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THE CHRISTMAS TREAT (under the Tempio at the Catholic Union, to the peraioners under the care of the ST. VINCEN DE PAUE BOJIKzy, wik bauheld at the Cub Hodes, Gleonly, TO NORROW (SUND YI DECEMBER tiæt, 1929, 55 3 P
Subscribers and friends are e hilly invided.
J. 2. OSMUND
Persident,
Hongkong, December 20th,, 1918,
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT
DE PAUL
NOTICE.
MEMBERS are boroby reminded of the
GENERAL MEETING to be held the CONTERENCE HALL, Mision House, Caine Bond, TO-MORROW (SUN- DAY) DECEMBER 9189, at 11 AME
Friends of the Sociary ses cordially invited
J. M. 8. EOSARIO, - Hon. Secretary.
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gooda merahants and exporters with established commotion requires GENTLE HAN to represent them for Hongkong and Boush Chins. Must have some experience ut place goods, business. Principal of Manches». terfirm at present in Hongkong early application invited.
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following thall be the settlement daya for the year 1990:
He Committon has decided than the
Friday, 30th January, Friday, 27th Fel Juary.
Tuesday,
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Thursday,
29th April.
Friday,
28th May..
Tuesday,
29th June.
Thursday,
29th July.
Monday,
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Wednesday, 29th September.
Thunday, Monday,
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Thursday,
29th November. .......23rd December
By order of the Committee, W. LOGAN, Secretary, Hongkong Stock Exchange. Hongkong, 31st December, 1919.
(1891
NOTICE
REDUCTION IN PRICE OF GAS.
Nand from the 1st January, 1990, the Price of GAS will be Reduced from $4.50 to $2.50 per 1,000 e bio feet.
ΤΟΥ
GEORGE CURRY,
Local scoretary, HONGKONG & CHINA GAS
CO, LTD. Hongkong, December 18th, 1919. [1888.
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
"I. P. M. HODGSON having mwigned
Metaryship of this Club
MUNOKONG DAILY:
WAR INTIMATIONS
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER
COMPANY
DECEMBER 2011. 1919,
SATURDAY.
INTIMATION
OTION IN HRBERT GIVEN that FIRST ORDINARY GENERAL MERTING & 864R 430 D583 il be bald the Omber
Compaidy Georges Building Chater Bad Victoria Pink proting
SATURDAYETL
for
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three accomplices are still at large. In On December 15th, Mr. J. W. Jamieson, addition to illustrating the need for CMG, HM Consul General Shanghai nek' gnol, designed on modern lines to presented to Mrs FW Baker the fácilitats · supervision, at some distance Royal Red Cross of the second class, from the thickly populated part of the which His Majesty the King has been Colony, the tragedy has revealed- serious graciously pleased to confer upon her in defects in the" administration of the recognition of her services in Frapee as prison. The jury are of opinion that
the escape" of the prisoners was due so | collision on 'the part of cficials connées: |
V.A.D.
"Christmas
forenoon Statement of Abonnés at the Report of the ASSORTED CABES FOR XHANed with the Gaol The discovery of a was given by the pupils of the General Hangers for the 14 months anding Soud September, 1915, and electing & Consult Tag: Combitter sod
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be OLOSIND from Marbar, the lex BEZRMBIL," TO 13: dizil - HartskĎAT, the SOTK Emerikan, 1918/both days instruire.
TOMES & Co., Hongking, Decendber 5th, 1912. [1630
THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE TRANSFLI BOOKS of THE
Company will be: CLOSED frum SATURDAY, DECEMBER SUTE, 1912 abil MONDAY, DECtanks 29, 1918 both days.
By Crise of the Bard of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
V Aguiltaqd Hongking, December 17th, 1918 [1666
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CERTIFICATE NO. 6 N8 se dated
the Committee have point the Unter-Hongkong November 8th: 1918 for five signer, to whom all facare communications should be addressed.
L. S. GREENWIDE, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, December 18th, 1918,
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL GOVERNMENT-BILLS, ETC. TENDERS AT SPECIE realTHE OFFICES of the above Company SHANGHAI and TIENTSIN, up to temporarily to premises formerly occupied bave This Day been REMOVED and for the 20£ $500,400 surrani in | by Messrs. CAMPBELL, MOOKE & CO, LTD. Shanghal and 300,000 in Tientsin ill be Satranest Chater Road) received by Abu STEBASHEY OHLENT OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT,
Bill 11.30 AM. on December 22nd, 1919.
The automat moegled lay in placed by the
Hongkong, December 17th, 1919. [1887
shares numbered 25604 to 25465 and 66931 to 66123 incluzive, all registered in the name &F BO SHIU PO Iss
LUST or STOLEN, and should this, Certificate not be produced to the
OF DECEMBER, He Yafore fin suth
how Corticate for the sharers will be fined and the foresaid Certin No. 3/NS 5338 will be therefor created this Corporation at WULL and By Order of the Court of Directors,
NAASTABE
#Oniel Manager. Hongkong, November 2686, 1912 (1676
NOTICE
TAKUTOA & May aroun I SAMUEL JOHN ULAYE at present residing at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedden Street Victoria, in the Colony of Hong
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number of tools and implements to open
F
An interesting break up
Kowloor British School yesterday at St. locks and cut through the doors supports Andrew's Hall The programme included this view. It is considered probable, too
a number of very enjoyable songs and that the knives used in attacking the dances. Mr. Greig made an excellent warders were made by the convicts Father Christmas, and Mr. Jender s
A cinematograph die within the prison walls. Then there is amusing clown. tbe'
possession of unauthorised clothing, of play was to have been given, but this was food and of a rope to be explained. If the hot carried out owing to the machinery periodical sosrebes had been conducted | getting out of order. thoroughly how could these things, have been concealed i The jury remarked, alaq, upon the indifferent manper. In which the locking system of the gates was carried out, The loss of phus-key by a Indian warder in April was never reported; it was only discovered some time afterwards at their possible habitability, etc. The re
A public lecture on the Planetary System is to be givan on Monday next In the Union Church hall by the Rev. J. Kirk Macunachie. The lecture, which will be fully illustrated by slider, will deal with the nature and movements of the planets belonging to the solar system,
6.30 p.m.
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL
master of keys by the Chief Warder. No
cent procrastinations of Professor Prata. very serious view seems to have been taken as to the terrible, things which were to of this neglect of duty-at all events, have cecurred from December 17th to 20th the services of the officer who committed will also come in for reference: Com- were retained--and no alteration modore Gurner is to take the chair, at was made in the locks concerned." In the lecture, which is timed to begin at the circumstances it is not surprising that the Coroner felt constrained to declare that the prison system had "lamentably Failed." The lighting of the building, a'so, was the subject of adverse criticism, as well it might be, and the jury recommended the installation of electric) lamps, so that in the event of an emer- gency the corridors might be Good ed with light. Darkness is always an advantage to the evildoer. As
of the the efficiency SPECIAL CASES PUT UP TO ORDER.exercised by the gaol officials has been supervision.
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SOCIETY.
ANNUAL DINNER AT HONGKONG HOTEL
The Hongkong University Medical Society held its sixth annual dinner at the Hongkong Hotel on December 18th, under the chairmanship of Dr C. W. McKenny, The Hotel orchestra was in attendance and among these present were Messrs. Ho called into question, it must in fairness Kwong, A. H. Crock, N..T. Mackintosh, be mentioned that the number of M. K. Lo, He Leung, Grose, Capt. Mac- European officers is seven below the aulay, Profdwors Jordan, Warren, Wright proper complement, owing, no doubt, and Digby, Drs. E.-B. Taylor, C. C.
gs hereby give Notice last se A. S. WATSON & CO. to the war. Moreover, on the Wang, F. M. Osorio, B. C. Wong, C. EL
senderer to the credit of a scoopt wil NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY expressly withdrawn all and every
HOSGIO-AND-SHANGHAI KÄRKING'
CORPUNAZION, Aging and Tientsin. 10 *
to be
i'menflable in December 1ård, 1919. 1
Persons daring to sinse alternatively
(a),
The amount of Hongkong carreary Payabequistou back on December 231 1914, required for $1,000 sad Tintain currency and/or
bai
(b) The amount of Duliars
Jedrrent.
In Shear Lords Commissioners of BM
Tantsin per £100 for Telegraphic
om1 on the
Trestry, London, d
The lenders
14. be in duplicate, and I would
sovers, addressed to the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT, ad endorsed TENDERS FOR GOVELY. MENT
to soppt or reject any or all of, the last of Tender can be had on
Undersin
Copter all Application.
Farsons, tendering læ(Billa) are hereby that "kawing regard to the provisions of We Acts 21 George:13 Cap. 45 and 41, George 11L, Cap, sã, the soceptance of say such febler
HOLIS My bones in share a part in or l
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Any Further Information can be eliminad
Cto the TREASURY
HEST OFFICAL APD
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LIMITED.
NOTICE OF HETOVAL.
THE OFFICES of the a wire Company
authority which my wife Gladys Arelene Clays may have at any time, either ex- pressly or by implication or otherwise acquired to contract for me or in my hamd pay, gant or in
hare this day he REM VED to SAPERE dhe Being
No & Qusar'a BuiLDINOR, (Comer froad)
Hongrong, December 8th, 1919. #1838
WEI HAI WEI SOHCOL
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competent MATROS. Apply with
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VACANT FLOT of Land Taumati
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(1417
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THE HONGKONG LANDA INVEST- MENT & AGENCY, LTD.
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DESIGHED, "No" 87",The Paix (No. 1, Blewat Terrace) containing a Bed-
they of the above named ship with rooms and Bathrooms, hot and cold water,
Zagines and Boilers and varions anxi bary machinery on boards
Full particuls of the Ship and com- ditions of sale may be obtained an appli cation to the undersigned, or to the British Naval Agent at Shanghai or te the British Naval General Staff Officer al Bingapore Permits to view the Ship and forms of tonder of application only
the undersigned.
A deposit is required before forms
of tender can be lined.
The vessel will be on view from, the first
Credit having expressly gulied with all necessaries and that will not be responsible
for her debta Ecnebever or Fowlower indariod, an Dated this 17th, of "Do
B.: J. CLAYE
-F1883
FOTICE.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
Order, to rable
LIMITED.
TEL $16
DEATHS.
day of the occurrence, two of the Lek, A. W. Wao, F. E. Wong, W. Wood- European warders were in hospital and man, T. C. Wang, K. K. Wong, S.-C. Ho, two more were on long leare. Even the HC Wong and B. de Sonia, Indian staff is eleven below strength.
Dr. C. W. McKenny, in proposing the Only one European, under the presents of The Guests," "expressed his pleasure at seeing Mr. Ho Kwong present, arrangement, is on duty inside the prison and wished to thank him for bis profound at night, and no one other than be interest in the doings of the Society. Vaat armed with anything more deadly than a improvements were made possible in the truncheon. The jury have done well to Tung Wah Hospital through the efforts draw attention to these shortcomings of Mr. Ho Kwong as chairman of the They urged that steps should be taken without delay to bring the staff the work done by Dr. E. 8. Taylor as one Board of Directors. He also referred to to its till effective strength of the External Examiners in the recent and that two European warders, At Final M.B., B.S., degree Examinations.
always be on MARIA, widow of the late Simplicio together at night. They suggest, further, duty Tizón, of Rugunoy, Province of that there should be an adequate suas Sulacan, Philippine lands, in ber of firearms for the use of the warders 54th year.
We hope that the lessons of the ~London Orfica: 181, Fusir (Fraser, B.On time will be lost in giving effect to the -- UKONG. Urtica: 104,'Di Voux Road, C, Fragedy will be taken to heart and that
jury's common-sense recommendations.
EICHARDS.—At Philadelphia, on October Bist, of typhoid fever, LEONARD BAILEY BICHARDE.Formerly of Shanghai, HOBERTSON-At-Tientsin, on December 8th, Lieut. Col. 'DAVID STEPHAN RO EETSON, Military Attathe to HB÷M. Legation, Peking
For the Contractors to T1803. At Shanghai, on December 10th,
the above Hotel at the caret portible date without interruption, and in order to avoid all possibility of danige to the Mooring. Tile Print
the public aro requested to kindly "shatain" from
visiting the Hotel is on, and from, this date until its Notice will be given by Advertisement in completion and formal opening of which dus the Local
Хежарарств The Management of the Hotel, feel that they may rely upon the ready co-operation of the public in the foregoing regard.
Sury
* Dated this Bixth day of November, 1819. FOR THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO. LTD. Proprietor of the REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
H."TAGGAET."
VAS800TATION
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG, DECEMREK TUTE, 1919.
THE GAOL TRAGEDY.
least, should
Mr. Bo Kwong and Dr. Taylor replied proposed by Dr. G. E. Thomas who read The toast of "the Medical Society wa
out a list of the papers that had been in sace 1917. He hoped the progress of.the.Society would be maintained, and wished the Society a auccessful future.
Prot-Earle in replying for the Society, said he was extremely, glad to see so many medical graduates of Hongkong as well as those of other universities present, and believed that this snaual function would undoubtedly tend to encourage a closer professional friendship among the doctors The general meeting of the Society of of Hongkong and the medical students of
the Hongkong University, It was
kong University, had been recom- Thomas, the first graduate of the Hong-
and, on behalf of the Society, he con- mended for the doctorate in medicine, gratulated aim on his unique achievement Continuing, Pror. Earle said he way of foundation of a university hospital, and opinion that the time was ripe for the
d, as usual, rendily respond to any
made by the University for finan
ance
spoke of the coming of Dr. Mckenny on furlo and asked those present to drink health.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange khas issued a list of settling day for 1980.)
"Next month it is the auth.n
1693:1
1 attention to the unwisdom of continuing
row at the Conference Hall. HONGKONG BOXING & convict establishment in the centre of The Christmas Treat to the pensioners our congested city, where land for bun-ander the care of the Society of St ness purpose is at such a high "pre Vincent de Paul will be held to-morrow, miem. During the recent debate on auther excellent reason for removing ending. December 6th., amounted to 92,797 the Budget H.E. THE GOVERNez advanced Administration's mines for the week The total output of the Kailan Mining
Boxe two or three years" "ago"we'dra St Vincent de Paul is to be held to-privilege to announce that Dr. G. E.
"-"NOVICES" COMPETITION,
COMPETITION (all Weights) to be INTRIES are invited for NOVICES
Boom, Sitting. Boom and usual Officed, also a bald on’órabớnt the toza :day of JiXUANY,, the Gaoly beyond the limits of Victoris, tons and the sales to 88,229-tons Confident that the generous públic
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development of prison industries. Now the urgency of seeking a more suitable Cospel-situation for them;
institution has been bater or in emphasized by a tragedy. As a result prepared
to the undersigned.
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this oner for
The prisoner who had escaped from Vic is Gaol was brought up at the Magis tracy: yesterday, and formally-charged with the murder. The case was remsad þfótti wiek."
of the Cotorer's inquiry into the circum- Japanese woman was arrested by the thurt, be made at or before Nopa prstancos morrgunding the murder of Wanchef Police for being drunk and dis dnesday, Decemb 28th and be addremed
Warder BPE and Indian Warder orderly he was allowed out on bail of "HARMA Bmon by escaping prisoners, 16, but failed to attend Court. Her ball
the jury have indirectly condemned the was.estreated. reds whenitable for ita that the geol
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The N. 0 Daily Mail understands that Mr. Heary, Keswick is going to make round the world trip in his private Yacht and that Captain
checorne, whose models h
Indo-China B. N. Compar ilk be command of the yacht for the duration of the tour. Blitzla risk of defect ause they were M
district boneycombed with stresti plaster y
were so much vadmited at the and were dressed,
arg attire. rebent Sketch Club exhibitios This is proved by the fact that a
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THE ADMIRALLINE INCREASES ITS CAPITALI Owing to expansion in business as a world war, the Pacific Steamship result of conditions enning upon the pany The Admiral Line is increasing its
Com capital Uy, the faste of 525 000,000, in 7 per cent preferred stock seting of Navigation Company, was to be the holding corporation, the Faclic
Admiral Line
provide for 1,500,000 ofther
; and oper vessels belor tates Shipping Board has developed and
to develop with the sela, an extensive ent; and from being
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