NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 80TH, 1920.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
INTIMATIONS
...
NOTICE.
Toshin the Bishop of Victoria at
THE SALE OF FURNITURE of His THE EASTERN AUSTRALIAN S.S. WE have This Day REMOVED our ST. PAUL'S Coltson will take place TO-DAY at 8.30 P..
HUGHES & HOUGH, Anationeers.
Hongkong, April 29th, 1920...
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COMPANY'S "KASTERN * Arrived Hongkong on April 19th, 1890, FROM AUSTRALIA, SANDAKAN & MANILA.
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named NY person baving claims against the romel are hereby informed that their goods are Estate of the late Lieut. F. M. being landed and placed AT THE RISK in the and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Walte
NOTICE:
Godowns st Kowloon, where each
OFFICE to No. 1, QUEEN' ROAD CENTRAL, (Old Supreme Court)},"
QE W. RICOU Hongkong, April 28th, 1990.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD
REDUCTION IN PRICE
FROM MAY 181, 1890, the Price of Current for LIGHTING and FANN will be
Northanta Regiment, attached be sorted out Mark by Mark reduced to 18 centa per Unis.
CLO should send them in as soon så possible, to;
Major H. G. BAGNALL, RG.A RA. Mess, Kowloon.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
·
IN THE MATTER of the Estate of JOHN HOWELL MAY, late of Victoria, Hongkong, Gentleman, decessed.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Section 38 of The Probates Ordinance 1887, (No. 3 of 1887). made an Order limiting the time for sending in claims to or against the above Estate to the 31st day of May, 1990,
are
hereby
Creditors and claimanta required to send their claims to the under-
aimed by the above date.
Buted this 28th day of April, 1920.
D'ALMADA & MASON, Solicitors for the Executors.
R
PUBLIC AUCTION.
End
are landed
can be obtained as the Gooda
Optical Goods will be landed here aniser instructions have been given to the contrary sir hours before arrival of the Steamer.
Goods not cleared within 8 days, including data of avrival will be subject, to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by ww in any case whatever.
Discount will remain sa before.
GIEB, LIVINGSTON & C
Ageniu. Hongkong, April 26th, 1920,
817
ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
NOTICE
BATHING SEASON.
Damaged packages reust be left in the Go- downs for examination by the Counsignes, and the Company's Surveyors, Mesars, Goddard and. Dovalis, at 10. on Mondays and THURSDAYS. All Claims must be prosenbod within ban days of the steamer's arrival horeTHE GENERAL COMMITTERE has after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents Hongkong April 29th, 1990.
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*GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD.
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PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 3rd day of MAY, 1999 at 3 PM, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Ons Lot of CROWN LAND above Kennedy Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rant to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locally
Boundary
Last
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AMERICAN AND MANCHURIAN LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
YOU NEW YORK. "
HE Steamship
THE
"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
decided to again throw the Cinb House open from lar iss, to certain approved persons who are not Member of the Club.
Applications for Bathing Membership should be sent to either of the undersigned.
By Order,
EW. CARPENTER
P. W.D. D. K. BLAIR, Lowe, Bingham & Matthews.
751
FROM UNITED KINGDOM, COLOMBO HONGKONG DOG AND
and STRAITS www.
HE Motorvessel.
THE
"GLENADE” having arrived from the above porta, Con- signees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence, and or from the wharres, deliver
7 may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 1st May, 1950, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will
POULTRY SHOW, 1920.
will be bold
(By kind permission of the BiTWARDS "of the Jockey: Cz3)
at HAPPY VALLET,
On SATURDAY, MAY 157,
From 'S FL to 6 P.M.
Jadging takes place at 8 rat.
No Dog or Bird will be allowed into the Steward
be examined by Mears. Goddard & Douglas | show or taken away without reference to the on 1st May, 1920, 10 AM Claims against the steamer must be presented within 30 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
'JARDINE, MATHESON & 60., LTD.. Agents Hongkong, 24th April, 1920. »
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
The Steamship AFRICA”
1812
FROM TRIESTE, COLOMBO, PENANG
......& SINGAPORE.
CON
Admission
B.
WANTED.
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
effervescing
LIVER SALTS
taken in the morning will
quickly relieve that slight
derangement and impart a
feeling of health, vigour and
exhilaration.
SOLE AGENTS:
The moral to be drawn from this incident more, when Government methods and in the crowded history of current events management come into collision with
private enterprise system is found wanting.
the bureaucratio cumbrous, costly, lacking in initiative, It is slow, and anadaptable. Thus we have arrived
is that the working classes including the rank and Ale of the great Traces Union --are beginning to perceive the real meaning of these repeated attempts to anforce political issues by "direct action." at a stage when not only is popular The Trades Union Congresa" was nough to see that minority rule cannotation, but a demand is board for tha sane opinion setting strongly against natichal- be tolerated in a Democratic country.
removal of Government control wherever The miners are, of course, a minority of it is found. There is a nebulous idea that organised Labour, and a small minority Government control of a commodity or entire an industry means that a great, wise and
indeed compared · with the
Yet their Union officials ominent person called & Controller sits population. aspired to dictate Government policy on
aloof like a god on Olympus watching a fundamental issue. It would be difficul with beneficent care the interests of the to find a more glaring example of an public, and issuing orders from time to attempt at sectional dictation under a
time. But what is really the fact is that threat of holding up the activities of the a Controller is only another name for a whole community. Bolsheviam, seems the huge bureaucratic rabbit-warren. most appropriate word for it.
The But Coal Controller supplies a good case in Bolshevism is a weed that does not thrive point. His headquarters consists of 499 in a free country like. Britain. Is may officials, all more flourish for a time in a country like considering the endless muddles they have or less over-paid Russia, suddenly emancipated from contrived to make of their co-called despotism, where the old system has gone control of the coal industry. In addition, down in ruing and a new order of society
there are 980 other officials on the local has to be evolved
In Great Britain, staffs scattered up and down the country, and altogether they cost the taxpayer £530,000 a year. This, be it observed, is not to manage the coal industry, but to control it. It would take a column to
as
has been proved over and over again, the political instinct of the people is uncommonly sound; and although the masses may be sometimes stampeded, those who try to use them for enumerate the colossal blunders that have narrow ends have always had to pay the been made by this wartime bureaucracy reckoning in full Today the workers in that still clings to office. The most recent every part of Great Britain are receiving notable achievement was good wages, there is full employment for Christmas to put every household in the just after all industries for a couple of years ahead, land on a ration of 2 cwt, of coal per and there is certainly no widespread week, and this precious order, applied desire to upset the country at the behest during the coldest months of the year, was of men who were pacifists and pro- still in fores six weeks ago. Thus it is. Germans all through the war, and are
earnet admirer of LENIN and nationalisation is not popular, or that it not, perhaps, altögether, surprising that TROTSKY. The fact is that Labour is devoutly hoped Controllers will pass extremists who have done their level best away in time-though that will not be
now
A. S. WATSON & CO., since the Armistice to use the Trades without a struggle on their part to hang,
Unions for the grinding of Bolsheviston to their jobs, and a struggle on the axes are discovering that the workers are part of the plain citizen to get rid of not to be blindly stampeded; nor are then them.
LIMITED.
to be easily fooled. Moreover, the leaders of Labour in general appreciate
Three cases of cerebrospinal fever wera,
the danger to the movement by anything reported in the Colony on Wednesday.
$1.00.
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
in the nature of" direct action." They
OMPETENT: STENOGRAPHER, fr Shipping firm. State previous experi- ence and salary expected.
Reply to:
Box 89%,TM Care of Daily Press”. Offon,
WANTED.
Biddle was no help with w ADY travelling on SA "No about Children from Singapore to London, part
HELP,
CONSIGNEES, of Cargo Are heraby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon, Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd. at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unle❘ passage. notice to the contrary be given before.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 4th
will be subject to rent.
" KAZEMBE " having arrived; Consignees of Cargo são informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and/or exta hasardous Godowns of Holts Wharf, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Claire will be admitted after the Goods claims against the steamer must be have lat's the Godown, and all Goods remaining presented to the Undersigned on or before undelivered after 6th May, will be subject the 15th May, or they will not be recognized.
to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 19th May, 1930, or they will not be recognised.
All Broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any TUESDAŤ OF FRIDAY between the hours of 10.45 AM, and Noon, within the free storage period.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE, LTD., A
General Agente,
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Hongkong, April 29th, 1920.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD
HOTICE TO CONSIGNEÈS.
PROX SCANDINAVIA.
TUN Moborahip
"ASIA".
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huring
arrived from the above ports on the 29th April, 1920, Consignees of Cage by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed að flanir rink into the
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods
J
Apply
Care of "Daily Pra
WANTED.
are to be left in the Godowns, where theyUEST-CLASS by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. will be examined on the 3rd May, at 10 AM.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL & Co., Lab. Agents...
825 Hongkong, April 57th, 1990... -
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P.&O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
“NOVARA. Arrived Hongkong on April 7th, 1880.
FROM LONDON," PORT SAID, COLOMBO & STRATTA
Consignes of Cugo by the above-named Towel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in tho Hongrong and Kowloon Wharf and Godows Company's Godowns at Kowloon, whers each Consignment will be sorted out Mark Mark
· hazardous and/or extra hazardons Gedown of detery man be obtained a pod zƏ
the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Lislel, whance and/or the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by May 6th, 1920, mubijout toʻzant,
bo
All broken, obsted and devaged packingw are to be left in the Clodowns, where they will be aramined on May 5th, 1820, at 10 AM,
Claims against the Stemmer must presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise "They will not be recogiafsad, es
Optimal Goods will ba landed hars instructions have been given to the contrary
6 hours before arrival of the Beamer.
Goods not olaazed within 8 days, including
dake of arcival, will be subject to rent.“
in
No Fire Insurance will be effected by na
downs for accammination by the Comigotes, and | Damaged packages must be left in the Go-
the Company's Surveyors, Memes, GoDDARD & DOUGLLE, at! 10
No Fire Tuzoqnce will be effected by úm in THRAKATI ANGAN MONDATE :
Bay case whatersE,
Bus of Lading will be countersigned by jug
MESSER THORESEN. & Co.,
Agentu Hongkong, April 29th, 1920.
-PUBLISHED TO-DAY
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PRESS.
CONTAINING ALL THE WEEK'S
LOCAL NEWS
The Paper, to soud
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All Claims must be presented within tenn days of the Steemer's arrival hero sfier which dale they cannot be recognised. No Clafma will be admitted after the goods have left the Godown.
&13.
GORDON & COY.
Bb. Georges Buildings.
BIRTH. TTEN-On April 27th, at Tjibatce, No. 38, The Peak, to Mrs. G. Oriss, a daughter.
MARRIAGES. ARNOLD-AGASSIZ-At Shanghai,
April 23rd, EDWIN LASTE ARNOLD;
on
son of the late A. O. Arnold. and
The Colonial Secretariat announces that
Manila have been withdrawn.
-Bishop and Mrs. Lander are leaving by The Bishop is to preach at the Cathedral the Empress of Russia on Thursday next.
and St. Andrew's, Kowloon, on Sunday.
know that it is to their interests to put down the extremists because of the the quarantine restrictions imposed against unfavourable effect upon public opinion; and they also know that in the event of Labour coming into
power one of these days the existence of & Labour Govern- ment would be jeopardised if, against the will of the majority, any section of Labour could hold up the Executive by the simple and irresponsible expedient of "direct action." It is too soon to predict what the next move of the defeated extremists will be. Probably they will throw their weight into a demand for higher wages for miners on the score of
retired. The
We shall soon
A religious meeting will be held at the Helena May Institute on Tuesday, May 4th, at 5.30, p.m. The address will be given by Mr. Lindsay, vicar of St. Andrew's, Kowloon,
Mrs. Arnold of Hongkong, to Exin increasing,cost of living. MAUD AGAREIZ, younger daughter of see. ls is noteworthy that Mr.. ROBERT A proposal to give the franchise to 140 the late A RN. Agassis and Mrs. SAILLIE, the miners leader, has just Japanese citizens of British Columbia who Agamiz, of Shangħai. BissKKERROCER-At Tsinanfa, on April 10th, FAX DoxovAN BISSEKER (of Birmingham), to MART, daughter of Mrs. J. B. Roche, of Tsingtao. DEATH
j-
CARVALHO-At Macao, on April 25th, BOBERT A. DE CARVALHO. Deeply to gretted London, Lashon, American, and Shanghai papers please copy.
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HONGKONG OFF108: 10, DES Vaux Bo., C. LONDON, Orics: 121, FIERT STEKET, EO.
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG, APRIL 30TH, 1930.
reason given out is that fought with the Canadian forces in his health has broken down. He has France has been defeated in the provincial certainly been unwell of late, but the legislature of British Columbia at Victoria. Miners' Federation gave him a long leave
the
The
of absence to recuperate, and it was Mr. A. H. Crew appeared at the Magis believed he would accept. But it is said tracy yesterday, and applied for bail on that several weeks previously the truth behalf of a Chinese woman against whom dawned upon him that nationalisation of a banishment order is pending.
mines," for which be fought woman is alleged to be a noted character unoossingly, was a dead horse in a and to be a public dangers Mr. Hutchison, Political sense. The cruellest blow was said the matter was a serious one and be his discovery that even the minera te z
could not grant bail. body were no longer enamoured of State control of the industry. The realisation The "Grupo Dramático Musical," af. of this cold thath broke his heart. Macao are giving two performances as Mr. BMILLIA bag been represented as a the Club Lusitano tomorrow and on dangerous demagogue. His public Sunday. There is a different programme utterances, especially last year before the for each evening, but both will include a 68 || INCREASING UNPOPULARITY
Coal Commission, gave the impression dramatic performance, music and dancing. "OF NATIONALISATION:
that he was a ruthless sort of person. The proceeds will go towards the Educa In reality be in agreeable and companion- tional funds of the Sociedade de BoccorTOS abla, His fanit was that he was unable Muined" Tus-latest-mail from Home brings the
to see the clouds on the far horizon full accounts of the Trade Union Congress
Referring to the shipping wage arbitra at which was an emphatic hot was whither his nationalisation dreams registered to the miners proposal to call inevitably led and he was not able or ion recently concinded in Hongkong, * general strike as a means of compelling strong enought to finndle such a mighty Shipping and Engineer says: On the the Government to nationalis the coal issue in the face of the tremendous shipowners side have been employed minea The voting disclosed an over- opposition he challenged
four lawyers, two of them being R.C. whelming majority against "direct
It is curious to note how public opinion and they have been paid at the rate of action." About one million votes were has moved away from the idea of $500 per day. This represents a tremen- for, and nearly four millions against, a nationalisation. Twelve months ago there dous expenditure, as may well be imagīzi- strike. These figures indicate the view was a decided leaning towards State ed. And it is to be hoped that the final of orgiained Labour on the question, ownership of mines, shipping, railways, terms arranged by the arbitratora will though, if the truth were known, the docks, and many other undertakings justify it. Certainly, a strike would have majority against would be four to The reason is that when the whole country cost more
kdeed this relative proportion of four to was organised for war, Btate control was
A telegram has been received from the me. The decision at the Congress was a success that is to say it achieved its
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MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. REPULSE BAY HOTEL tam on the block system, an ingenious purpose. During the war the whole of London Office of the Mercantile Bank of
Hongkong, April 87th, 1930.
EruDai Mối li
FRENCH LESSONS TEA DANBANT FROM 6 PM TO 7. PAL
G. MOUSHION.
#15 MORRISON HILL ROAD.
DINNER DANCE FROM & F
BUNDAY, MAY 28IM Orchestral Concerta during Tifin and Afternoon
method devised by astute wire-pullors the economic and industrial forces of the India, Ltd., stating that the Bank is shout hereby a delegate registers, the vote of country were mobilised to achieve victory, to issue 60,000 new shares. They will be big Union as unanimous, although the being the only thing that mattered; and called "O" shares, and will be to fully members may be (and frequently are) it was, therefore, a comparatively simple paid and issued at a premium of £s almost evenly divided The decision, thing to direct ional, activities. Now, making £10 each share. The shares will anyway, is a very heavy defest for the how tall is ed. Life is becoming be offered to the present shareholders one revolutionary Labour element, who have forms Trade other rivalries of new share for each "A" or "B" shura engineering a strike on a national parce time are being, renewed. The public held. The first instalment of £5 is payable Government control, not later than May 30th and the final £5 exercised, is critical and not later than June 30th The new shares.
ciendly; and, what is rank for dividend from July 1st next
"eve
kince the failure.
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