NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
EASTERN
AUSTRALIAN
Steamship Company's Steamer "EASTERN
Arrived Hongkong on November 7th, 1919. FROM AUSTRALIAN VIA SANDAKAN- AND MANILA.
Cossigados" of Carga by the above-named ressal and hereby inforin-di that thair goods are baing landed and paced AT TH418 213x in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godown at Kowloon. where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained the Goods are lande
Optional Goods will be landed here unless Instructions have been given to the, contrary 8 hours before arrival of the Steamer.
Goods not cleared within 8 days, including
date of arrival, will be subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance will be affected by us
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10гm, 1019.
FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF
19
HONGKONG.
BANK HOLIDAY.
INTIMATIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION
BY OLD OF. THE MORTGAGEES
LAMMERT has received
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Meructions to sell by Public Auction NOTICE BURANCE OFFICES WHI
be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS TO-DAY (MONDAY, NOVEM BER 10TH, 1918.
By Order.
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Secretaries Hongkong, November 8th, 1919. [1497
MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.
BANK HOLIDAY. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transsetion of
On FRIDAY,
the 21st day November, 1919, at 8 o'clock in thu af ernoon at his Sale Room in Daddell Street Victoria Hongkong.
The Steamship "ASIA " 1061 toas now lying in Kowloon Bay in the Harbour of Hongkong together with all the furnitures, Store equipment and appurten- ances now on board
IN ONE LOT
This ship is 'Chinese ship registered in Canton and is constructed of stee. She has the following dimensions namely, Length" 201 feet, Breath 38 feet e inches, and Depth 18 feet 5 inches, and her speed is about 10 knots. For further particulars and conditions of Sale and for orders for inspections of the
ay, onke whaler must be laft in the Go- PUBLIC BUSINESS TO-DAY(MONDAY) vessel please apply to
Damaged
downa examination by the Consignees, and
for the
DOUGZ SETSICTE, Hestra. GODDARD
10 at
THURSDAYS.
en MONDAYS and Claims must be presented within ten days of the Steamer's arrival borg after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the goods. have left the Godown.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & 00., Agenta
₤1604 Hongkong, November 8th, 1919.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE
NY person or persons having Claims against the Hongkong Police Reserve or Police Reserve Club are invited to send such aims at once to the Accountant H.K.P.R
C/O HONGKONG
SHANGHAI AND BAXX. The Accounts will be closed on November 15th..
BALEAN, Accountant, K.P(B) Hongkong, November jih, 1819.
I.
NOTICE...
REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
01487
Order to enable the Contractors to
the above Hotel at the earliest possible date itboat interrupting, and in order to avoid all possibility of damage to the Flooring, Tilo, Paint Work, etc., the public are requested to kindly abstain from visiting the Hotel as on and from this date until its completion and formal opening of which due Notice ill
be given by Advertisement in the Local Newspapers
The Management of the Hotel feel sure that they may rely apou the ready co-operation of the public in the foregoing regard.
Dated this Sixth day of November, 1919. FOR THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD Proprietors of the REPULSE BAY HOTEL
J. H. TAGGART,
A
G.
Manager...
NOTICE
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LL Persons, with the exception of persona of Chinese race, wishing to leave the Colony was have in their posses xion & VALID PASSPORT. Passengers not in possession of passports will not be allowed to leave the Colony:..
All
with certain exceptions. persons, who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register them- selves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE, 1818.
Forms of Registration, giving the par ticulars required, may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine not exceeding 160.
E. D. C. WOLFE. Captain 8uperintendent of Police. Hongkong, Septembe. 12nd, 1918.
MRSL M. HUDSON,
SKIN AND HAIR SPECIALIST.
t
40
UPERFLUOUS hair painlewly and
permanently removed.
Bust development and bust reduction. Chiropody speciality. Late of Fosbard College, Melbourne, Australia
CAMPBELL, MOʻRE & CO.,
Chster Road,
TRY JAPANESE CHOW..
1483
Sakiyaki Torinabe Chiri Yosensbe Tenfura Kakime hi
Just the season and best cooking.
HOTEL CHITOSE
1st Class H. tel.
No.
HaTM Fung Lane. 1387
NOVEMBER 10TH, 1919.
By Order,
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS
Secretaries. "Hongkong, November 8th, 1919. (1498
THE HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
ST. ANDREW'S BALL
PRACTICE DANCES for the above will
take place in the CITY HALL from 5 to 7 P.. on TUESDAYS, NOVEMBER 11TH, 1878, and 9TH. Dancing Shoes must be worn by all dancers and it is requested that no children be brought
PT D, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, November 7th, 1919.
LOST..
1500
Dark Brind' Bell FUP Bitch, Finder A will be awarded.
Reply to
Box No. 1474, Care of "Daily Prees" Office. [1474
LOST.
Ambits with light brown markings,
SMALL JAPANESE SIAVIEL female,
MEBS. KUNG YDEN,
123, Wing Lok Street,
MEBARS. DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON
& HARSTON, "
1. Des Vaux Road Central,
2
entiors Solicitors
or
to MB. GEO. P. LAMMERT, The Auctioneer..
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A. G. DA ROCHA. IS THE AUCTIONEER.
11'
A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER. SURVEYOR AND
* GENERAL BROKER.
Queen's Road Central, Telephone Na 1832 FA
NAVOURED with frustructions from
The Concerned,
will Fil by Public Auction, on TUESDAY, November 11th, 1919, JA
at 2.15 p.m.
at his Sales Rooms
A QUANTITY OF
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS & EFFECTS. A180
Very best quality Blue Woollen Berge, in
INTIMATION
The Exchequer is empty. This year' |Budget, show, deficit of more than $120,000,000. Neither foreign nor domes, tie loans are procurable. The retal- citrant provinces in the South are s still unrepentant, to use the Premier's own phrase, while those in the North care
A. S. WATSON & CO., only for their own interests, and, while
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED 1871.
The probibition against the exporting of Hongkong silver subsidiary coins from the Colony is now withdrawn.
The furernment Gazette contains a list af loral Army who have been granted licences to trade ander the Non-Ferrous" Metal Industry Ordinance, 1919.
The name of Dr. E. S. Taylor, M.D. and B.S. (Cam.), M.R.C.S. (England), and L. R.C.P: (London), has been judded to the list of local Medical Practitiouers.
Amongst the Passengers arriving by Empress fedrin is Lieut. W. R. Farmer, RULA.. who is being, demobilised and is returning to his position with Messrs. Butterfield '& Swire." -
failing to remit money to Peking. actually have the audacity to appeal to the Central Government for funds. Moreover, the troops always menace to the country, have become more threa tening owing to their pay being very much in arrears, and rumours of their inten- tions are not conducive to the comfort of the Government. Despite this distressing state of affairs, CHIN YUNG-FENG dogs not shrink from attempting a remedy. Liking through the Colony, entered the pub- A person, alleged to be a German pass- Nipottos, he insists that there is no such lie bar of one of the leading hotels on word as impossible, and so, 'undismayed Saturday night and was turned out by by the failure of several predecessärs, he Sectsman and an American. He accepted we have received fresh stocks of has drawn up a plan for the improve this treatment without protest. and, on
CONFECTIONERY:
CADBURY'S
ment of the financial situation and inattempting to go into another hotel, "met tends to lay it before Parliament shortly with a similar bostile reception.
As a rule, we are rather sceptical of such plans, but of course, we must give His Excellency's scheme à fair hear
Perhaps the most encouraging feature of his address was the announce
CHOCOLATES ing
and
BUCHANAN'S
CHOCOLATES:
مدد
King George Bournville Nut-
Queen's ➡Selected - Princess —-
Boudor-Exquisite-Opera
other varieties.
and
A court martial at Vladivostock which has been trying Colonel Sharapoff for Billing an American soldier has acquitted- him. The defendant stated that Ameri- can soldiers were at times very provok- ing and in this particular instance the
honour that be could not let it go un-
once,
од
ment that he did not favour the main tenance of a large standing army. This insult Was so aeriods to his military, be rightly described as suicidal. His actual words, a translated, are worth quoting. "No matter whether the South punished, and he was forced to act at west increases its army or not," he said,
I have decided to reduce the number of
Detective-Sergeants Fallon and Shan. the Government troops. The Ministry non, accompanied by'a party of Chinese bas already made 14 reduction of detectives, searched the Wah Sun, which $4,000,000 very month, and further re- was, sailing for Kwang Chow Wan. ductions will follow when the union of Saturday morning and discovered is the North and the South is effected. We rifles, three automatic pistols, one will make no difference between the volver and 2.200, rounds of ammunition concealed in the engine-room. "The wea troops of the North and the South, as
pons and ammunition are believed to have We have condemned militarism.
ilitarism of Germany and Austria has been intended for one of the numerous piratical gang which infest Chinesa failed in Europe, and it is my hope that
watery. no such history will be recorded in Asia." The idea is, apparently, to ap
Mrs. Hickling, M.B.E, Hon. Set, of point a Commission composed of the the Hongkong Branch of Queen Mary's chief military men of the North and Needlework Guild. asks us to state that South to arrange for the reduction of the the Q.M.N.G. badges for workers have
The
re
Dear the HONGKONG HOTEL 216 P.X, on good condition, usor Bran suit lengths A. S. WATSON & CO., Army, and by their meetings to pave the arrived, and will be given out at the City
November stb.
Reward if necessary. Any one found in possession of Dog after this Notice will be prosecuted
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FLATS in EWO, MESS. No. 8, THE
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Gallery to the 15th. November, the latest Paris ELITE STYLE DRE-SES which are being offered At INTRODUCTORY PRICES.
Mom Paria) is showing at our Art
Do not miss this opportunity.
KUMOR & KOMOR, "Alexandra Buildings.
1484
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SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloom.
Apply to- HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO., LTD., Alexandra Buildings
FOR SALE.
81
WAI KEE
*
FLAG AND SAILMAKER
No. 129, Den Vœux Road Central,
Top Floor,
HONGKONG.
TELEPHONY No. 1831
**M-Roned House with
TOUNT GOUGH" No. 131, TH
Large Garden. Apply
78
LOKLET & CO.
York Buildinga
8 casca Remy Martin Brandy:
5 cases Tuckey's Liquear Whisky.
14 cases Electric Lamp Bulbs.
30 casca Laundry Soap.
30 Bed Blankets.
20 Bes Re
BEE
3 doz. Bovril,
4 dos. Les and Perrin Sauce, Pint Bottia
5 doz. Cashmere Bouquet, Colgate and
Company.
3 doz. Vaz Honten's Cocos, 8 or tin
10 doz. "Mackenzie's" Oatmeal 3 lbs, tin.
25 cases "Lifeguard" Condensed Milk. And a long line of Bundries. Texas-Cash on Delivery." Hongkong, November 1st, 1919.
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PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON Corner of Halphong & Hankow Roads.
TUL. LL.
station.
TAL, KRZYWIST. Palasa.
TWO Minutes om. Ferry and, Hadway This Hotel has just been completely renovated and refurnished is now up-to-date in every respect and under. English Management. Cuisine under personal supervision of the Proprietor. BAR AND BILLIARD BOOMS, TERMS MODERATE. Special Arrangement for Families Application to:-
91^
on
J. H. OKBERRY,
Proprietor.
WE HAVE
Great Varieties of used and unused
POSTAGE STAMPS.
Single, Beta, Packets, Bags,
and
LIMITED."
THE BONGKONG DISPENSARY.
way to a modus vivendi. The provinces Hall, on Wednesday, from 10 till 12am, have expressed themselves in favour of to those members of the several War Work.. Parties who have not yet received badges retrenchment, but the explanation ap pears to be that the strength of the and whose names are on the lists of the Tuchung" forces in greater on paper than Work Parties Each badge costs 20 centa -approximately a shilling at the present rate of exchange.
12in fact
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The Baily Press
It is doubtful, bowever, if CN will obtain the same sympathy for his ideas on
The Observatory, returns for the month the subject of the civil administration. of October show a mean temperature of He is no believer in government of the 74.2. The highest point was 84.7 on Octo- people by the people. Civil administra ber 3rd, and the lowest 59.3 on October tion has been almost destroyed, but it is 22nd. There were 4 60 inches of rain and the officials and not the people who are 178.2 hours of sunshine. The average responsible for the present, disorganisa-humidity was 79. The mean temperature tion. No doubt the Premier is right in for October, 74.2, was the lowest on re- thinking that in the self-styled republic cord, the previous lowest being 74.3 in CHINA'S NEW PREMIER AND of China the conditions do not warrant a 78.5, was the lowest on record since all, 1911, The mean of the daily maxima,
HONGKONG NOVINEZA 10TH 1019
when it was 78.2. The mean of the daily minima, 71-0, was also the lowest since 1911. It was 70.8 in that year.
CANTON NEWS,
HIS POLICY.
system of representative government. At THE condition of China could not well any rate, he is in good company in express be more hopeless. The country is dis. ing this view. The weakness of his posi- tracted by dissensions which may lead to tion, however, is exposed when he con a resumption of civil war, its finances. tends that the administration of all local are impoverished; its credit is practi. affairs must be entrusted to oficiale, ag
CANTON, November 8th. cally ruined, and sixty per cent of the this is a period of transition. "Good THE ALLIANCE OF THE MILITARISTS. national revenue is devoted to the upkeep and incorruptible officials be declares, and South are proposing to form a The leading militarista of the North are required to manage the affairs of strong union for the purpose of saving of a soldiery who are danger. Nevertheless, CHIN YUNG-PENG the people." Admittedly, but where are the nation, and subduing disobedient enters apon, the duties of Prime Minister they to be found? If men like the Premilitarists and politicians. with cheerfulness. No doubt he has been inspired to some extent by the persua sions of the President and the support received from leading politicians, but the present plight of China is enough to make even the most courageous statesman
a positive
The proposal was made by Li Shun, sident and the Premier are determined to Tuchun of Nanking, and seconded by have a pure administration no doubt they Tong Kai-yew, Tuchan of Yunnan. can do much in time to secure it. For cneral Luk Wing-ting, and Tax Yin- ngo. Tuchun of Hupan, have approved while there was promise of this ander the iden Representatives are being sent YUAN SHIB-KAI, but when his bold relax- to other militarists on the subject, and ed in death conditions in the adminis many are said to be ready to join the union. It expected that an end reluctant to attempt to guide the ship of tration became worse than in the Manchu will be put to the internal strife. Notice State through the troubled waters into days Then "squeeze" was regulated; has been given to the Shanghai Confer ence that the peace-terms and conditions which it has been allowed to drift now there are no limits to the demands submitted to the Conference for discussion ΟΙ the ambitions of office-holders. will be dealt with by these militarists Not since THAN CHIJUI quitted the Premiership has there been such a
Common-sense, se the Premier, says, is within a month.
The Administrative Directors of the strong man in the position. Even Carn's needed to solve present-day problems, BOXER INDEMNITY FOR STUDENTS.
Military Government have requested the enemies admit that he is "straight." Once the nation is united and His honesty is unquestioned, but, not strong Central Government is estab. Powers to devote the Boxer indemnity to
the education of Chinese students. lished order will, no doubt, be main-some of the Powers have proposed the Dealers in
baving read SHAKESPEARE, be knows
tained throughout the country. By return of the indemnity to China. Postage Stamps, Post Cards, Soods, Toys, nothing of the quality of mercy and the
The Civil Governor has been requested that time there may be some hope for to send more students to France for etc..
blessings that its exercise confere. As the must democratic form of government education, the French Government agree soldier, CHIN' was a success from
But it is not yet. We cannot resist the ing to reduce the fees, passages and lodg Chinese point of view. He ruled his men belief that when Chins secures good accordingly ordered the magistrates of ing expense1. The Civil Governor has with an iron hand, and there were few honest oficials the people will have quali, various districts to select a certain num. disturbances in any district which were fed for self-government,
on Approval Books
FOR COLLECTORS.
GRACA & 00
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etc
No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET,
"HONGKONG.
P.O. Bax 690
ON SALE.
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the
placed under his protection. As a states. men, the same qualities may be expected to produce good results, though, of course they are not without their defects and
HONGKONG HANBARD BEFORTE their dangers.
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ber of scholars to be sent to "France. THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY.
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The principals of schools who have re Saturday, December 27th, will bequested the Military Government to de observed as a general holiday...
Not a single case of communicable disease was reported in the Colony, on Friday.
In his address to members of Parlid rent at the Waichiopn on the occasion of the entertainment before his nomina- Mr. S. Steckmeat, acting Norwegian tion was submitted to both Houses, His Consul in Hongkong, has been appoint Excellency drew a gloomy picture of theed to Shanghai in succession to Mr. T. present state of the country. No-one will Knudtion, Acting Consul-General, who pretend that the picture was overdrown has been transferred to Tokio us Secre All the world
knows the dreadful tazy to the new Norwegian Legation in plight into which China has fallen: Peking and Tokio.
vote the Customs surplus to the establish ment of a University in Canton have been informed that the money has already been ear-marked for other purposes. The Military Government, however, are seek ing funds from other source for the pro ject; so na to meet the popular wish, THE MACAO FORGERY CABE
A message from Macao staten that the four Portuguese who have been arrested on a charge of having drawn upwards of $40.000 from the Bank of Macao by forged cheques will be permitted to appeal to their Home Government after the case. has been heard in Macão. Owing to the heavy bail, they are being kept in custody.