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to
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THE HONJAUNG DAILY PRASS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 19th, 1911.
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HEREBY "NOTIFIED that on
1st of Mr L. GAs resent Local Manager, having igno, ME. UGO CON willsign por pro on sad after December 15th,
ESTABLISSMENTES BROSSARD
1911.
MOPIN.
NOTICE.
1901
Fhave this day REMOVED our Once to No. &. Dis YoxUX ROAD,
ARRATOON V. APCAB
be included in the new hat being prepared for above the Bank of Uaaton Ld.
(1916 January.
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE. EVENING DANCE.
DECEMBER 99TH, 8.30 to 11:15 PM. FOR MEMBERS ONLY,
who may invita men friends, Ticketa 31 to be obtained from the Mstren.
RACE WEEK.
A FANCY DRESS BALL
[1997.
in aid of the Society for the Prevention of Chualty to "Animale.
MONDAY, FEBUARY 20TH 1992 at -15
at the
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Tickets $3 Booking as Moura.
$1 Fina for Non Fancy Dress will be collected at the door.
2 Lucky number Prizes for those in
Fancy Dress.
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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE,
NONSIGNEES of Cargo from MAR BEILLES, in connection with above
Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opiam, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risks into the hazardions and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Co., Ltd, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtimed immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intination is received from the Consignees
before Noos TO-DAT requesting it to be landed
bere.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned Goods remaining unclaimed after the 34th Inst, at Noon, will be rabject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before
the 27th inst, 1931, or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be aramuted by Messrs. Goddard & Donglas, on Femar, 24th ist; at 10 AM.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
B. BODENFUISER,
Acting Agent Hongkong, 18th December, 1921.
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NANTO TUSEN KAIBHA
LTD.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS.
FROM JAPAN.
THE Company's Steamship
THE
"CHERIBON, MÄBU ".
haring strived from the above ports, Consignee of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landet at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon
Godown Company
Limited, Wharf and "whence, delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 24th Deo. will aubject to rent
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All broken, chafed and damaged packages are
to be left in the Godoyzs, where they will be
examined 10 AM., of the 24th Dec. Claims
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HONGLONG AND CHINA BRANCE,
`N EXTRAGEDINABY.
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GENERAL
AN EXTRAORDINAold & Car HALL on WEDNESAY, 1st December, 1991, at 5.15 .. with the following objecta
of the 1. To coops the Constitution
"British Legion
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2. To confirm the exisiting Balers of the Branch, except in so far as the same conflict with the Constitution, pending the adoption of Bye-Laws to be drawn up by the General Committee and sub- "mitted to a General Meeting,
3. To appoint Auditors.
By Order of the General Committes. HK HOLMES,
Hon: Secretary.
NOTICE
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LD.
NERTIFICATE No 1086 for 5 Shares No
62091/63095 Certificate No: 1087 for 1 Share No. 69096 Certificate No. 1098 for 2 Shares Nos. 85605/85806 standing in the Society's Register in the came of JULIO DINIZ OCTRIRU DA SILVA of Canton, have been LOST, and if at the expiration of one month from the date hereof; the above documents be not forthcoming the same will be deemed cancelled and of uc effect, and NEW CERTIFICATES for the sail Shares will be issued by the Society.
MONTAGUE EDE
General Manager. (1810
Hongkong, 28th November 1921.
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CHRISTMAS SEASON.
weeks and months on end. But the direct wireless message will como Arst At the present time Australia, all equipped with this means of communion tion, but at such, experimental station as Australia possesses daily messages are no being received from New York in one- aighteenth of a second, from the grey of old city by the Thames" in one-fifteenth
of a second; and from Frames in some thing between the two fractions of a second already mentioned.
We are living in wonderful days, remarks a commentator on these achieve
ments, bus Naturs and Science bold secret an infinity of enchantments and
THE LATE
* DRAG, P. JORDAN. The Government is calling for tenders MEMORIAL TO for the construction of a 100 ft. road. from Ho Mun Tin to Kowloon Foothills.
The funeral procession of the late Sir Bosham Wei Yuk will pass the City Hall to-day, at 210 p.m., and the To Yuen Restuarant, at 3:30 pm
Whilst working on a slotting machine, on Friday, in the Kowloon Dockyard, Chinese had his band severely-crushed, and is detained in hospital, for treat ment.
Mr. Daniel Warren Smith (84), of Birkby House, Bickley, Kent, formerly of the Hongkong Daily Press, who died last
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of £5,413.
Singapore papers announce with deep regret the receipt of cable news of the death of Dr. W. B. C. Middleton, who by the New York Radio Central. Manya short time ago retired from the post countries, separated by the wide expanses of Municipal Health Officer.
In addition to a handsome gift to St late Dr. G. P. Jordan, Sir Paul Chater Stephen's Church as a memorial to the- has given a large sum to Hongkong University to provide a Dr. Jordan Memorial Library. At the memorial ser vice at 8. Stephen's Church, a week ago, Bir Paul Chater was impressed with the difficulties under which the services there are conducted and his gift is to provide organ in place of the present har monium and a stained glass memorial window.
INTERESTING WEDDING.
STEWART-COM.
An interesting wedding was solemnisad at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on Saturday afternoon when Mr. Alla Brown Stewart, of Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co., was married to Miss The ceremony Calony from England. Mary Cox, who has just arrived in the was conducted by the Cathedral Chap
Tha lain, the Hev. A Copley Moyle. bride was attended by two bridesmaids, the Mimos Peggy and Joan Hornell. She was given away by Mr. D. G. M. Bernard and the best man was Mr. G. H. Bowker.. After the ceremony & raception took place at Jardine's No. 1 House, East Point.
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Mr. D. H. Blake, solicitor, was admit. from New York, but few yet can "talk" ted to practice at H.M. Supreme Court, by wireless with America." At the at Shanghai last week. Since 1919, Mr. SILVER-MOUNTED AND PLATED present time Australia and New Zealand Blaks has been with the law firm of
ALLEGED FORGERY. are isolated by wireless," and the Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist as Hongkong.
DEFENDANTY'S PATHETIC APPEAL newspapers which strive to impress the
Two Chinese shopkeepers, in whose
TO MAGISTRATE. Governments of these territorities with
shops a
number of sand crackers were their responsibilities warn them of the found, were fined $50 and $100 respecI leave myself in your Worship's grave dangers to which this seglect tively. The man fined $100 had made hands I have done no wrong, and your would expose them "in case" of war."application to the police to sell the Worship, must discharge me and allow me to to go to my wife and two little CONFECTIONERY of the finest With our League of Nations and the crackers, out permission was not granted. daughters. This was the pathetic plea quality, including."
of a young clean-looking Chinese sea- man, who stood in the dock at the Magistracy, on Saturday, in answer to a charge of uttering a forged bank
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Washington Conference; and its inevitable BUCCESSOTS, the possibility of another world war ought to become remoto.
question aa ́munication must be considered primarily from the point of view of its commer- cial uses... The American achievement apparently has had the effect of damping Australian enthusiasm to some extent for Apart the Imperial Wireless Chain. from the question of transmission by by relays, which this scheme involves, one of the leading Australiad papera asks:— What remedy would Australia have it any other Pacific Powers in the event of war, jammed or cut the Singapore link in the chain The smaller stations, doubtless, have their uses, but in the era of such mighty power controls as the new Radio Central of New York we cannot afford to rely on the smaller stations alone. With Britain, the Far East, and America our relations are so rapidly increasing in importance that we must provida ourselves with the moans of direct and effective communication aguinat BIRTH. December 8th, to Mr. and Mrs. Rodze touch with shipping almost as soon as it WOLCOTT At Changsha, Hunan, on emergency. At present Australia loses
D. WOLCOTT, a daughter.
leaves Australian waters." The manag ing director of Australia's wireless stations, in an interview, remarked that with the same type of apparatus se is in New York, Mr. now established WILSON, when crossing the Atlantic to the Peace Conference, in the capacity of President of the United States, actually heard a voice by wireless telephony from
White House, 2,000 miles away across grey waste of se optimistic enough to believe that, prob ably by the time, Australia's big station
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And Mr. Fis. 19
years. LINDYMANN-In Amsterdam, the wife of
W. LINDEMANN of Shanghai (née is established, wireless telephony will Bertha Komor), aged 29 years. (By have developed to that stage when we cable).
shall be able to hear voices from 10,000 "Instead of to 12,000 miles away. merely reading a notable speech by Mr. LLOYD GEORGE, for instance, it will be possible to hear it, in all the fascination of its brilliant embroidering and phras ing." But "Australia's big station" is at present little more than a dream. Private effort has offered to build one and to run it as a business proposition WIRELESS DEVELOPMENTS.
with a promise that the rates for messages In the great new wireless station which will be but two thirds of the present was opened at New York last month cable rates, but in "Australia government America has once again licked crea control is the policy followed, though Mr. tion." The New York Radio Central HeaHE has expressed the heterodox flashed out to twenty-eight countries opinion that the only hope of modernising round the world-an-inspiring message the present system is to get it done by from President HARDING. It was received somebody other than the Post Office, in Peking, in Sydney, in England, France, otherwise it will not be done at all. -Norway, Denmark, Poland and many Australia is "evidently greatly attracted "it will be other places separated by thousands by the prospect that, of miles. Nowhere, perhaps, has the infinitely easier before very long to achievement created a greater impres get London by wireless in the course of Those who daily business than it is now, more often sion than in Australia. read the reports of the proceedings at than not, to get someone by telephone a Australia is not the last Imperial Conference of Premiers for streets away." in London will remember the speech of likely to be happy until this is made a Mr. Hranes, the Prime Minister of the practical possibility by the erection of s Australian Commonwealth, on the need station of the necessary power, for improving the Empire's communica tions. He laid much emphasis on the need for wireless communication and look. ed forward to a time not for distant when even wireless telephone communication between all the capitals of the Empire would be possible, so that Imperial Con- ferences might be held at frequent intervals without involving the absence
Mr. and Mrs. P. F. J. Wodehouse were passengers by the Kashmir which arrived Festerday.
Mr. Algar E. Carleton, U.S. Consul at Amoy, has received a promotion in the Consular service;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smyth returned
of the Prime Ministers of the Dominions to Hongkong yesterday from England by
their respective capitals for the P. & O, steamer Kashmir,
The Chinese found dead in a stream at Kowloon Tsai, and who was suspected of having been murdered, is now reported to have been nearly blind. It is thought that the man wandered off the main road and met his death by accidentally falling into the stream.
pute.
With tears in his eyes the man said that he did not know the difference between a good note and a bad note t was given to him in Haiphong and he naturally tried to change it directly money was needed.
J
In reference to the Calling League, concerning which an announcement ap-
Mr. Lindsell was impressed by the fact pears among today's advertisements Mrs. Pollock asks those wishing to join to do that when the man was arrested at a 80 without delay so that their names may money-changer's atall in the New West be included in the new list being preparera Market, he made no attempt to run ed for January?
away but scod quietly awaiting tha arrival of the constable. On being told H-E. the Governor has appointed Mr. by the Magistrate that he would have to A. G. M. Fletcher, C.B.E., to be Assis- be committed for trist the accused maa tant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of cried out: "I did not do it, Bir: My Council; Mr. A. E. Wood to bo Chief wife, my two little children, will be As the man was' led out of the Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese starved." Affairs and a Deputy Registrar of Mar-dock weeping, Mr. Lindsell asked Inspec riages; Mr. G. W. Coysh to be Deputy tor Watt to, enquire into the circum- stances of the "defendant's wife and to Shipping Master.
ensure that they did not suffer from The general manager of the Philippine want. National Bank has declared that the From the evidence for the prosecution
" than losses of the Bank are far less
it was gathered that the accused wad gold $2,500,000, mentioned in the Raport alleged to have presented a forged one tion is being introduced in the Philippine Senate empowering a Committee to deter mine the truth of the report.
of the Wood-Forbes Mission.. A resolu
On the 13th, he
Ha piastre Saigon bank note at a money received one dollar in 10 cent pieces in changer & stall, on December 10th. exchange. The forgery was not noticed A Chinese is alleged to have been rob- until after the man had gone away. The on Friday evening. The man was going ged note on the fire. to Chin, Wan, Kwan Chung and Torg appeared again with another piastre bed of $624, on the Lai Chi Kok Road, money-changer said that he put the for kan villages to pay the road repairers. note. The money changer told defendant He have him arrested," The money-changed Whilst passing through a gully he was it was forged and that he was going to attacked by four or five armed men. was ordered into some, bush-wood and did not seize the man who had ampis there tied to a tree and relieved of the money..
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Rubber is now making a claim 18 a material for ladies' dresses. The follow ag extract is from a Straits paper: "A very original and striking dress worn at the the St. Andrew's ball, Ipoh, was rubber dress worn by Mrs. J. H. Baatow. It looked so well that many could not believe it was rubber, and only convinced
Congratula tions to Mrs. Bastow on finding a new themselves by touching it. use for rubber.""
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plainant's mother-in-law also swore to opportunity for running away. The com recognising the man ne the same who came on the 10th inst.
Defendant denied this and said he had Mr. X Piguett, Chief Accountant of not visited the stall prior to the 13th. the Bank Industrielle de Chine, said that the forgery was a good one. He gave technical evidence as to the water mak- inga. The forged note could easily have been passed on to the man in the street. Nothing incriminating was found on the, man or at his home in Wanchai Road. The man will be brought up for trial at the Criminal Sessions next month.
EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
(BY COURTEST OF THE “ CHÍNA MAT."] DEATH OF MR, E. I. EZRA OF SHANGHAL
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SOHAI, December 18th.
apo-
The Paladina, first of four oil tankers being built for the Asiatic Petroleum Company and its associated companies, at Kowloon Dock, bas successfully passed FAR her trials and is now taking benzine on board ready to leave Hongkong to mor- row. An opportunity was given to mem- bers of the A.P.C. staff and their friends, oa Saturday, to inspect the vessel.and her manifestly fine equipment for her much admired. particular purpose. was The visitors were afterwards entertained to tea on the upper deck.
Mr. Edward Isaac Ezra, head of The members
of the Salvation Army Edward Ezra & Company, died suddenly who have been seen in Hongkong in the last few days belong to party of 20 on yesterday afternoon, following an their to North China to do missionary plactic stroke which occurred while he work. They come from all parts of Aus was sitting in his office.
They Victoria Nursing Home. tralia and are all graduates of the Salva gained consciousness and died in the "Shanghai 41 years ago, the left yesterday by the Shingo Maru for tion Army College at Melbourne. Shanghai whence they will go on to Pek-deceased was a well-known business man enormously rich and Army in Australia has undertaken to fat. He was ing to study Chinese The Salvation and financier and was extremely success- send out 100 missionaries to India, China, developed large tracts of land on which visitors here during the week end are the managing director of Shanghai Hotelu Java and Korea within a year-and-the-be erected many buildings, He was first contingent. They are nearly all the and China Motors, Limited and Chair- sons and daughters of Salvation Army man of the Far Eastern Insurance Com officers; their ages are 30 or less and they panics. He is survived by a wife and have undertaken to stay seven years two sons. before they take their first furlongh There are four married couples in the party. Ensign Stranks is in charge.
Born
He never regu
"SOMALI'S" SKIPPER AND A REVENUE OFFICER.
INCIDENT AT SINGAPORE ·
Sir Charles Addis, Lady Addis and Miss Addis were among the passengers who travelled gut on the P. & O. steamer
SINGAPORE, December 18th. Kasimir, which arrived in port-yesterday afternoon. Though Sir Charles Addis Captain Colegrave, of the P. & O retired on November 1st from active Somali was charged to-day with obstruct management of the London office of the ing a revenue officer while the latter was On the Captain Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor searching the vessel. poration, being succeeded in that position apologising the charge was withdrawn by Bir Newton J. Stabb, Sir Charles, it man of the London Committee of the back. is sanounced will continue to be Chair In the Far East he will visit many of FRENOR HONOUR FOR UHINESE the branches of the bank, as well as attend to matters relating to the Chinese to the Far East, Sir Charles will resume Consortium of Bankers. After his visit his post of Chairman of the London Com-
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HISTOELAH.:
PARIR, December 17th.. The noted bistorian and, opigraphist tium affairs as well as his duties as a clected foreign associate of the French mittee, and will also attend to Consor Mr. Lo Tohen Yu, of Tientsin. has been Director of the Bank of England and the Aademy of inscription and belles letters, other important directorships he holds,