NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
·【JAVA-CHINA“"JAPAN LYN. NOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
HEAD OFFICE for the Far East of the above Company has this day been trans- Eared to Batavia (Java).
H. C. F. J. QUARLES VAN UFFORD has been appointed Manager of the Hongkong Once.
G.. OTTEN, General Manager. Hongkong June 14th, 1921.
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OLD WELLINGTONIANS DINNER:
OLD
on
to hold an is proponi T
WELLINGTONIANS DINNER BATURDAY, Jr 18. Will any Old Wellingtonians wishing to be present kindly Bend in their Namen to Ma F. A POLLOCK, /O JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., before June 16ch.
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HONGKONG "JOCKEY ULUB. LARSEN SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS.
MEMBERS wishing to Subscribe for one or
more LARSEN SUBS. for the Official Meeting 1929 (it obtainable at about the same price as last year-r. 3300) will please apply in writing to the Undersignal, or sign the Lasla, posted in the Hongkong Club, Jockey Club Stables and the Coffee Room at the Race Course.
As owing to Pulitial troubles in Mongolia there may be difficulty in obtaining ponies, an early application is considered advisable, and it is proposed to close the Lists on Jryz 23an.
H. BIRNETT,
Clerk of the Course.
Hongkong, Jane 9th, 1921.
NOTICE.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
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CANTON, LTD.
YERTIFICATE No. 4379 for 12 "old silve Care No.14837/68 now converted into 66 Gold Shares in this Society standing in the Bame of Brv. WILLIAM ROBERTS BEACH (Deceased), late of READING, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming the same will be deemed cancelled and of no effect, and a Certificate for the 60 Gold Shares will be issued in its stead by the Society
......“ C. MONTAGUR EDE,
General Manager. Hongkong, May 24th, 1921.
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ENDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
CO, LTD.
FORTIETH ORDINARY
INTIMATIONS.
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THE HUNGRONG DAILY PRESS, - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16mm. 1981.
SALE BY TENDER OF HMS
**CADMUS**
be
ENDERS are invited for the purchase of the above named Ship with Engines, and Boilers" and "various auxilary machinery on boarl
Full particulars of the Ship, conditions of sale, and permits to view the ship may obtained on
Forms of Lender in to the undersigned.
will be issued en application the undersigned A deposit of $100 is required before Forms of Tender can be issued.
The
on view from the 2310 MAY Tessel will to the 29th Jure, inclusive, between the hours of 10 AM, and 4 ... and Tenders must reach the Commodore's Office not later than 13 NOON,
MONDAY, 27th June, Length over all
to
"
911 ft.
336 in
Length between Perpendiculars195 Breadth, extreme... Depth in bold (Top of Keel to
Upper Deck Beum at side). 153. Nominal Displacement ... ...1070 Tone. Propelling Machinery: Vertical Inserted
Triple expansion (Twin of 1,400 I.H.P.). Cylinders-High. Two of 113"
Low, Two of 291
Intermediate. Two of 18" Stroke 2'0' Boilers-Niclasse Water Tube, 4 No H. G. LOWE, Naval Store Oficer
Hongkong, May 9th 1921.
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G.
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"SALE by tender of W.D. Vessel
"HERCULES",
ENDERS are invited for the purchase of the above-namel vessel with Engines and Boilers and various spare stores,
Tender forms will be issued on application to the undersigned.
Tender forms to reach the Ordnance Office. not later than 12 NOON, JULY 19TH, 1921.
The vessel is now lying at R.A.B.C. Pier and can be vind on production of form of tender to the Geerein charge Transport, RAS C.
Particulars of the vennel urë :-- Steam vessel. Length
Bean
Depth
****" ES foot.
10
Pinches 3.
Displacement Tonnage ...170. Horse Power
Knots
350 10.
Working pressure per sq. in. 150 lbs. Engines by Cox & Co. Falmouth, Vessel built at Falmouth?
Construction of vessel Wood up to water line,
iron plated above.
Approximate carrying capacity:
25 Tons or 100 Passengera.
E. G. SPINKS. Captain,
Ordnatice Officer.
RA.O.C. Deput
Queen's Road East
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TGENERAL MEETING of the Company CEALED proposal for the purchase of the
will be held at the Office of the Gezer Managers, Messrs TARDINE, MATHESON & Co, LTD., Fedder Street, Hongkong, on WEDNES DAY, 15m Jusz, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 8th to the 99th Jene, both days inclusive,
..
By Order of the Board, JARDINE MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, May 26th, 1921.
PREPAID WANTED
"
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Letters are lying at this Office for *#*Box!# CK, XI, LM, IN, LR, LU,
LW, MA, 50,
»
Tanden in Caudait Road. Apply to LET ROOMS, European House and 10, CONDUIT ROAD,
CYCLE cyl. 1920, slectric model, fully THOR SALE-HENDERSON MOTOR- equipped, pillion seat, new condition, through out, $600 or nearest offer. Apply Box MC, c/o
80 Daily Press Office.
FOR SALE.
5-SEATER MAXWELL CAR
practically now; Engine just been over hauled, $1,900 or best offer.
Apply-..
Box 1068, Care of Daily Press Office. [1058
TO LET
#
FURNISHED or Dafurnished, KELLET
CREST. Na. fit. The Peak.
Box No. 1050, Care of Daily Press Offion,
[1050
TO LET FURNISHED.
June 24th to October 4tk. No. 22, PEAK
Apply.
G. L HARSTON, Hotel Mansions, /
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WANTED.
HARDWARE ASSISTANT (Chinese) INGINEERING, MACHINERY, ··&
for outport Agency. Must be, good Salesman. Permanent position. Good prospects
för
energetic man.
Apply giving Age, full particulars of Experi ence and Salary expected to
Bor No. 1035, Care of Dosly Pren Olies. [1035
WANTED.
UROPEAN FIRM requirine at once, CHINESE CLERK First-class know- ledge of English essential Apply own hand- writing, stating age, qualifications, salary required to
... Bat No. 1057, Cars of Daily Press Office,
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INTIMATION
OLD
BROWN
These two factors alors are sufficient to A typhoon warning was received by account for the omission of several the American Consulate General, front thousands from the returns, and then the Manila Observatory yesterday at 1.10 there are the other factors mentioned p.m. reiding: Low pressure areu extend- by the Census Officer, such as the ing from the Chias Sea to the Pacific abundant crop of puerile rumours which across Northern Luzon and the Balintang. Channel, A real typhoon may, develop gained wide currency and caused no little alarm" (as was mentioned in the. Daily Press at the time), and a discus-
"Many residents in Hongkong who sion of overcrowding by the Sanitary member Mr. T. Funstou, when he was Board shortly before the date of the Japanese Consul here, will be sorry to Census, which "without doubt" says learn that he has been seriously ill at the Census Officer, gravely affected the Tientsin, where he is now Consul General' ·
later.
BRANDY.accuracy of the returns made by house for Japad. The latest news is that he
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مانية الدما
25 Years in wood.
Specially selected `for
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
Telephone 816.
11
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DRITISH GROUP o MANUFAC- U.S., Army Transport "CROOKB Manila Bay, will be received at the Office of TURERS making competitive lines of the Department Quartermaster, U.S. Army all Hardware, Paints Machinery and Plant. Raxacons Option: 101, Dus Vaux R»., C. Building, Maalle San Francisco, Manila, PL, with their own Technical Staff in Ubins amire London Orica: 181, Fine Bra, &C. until 11 A., JULY 1578, 1981, at which time to hear of a first-cinas firm of Merallante who will work with them the territory of Hongkong, and place they will be opened.
Kuangtung
Koangs and
Replies in confdence to Boz 1020, cfm, Daily Press Office. (1020
PARTIAL DESCRIPTION.
Twin Screw, Steel Hull Tpannge, Gross
Net...
Length
1890
DURE A TUS HONEY. A tried and PURE
infallible remedy for all Eye-Diseases. Cures Cataract, Glaucoma, etc., without huife, no harm, no pain, Cure guaranteed. Ra. 3 per dram. Particulars on request "SRI WORKS, Beadon Square, Calcutta, India, (H).
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
THURSDAY,
JUNE 167,
47 9.15 r..
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ORGAN
RECITAL
Vocalist:
Mias JEAN LOWSON,
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SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE 21, PRAYA EAST, HONGKONG.
Basm..!
oakled Depth Mean Draft Light
Loaded... Displacement (normal) Banker capacity Built in Speed Equipped with wireless...
4126 tons 2703
430
47'
21'
3
11 II" 21.3 ...8600 tons 1366 tons ...1882
11. knots
Full description of vessel, terms of sale blank propnaals, etc., may be obtained by upply- ing to the American Consul-General, Hong- Longi
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HEADQUARTERS OF THE PROVINCE
OF MACAO...
MILITARY SHORETÄRY'S · Orvice-
2nd Department.
NOTICE.
I of Jens at 2 o'clock r, and on the is hereby notified that on the 30th day
Locality previously arranged for
BEFORE A COMMITTEE
composal of The Chief of Military Service-
The Commander of the European Company
DEQUIRED a First-class Hardware and
Machinery SALESMAN with good con nection in Hangkeng to take sole charge of Sale Office. Reply giving fallest details of age, experience, salary required, etc., to Box 1021, Daily Press Office.
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JAPANESE NEW COMMEMORATIVE
STAMPS. 50th anniversary of Portal System,
I SENS AND 3 SENS PICTORIAL
at 10 cents per set of 2 Stampa.
GEACA & 00
Pont Cards, Toys, sta
of Garrison-Artillery, and an Officer of the Dealers in Partage Stamps, Philatelic Goods European Company of the Field Artillery, the SALE will take place, by auction, of 400,000 POUNDS OF IRON CASTINGS proceeded from various sources of War Materials, having been considered uselow for service pf this Colony, they are now condemned.
RULES TO BE OBSERVED," Tho intended Buyers or their legal Representa tives shall have to hand to the President of the Committee, until the day säd" hour an above- mentioned, their proposals for purchase under alosed and sealed covers written in Portuguese, and made up in the following mauner :—",
The Firm
..or Mr.. establishe or residing in tlie City of.. Strect
No. hereby propose or proposen to buy the Castings cents per pound, for the sum of..... undertaking, to observe any stipalations what over that may be imposed by the Committee.
On the proposals nothing should be altered erased unless the alterations are duly tooti The lowest price that the intended Bayer may offer in their proposala, should not be leas than $2.50 per picul (100) cattiça.
FOR the use of on the Mercantile
Marine and H.M. Navy. Reading and Writing Rooms, Billiard Room Officers' Room, C.P.O.'s Room Restaurant, Coert Hall, Church.
Privats Cabina and beds in Dormitoriesfied. Motor Launch Dayspring.
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TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
LL pralimmary notions of forthcoming A meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns of the Hongkong Daily Prem, are charged for at the rate of $1 cach, (as announced in May and Juna last year) providing that they do not occupy more than four lines. In future if this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising faɔlumns az the prevailing rates,
or
The Castings will not be delivered to the a judicated Bayer until the Materials ara com- pletely inutilised according to their composites, The costs of transportations from the locali tice where the Material are lying, shall be borne by the adjudicated Buyer."
The
intended Buyers who have not tendered
transaction discarded from the
Military Secretary's Office-2nd Military Department, in Macao, 2nd May, 1981..
Chief of Department, (signed) MANUEL ALVES MORGADO,
Captain of Military Administration.
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a genuine and proper offer shall be entirely
No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, HONGRUNG,
P.O. Box 620
NOW ON SALE.
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DIRECTORY &
CHRONICLE"
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59TH ANNUAL EDITION
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SPECIAL NEW MAP OF HONGKONG AND THE NEW TERRITORIES.
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JUNE 15th, 1921.
holders in the congested districts." We has sufficiently, improved in health
to
do not know whether this suggests that justify his medical advisers in permitting
the returns made were deliberately false, him to leave hospital.
In the casG
in spite of the pains and penalties threatched, or whether it means that
in the Supreme Courty on these before His Honour Mr. Justice Gom- there was a large exodus accounts from the Colony just prior perez, in which. Lau Yik Cheuk claimed “
Both Census taking. “
Fre from Mesars W. Logan & Co. the return to the possible, though there has not been a of 150 shares in the Hongkong and Kow- single prosecution in the Courts for locu Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., or supplying false information, The only their valus and damages for wrongful way in which it would be possible to get detention of the shares judgment whe an idea of the extent of the exodus for given for the plaintiff as to the claim all such reasons as those indicated above for the return of the shares. The claim" would be to obtain comparative returns for damages was waived. from the steamboat companies and the
It is reported that a notification has railway for the week prior to the census' taking and, say, a week in the previous been addressed to the Consular Body at month. Perhaps it would not be too Shumeen by the Commissioner of Foreign much to say that all causes combined Affairs at Wuchow, stating that begin- would account for a temporary exodus of ning on the 9th, all mails and telegrams. perhaps 40.000 · persons. In that case to and from Wuchow will be censored. 650,000 would more darly represent the The notification is said to have been nomnal civil population of the Colony revived at Shawneen on the 6th. Besides than the figure of 616,749 given in the the censoring of mails and telegrams, the Census return. There have ben times in Kwangsi. militarists at Wuchow are very the last few years when this number has strict in searching all outgoing and in- been very largely exceeded by the coming vessels, for anuggled arms and immigration of refugees and their families other forbidden goods. ** from Canton and other parts of Kwang" tung as these pinces have come within
In sympathy with other mechanics, the the zone of civil disturbance. This electricians of the Sincere Company and reminds us that when we are considering the Sun Company at Canton láid down, the increase of 160,010 which the latest tools and walked out on Sunday night. Census shows compared with the Census The Suu Company," the Canton Times of May. 1911, it is of some importance to says, were in the worst predicament hay- remember that at the time the 1911 Censusing no one in their employ, outside the was taken, the Colony was experiencing strikers to work, their slectric plant, while one of these temporary inflations of the the Sinters Company was more fortunate population to which we have just referred.
as the foreman of the electrio plant being It was estimated then that there must
shareholder in the company stood by have been upwards of 50,000 temporary and was able to klop a few lights going, refugees in the Colony, so that the increase though the elevators had to ne idle. It in the normal population of the Colony reported that the companies concerned in the last five years' is really very much have made amicable arrangements with greater than the Cepsas discloses.
their employer, and work has been re- sumed.
We must await more detailed reports for
information concerning the, non-Chinese Civ population of the Colony, which has been officially estimated at about 13,600. This is only about 500 more than was shown by the Census of 1911. figure, wo fancy, will be found to be While ander-estimated, for if the Europea population has not greatly increased since
Tho
THE CENSUS OF THE COLONY, 1911 it is certain that the Japanese com The preliminary report of the Census munity has done so, and the general taken in the Colony in April does not impression one derives is that the increas show the startling result which had been the non-Chinese population is greater anticipated in some quarters. We re-thin the estimate. "But for the definite collect that Mrs. Gaz, M.D., while acting information we must wait. as Medical Officer of Health during the war, estimated that the population of the Colony was nearer a million than the
Commander Hartford, D.S.O., R.N., the last officer commanding H.M.S. commonly accepted estimate of half a fuska before she was sold out of the million, and there were men actively Navy, has left for home.
interested in public affairs who were
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London
Some of our Northern contemporaries have printed mutilated telegram, m ceived by a Japanese news agency from
dated May 8th, reading the King" wus addressing gathering of students at... a bomb waa buried at His Majesty, In the explo
On that tollowed, wo persons wore Majesty escaped injury."" It is assumed killed and
twenty-three wounded but His that the reference is to His Majesty King
Georga, but we can be quite safe in believ ing that if there bud been such an occur rence as this in Great Britain, Beuter. would not have neglected to cable the information. Indeed, greatly surprised if Reuter had omitted
we should be
to send such a news item as this, if it were true, whatever monarch or country
inclined to agree with her, though, for! Senor C. de Albuquerque e Castro, the was concerned. Ja the absence of any our part, we regarded such annual Consul for Portugal, left yesterday on sot of corroboration from any other statistics as the Government was able to the Lloyd Trestine liner Aquileia, accom-source whatever we conclude that H.M. furnish-such for instance as the death pnied by his wife-and-daughter.
King George was not concerned in the
rate, and the prison statistics-an According to the Shanghai Journal of incident. If any effort had been mads good evidence that the figure was greatly Commerce the Native Bankers' Associa at home to conceal the risk run by the over-estimated. The estimate adopted tion, at a meeting, has decided to become King-which is very unlikely there by the Medical Department in 1919 was a member of the International Consor. Would certainly, have been some news al
the alleged havoo caused by the bomb. one of 598.100. The actual census shows tium.
610,749.
Among residents who left by the Another old resident of the Colony in For certain "very suficient reasons Plassy yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Lshortly departing in the person of M, which the Census Officer gives in his Forster, and Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Ban Evan Ormiston, who has been thirty. preliminary report, published in yester norman. Mr. Alex. Ross also proceeded three years in the East, thirty of them day's Daily Press, however, it requires honieward on the same ship: a very important addition to be made. to these figures. It was, as Mr. LLOYD the ivory
unfortunate that Consus should have been taken in the middle of the Oking Ming Festival, when it is notorious that a very large number of people, leave the Colony to, pay their! respects at the tombs of their ancestor The Census Officer reports:-
Bays,
The C.POS. liner, Empress of Asia, says a Yokohama eontemporary, created another record when she sailed on June 4th by taking 1,000 passengers, including 307 in cabin, and 5,990 bales of raw silk.
being spent in Hongkong. Mr. Ormiston was born in the East, and in adopting an Eastern career he followed in the footsteps of his father who came out in the fifties and left in 1884 Thus Mr. Ormiston's family may be said to havs been associated with the Colony for 70 The Java China-Japan Lija announces years, or almost from its foundation. that the Head Office of the Line for the Mr. Ormiston's father was manager of Far East has been transferred to Batavia, the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd, and
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In the New Territories the majority and that Mr. Quarles van Ufford has been was one of the founders and the first of the inhabitanza were found to be appointed Manager of the Hongkong Worshipful Master of Victoria Lodge of absent from their houses the whole Office.
Freemasons. When the Lodge. celcbrated day long, being busily engaged in pro
It is interesting to learn that the Rev. its Jubileo a year or two ago: Mr. Evair parations for planting the first crop of paddy, and the enumerators experi- Dr. John Darroch, OBE., has under Ormiston, was elected to the chair. enced considerable difficulty in obtain taken, voluntarily, the translation into is a senior member of the craft, being ing the requisite information.
Hv
was also for many yeara manager of the..
In the Island of Hongkong and the Chinese of the handbook for Chinese D. G. S. W. in the Straits many years the students proceeding to Great Britain for ago Mr. Evan Ormiston, like his father, Mainland, large numbers of Chinese adult male population were profesional study: absent in their native villages, the date being the middle of the Ching The Chiness Government is reported to local branch of the Mercantile Bank, but Ming Festival; thus in several middle have browed $170,000 from the Peking about ten years ago joined the firm of The Messrs. Stewart "Bros., bill and bullion class residential sections the females
were found to equal or exceed the Industrial Back, at 18 per cent. males. The enumerators also reported loan, which was handed over at 18, is
to brokers.
He has filled the position of
difficulty in many cases, where all the be paid in two months from the Salt sur Chairman of the Hongkong Club, and
adult males in a family were absent,
in obtaining the necessary infor: plus.
As security Government sharesas à member of the Committee of the.
mation from the females left behind. in the Bank of China were pledged.
Clab for nine years.