NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
LL Interest and Responsibility of Mr. WILLIAM Wazor in our Firm ceased by his death an from the 31st December, 1920.
TAIT & CO., Amoy & Formon.
NOTICE.
Mto Sign our Firm's name
R. FRANCIS CAIRD HOGG
as from lat January, 1991.
TAIT & CO.. Amey & Formosa,
NOTICE.
́LL CREDITORS and others having say claims on the Exlate of WILLIAM WILSON, late of Messrs. TAIT & Co., Amoy & Formons, who died on the 7th January, 1921, are required to forward particulars thereof to the undersigned Executor before the 30th April,
FRED. B. MARSHALL, c/o Messrs. TAIT & Co.
Amoy,
1991.
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LADIES RECREATION CLUB..
GENERAL MEETING will be held at the C HALL on WEDNESDAY,
FRIRUARY END, at 12 Nocn."...
Your attendance is specially requested
DOROTHY DIGBY, Hon. Secretary.
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THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
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HE ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST ORDINARY MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company. Hotel Mansions, c MONDAY, FRvARY 77, 1991, at 11 ... for the purpose of receiving & Report of the Dirostora, together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend and electing Directors and Anditora."
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEKA.. OCEAN STRAM SHIP COMPANY, LTD
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LED, ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
"MENTOR"
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowicon, where It will lie at Consignce's risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after Jan. 18th...
Optional cargo will be landed, unle notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.
All broken, chated, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined en between the hours of days and Fridays of 10.45 am, and noon within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Gedown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after Jan. 24th. will be subject to rent.
ut be
All Claims agains the Steamer presented to the undersigned on or before Feh, 7th, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agente... Hongkong, January 16th, 1921.
NIPPON TUSEN
KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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FROM EUROPE AND STRAITE. THE Company's Steamship THE
"KUMANO MARU," having arrived from the abore ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their riek in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be rorted out Mark by Mark delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be stractions are given NOON TO-DAY.
and
11 be carried on unless in to the contrary before
Goods not cleared by Jan. 25th, 1921, wil be subject to rent.
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignes's BE ON TUESDAT and FRIDAY. All daims must and the Co's representatives at an appointed be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hero, after which date they cannot be recognized. No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas. KANUM
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
Agents. Hongkong, January 1801, 1921.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 1921.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
VIOTURIA RECREATION CLUB. OPEN BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONY: NTRIES for the above Championship closes on January 26th. Apply to the Hon. Becretary Entrance fee," $2.
Competitors are also requested to attend at the Club on January 96th
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R. C. WITCEHELL
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, January 19th,
NOTICE.
WANTED KNOWN-Bocking opens "Houtrie's this morning,. at 9 o'clock, for Madame Lottie Gordon's Grand Charity Concert, to be held on Saturday next, at 9.15 p.m.)
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Faye This Day Opener & Branch of my HOUSE on Lower Levels about April.
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fore.
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THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of MenS. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., on FRIDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 1831. st 11.30 4. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the DESIGN AND Statement of Accounts for the December 30th, 1900.
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ending ・year. The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, January 19th, to FRIDAY, January 58th, both days indusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary
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THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the GENERAL
~WANTED.
CONSTRUCTION OF YELLOW RIVER BRIDGE FOR PEKING-HANKOW RAILWAY.
THE PEKING-HANKOW LINE of the
Chinese: Government Railways invites sealed proposals of BRIDGE CONTRAC TORS for Designing and Building a New steal Bridge about 2,800 meters in length across the Yellow River (Hwang Ho). Proposals will
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is no discomfort experienced in the air The Chinese press reports that, after offf- corresponding to the plight of passengercial investigation into the recent Ichang- on a steamship which is being rolled and mutiny, it has been ascertained that the pitched about by heavy seas. A few months foreign firms to suffer during the outbreak ago there was a great conference or were as follows:The premises of throm experts in Londen, but its total result Japanese and one French firm were burnt; seems to have been a resolution request those of 18 Japanese firms, eight American ing the Air Ministry to consider the oven British, seven French, two Russian, desirability of calling together a repre
two Italian and one Greek firmware sentative Conference annually to consider
looted. The losses are quoted as being to- and discuss all subjects connected with What made the Conference more noteworthy than its resolution was an offer from the Government which was communicated to the Conference by Sir JAMES STEVENSON, a member of the Air Council, who, after, remarking that the Truth,
mentioning the Ariny Councila .. employment of airships opened up the selection of Major-General Sir G. M. fascinating prospect of bringing South Kirkpatrick to succeed Major General ten days, India within two days, and General Kirkpatrick has served for many Africa within five days. Australia within F. Ventris in the China Command, "says:"
aviation!
the value of over $1,500,000. Commenting upon this total the Central China Post. appear so be rather greater than the size remarks that the numbers cited somehow of the foreign community of Ichang would permit of..
A
He was
America within two days of Great Britain,years on the staff in India. said that if a commercial company would specially recommended by Lord Kitchenar come along and develop airships the to the Australian Government to carry out Government would give it nat only reforms proposed in the Australian De- assistance bat abjets. He himself fence Forces, with the title of Inspector- claimed to have prevented one of the General. He came to the front as a staf most disastrous bondres of modern officer during the South African war, söð times. The Government, he said, was has also served in Canada
His world- still-through his action-in possession of wide experience should stand him in good assets which it did not know whether end, and the authorities could have mida to burn or give away. These assets were
no better selection."' product of the expenditure of
Mr. Tse Tsan Tai has received most 240,000,000. Sir JAMES. STEVENSONs men tioned that the Germans, had taken a the undermectioned Universities and cordial letters of acknowledgment from large base in Spain with the intention Scientific Institutions informing him that of running airships from Spain to the the English and Chinese editions of his. Argentine Another speaker at the book "The Creation-the Beat Situation Conference, Commander Sir A. TREVEE of Eden, and the Origin of the Chinese," Dawsos, mentioned that the United and his set of six supplementary pampbe lets have been placed in their respective
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airship construction, France the equiva Libraries: Oxford University, Cam-. fent of three million pounds; and it was bridge University, Yale University, Harvard University, The Smithsonian Company contemplated building air liners Institution, The New York Academy of in the United States for a service between Sciences, The American Geographical Berlin and San Francisco. The schedule Society, British Federation of University time for the trip would be less than four. Women, and Carnegie Endowment for days, and each ship was to be capable, of carrying a load of thirty tons. It is.
International: Peace. evident that the Air Age is coming, and: most of us can sympathise with the viaw THE TRAFFIC IN CHILDREN that Britain, as the leading mercantile.
IN HONGKONG."
be received up to Noor of JUNE 30TH, 1921, at AS. WATSON &uation, with interests all the world over,
the Office of Peking-Hanrow Hailway, Peking, China Plant, rules and specifications can be obtained from the following Offices:
Feking-Peking Hankow Railway, Ameri- can, British, Belgian, French, Italian and Japanese Legations. T
Foreign-Chinese Legstians, Washington, London, Brussels, Paris, Rome and Tokyo, �ི་
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messra. JARDINE, MATHYBox & C, LTD., on FRIDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 1921, at 11.40 AM for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the Directors panied with £8. together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending December 31st. 1020,
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSET from WEDNESDAY, January 19th, to FRIDAY, January 18th,
"PEKING-HANKOW RAILWAY
ADMINISTRATION.
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Phone. 616.
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should lead in the new ern of 'nerial transport, as we have led on the sea in the past..
A MATTER THAT MUST RE
PRESSED."
The Church Times, of November 28th, Boys!-
The Japanese Imperial Aviation Society
"In connection with our recent obser- is planning a flight from Tokio to Shang-vations on the open traffic in children and. hai next October. The War Office in-re-girls in Hongkong, we have received from ported to be buying six French aeroplanes Lieut. Commander O. B. L. Haslewood and engaging French instructors. further evidence of the disgraceful stato of affairs. From personal "experience,"
The Japanese Foreign Office has issued he writes. I can substantiate the facts a statement to the effect that the in your article, that children in Hong- kong are to-day openly bought and sold
All applications for same must be accom D-At Glasgow, on January 11th, MARIZ EUPHAMIE AQUART. FERQUsos, wife of the late Dr. Henry Dyer. [258 Nos-On January 18th, at the French Convent Hospital, Causeway Bay, nge 31, of the China and Japan Teleing that Mr. Obata, the Minister at phone and Electric Co., Ltd..
Peking, is retiring in the near future are entirely false.
both days inclusive, during which period no HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY Transfer of Shares can be Registered
By Order of the Board of Directors
MOWBRAY S.. NORTHCOTE.
Secretary to
the General Managers. Hongkong, January 19th, 1921.
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THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the GENERAL
TWENTIETH ORDINARY HOLDERS in this Company will be held at MEETING of SHARE- the Offices of Mesara JanDINE, MATUZEON & Co., LTD, on FRIDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 1921,
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THE ANNUAL ROBERT
BUBNS ANNIVERSARY DINNER wil be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL on TUESDAY, JANUARY 25TH, at 8 o'clock, P.X.
Members desiring to attend are requested to communicata with the undersigned.
Cost of Dinner will be $3.00 per head exclusive of wines.
T. W. HILL, Hon. Secretary, HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. Hongkong, January, 17th, 1891. (245
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Report of the Directors together with the at 11.50 AM for the purpose of receiving the ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH MEN'S Statement of Accounts for the year December 31st. 1920.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, January 19th to FRIDAY, January 29, Transfer of Shares can be Registered. both days inclusive, during which period no
By Order of the Board of Directors
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary. Hongkong, January 17th, 1921
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY
MEETING of SHARE
GENERAL
HOLDERS in this Company will be held at
the Officer of Mesare JAXDINY, MATHESON &
ASSOCIATION.
MARATHON RACE.
Association on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY be held under the auspices of the above
10TE, at 7.M. To be run in Kowloon, distance about 7 miles (Boute to be announced later) SILVEE TROPHIES 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Open to all Europeans of the Colony.
Entrants to be nominated by a Member of sent to the undersigned.... the Association All applications for entry to be
D. J. PURVES, Secretary, Sports Committee,
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c/o JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LD,
NOTICE
Co., LTD., on FRIDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 1921, atROM December 1st, 1990, we have taken 19 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of the Report of the Directors together with MOTOR COMPANY and are not responsible for Over the ELKE GABAGE AND HONGKONG receiving the Statement of Accounts for the year any debts incurred previous to that date. ending December 31st, 1020.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com pany, will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, January 19th, to FRIDAY, January 28th, both days faclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWERAY S. NORTHCOTE
Becretary. Hongkong, January 18th, 1921.
BILLIARDS.. HO KUM TONG CUPS,
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PALÁCE HOTEL KOWLOON
CURB NO reminded that Entrees Close NTENDING Competitors for the above TO-MORROW, the 20th. Handicapping and drawing takes place at 6 r. "All Fees must be paid by that time or names will be ruled ont. There are now 53 Entrees and all Entrance Fees will be given to Local Charities. A
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THE UNITED MOTOR CO., LTD.
33 and 35 Des Your Bond, Operating EXILE GARAGE Phone 1088
Cars for Hire and Accessories for Sale, HONGKONG MOTOR CO. 141, Praya East, Wanchai.
Workshop and car garaged at reasonables rates Bolo Agents for
FIRESTONE TYRES
32 x 33 Firestone fabric tyres $50 each Batteries charged at $1.50 each.
We can give you a service second to none,
Hongkong, WALTER ROBERT Nosis, rumours printed in various papers allega the Colony for the purpose of, domestic
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JANUARY 1920, 1921.
servitude and prostitution, for the simple reason that the buyers and sellers go. anprosecuted. In support of his state- Mr. A. W. Burkill, of Shanghai, who mente, Commander Hasiewood sends us has been ill for quite a long while, and a number of documents, among them tome- was recently operated on for appendicitis, newspaper extracts that leave no doubs is now well on the road to a complete recovery and may be expected to be about again very shortly.
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, pastor THE COMMERCIAL AIRSHIP. of Union Church, returned to the Colony Ir is strange that since the war the world. Maconachie. Among other residents yesterday by the Mentor, sccompanied by has heard so little of the commercial who returned from England by the same
and it has been claimed for it that it airship. Before the outbreak of war a steamer wafe Dr. and Mrs. J. T German Airship Company was operating, Smalley and Mr. G. F. Curry.
of the truth of the matter. For example, we have before us the report of legal proceedings in which two Chinese women to defraud a woman of the sum of $120. were charged with conspiring with others The complainant stated that on August" 7th she bought a girl from one of the defendants. She paid $120; a deed was executed and signed by both the defend- ante, the first being the go-between. The: day after the purchase the girl had dia
carried 17,000 passengers without a single A musical and artistic treat is promised appeared. The point to be observed is personal injury, notwithstanding that on at the Theatre Royal, this evening, when the entirely open manner in which com- two occasions airships were wrecked on Vera Mizowa, a classical danseuse of plicity in the act of buying the girl is landing. We fancy we have seen some acknowledged repute, and Leo. Podobky, admitted by the complainant. Other reference since the close of the war tea gifted pianist of equal "fame, give cuttings relate to charges of horrible B German airship passenger service some.
a concert, We owe their presence in the cruelty, towards these wretched girl where in Eastern Europe, but it has not East, we undersland, to the conditions pre slaves. Yet, in spite of all the evidence come prominently under our observation vailing in Bussia, and, judging from the that is available, the Government in in the cables or even in our English Pross notices we have seen, their concert Hongkong declares itself unable to agree newspapers. What prompts our comment is a treat which no music lover can afford that a condition of girl slavery exista in is the singular absence of news of any to miss.
Hongkong. This is clearly a matter that must be pressed, and we trust that Colonel John Ward, Sir Alfred Yeo, Mr.
British developments of this cature at
H.E. the Governor gave a dinner party
a time, too, when people in all parts of the world have been bitterly complaining on Monday evening at Government Myers, and Dr. Murray will continue in
MONTE CARLO" WELLS. "Monte Carlo * Wells, who is now 18
of the shortage of, passenger accom House. The guests present were their demand that this abominable thing modation on steamships, and the over- H.E. Major-General Sir George Kirk shall be no longer tolerated under the crowding of railways. An exceptional patrick, K.C.B., Lady Kirkpatrick, the British flag" opportunity has been afforded for Misses Kirkpatrick, Capt. C. S. Fisher, the inauguration of airship passenger A.D.C., Commodore W. Bowden-Smith, services; but the ides does not C.B.E., R.N., Mrs. Bowden-Smith, Mra Iseem to have got past the talking stage. Berners, Hou. Mr. Claud Severn, C.M.G., Experts tells us that some of the existing Mrs. Severn, Mr. D'Arey Addison, dirships are quite suitable for adaptation M.V.O, Mrs. Addison, Hon. Mr. H. E to carry out experimental gervices over Follock, K.C, Mrs. Pollock, Capt R. G. such comparatively short distances as Henderson, O.B., RN, Mrs. Henderson, say from Egypt to India, vid Basra and Capt. J. W. Carrington, D.5.0., R.N., Karachi, where the maximum distance Mrs. Carrington, Capt. C. B. Ballard, between bases need not be more than RN, Mrs. Ballard, Mr. A. G. Stephen, manded this, but Walls threatened to 1,250 miles. We are told too by the Mr. G. M. Young, M.B.E, Dr. O. W experts that the airship is fully equal, it McKenny, Mr. O. D. Melbourne, Capt O. not superior, to the steamship as regards. Olliver, Mrs. Olliver, Mr H Hancock, safety and dependability, and that there and Mrs. Hancock
years of age, is again in the limelight in the law courts, after having induced the public to subscribe £32,000 to 4 scheme cent, daily on all investments. Wells put which was warranted to pay one, per the money into an annuity which brought £3,107) per annum. His creditors de himin 80,000 francs (approximately
commit suicide, and so end the annuity, unless he were allowed to keep enough agreed to give him £250 & year, and the to live on. The creditors have now aourt has assented to the arrangement.