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

WANTED.

WANTED. A Lady Teacher to teach General Subjects to two children, a boy and a girl, aged 11 and 8. About three hours, five mornings a week, for some moaths. Write Box No. 709, "Hongkong Telegraph."

MOTOR LIGHTWEIGHT

CYCLE. Must be cheap exterior immaterial providing engine good. Write Box No. 502, "Hongkong Telegraph."

SITUATIONS WANTED,

(Indy) desires

STENOGRAPHER

position in Hongkong, experience with Miing systems. Write Box No. 704, "Hongkong Telegraph."

YOUNG MAN (British) seeks posi- in clerical tion as salesbian, or

Please capacity. Good, references. communicate with Box No. 703, "Hongkong Telegraph.

PREMISES TO LET. TO LET-Immediate possession, No. 2. King's Park Buildings, Austin Road, Kowloon, 4 roomed FLAT with modern conveniences and Garage Apply Union Trading Co., Ltd, York ..Building.

TU LET-Office Booms, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building. Apply to Sang Keep game Building,

GUIDE TO THE COMPANIES' ORDINANCES OF

HONGKONG.

In The Form of a Detailed

Index!

(131 PAGES),

COMPILED BY

WALTER J. HAWKER, A.C.1.8.

HONGKONG.

Below are some opinions by pro- fessional

beea who have men favoured with advance copies.

"I have tested it in several instances, and found that in cach of those instances, the work fully meets the test."

THE BRITISH CORPORATION REGISTER OF SHIPPING & ·

AIRCRAFT.

Head Office:

14, Blythswood Square, Glasgow.

The Undersigned has been ap- pointed Non-Exclusive Surveyor to-- the above Corporation for Hong- kong.

T. H. G. BRAYFIELD,

3, Queen's Building,

Hongkong. Telephone No. 30231 (two lines). Hongkong, 25th August, 1930.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1930.

Lammert's Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

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

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW, the 25th and 26th August, 1990, commencing each day at 10.30 a.m.

at

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

THE BUREAU VERITAS INTERNATIONAL REGISTER FOR | comprising:-

THE CLASSIFICATION OF SHIPPING.

Head Office: 31, Rue Henri-Rochefort, Paris.

ww

The Undersigned has been ap pointed Surveyor to the above mentioned Society for Hongkong, Canton and Macao.

T. H. G. BRAYFIELD, ·

3, Queen's Building.

Hongkong. Telephone No. 30231 (two lines), Hongkong, 25th August, 1930.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY

NOTICE.

The Public is hereby informed. that a revised Timetable will come into force on and from Tuesday, 26th August, 1930. Attention is drawn to alterations to the time of arrival and departure of certain local trains.

As a result of improvements to the track between Canton and Shek Lung the through journey is now reduced to 4 hours."

It is hoped to resume normal running by the end of the year. R. BAKER,

Manager. Kowloon, 22th August, 1930.

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,

Any shareholder desiring to see "For years I have complained or sign the Requisition should bitterly of the lack of an Index to apply personally to the under- the Companies' Ordinances of signed during office hours when Hongkong The volume will be of full particulars will be gladly great service."

"The work is excellently con- ceived and very well worked out."

"Every solicitor, barrister, and auditor and company secretary will find the work indispensable."

"I heartily congratulate Mr. Hawker on his work."

Price $5.00

Printed and Published by the

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,

LIMITED.

"Morning Post Building." 3, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.

CREDIT 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."

MASSAGE HALL

MRS. S. UZUNOYE

Expert MasseUSE

87. Queen's Road C., 2nd floor.

MRS. MOTONO. Massage Hand and Electric 31b, Wyndham Street.

SHAMEEN PRINTING PRESS AGENTE FOR

"The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TO WHOM ALL LOCAL. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED

supplied. HONGKONG SHAREHOLDERS'

ASSOCIATION, '

O. F. RIBEIRO, Hon. Secretary.

1st floor, Bank of East Asia Building,

10, Des Voeux Road,

Teak Hatstands, Chesterfield Couches and Chairs, Bookcases, Side Tables, Pictures, Silver and Brass Ware, Fenders, Ornaments, Curios, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Mauritius Paims, 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 Bedsteade, Teak Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirrors, Tables, Chests. of Dressing Drawers, Washstands, Desks, etc., etc.

also

A Quantity of Blackwood Ware. and

One Fine Limoges Dinner Ser-

vice.

Jacobean Bedroom.

and

Bitting-Room Suite. Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Saturday, the 28rd August, 1930.

Terme-Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction.

cn WEDNESDAY; the 27th August, 1930, commencing at 10.30 a.m. at Godown No. 15,

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, Mutches,

Effects, Personal

Hair Oil, Acid Cigars, Cigarettes, Wire, Bar Ends, Wood, Salt Fish, Tea,

THEATRE ROYAL Razors, Plate Cuttings, Wire Rope,

TUESDAY 2nd, SEPT.

at 9.15 p.m.

A. Strok

R

PBE3ENTB

I

ZIMBALIST

WORLD FAMOUS VIOLINIST

DR ALIKOʻ

Harry Kaufman

Prices: $5, $4 & $2.

BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S

METALS

of all kinds especially for ship- building and engineering work. Completa stock. Best Terms, Immediate delivery.

- SINGON & COM! ESTABLISHED ́s. D. 1820-

HING LUNG ́81.

Oil, 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 K. M. Lot 49). Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT-BROS.,

Auctioneers.

PUBLIC AUCTION:

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public

Auction,

on-Saturday,

the 30th August, 1930,

commencing at 11 am..

at No. 19, Jordan Road,

(2nd Floor), Kowloon.

A Quantity of Valuable Household

Furniture

On View From Friday, the 29th August, 1930.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

CAR TROUBLE?

PHONE 24821

AND YOUR TROUBLIS WILL QUICKLYVANIES

FIAT GARAGE

67, Des Vœux Road C.

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAT'S" "QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local

Banks. here quotations issued to-day:

Hongkong Bank, $1449 s. Chartered Bank, £18) n. Marcantile A. & B., £98. D. East Asia $121 n.

Insurances.

Canton Ins., #9471 b. Union Ins., $438 b North China. Ins., Tis. 180 Yangtaze Ins., $50 n. China Underwriters, $2.65 China Fires, $400 b. H. K. Fire Ins., $980 ...

Shipping.

Douglases, 8281 b.

H. K. Steamboats, $24.85 8. Indo-Chinas, (Def.) $45 n. Union Waterboats $32. n.

Mining.

<!

Benguets, 883 n. Kallans, 26/3 n.

Langkata, Tls. -8) n.

DIAMOND TRADE STABLE

ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE PRESENT STORM.

DUTCH CONFIDENT.

"The diamond trade of Amster- dam is a solid structure on a very massive foundation. It will wea ther the present storm as it has bwithstood so many in the past," said Henry Polak, president of the Netherlands Diamond Workers' Union, after a complete survey of the history of the diamond cutting industry of Amsterdam.

b.-

The origin of the Dutch dia mond cutting industry, with at present 7000 workmen, all first rate artisans. carefully trained' under the supervision of a joint committee of masters, and mep, and divided over some 300 employ- ers, varying from large concerns with hundreds of workmen, to

S'hai Explorations, Tis. 1.30 bmaster cutters employing five or Raube, $228, Tronoha, 21/- n."

Decks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $164 n.. "Whampoa Dooks, $39 n.

China Providents $5.25 b. Hongkowe, Tls 260 b. New Engineeringe, Tis. 7 n.. Shanghai Dooks. Tis. 119, b. Catteria,

Ewo Cottons, Tis. 12.30 b. S'hai Cottons. Tls. 83 (old) n. Landa, Hotels, ecc.

H, and S. Hotels. $10.50 b. H. K. Lands, $77) b.

do. 76 n.x Rights do. Rights 15 n. S'hai Lands Tis 287 n. Humphreys, $16. a. Realties, $9.25 8. Chinese Estates $87

1.

Public Utilities. Tramways, $18.20 b. Peak Trams (old) $12ł b Btar Ferrios, $85 m. Chins Lights, (Old) $247 b. H. K. Electrica, $77 b.. Macao Electrics, $23 n. Telephones $34 b. China Buses, Tls. 181 b. Singapore Tractions, 10/- 6. Industrials..

six men, dates back to the last quarter of the sixteenth century.

Toward 1580 the northern Netherlands had practically suc cecded in liberating themselves from the Spanish domination. Not so the southern Netherland (the present-day Belgium), on which the Spanish rulers retained their hold, and where they unremitting- ly persecuted the comparatively small number of converts to Pro- testantism. Many, in order to escape persecutions, fed to Hol- land; many were master crafts- men, among them a few cutters.

of

South African Fields.. Shortly afterward numbers persecuted Jews from Portugal and Spain, and thereupon from Germany and Poland, Bought re- fuge in "Holland.. They settled principally in Amsterdam where they could live peacefully un- molested. They were, however, not admitted to the craft guilds, and could not follow any handi- craft trade except that of cutting diamonds.

Toward the middle of the eighteenth century diamonds were found in Brazil. An Amsterdam firm, Brottschneider hacked by the bankers Hope &

Brothers,

THE

LLOYD TRIESTINO

NAVIGATION CO.

ANNOUNCES: A

NEW FAST MAIL PASSENGER SERVICE.

BETWEEN

THE FAR EAST AND ITALY, TO BE INAUGURATED BY THE

S. S. "TEVER,"

Leaving SHANGHAI on OCTOBER 15.

VIA...

HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, Ş

ADEN, PGRT SAID.

Fallowed by the 8.8. "ORACOVIA” “QANGES” & “PILSNA.

LUXURIOUS LINERS AND SUPERB PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION.

For all particulars and sailing dates, etc, Apply to

Queen's Building,

Wel 28021.

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents.

POST OFFICE NOTICE

Y

RADIO NOTICES,

Individuals and fema are recommended to register their telegra... phic addresses at the Radio Office. No charge is made for this,

NEW POSTAGE RATES.

The following rates of postage are now being charged on letterti (other than postcards? addressed to the following destinations:

Rate of Postage

Destination

Places in the Colony

United Kingdom and

British Possessions and Protectorates

Macao

China proper, excluding Sinklang, Mongolia and Thibet

Foreign Countries generally

3 cents for each oz. or

part of an oz..

8 cents, for each oz or

part of an oz.

4 cents for each oz. or

part of an oL

14 cents for the first oz. and 8 cents for each additional az. or part of an of

:""

The special rate of 2 cents per 4 ozs. on newspapers published in the China Sugars, $1.25 b.

Co., succeeded in obtaining from Colony and addressed to Hongkong, United Kingdom, British Possessions the King of Portugal the mono- and Protectorates, China and Macao bas been abolished and the rate of Malabons, $27 n. Cald: Macg. Ord: Tis. 10,75 a. poly of the stones found in that 2 cents per 2 ozs. substituted therefor.

Circalars for addresses in the Colony or Wel Hai Wei, which are colony, which gave the Amsterdam Canton Ices, $2.15 b. Comonts (Comb.) $17.90 Ropes $11. 8.

United Asbestos $5 .

Bieres, etc. Dairy Farms, $25 b. Watsons, $11.95 .. Dor A. Wings, $1 b. Lane Crawforde, $27 Mackintoshs, $18 Sinceres, $11.50 b.

b.

BA

2.

Miscellaneous. Amusements, $26 m. Constructions, $1.90 b. B'que Ind. G. Bonds, 62% .n H.K.G. Loan 8% Prem.

cutting trade a considerable im- posted in batches of not less than ter of uniform size and weight, and petus. It remained in a flourish. which are posted by being delivered to an officer of the Post Office, are now ing condition until the French Recharged postage at the rate of 2 cents for each 2 oz. or part of 2 ozs.

instead of 1 cent per 2 doza, as heretofore. volution and the subsequent

INWARD MAILS Napoleonic period..

Per

From

U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan & Shanghai

(San Francisco 1st August). Pres. Cleveland

Angers Japan, Shanghai and Europe via

Siberia U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan, Shangh

Pres. Cleveland

(Due here August 25, at 9 p.m.)

After 1815 the industry of dia- mond cutting revived. It occupied a comparatively small number of men, until about 1870, when the first diamonds from the newly discovered fields of South Africa arrived. This led to a period of unprecedented prosperity, during which the foundations of the present solid structure of the dia-Europe via Susz (Letters and mond trade of, Amsterdam were laid.

THEN •

THEN AND NOW

BUT IN THESE SPEEDY

MODERA TIMES DAME FASHION SAYS

MG WRONG TO HUSTLE 'N' PISTLE

'N' BUSTLE ABORT- ————— JUST LET -TRING 5-

•TRAIL — ALONG

TWAS VERS CNC

AND QUITE THE THING—~•

(N. THOSE POKY TIMES

How 50 REMOTE,, ~TO HISTLE 'RUSTLE.

U BISTLE KOLT- ~TO ACHIEVE A SWISH~~~~

-TO ONE'S

PETTICOAT

(San Francisco, 1st August) Japan, Shanghai and Europe via

Sibeira, (London, 7th August)... Angers

papers, London 31st July and parcels 24th July) Canada, U.S.A. Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (Vancouver B. C. 7th August.)

Japan ...

Shanghai and Amoy

Saigon

Japan

Sourabaya

Shanghai

Australia and Manila

Jäpan

Due.

August 25.

..August 26.

...August 26.

August 26.

Kashgar

August

Emp. of Canada

August 28.

August 28.

August 31.

.September 1.

September 2.

September 3.

September 2.

.September 6.

.September 8.

La Plata Maru Tilsondari G.. Metzinger Sydney Maru

Tanda Tjibesar Oldekerk

St. Albans

OUTWARD MAILS:

Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 18 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertized ta close at or before 9 am, registered and parzel mails are closed at 5 p.m.

on the previous day.

For

Swatow

Sam Shai and Wuchow Straits

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, USA, Canada, Central and South America and Europe via San Francisco and Europe via Siberia

Batavia

Fort Bayard, Hoihow, Pakbol and

Haiphong

Per Hydrangea Kongo

Date and Time.

Mon, Aug. 25; 8 p.m.

Mon., Aug. 25, 4 p.m.. Van Heuts. Mon, Aug, 25, 5 pm.

Pres. Lincoln-

Parcela Registration Letters

.Tues., "Aug. 26.

.26th 5.p.m.

.....25th 5 7.3. :26th 8.20 am.

(Due San Francisco 17th Sept.) Tjiszlak Tues., Aug. 20, 10.30 am.

.Tues., Aug. 26, 12.80 p.m. ......... Tues., Aug. 26, 1 p.m.

Tonkin

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritias, East and "South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Holyang

Angers

Registration Letters

Registration

Straits

Manila

Swatow

Japan, Honolulu, "San Franciscs

and South American Ports Saigon

Amoy

Manila

Amoy

Saigon, Ceylon, India, Mauritius,. East and South Africa and South American Ports

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Haiphong

Letters

Tues., Aug. 28. K.P.O.

G.P.O...

1 p.m.

1 pt

.1.45. p.m. 22.30 pm. (Due Marseilles 27th Sept.) Lycemoon....Tues., Aug. 26, 2 p.m.

Pres. Cleveland

Tues., Aug. 26, 4.30 p.m. Kwai Sang ..Wed., Aug. 27, 8.30 am,

Ginyo Maru Wed., Aug. 27, 10.30 a.m. Telemachus Wed., Aug. 27, 12.30 p.m. Taiyuan... Wed., Aug. 27, 5 p.m. Emp. of Canada

Hosang

Thurs., Aug. 28, 3.30 p.m.

Thura, Ang, 28, 0 p.m."

La Plata Mara

Hai Ning

Canton

Stralta, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles Kashmir

Shanghai, Japan and Europe via

Siberia

Fri, Aug. 29, 10.80 a.m. ..Fri., Aug 29, 2 p.m. Fr., Aug. 29, 2.80 p.m.

Parcels

-Set, Aug. 30. K.P.Ö.

...Aug. 29, 4.30 p.m.

Registration Aug, 20, 9 am,

Letters

Parcels

Q.P.O.

10a.m.

Aug. 29, 6 pm.

Registration Aug. 30, 9.45 am.

Letters

.10.30a.m.

(Due Marseilles. 27th Sept.)

G. Metzinger .Mon., Sept. 1, noon.

"Superscribed -Correspondence only.