THURSDAY DECEMBER 13 1928
INTIMATIONS.
HE HONGKONG & SHANG.
HAI HOTELS, LIMITED.
: PROPOSED ISSUE AT PAR OF DEDENTURES Payable to BEARER FOR THE TOTAL SUM OF $5,000,000.00.
1ST JANUARY, 1924-318T DECEMBER, 1999,
NOT
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the above named Com- pany intends shortly filing and insu- ing a Prospectus inviting subscrip- oms at par for a Debenture Issue of total sum of $5,000,000.00. The Debentures in question will Boar interent of Seven per cent, por annum payable half-yearly. The whole of tho issue will be under- wätten.
The Debentures are to be secured by a specific mortgage to Trustees of the landed pranartisa owned by the Company in Hopg-- kong and Shanghai.
The purpose of this Debenture. image is to enable the Company to extinguish the existing mortgages of the Company both in respect of be liabilitics takon aver by the Company under the recent amalga mation with The Shanghai Hotels Limited and those incurred by the Company itself. The financial re- quirements of the Company both in Shanghai and Hongkong will thus be covered by one mortgage where by s. fixed amount of interest will be payable at regular intervals stead of as hitherto at various ratee and at irregular times.
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INTIKATIONS.
1.
PUBLIO AUCTION
DARTICULARS and Conditions of
the Salo, by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 17th day of Docomber, 1893, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excelloney the Governor of One Lot of CROWN LAND above Bowen Road in the Colony of Hongkong- for a term of 75 years, with the option of ronawal at a Crown Rant to be fired by the Burveyor of His Majesty the
King, for one farther terms of 75 yours.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Abor" Bowen Road
10. of Sale.
Register No.
Q.
Boundary Stamattomaante
8. K. "
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Inbout
An per nato plan. 1,400 di
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS and Conditions of the Sale, by Public Auction to bo held on MONDAY, the 17th day of December, 1923, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Pithin Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of one Lot at CROWN LAND at Moant Cameron in the Colony
of Hongkong,
for a term of 16 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rant to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King,
for one farther term of 70 yours.
This Notice is not to be regarded as an invitation to the public to subscribe for Debentures and appli- Bations therefor will be received by the Company's Bankers only as and when the said Prospectus has been Baly filed with the Registrar of Com- panies and on the footing of such g Prospectus and on the form to be lested herewith.
For and on behalf of
THE HONOXONG & SHANGHAI
HOTELS, LTD.,
WALTER J. HAWKER,
Beoretary.
Hongkong, 6th December, 1929.
TUNG SANG
TAILOR
11A Peel Street
同生上等洋服疋頭
卓利街拾懑號A
EXPERT FITTERS
HIGH CLASS TAILORING
SERVICE
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
COUPONS
ON and after 16th December 1923
Books of Coupons will not be sold on the Cars but will be obtain able only at the Company's Office, Alexandra Building, Des Voeux Road Central.
PUNCH TICKETS Owners of Punch Tickets are warned that these will not be valid after 15th December 1923 and will not be accepted on the Cars after that date.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Bural Building Lot
Манай Сащегор
Locality.
Boundary Hearte
Menta
13681 made pies. 13,100 132
OFFICIAL NOTICE
PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME.
Upert Price
1. G. W. BARTON' of Douglas Lapraik and Co., General Managers Steamship Co.
NOTICE
The Douglas
Ltd., HEREBY GIVE
that in consequence of Change have applied
of Ownership
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to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 11894, in respect of the ship "REPOSE" gross tonnage about 2,300 tons, register tonnage about 1,005, heretofore owned by U. S. Navy for the permission to change her name to 'HAINING" and to have her registered in the new name at the Port of HONGKONG as owned by The Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd..
Any objections to the proposed Change of Name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hongkong within seven days from the appear ance of this Advertisement.
G. W. BARTON. Hongkong, December 8, 1923
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER
CO., (1918), LTD.
THE FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the offices of the Company. St. George's Building. Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 20th December, 1933, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the pur pose of receiving a statement of accounts and the report of the General Managers for the year ended 30th September, 1923, and electing Punch Tickets may, however, beaConsulting Committee and Auditors. returned to the Company's Office when a coupon of the same Class, or the cash equivalent of a Coupon of the same Class, will be given la ex- change for each unused Ride.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 11th Decomber, 1923,
NOTICE.
Kowloon-Canton Railway,
British Section. THE trains leaving Kowloon at 2.52 p.m. and Shum. Chún at p.m. on SUNDAYS and Public Holidays are hereby can- celled.
6,30
H. P. WINSLOW,
Manager. Kowloon, December 11, 1923.
WING HING
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TAILOR PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. -Spectally-Selected-Wooffen“ Sultings Just Arrived. Orders executed at Shortest Notice. Frice-lowest-
64, Queen's Rd., CH.
Telepho
Hongkong:
The Transfer Books of the Com pany will he closed from FRIDAY. the 7th December, 1923, until THURSDAY, the 20th December, 1923, both days inclusive,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers, Hongkong, 30th November, 1923.
NOTICE,
HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC
SOCIETY.
GRAND CONCERT
by the SOCIETY'S CHORUS & ORCHESTRA THEATRE ROYAL TUESDAY, December 18th, 1923" at 9.15 p.m.
Booking,now open, ANDERSON MUSIC CO.
"Prices: $3, $2,^$T;
TORA INOKUCHI QUALIFIED MIDWIFE. No. 2, 1st Floor Chee We, Street,
Kowloon.
(Facing Diocesant Girls, School,)
Telephone754
THE CHINA MAIL.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
AS WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Kvory additional word #Cente
for 8 Insertions.
FOUND.
FOUND-Lady's silver-cased fountain pen. Apply: Box N'0 1466 c/o "China Mall
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FOR SALE, AT PEAK.
OR SALE-Baby Grand (Challen); Part House Furnituer, Plants in Pots, etc. Apply HK c/o "China Mail."
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write 10
G. MOUSSION c/o "China Mall" office.
INTIMATIONS
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MAIL WEEK NEWS.**
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Duke of York was present at a dinner given by the American Ambassador, Mr. Harvey, at the Marlborough Clubs,
During a baptism at Stjorna, Norway, the mother of the Infant, as she was about to hand it to the priest, discovered that it lay dead in her arms.
Mr. W. Livingstone, tutor and librarian of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has been appoint- ed vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast
Sir Esmé William Howard, British Ambassador to Spain, has gone to Sitges, near Barcelona, to attend the opening of a new motor- track, said to be one of the finest in the world.
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Pump-court, Temple, E.C., well known to readers of Thackery, is to have the appearance of its old pump restored by means of an oak case for the tap which replaced the original pump.
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The salvage operations upon the wrecked auxiliary cruiser Lau rentic," sunk in Lough Swilly in January 1917) are to be resumed The buillon and next spring. specie so far recovered' amounts to about £6,500,000.
The British American Tobacco Company has bought 18 acres of land at Southampton to build a new factory in which 1,000 workers will. be employed. There are only 300 working in the present building.
President Coolidge at Washing- ton witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of a Greek temple to George Washington, the man and the Freemason; the building will have a tower 200ft, high.
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Mr. J. T. W. Newbold, Britain's only Communist M.P., who repre- sents Motherwell (Glasgow), has a Soviet ship named after him-the 5.5. "Newbold," employed in the timber trade between Petrograd and British ports.
HM.S. "Chatham" is to be res placed on the New Zealand station, at the request of the New Zealand Government, by the light cruiser "Dunedin," which is more suitable for long-distance cruising.
Sir William Coates, president of
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
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́ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
Sir Arthur Stanley, chairman of the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, has been presented with his portrait on behalf of the Cana dian officers who accepted the hos pitality of the club during the war.
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The trustees of the Carnegie. United Kingdom Trust have decld- ed to make £1,000 grant for books to be used in an experimental scheme for the instruction of young prisoners sentenced for several years.
A message from Syria states that a French court there has condemned to death two Arabs who were con- victed of complicity in the attempt to ambush Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner of Palestine, in the spring.
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The South Dublin by-election for acancy m de loish 100 State Parliament resulted in a victory for Mr. Hugh Kennedy, the Free State Attorney-General, with a majority of 12,174 over Mr. Michael O'Mullane, Republican,
Creditors of the Norske Lloyd Insurance Company Ltd., of Birchin-lane. E.C., have received from the Official Receiver a sum- mary of the company's statement of affairs, which shows liabilities, £588,642, and estimated assets, £102,747-
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Lady de Frece (Miss Vesta Tilley); has made such progress from her recent illness that she is leaving her house at Sefton Park, Stoke Poges, for the south of France, where she will probably stay for several months.
The firm of Canadian Vickers, Ltd, has bought the plant and business of the Phoenix Bridge and Iron Works, a Montreal steel manufacturing company formed in 1913 with bonds issued in England on which the interest has been in arrears as from May 1972.
At an Aldershot inquest on Alfred Iogram, 19, 且 Welsh Guardsman who shot himself after being reduced from lance-corporal, it was stated that soldiers. could always obtain ball cartridge when they wished. A verdict of suicide while Temporarily Insane was re turned.
On the ground that any loss of revenue would be compensated for by a smaller expenditure on unem-
the Belfast Chamber of Commerce,ployment relief schemes, the Ed-
in complaining that carrying com- panies are improperly refusing goods for Northern Ireland, says that all merchandise consigned via Belfast can be easily and safely distributed.
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There is nothing better than Cuticura Talcum for powder- ing and perfuming the skin. It appeals to the most fastidious because of its fine, smooth tex- ture and delicate fragrance.
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monton District Council, N., is con- sidering a proposal to ask the Minister of Health to allow rates on factories to be reduced on con- dition that more men are employ- ed..
A verdict of Accidental Death was returned at the inquest un Herbert Larcombe, the Salisbury Corinthians' goalkeeper, who was fatally injured in a football match at Portland. The jury exonerated from blame Wilfred Booker, of Portland United, with whom Larcombe came into collision,
The Swiss Minister presented at the Quai d'Orsay a note concerning the transfer of the French Customs cordon to the political frontier from the other side of the Free Zones, declaring that the Swiss Govern ment can only continue negotiation if the equality of both parties is clearly established.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES,
The barve prescribed for public vehicles aco as follows-
Je in the fstand of Hongkong, Caine
Read and Lower Levels, and in Kowloon, and New Kowloon,
fiva minatoo..
Ten minutes,
Quarter hour,
PICKUMAS.
Halt hour,... ki,
Jo hoax,
3.org Babsequent huet.
& conta
15 .90
...
jf. the jinrioksha be engaged within the City of Victoria, and be dis- sbirged outside the Western part of the. City of Victoria after 9 pm, or be dia
harged to the East, of Bay View Police. Itation on the Eastern side of the City f Victoria after 8p.m., an extra haff tare shall be chargesbla
. For 2 or 3 drivers the fare is double or rable respoctivaly.
13.—In the IDill Dütries.
Ten minutes, 15 cents,
Quarter hour....10.
dal hour, ........ 30 One hour, anapam 40 EX
III-In the Nae Terroris By arrangement with the proprietors through the Polico.
CRAILS.
L-Lower Levels. With Bearers With fen mingtes,.......... 10 cents, Quarter-bour, ÁÐ Half hour, 25
Svery nuboequent
nour, 25
II. Hill Distrise.
Bearernyő
30 cant
30
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With Bearers With 4 Bearers: Ten minute, cont Raster boar 20
Ond hour,
Rvary Jamberont
40
AD DOSIN
THE LAST WEEK
of the
GRAND CHARITY DRAW
in aid of the funds of the
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SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE -PAUL
for the support of the Poor of Hongkong.
50 VALUABLE PRIZES
including
1924 Model S-seater STUDEBAKER CAR Value $2,700 'Gulbransen" PIANO-PLAYER......... NERACAR...
"York" Brunswick PHONOGRAPH......... "Singer" ELECTRIC SEWING MACH-
INE.........
"Gecophone" RADIO SET.......
950
475
400
250
£25
The above prizes and many others are on view in the xindow of the Wonoker, i
"ator Law-roun15, Queen's Road, Central; at the Singer Sewing Machine Co., Queen's Road, Central; the Brunswick Studio, Ice House Street, and other stores.
Prizes will be drawn on the night of the Al Fresco Fête, 16th December.
TICKETS, ONLY $5.00 EACH,
May be obtained at the Hongkong Hotel Co's. Motor Show-rooms, Queen's Road, Central; Hongkong Cigar Store, Des Voeux Road, Central; Brunswick Studio, Ice House Street; Messrs. Lazarus & Co.; Mee Cheong's branch in the Hongkong Hotel; Messrs. Wiseman & Co.; The Alexandra Café; The Blue Bird Café,
DO NOT PUT OFF BUYING YOUR TICKET UNTIL THE FETE In 1930 and 1921 the last ticket was sold before the opening of the Fête,
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