)

*Superscribed Correspondence only...

A sensation was created in New Atkins, of Pottsville, Pennsy York social and financial circles Ivania, whom he married in 1881. when It was revealed that Mr. Mr. Heckscher and his bride are August Heckscher, the 81-year-old now spending their honeymoon in multimillionaire steel magnate, the Adirondack Mountaina, In had eloped with and married Mrs. New York State. Despite his Henry Curtiss, a 56-year-old great age, Mr. Heckscher is still widow, The bride is said to have active in business, and continues. been an intimate friend of the to head a number of important millionaire's Arst wife, Miss Anna companies.

AND WHEN

Letters

Parcels