FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
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"MEIRION" HONGKONG,
PUBLIC AUCTIONS-
Undersigned have received in- Term Tax Hor. ME. W. CHATHAM, M.G., to sell by Public Auction,
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ON
MONDAY,
December 13, 1920, at 10 30. at bis residence. Inverdraie"
116, Barker Road,
THE SIMPAT Valuable Eousehold Furniture,
Jam
therein contained.
including
R..!
PUBLIO AUCTION.
DARTICULARS and Conditions of the
PAS letting by Public Auction Sale, to
be held on MONDAY, the 13th day of December, 1920, at 3 pm, at the Offices
Colony
of
with
of the Public Works Department, by Order of His cellessy the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND'at Kowloon in the for
term of the option of removal at a Crows Rent to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one farther tarm of.75 years.
Reghtry No.
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BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHIPBUILDING.
The fact that the Uni ed Kingdom
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TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
¡Continued from part 2.)
VII
to the other of its intention to
VIII.
Fit cow rapidly regaining the position The preceding Articles shall con- in the world of shipbuilding shê held tinne in force until the expiration of THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No in pre-war times, is indicated by the six months from the date on which
1603 for Two Shares numbered 48191,46190 standing in the Register Statistics just issued by Lloyd's either party shall have given notice in the name of LCE YUE SAU Register for the quarter ended on the terminate them. The parties mutte POSITION WANTED BY COM FOR SALE Splendid seven seater (deceased) late of Hongkong having 30th ultimo. Before the war the ally undertake, even in the event of R SALE -Splendid seven sheen LOST-NOTICE IS HEREBY merchant tonnage under construe such notice having expired, to con- PETENT LADY STEROI Hongkong. GRAPHER. Excellent references. Apply Well known make. Guaranteed in GiVEX the: unless that said Certibrate tian in this country usually exceeded¦tique to afford all the necessary
total building in be produced as the office of the Coar the
all other facilities for the completion or wind stating terms etc., to Bax 1937, coexcellent reaming order. Gord tyres,pany, 5 Queen's Rand Central, Victoria countries of the world, and aling up of any transactions, entered
tools and covers. Any tris and
Hong kong, on or before the 5th day of though this is not the case at into in pursuance of such Articles. inspection. Dirt cheap at present
January, 1921, a new Certificate for the the present time, the tonnage exchange. "Sox 1244 c/o "Chins Mail" said shares will be issued and the old building abroad only exceeds the The Russian Soviet Gazerament Certificate will thereafter be held by the United Kingdom tonnage under con-hereby declares that it recognises it: Company as null and void.
struction by about 103,000 tons. At liability to pay compensation to British the end of the September quarter subjects in respect of goods supplied the vessels building in this country or services rendered to it or to the nimbered 961, and their total gross frmer Government of Russia, or to tonnage amounted to 3,731,098, the Russian citizens, for which payment Latter figure showing an increase of has not been made owing to the REPULSE BAY HOTEL. 153,000 tons over that for the Russian Revolution. The detailed previous quarter, and of 914,000 mode of discharging this liability, tons over that for a year ago; the is tige her with all other questions crease during the year thus amounts with regard to the liability of each of to over 32 per cent. and in the parties 'towards the other party comparison with the figure for 5p or its nationals, shall be regulated by tember, 1913, the increase is over 90′ the Treaty referred to id the per cent. A considerable number of preamble.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTICULARS and Conditions of
the letting by Pable Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 13th day of December, "1990, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of voe Los of CROWN LAND on Findlay Roar, in the Colony of Hoog torg, for a term of years, with the Tables, Ornamenté, etc. Sunblinds, opties of renewals a Crown Rant to be Shanghai Tube Wire Cupboard. Afted by the Surveper of His Majesty the large number of Pot Flants, Garden Bing, for one farther term of 75 years. 'Seats, ter
Two Bedroom Suites. I set of Blackwood Chairs, Wicker Chairs and
(Fal Particulars from Catalogoa).
Ou view day of sale.
Tenary: --Cak.
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FICHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneer
Hengkong, Decaber 3, 159).
MHE Undersigned have received in- Teters to sell by Public Auction,
(POR 1000UNT OF THE CONCERNED)
од
TUESDAY,
December 11, 1920, commencing at 230, p. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
WHITE GOODS, &o., &c.,
Comprising
Pillow Cases, Quilts, Turkish Towels, Bath Towels, Bath Sheets, Double Bed Sheets, Drawnwork Bedspreads, Table Covers, Crochet and Drawnwork Doilies, Table Cloths, Linen Damask Serviettes,
Also
A few lots of Kit Bags, Suit Cases,
and Attache Cases, etc." (Fell Particulars from Catalogue)- TRA:-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers
Hongkong, December §, 1999, ..
(FOX 1000GIST OF THE "COSCEASED)
Q
TUESDAY,
December 14, 1999, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 9, Dex Vœux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNI TURE, BRASS AND TEAKWOOD TWEN BEDSTEADS BRASS-MOUNTED BEDSTEADS, CARPETS,
comprising:-
tc.
Lastarfeld Sofas, Arm-chairs faww),
Folding Card and Occasional Tables, Ope
Uphore Salte, Bedroom Furniture
Registry
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTICULARS and Conditions at the
letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 13th day of December, 1920, at $ 2.2, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excelency the Governor, CROWN LAND One Lo: of of
the Colour of Laicbikok. .in
years, Hoogkonz, for a term of 75 commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal st & Crown Bant to be fuced by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, fer one further term of 4 years, less 3 days.
at
| Registry No.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Kaula-eality.
PUBLIC AUCTION
comprising Teakwood Twin Bastends, THE Undersigned have received in.
large and smail
Wardrober,
tion,
Draing Tables, and Chairs, Wash stands, &o, (farned Teakwood), Side. boards Dinner kronetixtension Dio- ig fables #nd Chairs, &c. Disne Berrics Crockery, and Glass Ware, Cooking Bores, Sotlery, &c, Batt Ware. Room Frensils, Vetro-Plated
Hending Lamps, Tonkwood Screens, Sundry fackwood Furniture, Side Table, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures, Carpets, de
Also One large Dolls House, American Ice Chest, Enamelled "Bath, sevemi lots Tennis Balis, &c. &c.
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Full Particulars from Catalogue).
·Terms Cach
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneer Hongkong, December 8, 1930:
HE Undersigned have reived in- To sell by Public Auction,
FR 400GGHT OF CHE CONCERNED),
ON
SATURDAY,
December 19, 1920, at 10.30 a.m.,
́at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Da Yaux Boin, Corner of
Log Eutine Skroat,
A large Consignment of TOYS.
Un view Friday 171E DE Treme-Canb
HUGHES & KOUGH,
· Auctioneer Bengkong, December 4, 1920.1
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atractions to sell by Public Auc
J.
at an earls cate.
at their Sales Rooms,
No. 8, De Veux Real, Corner of Jee House Street,
A consignment of Diamond Jewellery,
Consisting of Bracelets, Brooches, and Earrings, suitable for Xmas Gifta,
Terms: Cash,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
·Auctioners Hongkong, December 8, 1990.
TAIYO.& CO.
(JAPANESE) BOOTS AND SHOES.
MADE TO ORDER How, Wyndham 85%-
MUMEYA.
Japanese Photographers. We have removed our Premise to
No 2811 Juror's Boad 0.
Bitting hours from 8 am to 9 p.m.
Passport photos finished
in one hour.
ANTED GODOWY SPACE fret REQUIRED about 2008
be near water front. Praya East preferred. Apply Box 1242 c/o THE "CASA MAL"
TO LET.
O LET.-IMMEDIATE OCCUPA TION-A FEW THREE ROOM. ED EUROPEAN FLATS IN ORIENT BUILDINGS, CORONATION ROAD, KOWLOON. MODERATE RENTAL Appir J. CAER CLARK, Architect and Surveyor, 14, Queen's Road, Central
FORSALE-FIRST CLASS Pedigree
and Terriers. Orders for any Breed of DOGS Promptly executed with satisfactory results by late Kennelman to Sir Samuel Borders. Only bona fide purchasers need apply Box 1240, e “C'era Ma
LOST.
OST-Docked tall black and white
Printer PUPPY Finder please communicate with Dr. Krw, Alexandra Buildings Reward if necessary.
THE 37th ANNUAL
AL FRESCO FETE
OF THE
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
will be held in the compound of the CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL and the Playground of the
OLD ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE ON
SUNDAY, 12th DECEMBER, 1920.
From 8.30 to 1130 p.m.
Under the Distinguished Patronage of
HE. THE GOVERNOR and LADY STUBES Vice-admiral Sir A. L DUFF, KOB Major-General F. VESTRIS, C.B.
Commodore W. BOWDEN-SMITH, CEE
Admission
ち
Soldiers and Sailors în uniform admitted free.
$1.
Each ticket of adimizio entitles the holder to a souvenir.
In the afternoon From 230 to 630 p.m. several Stalls will be open, and Tea sud amusement specially suitable for Children will be provided. Refreshments will be obtainable. Admission free. The Band of the Wiltshire Regiment will play during the afternoon.
The Grounds will be brilliantly illuminated in the Evening The Bands of the WILTSHIRE REGIMENT at the "SOCIEDADE- PHILARMONICA" will play between 8.50 and 11.30 pm.
SOME FEATURES OF THE FETE: Grand Concert by. Well-known Hongkong Amateurs, Tea Room, Refreshment Boom, Chute, Fishing Pond, Lucky Wheel, Aunt Sally, Electric Shooting Gallery, Lucky Dip, Strafing the Bolshevik, Quoits,
***
FARM YARD AND STORE:
Come and Win Your Turkeys and Geese for Christmas SEVERAL RAFFLES WITH VALUABLE PRIZES Including a New Oakland Five seater Motor Car VALUE $3,000
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Tickets for which may be obtained from Mr. L. A. Barton, Messrs. W. G. Humphreys & Co.
*NO WORK OF CHARITY IS FOREIGN TO THE SOCIETY COME AND HELP HONGKONG'S POOR.
JUST RECEIVED SHIPMENT OF
3 H.P. CLEVELAND
MODEL 1920/21 MOTOR CYCLES
(75 Miles to the Gallon)
@ $335
G $335.
ALEX. ROSS & CO.
25, DES VORCI BOLD CENTRAL
HONGKONG.
HORLICK'S, MALTED MILK
, (Full-cream milk enriched with barley and wheat)
The Ideal Food Drink for all Ages.
Science afirms its superiority. Experience confrma. Cives strength and maintains it. Cenerates beat and. conserves it. Baliss Bene, Brain & Brawn, Retreating and delicions, ally digested and quickly absorbed
sly be an imbent by the skunde ndition if hot or valid meter. IMPORTANT NOTICE..
ORDINARY MILK k not siwaya guro ;
HORLICK is guaranlied volformly se. ORDINARY MILK i endale unte's soaked ;
HORLICK'S is sale and soối no secking.
ORDINARY MILK often disagrosf;
HORLICK'S never dues, fa ORDINARY MILK deteriorates quicity: HORLICK' Koops fadsiziisty,
ORDINARY MILK ia seldom avalibis whio wa :
· HORLICK'S le slways si kind.
HORLICK'S may be mad in Puddings," Prendi," Cams, Custurás, éte“, in place of ordinary m).
Chemisty, and Stor
HORLICK'S MALTED MILK CO., SLOUGH, BUCKS, ENG..
CH
MOWBRAYS. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary- Hongkong, December 3, 1920.
MABARET DINNER DANCES will
be held on the following dates SATURDAY, 11th December, WEDNESDAY, 15th December, 13th December. SATURDAY, TEDNESDAY, 22nd December. Smith and, Jacks will" entertain with the latest Coon Songs and Dances
The Ball Room extension at Repulse Bay Hotel will be completed this week
No increased charge is made to Diners at the Repulse Bay Hotel in connection with the entertainment. A table money charge will be made to Non-diners on the nights when cabaret dinner dances are being held.
Hongkong- December 9, 1920,
end.
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY, (1978) LIMITED.
IX
large vessels are. now in hand; The British Government makes a although the individual tonnage in corresponding declaration. no case exceeds 25,000. There are “ now building 64 vessels of 10,000 In consideration of the declaration tons and over, 37 vessels of 12,000 in the preceding Article the British tons and over, 25 vessels of 15,000 Gwernment hereby declare that they tēns and over, and 4 vessels of over wal not take or encourage any steps 20,000 tons and under 25,000 tons. with a view to attach or to take With regard to the tonnage build possession of any gold, securities, or most noticeable cimmodities (not being articles ing abroad, the feature is the decline in the identifiab: as the property of the tonnage building in the United British or of any Allied Government)
there are States, where
now which may be exported by Russia in only 312 vessels, with an aggregate payment for imports or as security gross tonnage of 1,772,193 in hand, for such payment, on the ground of as compared with 707 vessels and any claim against Russian citizens, 3.470,748 tons, which -were the or against the Russian Soviet
for figures
the corresponding Government, or against the former quarter of last year. United Government of Russia.
I. SECOND ORDINARY States tonnage building now is
The Russian Soviet Government THE
GENERAL MEETING OF thus but little more than half the SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the amount in hand in September, 1919. undertakes to make no claim to dis Offices of the Company, St. George's Holland now takes second place cose in any way of the fands of the Baildrag, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong- among foreign shipbuilding nations, late Russian Government in London. kong. am THURSDAY, the 23rd Decem. the ships in hand in the Dutch yards The British Government gives a ber, 1990, at 11 o'clock in the frenoon. numbering 165 and having an aggre- corresponding undertaking as regards for the purpose of receiving a statement gate tonnage of 423,400; the latter British Government funds in Ferro- of accounts and the report of the figure shows an increase of over 47 grad. This Article is not to pre- General Managers for the year ended per cent. in comparison with that for judice the inclusion in the formal 30th September, 1920, and electing a the same time last year. Italy (which Treaty referred to in the preamble of Consulting Committee and Auditora.now includes Trieste) and France, any provision dealing with the sub-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the both show large increases in ship- ject matter of this Article. Company will be CLOSED from FRI- building activity, the former country DAY, the 17th December, 1920, until being now engaged in building 156 TELRSDAY, the 23rd December, 1920, both days inclusite,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers; -- Hongkong, December 1, 1920.
MAN SMASHES WINDOW.
vessels of 365.313 tons in the aggre- VERGING ON STARVATION. gate, while the latter is building 89 ships with a total tonnage of 292,608. The figures for Italy and France in September, 1919, were 285,928 tons (108 vessels) and 174,736 tons (64 vessels), respectively, so TO CALL ATTENTION TO DISTRESS. that the increase in the case of Italy!
"I did it, sir, to bring to the notice amounts to nearly 23 per cent, while!
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in France the increase has been over of the public that there are thousands 67 per cezt Japan, on the other, besides me on the verge of starvation.
Oxford-
MIN RIVER CONSERVANCY, Notification No. 9. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that hand, is building less than she was a scd that nothing is being done." said TENDERS are invited for a year ago, the figures for that country William Frederick Cock, a young vertical boiler about four feet in diame- now being 252,407 tons (72 vessels), man from Bradford, who was re- ter and nine feet in height, either new as compared with 299,600 tons (64 manded at Marylebone on a charge or used, together with the usual steam vessels) in September of last year, of wilfully breaking a plate-glass and water mountings suitable, for use Shipbuilding in the British Dominions window, valus £20, at Messrs. J on a Priestman Dredger. Tenders will
has also declined during the year Lyon's premises. 558, be considered only on boilers in good ended September 30 last, the work in street. He broke he window with a working condition.
Tenders stating dimension with other hand being now only 231,894 tons stone, and told the constable he had particulars of the boilers and mountings, (89 ships). while a year ago it was had no food for two days. "I term, time of delivery, etc., will be 308,465 tons (174 vessels); the have been out several nights myself," but no one cares for us.” received up to 21st December by the decrease in this case amounts to over be said,
Mr. D'Eyacourt; Do you think Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of 27 per cent. The only other coun
tries with more than 100,000 tons of people will care about you if you the Min River Conservancy.
shipping under construction are Swe break their window?
Prisoner: Well, it may enlighten den and Denmark, the figures for these countries being 121,849 people on the situation."
116,063 tons (69 vessels) and
Detective-sergeant: 'Hadlow men. tons (62 vessels), respectively. Other tioned that, according to the prisoner. foreign countries between them are be came from Bradford, and had building 130 ships with an aggregate, done no work for six months. tonnage of 266,346, so that, with thei
The Conservancy does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender
P. R. WALSHAM,
Ion Secretary and Excâruzer to the Min River Comerrancy." Foochow 30th November, 1990.
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figures given above, the total num-i
ber of vessels building abroad comes
to 1144 and the total gross tonnage which amounts to nearly 28 per cent., is 3,834,073. This latter figure is being due almost entirely to the re less by 1,397,736 tons than that for duction of the work in hand in the September of last year, the difference, United States-Engineering.
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