NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICETM
WE have just received a consigument of RER OWN MAKE PIPES.
Maderate prices.
TARAQUERIA FILIPINA.
GULA-KALUMPONG BUBBER
ESTATES, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
020
4
INTIMATIONS-
THE BONGKONG DALLY PRESS
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED
THE
NOTICE.
THE FORTY SECOND ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS of the above Company, will be held at the Offices of the General' Agenta, Pedder's Street, on WEDNESDAY, MARCH HTH, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of recaly- ing the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December 1919. -
INTIMATIONS
HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE
NTR for Int and Bad Division of the above League close on Maxou Siaz. Bepresentative of Chaba entering') are requested to attend a Kosting to be held in MARCH 31ST St &.15.7.M. S the Hongkong Cricket Club Favilion on
A IO. BRAWN
Hon. Secretary
605
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD. will be CLOSED from the 10th to 24th-
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the March, both days inclusive. NOTIONAL GENERAL MEETING
will be held on MARCH 30TH, 1990.
The SHARE REGISTER of the above Company will be. CLOSED from March 50th to 31st, both days inclusive.
By Order,
LOWE BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Colonial Register... Hongkong, March 98ad, 1920.
'814
FICTORIA RECREATION CLUB-
Final of the Billiard Champion ship of the Colony between Mr. P. A..
Evanovich and M. 6. Gray takes place. this evening, commencing at 6 p.m., sharp At 500 there will be an interval of one hour for dinner.
The winner will meet Mr. K, K. Leung (the holder) in the Challenge Round on Friday, March 28th..
EE. B. MITCHELL, Hon. Becretary, Hongkong, March 24th, 1820.
A. G. DA ROCHA,
IS THE AUCTIONEER
A G. DA BOOHA,
AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER,
Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2931
AVOURED with instructions from The Concerned will sell by Public Auction, on FRIDAY, 26th March, 1990, at 2.30 P.M., at No. 13, Nathan Road, Kowloon, (ground floor).
Sundry Household Furnitures, Dress- ing Tables, Washstands,, Chairs, Dining Table, Wardrobes, Pictures, Glass and Crockery Wares, Bodstead, and Sundries,
TEX-Cash on Delivery,
B
WÄNTED.
B
Ya British Impt and Export Firm competant TENO-TYPIST. A
thorough knowledge of English esential. State experience and salary required to
Box No. 616,
G
Care of Daily Press" Office.
WANTED.
(816
[OOD HOMES for THREE DONKEYS.
Quiet and used to children."
apply.
DE HARTLEY,
Amoy.
581
TO LET.
To montaly terms, from April 1st,
OP-HALF. BASILEA, Lyttleton Road
Apply-
Box No. 69%, Care of Daily Prem" Offos
TO LET.
SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
691
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO., LTD,
Alemandrs Bulidings....
FOR SALE
heavy ix cylinder BUICK MOTOR ACAR Five xester. In first-class order. Just undergone complete overhaul Owner leaving Colony..
For partieniais apply to...
TWO
XYZ P.O. Box No. 4124.
817
FOR SALE.
WO BELLISS & MORCOM TRIPLE EXPANSION 400 ELP ENGINES, direct coupled to 250 K.W. Direct Carrent Generators or 75 eyele Alternators complete with three Boilers, Condensing Plant and Poonomiser. Fall Specification can be obtained at the Office of the HONGLONG ELDUTRIC CO., LTD, St. George's Buildings The Plant may be inspected at the Company Works at North Point by arrangement with the Office.
JARDINE MATHESON & Co, Lady.
General Agents. Hongkong, March 8th, 1990.
131
No
NOTICE.
TOTIČE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CERTIFICATE for 4 Shares Numbers 20885/20988 issued on 11th Marah, 1889 in the Fame of IP PING Kwan, has been declared
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & LOST, and should the same not be produced
THE
MORTGAGE CO., LTD."
before the 31st March, 1920, the same shall be deemed cancelled and of no effect.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CA,
· Agente
Hongkong, March 13th, 1920.
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
E
WHISKY
1920.
·were" rds
Filteen deaths from influenz portes in the Colony during last week
Nine cases (three deaths) of cerebro-
that if this estimate had been given to the public at an earlier date we should have had a more fruitful discussion of the Bub-Committee's recommendation. We do not know even whether the dah-pinal lever, and one case of diphtheria Committee had any estimate of cash before
were reported in the Colony last week. them when they came to their decision, Four cases (two deaths) of cerebrospinal and we observe with some surprise that fever, one case of diphtheria and one case the estimate was only communicated to of enteric fever were reported on Sunday the General Committes sa something in and Monday... the nature of a secret which hitherto it has been desirable, for some incompre-the Peking and Tientsin Times, contemplate: The Kailan Mining Administration, says hensible resson, to guard. "It will be ne breach of good faith, and will probably wangtae. The present breakwater will be extensive harbour improvements at Chin- remove a 'good deal at misapprehension," widened, to provide five additional out- saich the Hon. Mr. JOHNSTONE, “if I say side berths, making 18 berths, where 20,000 at once, that it is thought likely that the
tons of coal may be shipped in 24 hours. manument ultimately erected will cost in It is proposed also to construct a new the neighbourhood of two to three lake breakwater, 2,500 ft, in length, to provide A breach of good faith! We should think berths for five'steamers, and giving a low not, indeed
It was the essential thing water depth of 30ft. for the Committee, and the public ther represent, to know. The estimate has frankly astonished most people. In these days of high exchange there is irresistible impulss in people's minds to quality TO-DAY Convert the sum into sterling and to ask whether, with a fund of something like £75,000, it would not bo possible to provide a more adequate memorial than an obelisk and a colonnade, It is, of course, eptirely wrong to think of the as BEFORE and during cost of a local memorial in terms of
567
maintains the
TIHE TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING ✪ SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Building, No. 6, Connaught Road, on SATURDAY, MARCH 17TH, 1990, në 11 A.M.,
VACUUM OIL COMPANY for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General ATTORNEY heretofore held by the AFFECTIVE from date, the POWER OF Managers for the year ending 31st Dom undersigned, covering Sonich China, Fu ber, 1819, and electing & Consulting Copine Islands, Cochin-China, Hism, Straits mitten and Auditors.
held by LH. GRABE. Settlements and Dutch East Indies will be
J. EL CONGDON,
General Manager,
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Coms pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, MARCH 20TH, 1990, until HATURDAY, MARCH 97TH, 1920, both days inclusive.
EHEWAN, TOMES & CO.. General Managera.
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阳
THE HONGKONG & WEAPOA DOOK COMPANY, LIMITED..
N°
NOTICE.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of us who are, or have a hay time TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Office bear, Member of the Hongkong Police of the Company, 2. Queen's Buildings, Hong- kong, on SATURDAY, MARCH 17TH, 1980 GOVERNMENT UNIFORM AND EQUIP Reserve to FORTHWTH RETURN ALT at Noon, for consideration of the Directors Report and Statement of Accounts for the
MENT which has been famed to thein to
year ending 31st December, 1919.
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 19th, to the 37th March, 1920, both daya meinaiva.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. M. DYER,
Chief Minager. Hongkong, March 15th, 1890,
`HONGKONG CLUB,
NOTICE
373
TGENERAL MEETING of the Members
THIRTY-FOURTH YEARLY
1
of the HosexoNG CLUB be held in the Club House on MONDAY, MARCH 19TH, 1920, at 5.30 PM, By Order,
CE. P. HAY, Chairman. Hongkong, March 19th, 1920,
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
[193
HIGH
the War.
same
Central Police Station Store at the following Per Case Includlag duty.
times t
MONDAY-FRIDAYE 9 AM to 4 P.. SATURDAYS. [ 8 AX to 1 P.X. jf.
ED. C WOLFE Captain Superintendent of Police Hongkong, March žing, 1930.
G...
PACKING CASE WOOD,
4
807
ENDERS are invited for the purchase of ́a "quantity, of" WOOD' cut to size' and shape for making small Packing Cases,
The Wood may be seen on application at Kowloon Naval Yard between the hours of 9 AM to 12 Noom and L46 bo-4:45 PML on: MARCH $3RD, 942 and Sura
Tenders should be lodged in- the Com modore's Office by Nous, on MABOK 10TH, 1920. Forms of Tender may be obtained on application to the undersigned.
E. G. LOWE Naval Stord Offbegi Hongkong Dockyard. Hongkong, March 19th, 1920.
1
608:
that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the Hoora KONG CLUB will be held in the Club House, Connaught Road Central Victoria,
Hong kong, on MONDAY, the Twenty-Ninth day SALE BY TENDER OF H.M. TUGS of MARCH, 1920 immediately after the Yearly General Meeting, when Resolution as detailed in the notice exhibited in the Club House will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolation.
Should the Resolution be passed by the required majority it will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolution to a Becond Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Dated the 18th day of March, 1920.
By Order of the General Committes,
CEL P. HAY,
Chairman. S
TE
ST. SAMPSON " & " POET
LANGLAND.”
TENDERS are invited for the purchase of
the above-named Vessels with Engine and Boilers and various auxiliary machinery on board.
ditions of male may be obtained on applica
Full particulars of these Vessels and Con-
tion to the undersigned.
1694
of
THE ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS "& DEALERS OF HONGKONG.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Members of the ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS & DEALERS OF HONG KONG will be held on TUESDAY, MARCH, 30, 1920, at 4 PM, precisely, in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, following purpose CHARTERED BANK BUILDING, for the
1. To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the your ended 31st December, 1919.
2. To elect a New Committee.
To transact any general business. By Order,
E. A. M. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Hongkong, 18th March, 1920. Loos
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from March 18th to March 30th, both days inclusive.
Permita to view these Vessels and forms of tender on application only to the under signed.
A deposit of $1,000 is required before forms
tender be
can issued for either of these Vesala
The Vessels will be on view at Hongkang, from the 29 Mazer to the 16TH MAY inclusive between the hour of 10, and P. and tenders must reach the Com modore's Office. Hongkong, not later than T Noor on MONDAY, May 17th-sengalama PARTICULARS OF TOG BI SAMPSON Langth between perpendiculars 136′ 01" Breadth, extreme
30 9 Depth (ander side of 6" Bar Keel
to Upper Deck)
Tonnage according to British 16' :7.5/67
Bales Crown Nominal Displacement At mean draft olm Present mean draft”.
Where Bailt When
Deaks
$29,00
ab
1t
Not before it is badly needed, a great scheme of road making and improvement is being planned for Tokio, Yokohama, Kioto, Kobey and Osaka. The expendi ture for Tokio alone, extending over a period of 10 year, is estimated Y:38,000,000, and the total estimated cost takings will be supported by Government renches an enorious gare: The under
vided in this way. The first part of the subsidies, one third of the cost being pro- scheme to be undertaken will be the con-
sterling: we must necessily ignore the exchange value of the dollar, since all struction of new roads in Tokio, and a local costs must necessarily be in terma
great highway connecting the capital with Yokohama of the currency of the Colony, whether the exchange value of the dollar be 8/ Shanghai has lost another of its, well- or 5. Considerable astonishment is known inhabitants in the person of Mr. expressed, however, that so large and G. R. Wingrove, who with Mrs. Wingrove, representative a Committee should have a travelling on the Pembrokeshire to been able to agrae unanimously on this England whither they are retiring after proposal with such an estimate before a large number of years spent in Shang- "Pa" Wingrove, as the members
them.
bai.
It is a matter for regret that any of his pet club the A.D.C.-were wont question should have been raised as to to call him, reached his 4th birthday the good faith of the Sub-Committee in 1st week and his regret at leaving Shany-- recommending that the memorial should bai, sagt the N.-U. Daily News, will only be erected on the finest site." For our be equalled by the regret of those who are part we have never been able to recognise loath to see him go. For over 30 years that there is any more appropriate site he has been a resident of this port and
A. S. WATSON & CO., for a simple and dignified monument of tor 25 has, as secretary, had a great deal
LIMITED
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
TIZ. No. 816
MARRIAGES.
HEATHCOTE BRANDY In London, on March 4th., Colonel HEATHCOTE, to MARY BRANDT, of Shanghai. By cable... MARTYE BORTHWICZ-AŁ Bt. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on March 20th, by the Rev. Copley Moyle, HELEN Macrson, only daughter of Mrs. E. BORTHWICK, of Yokohama, to CoLLa WILLARD, fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. C MARTYE, of Peasiake, Bür zey, England.
the war than the site which has been now to do in securing the growth and success selected We believe the first anggeation of the Shanghai Gas Co.
CANTON NEWS,
March 23rd.
of this site appeared in the columns of the Daily Press, and it was certainly not made with any thought for the amenities of the Hongkong Club. We have always regarded with satisfaction the fact that TEE en1518 IN EWANQTUNG be the Government had set a válte on that plot of land that has for so long day state that fighting between tha The reports received in Canton, yester- preserved the symmetery and beanty of Kwangsi and the Yunnanese troops in Royal Statue Sqnare from the soul Longchnen. (North Riv region) con- destroying operations of the builder. sinnes. This is the most serious of all en- The gift of that plot by the Government gagements. More than 600 men including as a site for a simple and appropriate 10 officers of the Kwangai troops are re memorial of the war," now ensures the preservation of that open space unimported to have been killed or wounded in Paired for pay time, and future generations may be conated upon to
The Kwangsi and Canton leaders have esteem this gift no less highly than the decided to make a joint attack on the present generation, as a valuable and
Yunnanese troops in the Chihing district. indispensable part of
Reports from the East Riper region state HONGKONG ÜFFIC: 10a, Das Vores Rein, C. | memorial of the grest war.
the Colony's Lowson Umring, 181, Finn Brass, E.C.
that fighting has begun, between the Kwangsi troops, under Lan Chi-lnk, the Defence Commissioner of Swatów, and the Yunnanese troops, under the command of Wu Yak-sui, at a place near Swatow. The Chiuchow-Swatow Railway is in the bands of the Yunnanese. In Swatow martial law is being enforced,
The
Baily Press.
HONGKONG, MARCH 24TH, 1990,
The as Andre Lebon, which was de layed at Saigon owing to congestion at that port, is expected in Hongkong on Thursday.
action.
i
COSTLY SIMPLICITY.
Eleven cases (one death) of small-pox The report that Chan Kwing-ming is to and four cases (one death) of typhus favar send his forces frouf Fukien to Canton, to Tax General Committee of the Peace were reported during last week from the intervene in the conflict is "confirmed. Celebration and War Memorial—a large as Antilochus in the harbour. and
representative body has unanim-
Four battalions of Chan's troops arrived ously approved the decision of the War
at Swabue the otherday, and are now ap A Chinese company, with a capital of Memorial anb-Committee that the Colony's $300,000, is being organized for the purTERATENED ATTACK OF WANGSI,
proaching Waichow. War Memorial should take the form of ABLOI Tona simple but appropriate memorial to pose of establishing hotel and restaurant * 850
General Luk Wing-ting is believed to be the dead," to be erected on the finest services at Peitaibo, the summer resort of rushing troops towards the Kwangsi bor- site of the Colony," namely the green European residents of Peking and Tien-ders and to have shifted his headquarters Hongkong
plot between the Law Courte and the September 1919." Fong & Whampoa Prays; and it was intimated that a pro Of the 90,000 Chinese coolies engaged and the fortifications have been strength- to Langchow, nearer to the borders. Wo chow is reported to be under martial law Dock Coposal is under consideration to erect also in France, 70,000 Kad been repatriated by Fittings in Cabins, Chinese Memorial Arch in the native part the end of February, The remaining
13' 10" 10
of the city. When we last discussed the Sub-
tsin.
exed
OUTLOOK IN BILK INDUSTRY.
dook do Committee's recommendation we ventured 20,000, specially selected, will continue According to recent reports the price of
23
11
to express the opinion that if there was their work for a further period of twe any feeling of hesitation on the part of years.
raw silk, which was about $1,800 per the general public whole-heartedly to
pical in January, has dropped to about approve the recommendation it would
The Japanese Department of Agricul, $1,400 per pical. The decline in the price arise only from a sense of the inadequacy bibition Association are arranging to which does not allow of the production of ture and Commerce and the Japan. Ex. of uk la caused by unfavourable wasther
The price of
of “a simple and appropriate mamorial"
to represent the magnitude and the hold, in 1922, a great national exhibition a better quality of milk
By whom Materials of Construction
Wood Iron
General Fittings on Steel
Hall, Balkheads do, Forecastle, Upper &
Lover THE FIFTY-FIRST ORDINARY
A single screw steel steamer of MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS il 1,200 fitted with internal electric lighting a be held at the Offices of the undersigned at 100 Volts. Noon on TUESDAY, MAxur
** PARTIQUÉARS or Tuo Porr LANGLAND, ; Length between perpendiculars --.105′ 0′′ Breadth, extreme Depth in hold (Bar Keel to Upper
Deck
18 8.5/8" epoch-making character of a war which in celebration of the restoration of Pesce silk is still declining lower, and, on Nominal Displacement
480-Tons At mean draft of.....
muet romain for over memorable, in a and completion of the Meiji Shrine. account of the low price now prevailing Present mean draft
10.gaand: pro-eminent degree, in the history of the
sellers are unwilling to part with their But When
Where
The wave of unrest among the working goods. à commission sent by the Com world." A simple and appropriate classes in Tokio seems to be growing, saya mittoo of the Bilk Industrial Bureau of By whom Messrs. W, & Bailey
memorial" soomed to call for small the Japan Advertseer, in reporting the &Cs personal micrifice from subscribers in & latest strike at the Tsukiji Naval Arsenal Amerion, is on its way to Canton to in
community of half a million souls; because The workmen are demanding more leisure Fittings in Cabins, &c.
vestigate the conditions of the production General Fittings on
a memorial of the greatest war in history
**for physical and mental improvement of silk by the Cantones. ONE SULZEE DIESEL ENGINE 300 621, 1920, if sufficient support be forth-
deck, duris merely something towards which every ...Hull, balkheads, &o.
Forecastle, Upper & intelligent member of the community. The final in the Billiard Championship obtained at the Office of the HoxOKOKO regarding hours of School, Fees, eto, should A single screw stool steamer of IP Lower would wish to contribute a ahare, however (game of 1,000 up) will be played at
of IP.EL 700, The rant Can be inspector's Building, be made to the undersigned as early as fitted with internal electric lighting at 200 small bis means. We confess we were o'clock this evening at the Victoria Be
can be inspected at Company's possible. Works, Wing Fung Street, Wanchai. The
quite unprepared to learn that "a simple creation Club between Mr. P. A. Yvang By Order, Company are prepared to accept an offer for
R. A. M. WILLIAMS,
and appropriate memorial" would cost vich and Mr. 8. Gray. The winner will the Engine without the Alternátor.
Secretary
in the neighbourhood of thres lakhs of meet Mr. K. K. Loung (the present holder) Hongkong, March 16th, 1990.
dollars. The thought cannot be avoided, in the Challenge Round on Friday.
FOR SALE,·
657
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., L
General Managers, HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LED,
Hongkong, March 11th, 1920.
569 HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL.
NEW CLASS for "BEGINNERS* will commence. on MONDAY, APAK
direct, coupled to a 200 coming. Alternator Full Specification
Cata
658:
be Application for enrolment and enquiries
1919.
Materials of Construction:
Wood Iron'.
Sew Steel Decks
Volta,
KG. LOWE Faval Store Officer, HM Dock Yard, Hongkong,
000
"FOSTAL” SUSPENSIÓN,
It is stated that the Foreign Consula
in Shamoon and other missionarice in the province owing to the suspension of the postal affairs on the northern borders be cause of the present conflict have sent the inconvenience caused to them by thin complaints to the Tuchon, complaining of interruption of communications