MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 1923.
INTIMATIONS.
Q.
NOTICE.
SMALL POX.
R
THE SANITARY BOARD hereby
notify the public that in view of the present epidemic of Small Pox
they are urgently advised to protect
themselves by Vaccination,
The following is a list of places at which Chinese can receive vaccination free of charge.
HONGKONG.
Civil Hospital, Hospital Road, Tong Wah Hospital-Fo Yar Street.
Chinese Public Dispensary at Contral
District, 3 Aberdeen Street. Chinore Public Dispensary at Westorn
Distriel, 185 Third Street. Chinese Public Diapensary at Eastorn)
District, Stone Nullsh Lane next to District Watchmen'a quortere. Chinese Public Dispoutary at Shauki. wan, 94 Main Street, Shaukiwan Went.
KOWLOON,
→
Coverment Dispensary, 24 Nathan
Rondl
Kwong Wah Hospital,
Chinese Poldie Dispensary at Yaumat, Opposite ferry wharf and Typhoon shelter.
Chinois Public Dispensary at flunghom,
next to Kun Yam Temple. Chiuose Public Dispensary at Kowloon City, in Lang Chau School, Kowloon, Chinese Public Dispensary at Sham
shuipo, 41 Yee Kuk Street, aus as the Government Dispensaries,
Taipn.
J. A. FRASER, Secretary, Sanitary Board. Hongkong, 25th October, 1923.
HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the Fourth Annual General Meeting of The Hongkong! Boxing Association will be held at Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd's, Board Room on TUESDAY, the 30th day of October, 1923 at 5.15 p.m. for following purposes?*** To receive the General Con- 1.
nitter's Report and State- ment of Accounts for the
2
3.
year ending the 30th day of
June 1923.
To elect a Chairman. Vice- Chairman, Official Referee, Manager, Secretary and Treasurer, and The General
:
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.
Every additional word & Coats
for a insertioda.
TO LET.
TO LET-Next April for about
six months, Kellett Manor, No. 67 Mount Kellett. The house will be for sale in 1925. Apply, PERCY SMITH, 5, Queen's Road Central.
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write to
G. MOUSSION
c/o "China Mail" office.
G
INTIMATIONS
I.
HARBOUR MASTER'S
DEPARTMENT.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Sealed Tenders in triplicate which should be clearly marked Tender for raising or removing the Wreck LOONG SANG" will be received at the Harbour Depart- ment until NGON of MONDAY, the 5th November 1923.
Tenderers are to raise or remove the wreck LOONG SANG as she now lies in Hongkong Harbour.
The Government does not hind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
C. W. BECKWITH,
Commander R. N., Harbour Master &c. Hongkong, October 26, 1923.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL.
BEGINNERS' CLASS in the
Ausly of Mercantile Cantonces
will be consienced on MONDAY, November 5th, 1928, if suflicicat sur- part is forthcoming,
Inteurling STUDENTS should call upon the DIRECTOR OF STUDIES Committee for the year 1923-be Rev. Dr. T. W. Peares, O.BE) at
1024-
To appoint an Auditor.
By the order of the General Committee
GEORGE G. N. TINSON. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Hongkong, 23rd October, 1923.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE SECOND
ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Share holders in the above Company will be held at the Company's Town Office. 2, Lower Albert Road, Hong- kong, on MONDAY, 5th day of NOVEMBER, 1923, at Noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st JULY, 1923.
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from 29th OCTOBER to 5th NOVEMBER 1923, both days inclusive.
By Order of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
M. MANUK,
Secretary. Hongkong, 19th October, 1923.
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE
DISASTER.
HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.
NOTICE.
SUBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the
above Fund are open at the following places:
Hongkong General Chamber of
Commerce.
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking
Corporation.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia
& China,
Mercantile Bank of India.
the SCHOOL-Zutland Hall, Icehouse i Streat, any day this week (except SATURDAY) between 1 pm and 5.30. T.RL.
By Order,
D. K. BLAIR,
Secretary. Hongkong, October 20, 1923.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
NEW ISSUE OF FRENCH TREASURY BONDS 6% 1923.
FRS.
PRICE OF ISSUE: 98.50 FOR FRS. 100-OF NOMINAL VALUE.
Free of taxes, no prizes.
Coupons payable twice a year on the 20th of May and 20th of November.
First dividend of Frs. 12.-to be paid on the 20th of November 1923.
BONDS OF FRS. 500.-AND FRS. 5,000.- CAN BE REFUNDED AT THE OPTION OF THE BUYER: at par on the 20th of May 1926. at Frs. 103 on the 20th of May 1929.
at Frs. 108.-on the 27th of June 1933.
SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received up to the Ist of November 1923 by the BANQUE DE L'INDO- CHINE.
G. E. GOY. Manager.
Hongkong, October 1, 1923.
"LEST WE FORGET
NAVY LEAGUE ball.
International Banking Corporation. ON FRIDAY, November 2nd, at
Netherlands Trading Society.
Yokohama Specie Bank.
Hongkong Club,
Cheques should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earth- quake Disaster Hongkong Relief Fund.
By Order,
D. K. BLAIR Socratary, HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTER. Hongkong, 10th September, 1923.
-FOOK-SUN FOR SALE. Panama Hats, Félt Hats, Straw Hats and all Kinds of Hats. HATE CLEANED A SPECIALITY: No. 60, Wellington Broch
9.30 p.m., for the relief of widows and children of
Those who died in the War. Tickets obtainable at
MOUTRIES, ANDERSONS, HONGKONG HOTEL and ENGINEERS' INSTITUTE.
NOTICE. OWING to our having added a further exchange line to our telephone system (making four. lines In all) It has been found necessary... to change our telephone number. In future our number will be
Central 4567.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD,
THE CHINA MAIL.
NOTICE.
This Prospectus has been duly filed with the Registrar of Companies.
The Subscription List will be Open on WEDNESDAY, the 14th day. of NOVEMBER, 1923, and Close on or before SATURDAY, the 17th. day of NOVEMBER, 1929: -
HONGKONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING
AND SAVINGS SOCIETY, LTD. Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances 1911-1921.
CAPITAL
$10,000,000. DIVIDED INTO 1,000,000 SHARES OF $10 EACH.
Of the above Shures 109,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. On these $1.00 per share will be paid on application and the balance when called up on the. ne basis as the remaining capital. The remaining 831,000 shares ranking equally with those already subscribed are now offered for Public Subscription payable as to $1.00 per share ou application. The balance due on each share, viz., $9.00; will be called up es and when required by instalments of $1.00 per share at intervals of not less than three months between each call.
Any of the shares now offered to the public which may not be subscribed for will be allotted in such manner.us the Directors sball determine.
Directors:
DK; J. Q. DALMAHOY ALLAN, Alexandra Building, Medical
Practitioner.
C. E. BEAVIS, Esq., 9, Queen's Road Cental, Victoria, Solicitor. II. A. CARTWRIGHT, Esq., JA, Chister Rond, Victoria, Managing
Director, "HuNGKONG DAILY PRESS," LTD.
CHAN SAU FUNG, Esq., 11, Mui Tong Street, Victoria,
Merchant.
CHAU SIU KI, Esq., 6, Queen's Road West, Victoria, Merchant. FREDERICK ELLIS, Esq., 10; Tre House Street, Vietoria,
Stork Broker.
Hos. MR. I KOTEWALL, Mesandas Buildings, Victoria;
Merchant,
LEUNG YAN PO, Esq., St. George's Building, Victoria,"
Compradore, of Mowers, Gio, LIVINGSTON & CO.
LI WING KWONG, Esq., 153, Queen's. Road Central, Victoria,
Merchant.
LI YAU TSUN, Esq., 75, Queen's Road Central, Victoria,
Merchant.
THE REVEREND FATHER L. ROBERT, PROCURE GENERALE DES
MISSIONS ETRANGERES, ProcurcuriGeneral. WONG PAK SON, Esq., 220, Queen's Road Central, Victoria,
Merchant,
Bankers:
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Auditors:
MESSES. PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, Accountants,' No. 5. Queen's Rond Central, Victoria, Hongkong,
Solicitors:
Messus. WILKINSON & GRIST,
No. 9, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong.
Registered Office of the Company:
No. 10, ICE HOUSE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.
PROSPECTUS:
(2) This Company has been formed principally for the purpose of building houses in the Colony of Hongkong with a view to meeting the great demand for housing accommodation which exists in the Colony at the present time.
(6.) In particular it is proposed to take advantage of the offer recently made by the tavernsent for the grant of land for building purposes on the basis of the scheme explained by The Colonial Secretary at a Meeting of the Legislative Council in June, 1923.
The Promoters are in a position to state that they have com pleted negotiations for the acquisition from the Government of the latbar below "Jarding's Lookout," which is capable of accom- ntedating 150 to 200 semi-detached houses. The Promoters are also in treaty with the Government for numerous other sites in good localities.
The Prozenters have already receives about 2.000) applications from persons desiring to obtain the assistance of this Company in building homes for the applicants.
The Promoters will also entertain, and, if thought advisable, take up any other scheine or schemes which may be proposed by the Government for the acquisition of land for building and development, (c.) The Company is also empowered by its Memorandum of Association to undertake business of all kinds connected with the development of building areas.
(d.) The minimum subscription on which the Directors may proceed to allotment is 100,000 shares.
(2.) No commission or promotion money is being paid by the Company.
(f) The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incident to the formation and floating of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence burincas, and the estimated amount thereof is $5,000.
(g.) FREDERICK ELIAS will be the first Managing Director under a contract with the Company at a reunimeration of & per cent. of the net profits of the Company.
(A.) The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of a Director is to be the bolding of 500 shares in the Company and that the remuneration of each of the Directors is to be $1,000 per annuin.
(E) None of the Directors or Promoters are interested in the promotion of the Company, except to the extent of the shares taken by them in the Company.
(4) Copics of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can be inspected at the office of Messrs. WILKINSON & GIST, Solicitors för the Company, at any time during business hours.
(k) A copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is annexed to this Prospectus and forms part of it.
(1) Application for shares should be made upon the form accompanying the Prospectus and sent to the Company's Bankers together with a remittance of $1.00 per share, the amount of the deposit.
Where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned in full and where the number of shares allofted is loss (linn the number applied for a proportionate amount of the deposit will be returned.":
(m.) Prospectuses can be inspected at and Toring of Applica tion obtained from the Company's Bankers, the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION and at and from the offices of the Company at No. 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Hongkong.
Dated the 20th day of October, 1928.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Duke of York has accepted the mayor's invitation to the Colchester oyster feast on October
18.
A Glasgow woman, Miss Nora Watson, who died recently, left £50 and the income from £1,200 to Miss Ellen Terry
the
Coke, Capt. Desmond novelist, has presented a collection of silhouette portraits to the Victoia and Albert Museum, South Kensington, S.W.
The death is announced' of Cardinal Richelmy, Archbishop of Turin, at the age of 72.
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Mr. Justice Powell, who had been a judge of the Chancery Division of the Irish High Court since 1918, died at Dublin. He was previously Solicitor-General..
BAD HOME LIFE.
MAGISTRATE LENIENT,
"There seems to be a great deal of domestic infelicity in these days, It may be the aftermath of the war," sald Mr. Cairns, the magistrate at Thames police-court, Hendon pour rate has been rein extending leniency to Waiter duced from 28, 5d. to 2s, 3d, in the Croom, aged fifty, charged with £ for the half-year, making a rate stealing £56 10s. 7d., the property of 45. 8d. for the year, which is of the Officer of Works, money gd. less than last year.
Kiven to him to pay out as wages.
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The Burma Government has decided to conduct forest surveys in unhealthy districts by seaplane, which will return daily to their basos in healthy districts.
"Quex in the London Evening
Three passengers were killed News suggests that Dr. Garbett, Bishop of Southwark, may be and 23 were injured when a Paris
express was the
Sables
d'Olonne
translated to the See of Winchester, to succeed the veteran Dr. Talbot derailed near Bressuire, in
Deux-Sevres department. Worry at the substitution of motor-cars for horse-drawn hearses
was stated at a West Ham inquest to be the cause of the suicide of a
funeral coachiman.
The European settler in Kenya, Abrahams, who recently flogged a native labourer to death for having caused the death of a mare, has been sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment.
·
In the new Polish property tax law provision has been made for special arrangements by which foreign capital invested in Polish enterprises can be freed from the
tax,
The French air liners hetween Casablanca (Morocco) and Toulouse in July covered the distance of 1.143 miles in less than 13 hours on 28 out of 31 occasions, which is claimed as a record for commercial
air liners.
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Mr. J. Basil Buxton, Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London, and a member of the National Council of Medical Research, has been elected pro- fessor of Animal Pathology at Cambridge University.
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Exchange that Newcastle mer It was reported on Newcastle
chants had secured urders for the delivery of 50,000 tons of coal to Russia during the open season.
Alexander Berry, 86, retired farmer, of Culsamond, Aberdeen- shire, was fined £20 at Aberdeen for drawing the old age pension when he had over £500 in cash or securities.
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As 4,000 people are waiting for municipal houses at Swansea, the local housing committee decided to add 25 per cent. to the Govern- ment subsidy of £75 to expedite building.
While in London, Mr. Bruce, the Australian Prime Minister, is, it is said, to petition the British Govern- ment for larger powers for Aus- tralia in the control of Australian forces abroad.
•
When James Tobin was remand- ed at Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, on
charge of attemping to murder Mary Reidy by shooting her, it was stated that the woman was in a critical condition.
A derrick being repaired at The new American liner "Cleve-Butler's Wharf, Tower Bridge, EC., land" has been placed under the fell and crushed Charles Locke, 42, Panama flag, in order to enable the of East-street, Walworth, S.E., American prohibition law to be causing his death. Two other men avoided, as has already been done were injured. in the cases of the large American liners "Reliance" and "Resolute."
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Negotiations are proceeding for the conversion into service flats, with shops underneath, of the "Birdcage" in Piccadilly, W., the steel skeleton of the proposed Park- lane Hotel, the building of which was stopped by the war.
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Princess Mary Viscountess Lis- celles in a letter of thanks to Sir Thomas Paxton, Lord Provost of Glasgow, for the reception given to her and Viscount Lascelles in Glasgow recently, enclosed - a cheque for £100 for the Glasgow Royal Maternity Home.
A demonstration was given at Kursaal at Southend of the never- stop railway, which slows down at stations so that passengers can alight, and requires neither driver conductor, nor signals.
The Swansea Branch of the British Legion, in petitioning the Ministry of Health to stop rent profiteering, cited one local case of 31 people, including 17 children, living in one house, and another of a man, wife, and children living in a scullery with the table upside down for a bed.
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Portsmouth public bodies agreed- to a request signed by local mem- When John Sidney Hooker, 49, abers of Parliament being sent to postman, was sentenced to 3 the Minister of Labour urging him. months' hard labour at Brighton for to arrange for a deputation to he stealing a letter containing £4.10s received by the Admiralty in in Treasury notes, it was stated favourof more work being provided that he would lose his post,a bonus in the dockyard to relieve unem- of £250,and a pension of 30s,a week.ployment.
Mr. William Julian Courtauld, ex-High Sheriff of Essex, who a few months ago gave 17 acres fora recreation ground for Braintree and Bockling, has now sent £1,600 to be added to the £800 collected by the inhabitants towards the cost of laying out the ground.
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At the inquest on Mr. Cyril Arnold, 23, a teacher, found drown- ed in a backwater at Oxford, his father said he was not altogether suprised at his son's death, as he thought he owed money and had given way to drinking habits. A verdict of Found Drowned was returned.
A Persian Cabinet crisis has arisen as a result of the three days' strike by the ulemas fcolleges of priests as a protest against the recent expulsion from Iraq (Mes- opotamia) of the Shiites (Persian Sect), who attempted to bring about a boycott of the elections.
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High praise was given at a Fenton, Staffordshire, inquest
56, on Mr. Charles Gale, tobacconist. to {WO constables, Messrs. Willett and Willott, for reviving Mr. Gale, who had fallen into a pond, by means of artificial respiration applied for 50 minutes.. He died the following day from natural causes uncontected with his immersion.
MARTIN'S
PIOLASTEL
- Themaade of Káḍia nimaye kang a þe. «!
MARTIN'S
Croon, who was said to have an excellent Army record, pleaded that his wife had pawned every- thing of value in his home; drink was at the bottom of it." My honte life," he said, "has been hell on earth."
Mr. Cairns: It is pitiful to see a man with such a superlative record, standing in the dock. In some brainstorm, to get away from the misery of your matrimonial life, you committetd this offence. There has been a previous conviction, but an justified in extending to you that was eleven years ago. I think the leniency the law allows.
Croom was bound over in the sum of £20, to come up for judg- ment within two years, if called on to do so.
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