FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1922.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND ADMIRALTY.
Conl Contractors
General Brokers.
'-PUBLIC AUCTIONS–
Ponies!
Ponies ! Ponies!!
Public Koup.
l'odoraigned have received in
THE sell by Public Roup.
ON
WEDNESDAY, Merah, 1922, at 5 p... at the Jockey Club Stables. A large number of well known Race Ponies.
Full Particulars from Catalogue). Terms --Cash,
HUGHES & BORGE,
Auctioners.
Hagkong. February 2, 1922.
Ior account of the entered)
OR
FRIDAY,
Mar 3, 1922, commencing at 2.30 p.m..
their Bules Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Strack- Chinese Porcolains. Curios, Lacquered Ware. &c., &zo. Inrinding a variety of 5-coloured and 3-coloured Vases and Jars, Wall Plates, Table oreans, Blue and White Varen, Incer burners, Old Bronze and Bruss Figur and Vases, Kakemonos, Lue querel Cabinets, Chairs, Screens. Table Ivory Ware, Jade. Agate and Orys Orumente, Mandarin Pieces.
Als many Green Judo Oraamente. Bead Band Bags, Embroideret Bags, Amber Neck-lares, Golden Breast Past Seart Pine, love Buttons, Bracelets, I Broorbes, &c., &t:.
Tabove stock recently arrived from
the North and includes pieces from the Ming Kunghi Kienlung and Tow kwong Periods,
The bulk of which will be sold with.
Gut deserve.
(Fal Particulars from Catalogas). Terus: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, February 22, 1922.
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INSURANCE
INTIMATIONS
OFFICEB.
Race Holiday.
NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN that that ANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on SATURDAY, February 25th, from 11.45 a.m.
By Order,
Secretaries.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU-
FACTURING CO., LTD.
THE THIRTY-EIGHTS ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OFSHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at St. George's Building, Chaler Bond, Victoria, on FRIDAY, the 3rd March, 1922, at 11 O'clock a.m. for the purpose of receiving a statement of accounts and the report of the General
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS Mangers for the octanding But December, 1921, and electing a Consul- FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF BONGKONG.ting Committee and Auditora MARINE INSURANCE ÂMSOCIATION OF
BONGKONG & CANTON, Hongkong, February 18, 1922.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Fourth Day.
inst the FIRST RACE will be started at NOON.
ON SATURDAY th
Н. ВІККЕТТ, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, February 22, 1922.
HONGKONG BOXING
ASOCIATION.
NENT TOURNAMENT SATURDAY, Februar 25th 1922,
at the
THEATRE ROYAL, at 9.15 pm.
Ten Round Featherweight Contest A. B. Chadwick. v. A. B. Hindle. Ten Rand Middleweight Contest,
D. S. Lewenden. v. A. B. Dunuso. Tep Round Catch weight Contest.
Sto. P. O. Morgan.
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Chief P. O. Callaghan. And three six-round contests. Broking at MOUTRIE'S. Members MONDAY & TUESDAY, Feliciary 20th and 21st.
General Pablo WEDNESDAY, 22od SATURDAY, 24th.
Сенат Pricor.
Open Xavings Competition FRIDAY and SATURDAY, March 31st and April 1st, at
THE THEATRE ROYAL
Full particulars will be sent to all unite of Army and Navy and Police. Orbera please apply to Hon. Secretary c/o Johuson, Stokes and Master.
NO ENTRANCE FEE.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Transfer Books of the Com pany will be CLOSED from WEDNES
THE Undersigned have recaved inwuo-DAY, the 22nd of February, to TUES
long to sell by Public Auction.
ON
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY And THURSDAY,
the 7th, 8th and 9th March, 1922,
at M, Naval Yard, Hongkong, and #
Kowloon Naval Depot, commencing each day at 9.30 8. with an interval from 12
noon to 1.30 p.m.
CLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL
L
STORES,
Ac..
&c., Comprising →→→
BAY, the 28th February, 1922, hotb days inclusive, during which period no trangfors of abares can be registered,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
M. MANUK,
Secretary.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Lot of CROWN LAND at Pok- fa'am Road, in the Colony of Hongkong for a term of 20 years with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by for one further term of 70 years. the Surveyor of His Majesty the King,
Life hats, Dugies, Whalers, Cells be letting by Public Auction Sale, DARTICULARS and Conditions of and Eletrical Fitting, Electric Cable, to be held on MONDAY, the 27th Cooking Stoves, Ships Fittings, Iron day of February, 1922, at 3 pm, at the Beda, Mattresses and Fittings, loe Offices of the Public Works Department, Chests, teel Tanks Lift Rafts, Life by order of His Excellency the Governor Belta, tare, Carpets, Rugs. Mata, Table Cvers, Blankets, Canvas Hoses. Old Collage, Canvas Rags, Old India Kubber. Old leather, Old Asbestos, Old Iron Brass, Copper, Lead. Gua Metal arl Stesi, Coal Sacks, Firewood, Iron, Wod and Gun Metal Blocks, Lamps, Searchlights, Gauges, Pro- pellers, Faa Engines, Steel Tubes, Steel Wre Rope, Od, Chain Cable, Compass & Compass fittings, &c.
A
Also
quality of Structural Steelwork sufficientior 3 complete sheds, 60 feat by 250 fat and sundry other steel-
work, no rain water pipes, gutters,
ity.
Lots my be inspected on Monday,
the 6th March, 1922.
Alsole of Old and Surplus Victuallig Stores at Kowloon on Fri- day, 10t March.
Comprising:-
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No, of Bale
Inland Lot
Registry No.
At Pokiniame Road,
Locality.
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Boundary
Measuremonta
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Danfantr
• Annual Bent.
As per sale piles,
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
200 11
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WED NESDAY. the 22nd February, 1922, notil FRIDAY, the 3rd March; 1922, both days inclusiva.
SHEWAN, TCHES & CO.,
General Managers. Bongkong, February 17, 1922.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
THE CHINA MAIL.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS ·
25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Every additional word 4 Cents
for 3 insertions.
WANTED
WANTED.
OF 2 ROOMS, 10d. wanted by married couple (British) Hongkong or Kowloon, Apply X,Y.Z. c/o The" CHINA MAIL."
TO LET.
TOLET-3 NEW OFFICE ROOMS,
in Central locality from 1st April. Apply SANG KEE, c/o Compradore Department, Hongkong & Shangbai Bank,-Des Voeux Road entrance.
SILVER DURING 1921.
(Continued › from Page 2).
WHERE SILVER 18 BELD.
NO EXTRAORDINARY GEN. ERAL MEETING of HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMIT, wil he held at the Hongkong It was reported that the Russian Hotel on FRIDAY, the 3rd day of Soviet government had coined silver March 1922, at 11.30 o'clock, in the roubles during the year but the forenoon when the subjoined Resolu-statistics are not available. Japan tions will be proposed as Extraordinary also followed the same policy and it Resolutions.
was understood that the Bank of France had been adding to its silver reserves for the purpose of inaugura- ting silver coinge early in 1922.
} That Article 105 of this Com pany's Articles of Association be altered as follows:-
(B) By the insertion of "$10,000" in the place of "$8,000 in the Afth
line thereof.
(b) By striking out in the ninth and tenth lines thereof the words "for eaob financial year of the Company" and inserting in place thereof the words in every year wherein such urofits shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of $150,000, and commission of tao per cont per annum on all the net profite of the Company in oxcoss of that aum."
2. That the bove Resolutions (No. 1) to be retrospective and take effect from the 1st day of January, 1922,
Should the above Resolutions be passed by the required majority, they will bo submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions to a further Extra- ordinary General Meating pad such Meeting will be held on MONDAY, the 20th day of March 1922, at the same time and place for the purpose of considering, and if thought fit confirm ing much Resolutions as Special Resolu tiona accordingly.
Dated the 15th day of February
1922.
By Order of the Board, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managera,
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRD ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, at 3.30 p.m. SATUR. DAY March the 4th 1922, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Irectors together with a Statement of Accounts for the your coding 31st December, 1921.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 20th February, to SATUR. DAY, 4th March 1929, (both days. fer of shares can be registered. inclusivel during which period no trans-
By Order of the Board of Directors,
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, February 13, 1922.
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD,
Proposed New Issue of Shares to Members on the Register on 17th February, 1922.
............
HE TRANSFER BOOKS of the THE
Company will be CLOSED from the 18th to 25th February, 1922, both dayé inclusive.
Dated the 7th February, 1922.
By Order of the Board,
1. N. BEAUREPAIRE Secretary. Hongkong, February 7, 1922.
CREDIT: NATIONAL 1922.
Corned Beef, Tinued Rabbit, Salt PARTICULARS and Conditions of the Iesue of New Bearer Bouds reileamable Pork, Fus, Beane and Biscuits forlatting by Public Auction Salo, to bo
held on cattle or oultry food, Berge, Flannel,
MONDAY the 27th day of atc. Berpants, Hammocks, Bedding of the Public Works Department, by Ordor Fobrusty,* 1921, at 8 pm, at the Offices of His Excollegey the Governor, of One
in 10 years Fr. 500.00 each bearing interest at the rate of 6% per annum
Lab of OROWN LAND at Coronation free of tax.
cerned during the past year with a Mexican producers have been con- proposal to stabilize silver prices by pooling sales and in securing govern ment sanction for a "fixed price." More than two-thirds of total yearly output is by America and Mexico. The achievement of a "fixed price" in both countries would carry po- tential possibilities.
Silver holdings by the principal banks of Europe, exclusive of Russia, at the end of the year were about $9,000,000 larger than at the end of 1920. The "gains" were by France, Germany, Belgium and Denmark and the "decreases" by Italy, Holland, Switzerload and Sweden
Silver stopke at the end of the yeat amounted tabout 28,000,000 ouacre in sfcee. 23,000,000 dollars and 1,000 bars, compared with 46,200,000 and 550 bars on May 19, the largest ounces in eyces, 39 000,000 dollars
holdings of the year.
lakhs of rupoes against 16,021 at the Note circulation in India is 17,230
end of 1920. Silver coin and bullion is 7,729 lakhs, compared with 5,903 lakhs in the previous year.
We closed. 1921 at the end of a seven year period of excessive consumption and decreased produc tion. Whether 1922 is to be the sensational year that many silver experts anticipate remains to be seen, but if the world is to return to "credit sanity" it must be first reflected in this apparently inevitable re enhance- ment of silver values.
PRIDE OF RACE.
HEADMASTER'S FEAR OF
JINGOISM.
The question whether boys aboutd be taught pride of race was discussed by Mr. C. M. Stuart, of St. Dunstan's College. Catford, in a presidential address to the Incorporated Society of Headmasters at the London Guild-
hall.'
Surveying the wants of education, he said it seemed to him that oas of the greatest was that they bad not yet taught boys to overcome pre judices. In many schools these tradi- tions took the form of foolish rates about dress and ridiculous pieces of conduct compared with which the Court of Spain was a castle of freedom.
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DOLLAR $ DIRECTORY
1922 EDITION
THE BEST DOLLAR'S WORTH IN HONGKONG.
ON SALE AT:
↓
THE DOLLAR DIRECTORY PUBLISHING OFFICES 5, WYNDHAM STREET.
THE CHINA MAIL OFFICES,
KELLY & WALSH, LTD.,
CHATER ROAD.
BREWER AND CO.,
QUEEN'S ROAD.
PEAK TRAMWAY LOWER STATION, STAR FERRY WHARVES,
LEE YEE,
THEATRE-LAND DRAMA.
EROADWAY BANDITS' DUEL
WITH POLICE.
Was it not possible that the pride in being British, this intense feeling of nationality which set every German in 1914 singing "Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles,” was the A thrilling duel between 4 armed feeling which sent the nations to war? bandits and a policeman was seen by
He put before them this question, and he took the privilege of a Scots man not to give a direct answer: Had the time now arrived when they The robbers, who were all youtbe should cease to teach their boys to under 20, bad "held up" the cashier
crowds leaving the theatres along Broadway.
1
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON,
D'AGUILAR STREET.
MODERN CRUSOE,
30. LONELY YEARS ON A SOUTH SEA ISLAND.
On a lonely island in the Arafura Sea, between Australia and New Guinea, there is a modern Robinson
Crusoe, k
with 15 other men reached the island in open boata. They lived on the islan! for three years before they were sighted by a passing ship that observed their signals and put in fo them.
"Of the 10, only 5 were then alive and only 4 were taken away-for the fifth, the old man living there now, refused to leave. He told the resoner that during the three years he had Thirty years ago he was ship spent with the other men on the island wrecked near the island, with 15 other he had seen such horrible things that whom he is the only be wished never to live among his
feel s pride in our British race, when and a number of customers away alone. A misanthrope, hating all bind again.
survivor
they should no longer drill them to and popular rastaurant on Broadway support their nationality by force? and let street-s spot corresponding his kind, he lives on the island alone, When I saw him be looked an old If intense nationalism again pre-to the corner of Shaftesbury avenue cipitated such a horrible orgy of devil- and Piccadilly-circus.
and has nothing but scowls and ourses and hairy hermit. He was dressed simply in a singlet and a pair of ment as that they had experienced While they were collecting the even for those compassionate tra trousers which had been given to him through the four years just passed, money in the cash drawer, a passer vellers who from time to time take then their education, their very civilis by observed what was happening, him food.
and sundy Articles of Clothing mid Mess Geo
Terms of Sole-As detailed in for a term of 75 yence, with the
Rod, in the Colony of Hongkong, Reimbursable at holder's option as ation was a failure, and the sooner through the large front window and --Catalogu.
option of ronowal at Orown Rent | followi HUGHES & HOUGH, to be fixed by the Butroyer of His Majesty the King, for one further barm of 7b yours.
My Appointment Auctioneers to the Admiralty.
gbog, February 10, 1022
OR SALE.
with study 101oplate.
állva Bonnick, rubing, con
todlara apply.
"PARTICULARS OF THR LOT,A
On 1 February 1934 for Fes 500,-- Où 156
1097 for Fr, 007.80 1989 for Fr. 0825,
No prices.
Prioo of Isus including 1st coupon duo on 5th February, 1922, payablo dash, on application
Bukadriptiotin received at
BANQUE
some mighty comet stopped our earth informed policeman. As the latter in its orbit and hurled it into the sun the batter.
COUGH
Hara a Ber
by travellers who had previously called at the island. He was ver glad to get the bag of rice I took him but he received it curlly and in cilence. All his looks seamed to say the What the detos-do you want litret, arted to
During the thirty years he hu
The story of this strange old man TAB up, the bandits dashed out and, of the sea was told to a reporter by jumping into a waiting taxicab, drove. Mr. W. Somers
care London after through the
mandeering a mót
who had
15 months' tour in been on the island," added M
Maugham, "the old man bus lived chickens which, It seomy, he int daved to the inland from the ship” which he was wrocked their b fah, and the fruit of coto-nat trolix!?
war he was left bari, for no ships based o
was reduced to uF".