NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE ADMIRAL LINE
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R. H. T. KRULL has been appointed Mtu Arnt for this Company in Hongkong during the temporary sence of 11.
J.. FLANSEN,
SOUN-GORMAN -----
General Agent. THE AUMIRAL LOVE PACIFIC STEAMSHIP Co.
(1174 Hongkong, July 8th, 1950,
AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING.
H. T. KRULL will be in charge of the METKU disheveyors of the American Busan of Shipping: during my temporary buenCA,
D. I HANSCOM. Agent and Surveyor
to American Bureats of Shipping.
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Hongkong, July 8th, 1920
HELENA MAT INSTITUTE.
RELIGIOUS MEETINGS are being held
follows during the Summer First, Third and Fourth Tasadays in the
month at 5.30.
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DEACON, LOOKER, DRACON &
HARSTON. Hongkong, July 1st, 1920.
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WE IN YOUR OU moving temporarily WE wre vacating our present premises on to No. 19; Icz Heyse STREET (next to Mee Cheong, photographer). In order to avoid, as much as possible, the repacking for removal of the stocks at present displayed, we are offering
few weeks only Smoking Requites, Cigare and Egyptian Cigaretten, Virginia Cigarettes ant Tobacco at reductions of 15 par cent 10 per cent; and 5 per cent, respectively.
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THE CERTIFICATE No. 1571 for coe
wilver share No. 45 now.converted into 5
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AUSTRALIAN
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
To have four entertainment companies on
tribute to shipbuilding in China was paid recently by the representative of the United States Shipping Board on the occasion of the launching of the Mandarin our giving performances in the Theatry from the Kiangnan Deck and Engineering reason to expect in these days of expen. in a single month is something we have little
Yard at Shanghai, which is practically the
only shipbuilding yard of any protentions sivo travelling. We bave had the Hunts The Mandarin is phrey Bishop Co, playing here for ten days in Chinese ownership.
on their return from a tour in the North. We have this week had a flying visit fro
they la not avoood 25 WORDS in aber LIGHT ALE ship having a displacement of 14,750
and are FEEPAID.
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tive spoke of her as being "by far the the Leyland Hodgson Revie Co., on best in regard to workmanship of the Saturday, and on Monday we are to have the many vetsels which had been built for the American College Glee Club nad on Tue Shipping Board. The tendency of ship day a brief visit from The Quaints,” owners in Europe and America to turn This Company as well as the Leyland to the yards of Hongkong and Shanghai Hodgson Revuo Co. are going North, and for now ships has been very marked of late will arrange for a longer stay in the
CASTLEMAINE Year Every now ship built in this part
BREWERY
Newcastle, N.S.W.
Colony upon their return South. This is
of the world is proving an advertisement the season of the year when the travelling At the companies of entertainers migrate from the of the capabilities of the yards." Iaunching of a vessel, from the New heat of India, to the summer resorts" of Engineering and Shipbuilding Works at the North, in which they count Hongkong.
notice Mr. Shanghai, Tientsin, Kobe and Yokohama Shanghai last week, we
· remarked --- that the vessel Whew! Is there any appreciable difference BURKILL launched was the fifth order placed with between the climatic conditions of India the yard by the same Nerwegian firm. and the Further East in the summer This, as ho very justifiably observed, was months, Possibly they find their chief the highest compliment that could be paid enjoyment in the voyages between porta. The financial aspects to the tour constitues to any shipbuilding yard. Mr. BURKILL.
another story. Per Case 4 dozen quarts $18.50 took occasion in his speech to refer to the passibilities of Shanghai as a shipbuilding
Fex af us realise that in venturing to contre Looking back," he said, "over the Far-East-these days, theatrical COM- the past five ybars, we have witnessed panies are gambling on
very slender 4.75 really wonderful progress in this direction, chances indeed. So many companies have,
and while there are those who will say auch in the past four years, finished m the results are merely the force of circum-wrong side of the balance sheet that tha stances brought about by war conditions, time may come soon when theatrical com- there are those of us who take a broader panies from Home will tour the East a... and much more hopeful view of the future far as Singapore and then turn back. The of this industry, feeling confident that the fact is that travelling costs have risen high standard of Chinese labour, coupled much and shipping facilities are so” na. with the assistance of modern machinery, cartain that a tour to China and Japan is must necessarily ave its reward in the
In prewar a very serious consideration. production of increased tonnage and the days, steuner fares were quite 50 per cent. gradual advancement of the engineering cheaper, and shipping companieą gavu industry as a whole. I think it is safe theatrical people an appreciable discount. to predict that the recognition which Now, of course, this concession has vanish-
Per dozen qua
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I ARSENAL STREET ill be CLOSED MIDDLE,eged Marine Oficer stationed landinu, The Found
to. Wheeled Trafic from JULY 15Tm until the
HONGKONG TRAMWAY Co. has completed the relaying of the track.
P. P. J. WODEHOUSE, Captain Superintendent of Police.
[1177 Mongkong, July 8th, 19-10.
HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
TENDE
ENDERS art invited for the immediate construction of TWO CONCRETE TENNIS COURTS in the University,
Specifications on application.
N. TEENDALE MACKINTOSH
Hongkong, July 7th, 1920.
Registrar.
PUBLIC AUCTION
BY ORDER OF
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THE MORTG LOTIS
ESSRS, LAMMERT BROTHERS have
Mod instructions to sell by Public
Anction
01
FRIDAY,
The And day of July, 1920, at 3 r.. at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, Victoria, Hongkong.
The followiny VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, vizs
ALL THAT piece or parcel of ground situate ut Victoria aforesaid registered in the Land Office SECTION 5 or INLAND LOT No.
125 together with the messungs erected thereon
known as No 6 West Terrace Victoria afore.
Hongkong till beginning next year wants to meet Young Lady who will teach him Dancing in return for entertainments-dinners, motor car tours, bathing picnics, etc, etc. Address communication with photograph to
Box $45. Care of Daily Press Offico.
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kai Teras RPD ream from 28th May, 1855 G Barker Bonul Tram Station
created by a Crown Lease of the mail Lot datel 17th April. 1895 Anatal Oniwn rent $046, Area 25 square foot.
For further particulars and conditions of
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Prince's Babdinge, Ice House Street,
Hongkong Solicitors for the Mortgages, or to
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IS THE
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À, G. DA ROCHLA, AUCTIONEER, SVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER.
Queen's Boyd Central, Telephone No. 22932,
AVOURED with instruction from The
Concerned
will well by Public Auction, on SATURDAY, July 10th, 1920, at,2.30 p.x,
at his Sales Booms, Quen's Road Central (Old Post Office Builling). VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS
Comprising Blackwood Furniture, Bras and ffon Be. stels, Tablet, Carpet and Rugs, Overmantles, Silk Tapestry Conrad Drawing Room Suite, Sofas, Bary Chain, Ocasonal Tables Katen- Bion Dining Table, Bevelled Mirror Wardrobes, Pictures, Curtains, Bed Shots, Crockery Glass ware,- Ornaments, Cabinet, Trak Bonieuse, Dinner Wargoux, Dining Chairs, Silver Ware, Clocks, Marble top Washxtals, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Set, Electric goods and a long line of Sundries #
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HOKAKONG, JULY 9TH, 1930,
This
and to which this company has been no which hotel managers made in favour of small contributor, is a sure indication for theatrical companies. The numerous other its future prosperity," These comments expenses which theatrical people have to apply equally to the shipbuilding yards bear have all risen 60 per cent, since the of Hongkong and they do not appear to war-yet the smallest attempt on the part have anything to fear from the efforts of a Company to raise their charges of which are now being made anywhere else admission is a grievance to the whole cou- on the Pacife, litoral to develop the munity, and the Company plays "to"half", shipbuilding industry. The time is empty houses.
What has to be remembered is that the
not likely to be long delayed when we shall see China more thoroughly aroused to the value of possessing a mercantile only people who have not raised as a marine on a scale far larger than that general rule-their prices are the theatri which she at present possesses, and we cul companies. A theatrical promoter docs consider it significant that leaders of the Bot send a company to the Far East to be Reform Movement in China are speaking a boon and a blessing to the weary Eurog of the building of ships as "one very big pean population. From his view-point, it question of the day" for the Chinese is purely a business proposition; one, as. people. We cannot doubt that this I say, that has proved a sad experience to matter which will receive increasing recent companies. Mr. Humphrey Bishop, attention, from progressivo Chinese as time for instance, Jost over £2,000 an his recent
Far Eastern tour. His company goes on
admittedly a good one, but luck and ship-
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WILS
The
Two cases of plague were reported in ping were dead against him. In Japan, it rained for something like oleven days on the Colony on Wednesday......
ead, and they played to miserable houses It is announced by the Police Authority They could not get a steamer when they SHIPBUILDING IN THE FAR
that Arsenal Street will be closed to wanted it, and to the members of the Com EAST.
wheeled traffic from the 15th inet. until the pany the visit was an extended nightmare. a considerable scale Hongkong Tramway C. have completed In Shanghai, they were forced to stay longer "SHIPBUILDING N
than they intended, and the last few days bo counted as one of the the rolaying of the track, may now
saw what profit they had made in the first established industries of China capable of A fire at Honna (Canton) on Thursday, few days filter through their hands.
noteworthy destroyed about fifty matsheds and the same thing happened in Manila Hong- great expansion." statement is extracted from the Report engine room of the Chu-kong Motor Boat kang, however, gave these cheery folk a on the Foreign Trade of China in 1919 Co, doing damage estimated at over good season, and some of the previous losses by the Statistical Secretary of the Chinese $10,00) Tan fire brigade, and about “500. were made-up. But with £2,000-os--tho Maritime Customs Administration. With fire-fighters" from Horan and Hopeh wrong side, will it be surprising if Mr. the evidence before the world of what the fought the fire·
Bishop thinks twice before venturing to the, Japanese have been able to accomplích in
Far East again! The income of the Province of Kwang the shipbuilding industry, especially in the tang has been estimated at Mex. 84,445,888, It is an open secret that the Marin Corner of Haiphong & Bankow Roads.last quarter. of a century, no
one and expenditure at $4,038,100 for the fiscal -acquainted with the aptitude of the Chinese year from July 1st, 1020 to June 30th, 1921, | Tempest Co.tour wai'a fnancial failure... To date hic had just bear for engineering and shipbuilding is likely leaving a surplus of $340,000, if finances From bor point of view, Miss Tempest wax completely renovated and rofurnishad is to doubt the statement that this industry are properly administered, says the Canton more than justified in doubling the admi uplo-date in every respect and under is capable of great expansion in China. Times. This estimate does not include the but that was not the view of local theatre sion rates on her first visit to Hongkong, English Management. Cuisine ander personal supervision of that The question for, consideration is: How Provincial contribution to the national goers, and this still great'artist suffered is that expansion to be gained? In Japan budget," which amounts to more than such humiliation as she will remember for the shipbuilding industry, like the carrying $10,000,000 a year.
PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON,
Teli K.
Ja Tet, Address Palaes..
station. This Hotel been
:
Proprietor
BAB AND BILLIARD ROOMS,
TERMS MODERATE. Spol Arrangement for Families on Application to-
J. H. OXEERBY,
Proprietor.
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DAIRY FARM NEWS
POULTRY
a long time. A member of her Company trade of the country, has been a-sisted by substantial subsidies from the Government A bill is about to be introduced into the told me that when they turn Home, their continued over many years.
In China Federal Council of the Malay States to experiences in China will prove a suffi what progress has been already made further amend the Fouriens Enactments. ciently interesting story to provent any the shipbuilding industry, has been made The "objects and reasons" state that under English artist of reputation ever ventur
public officer (othering to the East. in free and open competition with the the existing law a
than a police officer below the rank of The high costs in the East affect not only warid entirely-on-the-reputation-the yards
probationer) cannot retire on pension she theatrical promoter, but also the in- have gained for, good workmanship before attaining the age of 55 years without dividual members of each Company. Not combined with cost particulars which the production of a medical certificate that all of us know that from the small scalary compare favourably with shipbuilding costs he is incapable by reason of infirmity of which these people receive, they have to in any ther part of the world.
In this mind or body of discharging the duties of pay their own hotel bills and all incidental expenses Only treir steamer fare or train. connection we Aksociate Hongkong with
only for the nights on which they play. It
WING to the High Price of DMPORTED | China. 0
A few months ago an pficial office, and that such infirmity is likely fare paid for there, and they get paid ~~POULTRY, our Prices for own House report was published showing that of the to be permanent. This amendment gives is not a saving propo ition for the men ar BOILINE Horizontal cylindrical-return tube, type: Constructed Bound of Trade led Poultry will be as follows on and after Juryeasels built abroad to the order of the cost to the decision of the Secretory of the girls, especially if they have sufficient requirements.
Diameter 16 3 Length 88" 2 Plain for-
inces
6'0" long, 2, 111" inside diameter. 3' 03" Putride diameter.
Working pressure 120 lbs, per sq. inch,
Fittings nearly complete.
Delivery in Singapore:
Offers wanted,
rtise interested please apply
Bo No. 1154,
Care of "Daily Freed"
CAPORS
CHIUKENS
65 cents per lb.
HE DAIRY FARM IUF & COLD
STORAGE CO. LTD.
Hongkong, July 7th, 1520
State that an officer who has attained the British Ministry, off Shipping during the war, those built in Hongkong worked out age of 50 years may retire on pansion with out special rewrong boing aæigned, provid- at the lowest average cost per toned that the consent of the Government to deadweight-considerably lower, by the
his retiramont is obtained, way, than the ships built in Chins (Le.. at Shanghai), while the cost of the ships built in Shanghai worked ont appreciably
St. Patrick's Society of Montreal do Jes than those built in Japan and the clined to take part in the Empire Day United States. Another very noteworthy odjebr
is
respect for themselves not to accept any conal measure. Pandman's alone pay, th body's hospitalite without returning it in | hot-l charges of t'o'r people, but that
becauro tbo. Actors Association at Home rofused to send: any entertainers out unless this was done. Once unon a time, a com- pany run by Mr Bandman got te In India and the members bad a very un That is why the Actors Pleasant time.
ERICE RANDOM
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