NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
INSURANCE OFFICES,
NOTICE.
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
NOTICE 18 BEREBY GIVEN that
FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on SATURDAY and MONDAY, the 29th and 30th January,
By Order,
LOWE BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Secretaries,
INTIMATIONS
· BANK HOLIDAYS.
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IN accordance with Ordinance No. 5. 1913, CLOSED for the transaction of PUBLIC
the EXCHANGE BANKS will be
BUSINESS on SATURDAY and MONDAY, the 28th and 30th. instant.
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Hongkong, 24th. Jannary, 1992..
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE.
(Chinese New Year Holidays) THIS Department will be entirely closed on FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION SATURDAY and SUNDAY, the 28th
OF HONGKONG.
and 19th Jansary, 1919. It will be open for all MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIA- purposes til 15 noon on BNDAY the S0th TION OF HONGKONG & CANTON January 1999 Licensed Warehouses will be Hongkong, 27th January, 1982. 129.1 entirely closed on those dates.
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A S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE.
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
N SATURDAY, the 28th. Instant, and
on MONDAY, the 20th. Instant departments will be closed for business.
The Hongkong Dispensary, Dispensing Department, will open for dispensing prescrip- - tions from 10 am to 1 p.m. & 6 PM 10:7:30 33.
AS. WATSON & CO, LIMITED, [exo Hongkong, 28th January, 1929.
DAIRY FARM, ICE AND" COLD STORAGE COMPANY
LIMITED.
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VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that AN STRAORDINARY GENEBAL MERTING OF THE ABOVE COMPANY will be held at the Registered Offices of the Company at No. 1 Lower Albert Road, Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong TUESDAY THE 14TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1923 AT NOON for the purpose of oansidering, and if thought fit, passing the following resolutions sa Extraordinary Resolu
tions vis:--
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NOTICE.
T. LTD. beg to notify their THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO CONSUMKES that owing to ALTERATIONS in the underground system of distribution the supply of Electricity will not be available between the hours of 8 am and 8 ræ, m SATURDAY, the 28th instant.
SHEWAN, TOMES & 00...
General Managers. 374
HONGKONG= DAILY PRUSS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 97cm. 1932.
INTIMATIONS.
HUMPAERYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED,
N GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOL
OTICE I HEREBY GIVEN THAT OBDINARY ANNUAL
DEES IN THIS COMPANY will be haki at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on SATUR. DAY, the 4th February, 1995, at 11:30 am, for the purpose of rooniving the Report of "the Directors together with a statement of Accounts |for the rear anding 31st Desember 1921
INTIMATION-
IDEAL
BEVERAGES.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be closed from the Sith Jannar, to the 8th February (both days inclusiva), during which period no. Transfer of Sharon can be Registered
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 15th January, 1922, [25%
THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, THE ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND
ORDINARY MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company. Union Building, or TUESDAY, February 7th, 1993, at 19 O'Clock NOON, for the purpose of receiving a Report Blends excellently with Whisky. of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts, deanada Dividend and electing
WATSON'S DRY
GINGER ALE Its dryness and aroma are features which give this drink the popularity it deserves.
Directors and
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company February 7th, 1932, both days inclusive.
ህ
PYERIS,
Speaking Mineral Table Water. Healthful and refreshing.
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING will be CLOSED from January 14th to WATSON'S STONE
CORPORATION.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the Crzy HALL, Hongkong, SATURDAY, the 18th day of February, 1992, at Noow, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a statement of accounts for the year ending $1st December, 1911.
By Order of the Board of Director, JOHN ARNOLD, Secretary, Hongkong, 14th January, 1992.
090
GINGER BEER, Prepared by a process of partial
THE KOWLOON LAND & BUILDING fermentation which gives it the distinctive flavour which is so
COMPANY LIMITED:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
·TEIKTY - THIRD- ORDINARY
FORMAZONE
The REGISTER of SHARES of the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this pleasing to the p-late Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 6th. February to SATURDAY, 18th. February 1922, (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors.
A. 1. STEPHEN, Chief Manager.
(1) That the authorised capital of the Company (which is now #855,00 consisting of 114,000 shares of the nominal value of $7.00- whereof 114,000 shares have been issued) be increased to $1,600.00) by the creation of Hongkong, 24th, January, 1992. $16,000 additional shares of the nominal value of $7.50 each.
(1) That the shares comititating the Company's unissaad szpital be immed as much time or times in such manner, and upon such terms and for such purposes and upon such
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Company will be held at the Company's Offices Victoria Buildings on FRIDAY 10th February 1922, at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose of receiving
of the Directors together the Report with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31th December 1921.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com-
Possesses the characteristic
Owing to the Chinese New Your holi-
The Chinese newspapers of Canton, in- clubing the Canton Times, began the New Year holiday on the 23rd inst, and will 40t resume publication until February,
employment for many thousands of people in the province. The latest days there will be no issue of the Hong statistics availablo of the foreign trade of kong Daily Press after tomorrow (Satur Canton (these or 1090) show an export day) until Tuesday morning. of Silk valued ai over forty million Haikwan taals, and this was in a year which is pronounced to have been "one of the most disastrous years on record " in the Silk trade of China. The export of Silk from Canton alone showed 1st. decline of six million taste in value as compared with the export in 1919. Last year apparently was a better year for the Silk merchant, but the reports on the trade even in "the most disastrous
A
year" lack any reference to poorness of quality as an explanation of the decline in the demand, except in so far as it may have been due, aa regards the first crop to unusually cold weather, and, as regards the second and third eropa, to excessive rains. Any effort to combat the vagaries of the weather would not
Promise much success, but we gather that
bound and carrying the 2nd Battalion of The transport Himalayo, homeward the Wiltshires, to India, left at yesterday. The regiment had spent two. years in Hongkong.
1000
commands a Danish motor ship, the tri
H.R.H. Prince Axei of Denmark, who has arrived at the port of Hongkong in tained, privately, by the Danish "Consul his vessel. During his stay he will be enter.
and by members of the Danish community in the Colony.
the immediate menace to the silk indus- An extraordinary general meeting of try of the province is disease in the the Dairy Farm. Ico sad Cold Storage egge. The lectarar asid the Canton Christian College had undertaken to do when resolutions will be submitted having Co., Ltd. is called for February 14th what no one else--Government or any Is their object the increase of the private organisation-seemed prepared authorised capital of the Company from to do, and had established & little $853,000 to $1,000,000, school in which it was working at the problem. He indicated that the general conditions prevailing in the in- dustry need to be changed. "Cleanliness and the habits of the silk worm "were very little, studied."
There was "great need, he said, for instruction of the people, all through the province, in im. proved methods of silkworm rearing; But that would take many years of effort, and all that the Canton Christian College school could do, with the very
A coolie who was assisting in loading junk at the Kowloon Godowns timber yard at Canton Road, on Wednesday, was crushed to death. By removing a log. from the bottom of a stack he brought down the upper timbers upon himself and he was instantly killed.
The plays which the Warwick Comedy, Company are to stage on their return" visit to the Colony are announced, in today's ́ advertisements. It will by
pasy, will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, / stimulating and refreshing qualities limited financial resources at present at noticed that among them are several not.
1st February to FRIDAY, 10th February,
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY both days inclusive, during which period of Champagne; it has a delicious
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HEREBY GIVEN that
.
bonditions in every respect as the Company's NOTICE IS BRAC he above Company
Board of Director may decide.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1922
By Order of the Board,
M MANUK, Secretary.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.
FROM NEW YORK.
THE Steamship,
THE
"SULTON HALL" having arrived, Counges of Cargo are informed that all goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous" and/or extra hazardous Godowns at Holt's Wari, Kowloon,
hence delivery may be obtained.
Claims will be admitted after the Goods hare left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after Fet ruary and will be wubject to rent.
韶 All Claims against the steamer must be pre- wanted to the "Undersigned on .or before
9th February or they will not be recognizal
All broken, chaled and damaged Goods are be left in the Godowns, where they will be samined on any TUESDAYS or FRIDAYS
between the housd of 10:45 AM and Noon within the free storage period of one week.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE LTD.
General Agents. Hongkong, January, 26th. 1972.
4 1993
will be closed from 28th January to 7th | February 1992, buth days inclusive.
Dated this 16th day of January, 1973. By Order of the Boi, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. Agents.
1246
NOTICE.
I HEREBY give notice that I hav
new ablished myself as a CONSULTING and STRUCORAL ENGINEER, Reinforced
Concrete Expert with Tensary Offices in Causeway Bay, Old Coton as offices. P. O. Bor No. 198
A special department is attached for design- ing and supplying of ready made reinforcementa (any tonnage) with or without supervision of works undo, my responsibility,
I. GAIN,
transfer of shares can be Registered...
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY 8. NOETHOUTE. Secretary to
The Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co, Ltd. General Agenta for
The Kowloon Land & Building Ca1 Ltd Hongkong, 23rd January, 1922. [260
NOTICE
I to the CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLI DAYS constant supply of water will be given in all RIDER MAIN DISTRICTS during FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 27th and 28th instant.
T:L PERKINS"
Water Authority.
18 KEREBY NOTIFIED that eving ta
(i) Engineer, E.T.P. (Paris) Hengkong, th January, 1922. Pablic Works Départment
NATIONAL LOANS.
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QUESORIBERS to the National Loans of the Third Year of the Republic (1914) and Fourth Year of the Republia (1915) are hereby notified that drawings for the redemption of the above Loans will be held this year as follows:
4th Drawing of Fourth Year Loan
($1,100,00); redemption begins 12
April.
of Third Year Loan (12,750,000): 5themption begins 31st December.. The time and place of the drawings will be notified by the Ministry of Finance in dne
In order that redemption of the Fourth Year Loan may be accelerated and that the Loan may NOTICE.
be fully redeemed by the 6th and final drawing OWING to
CHINESE NEW YEAR,in 1923 according to the Original Schedule and our store will be closed on SATURDAY, the Loan Regulations, it is proposed to have a BUNDAY and ONDAY, the 28th, th and supplementary drawing in September this year 2th. Custoa ers are requested to made their namely the 5th drawing($4,640,000) dne notice purchases before SATU DAY the 28th. of which will be given by the Mix
Ministry of TABAQUEIRA FILIPINA. 288
NOTICE
"ST. ANDREW's Chiron Max's ÁRSOCIATEON "
MARATHAN RICE
To
To be held under the auspices of the abore association ou WEDNE:DAY, 8th February, 1922, at 4 1.1
To be ran in Kowloon. Distance about 7
miles.
(Route will be same as last year)
Silvar Trophies 1st 2nd and 3rd, open to all Europeans in the Colony.
Entrants to be nominated by a member of the Association.
All applications for Entry to be wont to the undersigned not later than” SATURDAY, th February........
D. J. PURVES, Beerstary ports committer.
HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL --
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SOCIETY.
THE ANNUAL SHOW will be held in the
TEOTANIC GARDENS on THURSDAY,
Zad March.
Schedules may be obtained from the Hon. Becratary, Beaconsfield Arcade, Firat floor.
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REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
BANK HOLIDAY
MONDAY, 30th January,
A TEA AND DINNER DANSANT
will be held on MONDAY, 3th. Jeatery.
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Finance
To extinguish the Third Year Loan at the proper dite, namely, December 1925, it will also be necessary to have a supplementary drawing of this Loan in 1924, due notice of which will be giran
F.A. AULEN, Inspector General of Čustoms, Inspectorate General of Customs, Peking, 18th January, 1992.
PREPAID"
WANTED"
ADVERTISEMENTS
Lev rases iving at this Oños for
Box CK 08, KZ, LM, LN, LE LT
LW, MA, MK, MŽ, NB, NP, OG., PD,
PB, PG, PO, A
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PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of
the letting by Public Auction Sale, to January 1999, at 3 pm, at the Offocs of the be beid on TUESDAY, the 81st day of Public Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR of Que Lot of OROWN LAND at Chatham Path in Colony
the
of Borgkong,
for renewal at a a term of 75 years, with the option of
OROWN RENT to wed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY be
THE KING, for one farther term of 75 years.
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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Boundary Measurements.
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TELEPHONE 436.
Pygmalion.”
The four candidates for the vacancies. on the Shanghai Municipal Council have been returned unopposed. They are:- Messrs. W. P Lambe. A. B. Lowson, V. G. Lyman, and P. P. Whitham. The elected in February, 1821, are:-Messrs. other members of the Council who were H. "H. Girardet, E. F. Mackay: 9: Sakuragi, H. G: Simms and A. Brooke Smith.
its command, was to supply a certain given by the Company on their previous quantity of eggs guaranteed by micros-višit, notably George Bernard Shaw's copic examination to be free from. disease. One would imagine that the knowledge that so important an industry was threatened by general neglect to obtain the best results would be aufficient to stimulate the Government of the pro- vince to suitable action in the matter. It would be deplorable to see the great Silk industry of China go the way of the once great Tea industry which has been allowed to decay to comparatively small dimensions because the growers cannot be induced to abandon archaic methods of growing and manufacture Warnings on this subject have been given for years past as the steady decline of the trade came to be noted by the exporting BIRTH.
merchants and by the Customs Admin- istration. GUTIERERZ-VIZENA. At Shanghai,
In his last Annual Report the January 19th, to Mr. and Mrs. J., M. Statistical Secretary of the Customs GUTIERREZ-VIERKA, & daughter.
wrote: Generally speaking," the tea trade in China, is in a critical state, evincing steady decline as the years advance. The only means of saving this valuable trade lies in the frank acknow- ledgment of the existing bad state of affairs and in the vigorous introduction of the obvious improvements for which the trade is crying."
DEATHS.
on
CARE.At Taigaafu, on January 15th, CHARLOTTE HELENTE OLGA, aged 4 years. the beloved child of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. E. CAER.
LOURENCO-A6 his residence at No. 9, Chatham Road, Kowloon, on. Janu ary 28th, EDUARDO - LOCRESCO, retired captain of Portuguese artil- lory. Aged 64 years. Funeral will pass the monument to-morrow after; abon. at 5.15 p.m., Macao, Shanghai and Lisbon papers please copy. MAY-At Shanghai, on January 19th, CHARLES "MAY."(for 31 years in the Chinese Maritime Customs, Lights Department), aged 71 years.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The reason
In order to pass the China New Year, says a Chinese News Agency, the Chinese Government has definitely decided to issue bonds to the value of $14,000,000, with salt why this conclusion has been reached is gabelle surplus as security.
for the issue of public bonds to the that the original plan of the Governmcht amount of $00,000,000 was brought to a deadlock owing to the opposition on the Fowers concerned. part of the foreign Ministers of the
eo
Another instance of the confidence trick commonly practised on confiding Chinese was reported to the Police on Wednesday.. A woman
was stopped in Coronation Road, Kowloon, by two men The Silk industry must be saved from
who induced her to part with 850 worth a similar fate. The warning calls to of jewellery as security for a bundle of wind the Report of the Economicwhat was alleged to be bank-notes to be Hongkong Government, published about promised to her for her trouble. The Besources Committee appointed by the changed for them, a commission being
mended to the consideration of the Gov-by the time the woman discovered this a year ago, in which the Committee com-bundle contained only waste paper, but
ernment the conclusions reached by Sir the men with her jewellery had vanished. Rosaar Ho Toso after successful experi A special telegram to the China Mail ments in Silk production in the New reports the death of Mr. Duncan Mac- Territory. It has been demonstrated kintosh, of the Engineering Department that mulberry, on which silkworms feed, of Messrs. Matheson & Co., Ltd., Shang- can be successfully cultivated and the hai. Mr. Mackintosh died in the General- worm reared and the silk spun. in the Hospital after two weeks illness with New Territories. Starting an industry typhoid. A linotype expert, Mr. Mac- in "a new district it should be possibley kintosh was well-known in printing officos 8,779 00 2,858 Ozaxone Orvich: 101, Des Vœux ED., Cwith "expert supervision, to conduct it on from Hongkong to Harbin. He was a LONDON OFFICE: 131, FIT BET, E.C. lines which lead to the best results. What native of Inverness and had been in [279
experience elawhere has shown to be hangtini seven years He was on the injurious to the product could be avoided. eve of going on home leave.
He waa Sericulture is regarded as a matter not married in Shanghai eighteen months ago merely of local but imperial interest, and was thirty-eight years old. The Economic Resources Committee in
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Annual Rental,
Upset Price,
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Be Accommodation, 2/3 DRITISH FIRM of Merchants require PA
ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Bale, to be Ground Floor préferred, central location. held o TUESDAY, the 1st day of Write fall particulars VICINITY, s/o Daily January 1915, at 8 pm, at the Orices of the Press Office.....
16 Public
Rooms.
FOR SALE-A BABY PERAMBULATOR in good condition. Frice 360. Apply
ax PZ, c/o Daily Press Office.
FOR SALE OLDSMOBILE
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Mr. and Mra. ELLIA WALKER wish to thank their many friends for their Lind expression of sympathy and foral tributes sent in their recent and bereavement.
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JANVART 27TH, 1352,
their Report drew attention to the fact
that the Textile Committee appointed JUNK CAPTURED BY PIRATES by the Imperial, Government had ex- pressed the opinion that "in view of the
Department, by Order of Eis WHY SHOULD NOT HONG-dependence of the United Kingdom upon EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR of ane Lot of CROWN LAND. at Ma. Tau Mok in the
KONG SHOW THE WAY? Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 78 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fired by the Surveyor of 29 MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 75 years. ·
FARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locality,
Botzadary Mosauromunte,
The
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fact, foet,
As per zalog'an.
CHILDREN MISSING.
The master of a fishing junk reported to the Water Police yesterday that his foreign countries, and the importation junk was attacked and captured by of waste silk for military purposes, Wednesday night. Two junks were sail
pirates of Potoi, about 9 o'clock on. Is the interesting lecture on Sericulture efforts should be made to develop sericul- ing together. The pirates approached in the Province of Kwangtung which ture in India and other parts of the them in a three-masted junk and fired two Professor C. W. HOWARD, of the Canton Empire where conditions are favour. shots as a signal to stop. The master of Christian College, delivered the other able." It has been demonstrated that swam to his brother's junk, whereupon the leading junk jumped overboard and evoning at a meeting of the Union conditions are favourable in the New the pirates boarded the craft, and appar Church Literary Society he said that Territories, and the suggestions made ently overawed the crew. The captured "American manufacturers bad come to by Sir ROBERT HO TUNG and commended seven of whom were children, was taken junk, on which there were fourteen people. the point that they declared they would by the General Committee to the con-in tow by the pirate craft and disappear not accept Bilk from South China unless sideration of the Goterament appeared in a southerly direction. The other it was improved." That is a warning which eminently feasible and entail ao consid-junk made for Hongkong and reported neither those directly ongaged in this ersble expenditure. Has anything been the captured junk arrived at Aberdeen." the occurrence to the Water Police. Later important industry nor the Kwangtung done by the Government to give effect to The pirates had tooted from her tea picula 16,000 224 15,00 Government can afford to ignore, Silk any of them? If not what was the object of salt, two facandescent lampa and ge
Canton's staple export, and the of appointing a Committee to investigate money. The children al were taken by the pirates with a view posibly to, production this commodity affords the economic resouicos of the Colony!
Upart Price
is
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