THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1923
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
· BANK HOLIDAYS,
the EXCHANGE RANKS
INTIMATIONS
BASTO & COMPANY.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that theTHE THIRD GYMKHANA MEETING
Naceurlance with Urdiennes. No will lN business heretofors carried on the CLOSED for the transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS or SATURDAY and MONDAY, the 3rd and 5th Jan, 192 ... Beagkong, 30th May, 1952.
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IMPORTS & EXPORTS OFFICE KING'S BIRTHDAY & WHIT MONDAY.
THIS DEPARTMENT will be opened for purposes till Noos on SATURDAY, the Jun, and MONDAY, the aru Just.
Licensed Warehouses will be entirely Closed on the daters
N. L. SMITE,
Superintendent, Imports and Exports.
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Hongkong, Guth May, 1999,
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
Series of Competitions For Ladies ami Men will be held over the Deep Water Bay Course on WHIT-MONDAY, 5TH JUNE, Particulars will be found on Notice Board at the Chub Hoore. Pont Entries.
NOTICE.
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TR. F. FELD haThis day been admitted
Mrver in my frm. Business will
be carried on under the name of BERBLIN. GER & CO., Canton.
A. BERKLINGER.
Canton.
Cautón, 29th May, 19220
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IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANUE, No. 58 or 1911
IN THE MATTEE OF THE CHINA MINERAL COMPANY. LTD.
pany
IN LIQUIDATION).
12) Determining by extraordinary rexone tion, the manner in which the Books and Records of the Company and of the Liquida- lor thereof shall be disposed of.
Daud the 3 th day of May, 1922.
o. v. HUGHES,
Liquidator.
BERNARDINO BASTO 28 a Sharebroker under the style of BASTO & Co. will be taken over by AUGUSTO ARTUTA GUTEazy as from the 1st day of June, 1942, and that as from the 1st day of June, 1982, t the said BERNARDINO BABIO CORICE to be
be liable in any way in respect of the mid business and that all liabilities of whatsoever nature incurred by the said firm of BASTO & Co on and from the 1st day of June, 1999, will be incurred by the said AUGUSTO ÁRTRUK Gerzznes solely
Dated the 25th day of May, 1993. BERNARDINO BASTO. AUGUSTO ARTHUR GUTERRES.
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BON TON, LIMITED (Ix Liquinatis)
CHEAP SALE.
will be held (weather portgirting), Happy Valley on SATURDAY, JUNE 327, commencing at 3,30 PM.
The charge for admission will be 1-for other than Members of the Hongkong Jockey Club.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform balf price,
“ The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong
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B.
SALE BY TENDER OF HMS, “MOONSHINE.”
ENDERS are invited for the purchase of i Tabove named ship as she lies in the
tarbour.
of
2. Fall particulars of the ship, conditions sale, permits to view and tender forms may be obtained on application to the undersigned. 3 A deposit of $100.00 is required before forms of tender can be issued, this amount
COMMENCING from WEDNESDAY; the C34th May, 1999, and for Ten Days there-being returned if tonder is not accepted. alter, di PIECE GOODS, MILLINERY,
4. The vessel will be on view from the 4th May to the 31st May inclusive, during LINGERIE, &c., &c.. contained in the premises of the above firm, 37, Queen's Road Central, the ordinary working hours of the Dockyard," Hongkong will be old subject to a carb din.
PARTICULARS OF H.M.S.. MOONSHINE count of 25 per cent, to crar
A. R. LOWE,
A single screw steamer of about I.P...20 Special Manager. Length between Perpendiculars...86′6′′ 19′0′′ Breadth, extreme. [1047 Hongkong, 22nd May, 190..
-10" Depth in bold Approximate Displacement...Tone 250 (about)
Material of Construction
Wood
Fittings in Cabins, &e." Iron......General Fittings on Deck, Ne Steel....
Hull, Balkheads, Sc. Decks (Steel, wood sheathed) Upper und
Lower.
W POWELL LTD. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the.
NOTICE FIRST ORDINARY GEN
ERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLI EBS in the above Compary will be held at the ECNG- KONG HOTROD WEINESDAY, JUNE 7TH 1130s, for the purse of teceiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to the 28th February, 1922,
The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from June 1st to June 7th, both days inclusives,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
H. Q. HOLT,
Socretary. Hongkong, 27th May, 1995.
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WILLIAM POWELL LTD. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
orandum of
Tenders will be received in the Office of the Commodore, Hongkong, up to Noon oa THURSDAY, the 1st Jane, 1929.
•
J. B. PENMAN,
Dy. Naval Store Officer.
H. M. Dockyard,
Hongkong, May, 1922.
PREPAID ** WANTED ADVERTISEMENTS
Letters are lying at this Oflen for Boxes ABC, QV, RF, ET, RU, RW.
1st. Two furnished
INTIMATION
DEWAR'S
WHITE
LABEL
SCOTCH WHISKY
still maintains its
pre-war world-wide
reputation High
quality-real age,
and fiue flavour.
SOLE AGENTS :-
TO LET--September 13 rooms with kitchen, pantry and bathroom. Higher level A Suit married couple. Apply Box S.I., Daily Press Office
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in pursu
ance of Section 19, of Companies Ordinance No. 3 of 1911 that a General Meeting of Shareholders of the shore Com- pany will be held at the offices of W. E. Lexar & Co., York Bailling, Chater Road, Victoria, on MONDAY, the Ran JULT, 1949,
NOTI 23 1-30 2.00,
for the
MEETING of Las above Company will be held purpose of-- (1) Laying before it the account sad
bow (be winding up has been at the HoseRON HOTEL. Pedder Street, report the property of the Com-Victorin in the Colony of Hongkong, on conducted
y disposed of, and hearing any explans WEDNESDAY, the 71 DAY of JUSE, 1999; at Nous, for the purp the draft new Mem- of considering, and, tion that may be given by the Liquidator.
Gap. Semi if thaught fit Apociation at the Company FOR SALE Magazine
detached HOUSE with Tenuis Cour which will be submitted to the Meeting.
Immediate possession-Apply Box A.D., ch of such draft new Memorandum of print of
of the Association and 6 print of
existing Daily Press Office. Memorandum of Association of the Company may be seen at the Company's Registered WANTED IMMEDIATELY-OFFICE Uhr Powell Ruilding No. 12 Des Road Central, Victoria, aforesaid, and the BACUOURE, c/o Daily Press Office. portions of the prestored new Memorandum of Association which differ from the existingOR SALE-Overland 5-eater in perfed Memorandurs of Association are indicated by being marked on the Margin in red ink. Should the Meeting approve of such new Memorandum of Association with or without modification, the subjoined Resolution will be Extraordinary Revoluciou, proposal as an namely
(1) That the provisions of the Company's milk Manoraninta of Association respect to its objects be altered so as to read as shown in the print signed for the the purpose of identification Chairman of this Meeting.
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- STEAMER FOR SALE "NDER instructions received from Owners, we invited oflars for purchaun of the
N. BISBER steam pilot vessel "f
(xe Labyd's Register) built by a first cas British Sr of ship builders, bard wood frames,
planking Leakwood
anil decks, copper fastened below the water line, strong vessel in first class condition,
engines, one boiler. compound speed 9 knots on 7 to 8 tons coal 24 steaming
Tight
throughout. The resuel
bout forecasting and or river trade.
in Tery
with passengers and or light cargo.
Excellent icon on deck, and first class woecmodation for Europeans.
Offers to be schmitted direct to
BOWERN & CO. Ehipbrokers,
8, Museum Road, Shanghai. Fellows Institute Chanered Shipbrokers,
(London) Telegrams Cables: BOWERS; SHANGHAI
B.
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of
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARC by Public Auction Sales, to be DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of hold on TUESDAY, the 6th day Juss, 1922, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Fab Works Department, by Order of Hu EXCELIENCY THE GOVERNOS of Two Lots of in the OBOWN LAND at Shamshaipo
years, Jalany of Hongkong, for win of 76 commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to
SCENA
Youux
by
ba
Central district-Apply J.
condition with five good tyres incladini 'oue on spare wheel. Trini arany" Line Owner leaving Colony. Bex S.H., e/o Daily Press Office.
ba
WANTED-Malahed at Repulse Bay to
Would Rent or Purchase. willing to abare, Box 8.G., c/o Daily Pres Office."
LET-OFFICES top foor, Frisco's Buildings-Apply HAKRY WICKING & Co.
Tate asupation, FULLY FUB- *O LET—at Magazine Gap, THE TEAK,
large Gardens, Tennis Court, etc. On Motor Road. Apply to Meirs. ERADLEY & CO, LTD.
TO LET
and also for the following farther pNISHED Biz Roomed BUNGALOW with namely
For the
purpose of considering, and if thought &s, approving the draft new Articles of the Company which will be submitted to to the Meeting. A print of such new Articles | and a print of the existing Articles may
at the Company's
aid Registered Office. In such paint the portions of the proposed now Articles which differ from the existing Articles are indicated by the underlining and marking in the Margin in red ink Should the Meeting approve of such zer Articles with or without modification, the abjoined Resolution will be proposed us an Extraordinary Resolation, namely
(That the new Articles already approved
A
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Be fixed by the Surveyor of His HAIENTY THE DIARY held at the same place, on
Kiss, for one further term of 4 years, less
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Raglalay Nor
Locality.
Boundary
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Ae per male piat. 49,500 2
NOTICE.
Upark Prize,
by this Meeting and for the purpose of ideatification subscribed by the Chair- man thereof, be and the same are hereby adopted as the. Articles of the
and to the exclusion of
the existing on for all Articles thereof HEREBY
ALSO AND NOTICE GIVEN that FURTHER EXTRAOS GENERAL MEETING of the Company MONDAY, the 20th Dat of JUNE, 1998, at NOOK,
for the purpose of receiving a report of Me proceedings at the above mentioned confirming if thought/fit, as Meeting and Special Betolations, the above mentioned Kesolutions (Nos. 1 and 2).
"Resolutions Should the first of
of the abors (No. 1) be confirmed as a Special Resolation by the alterations in the the requsite Company's Memorandum of Association con Bequently involved will be submitted to the Supreme Court of Hongkong for confirmation
Dated this 27th day of May, 1822..
By Order of the Board,
H'O.HOLT,
NEW EUROPEAN FEAT tusted in Wantsai Gap Road near Bowen Road. Apply to CourRADORE DEPARTMEST
₤1008 Banque de L'Indo-Chine
TO LET.
S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
Wine & Spirit Merchants.
ESTABLISHED 81 YEARS.
DEATH.
22.
decade, and possibly in 1231 further réduction by mutual consent may be prud tical, but we must beware of the temptation to sell our birthright for à urss of pottage ***
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
FOUR NEW BILLS.
A meeting of the Council is called for Orders of the Day ***
Six years ago, 17 British capital ships, to-morrow. attended by a host of small craft, entered | inglude:- the furnace of battle. Today we have
The
First reading of a Bill intituled Am
First reading of a Billatisulod An Ordinance to consolidate, simplify, and amend the law relating to forgery and- kindred offences.
First reading of a Bill inhaled An- Ordinance to provide for the registration: of imports and exports.
in full commission 14 capital ships of Ordinance to extend temporarily thi which only one is poet-Jutland. That is provisions of the Rents Ordinances, 192, a number just sufficient to maintain the with certain amendments. one-power standard on the assumption that a war will not take place for ten years or mort. The measurement of standards has a curious habit of varying socording to the probabilities of war All our remaining ships are or will be scrapped within a year or two. To scrap a ship is a simple, and may even prove - a lucrative, procording. Unfortunately, that is not the end of the business. Some
officers and thou. fourteen hundred sands of men have also- to the strap heap. As the Admiralty pointedly remarks:
go od
Fire reading of a Bill inituled An Ordinance to amend the Misdemeanours Punishment Ordinance, 1809.
RESTRICTION OF RENTS.
It may be neces ORDINANCE TO BE EXTENDED FOR
ANOTHER YEAR
ment to the Government ther- The Objects and Reasons slate:- The object of this Bill is to extend tem--
porarily the provisions of "the Renie Or dinances, 1921. A few unendiments have been made, but, as this is a temporary? measure, it has been thought desirable ta avoid change as much as possible.
sary to dispense with the services of even promising officers' It must be
The draft Bill of an Ordinance to. remembered, in considering the caar of a
extend temporarily the provisions of young officer of sar 20-and it is the the Rents' Ordinance, 1921: with certain necks of the youthful which are mostly amendments" has been issued on a supple:: stretched tis receive the ** axe "--that f his position on' leaving the Navy is a good deal harder than a corresponding case in civil life. The naval offer his (berg educated in
and a specialized peculiar inner since the agy of thirteen, and from a commercial point of view his assets are usually slight. No doubt som Financial compensation will" be forth-
Some of the amendments made are. coming to assuage the pains due to the necessary in order to link up the propo sudden extinction of a career, and weled legislation with the Ordinances whisk confess to hope that His Majesty's are to be repealed. Trenstry have been as generous as their Glaus, 4 (1) (8) has been strengthened. present modest income permit Rut, by the addition of a proviso which is even so, the outlook for many of these nimed at wala dide 'action by "a lesser- young oflicers is not pleasant. They under that paragraph. The paragraph i come, however, from a service which is question is the one which gives a lessortie |not in the habit of lying down in face power to recover possession if he intenda y &
of difficulties, and "we have no doubs to pull down or reconstruct, the domestic that in the vast majority of cases they temeurent. The proviso lays down that it will overcome initial handicaps and make the lessor fails to begin the work withid good in other walks of life. We wish them pay month after obtaining possession, de good fortune and offer them the assurance fails to carry on the work with wason: that, though it may sometimes Reemable expedition, the onus shall be upon otherwise, Englishnien are always sensible him of showing that he acted bona fide in "the profound-truth contained in the giving the notice. If he acted mata Ede
he is liable to sue, and to damages introduction to the Articles of War, ander class. 20. The express reference tos wberein it is written: the Sary, where damages in clause 20 is new, but it prob
ably does not give any new right which on, under the good Providence of God, did not exist before. the wealth, safety and strength of the kingdom chiefly depead!!!!
DER-At Shanghai, on May 25th.
F
S STEPHEN, younger son of the late D GEORGE A. Dar, aged 19 years?
Hordona Orica: 10a, Das Vaux RD., C. Long Orrion: 131, Flaxr Brazer, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, Max, 3far, 1889.
of MEMRABLE
From 1st July, 1922 or Earlier if Required.
UITE of 5 OFFICES, 2nd FLOOR of
ANNIVERSARY.
Section 15 of Ordinance of -1013112k not very clear. An attempt is made in clause is of the bill to make the point clearer. The clause is intended to pro vent subletting of the whole of a domestic To-day is the Chinese Mid-Summer, or tenement of a tenant who has ceased to Dragon Boat, Festival.
A series of golfing competitions over the Deep Water Bay Course is announced for Whit Monday.
As the result of a bamboo pole falling from a verandab in Hollywood Road a woman, was severely injured about the head and had to be removed to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment.
"'
Six ys ago today, six thousand six the 5.5. Ho Sang fell a distance of 20 || A. Chinese painter, working on board
hundre end eighty-five British officers feet into the hold of the vessel on Monday, and went to their last resting place Arrangements were at once made for the
use any part of it for himself. The sto tion will not apply to the farming out: of a block for buildings.
Clause 24 gives the Governor in Counti power, to exclude the operation of thui Ordinance in any particular case in which, the circumstances are sufficiently excep tonal. One kind of ense to which th section might be applied is where th premises are required for some charitah or public purpose. Another class of o
which it might be applied would be the care of a permanent resident who had. I bought a house for his own cocupation. "before the commencement of the original
Rents' Ordinance."
to
received in response to the invitation of Many criticisms and suggestions were the Goverment. They were all carefully of them would have been adopted if the considered, and probably some at least
35, 16, 17, 18 & 19. Connaught Road on the bor of the North Sen. They died unfortunate man to be sent to the Kwong measure were a permanent one, but it has
Central, Verandahs to each room FACING 2: the ttle of Jusland. HARBOUR, LIFT from the Ground Floor,
Apply Box 750 e/o Dail Press Office. [750 -
FOR SALE.
AND, approximately 2,000 square feet
waterfront at Swatow with modern 2 storied brick and concrete building aitable for office and godown Farther details apply!
486]
W. G-HUMPHREYS & Co
FOR SALE
ABSOLUTELY NEW
!!
buen thought best, as stated above, to take as little change as possible in what is only a temporary measure.
Wah Hospital from the Cosmopolitan Two ars before the Grand Fleet and Dock. where the vessel now lies. High, as Fleet came to grips off the
Mr. and Mrs. G Yvanovitch old Danish onst, a controversy was taking place England on the subject as to Portuguese residents of Hengkong cele what he really happened at the Battlebrated their Golden wedding jubilee EATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
of Trabar on the 21st of October, 1805. yesterday. They have 14 children and It is sato say that experts will continue over 50 grand-children. Avery large to arguabout the Battle of Judland until number of friends gathered at the Club 2016, ess still more, stupendous de Recreio in the evening to offer them conflict should eclipse that day of felicitations. slaught at
which six years ago +
A Chinese man died suddenly on one Bolinder to leave historians and professional ing. The man, who was about 83 years. Oil Engines. Revs. 225 per tainute.
UNKNOWN CHINESE KILLED AT TAI PO.
An unknown Chinese man, who wan walking along the railway track at Cha Haug, in the Tai Po district, was knocked down and killed by the 9.16 train" from Kowloon on Sunday morning. Efforts by
have up to the present been unsuccessful..
(1) Two 80 BHP. Single Cylinder Raloyed-month of May. We are content of the Star Ferry boate on Monday morn. /the Palide to have the body identified
(1) Two 50 BHP. two cylinder Bolinder actigia such questions as the develop of age, boarded the Polar Star at Kow-
Oil Evgines direct connected to 25 KW.
ment og flest and the distance apart loon, and when halfway across the har- 115 Volt direct current (compound" wound) dynames complete with back of of squons at critical moments.
bour collapsed and died a few seconds board field rheostat for each machine.
font-
Co Daily Prezr Office
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Jar.
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Honoriere DAILY Prisa.
MADE DALT AND READT FOR THE TABLE
$.60 per lb.
Pressed Beef ...
Brawn...
Fork Fire • .'' Cooked, Ham
"
$1.40 per lb.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD
STORAGE CO., LTD...
AUCTIONEER, BURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER.
over
The new.
THE WORLD THEATRE.
It is desire to write a few words later. Further investigation revealed The best westora picture we (3) Two oil fuel tanks capacity of each 20in mem of those thousands who, at that the man had been in a very poor those who saw Tom Mix yesterday in
Baw,'
"way the expression of many of. Apply to Bolinders,
the mont bf trial, upheld the best state of health for some time past.
"Treat 'Em Bough" at the World tradition of the Service, to which they
Theatre. Tom in this photo play of the West does not At the instance of is E. Kacher of
not allow you to think of any belonged The columns of a Hongkong No. 16, Ashley Avenue, Kowiconwhole time he is on the screen.
thing
else but the picture during the newspapais, de very suitable place for Chinese amok was obarged before Mr. versatility of Mix is shown in such a late, inamnuch as the prosperity B. E. Lindsell, at the Magistracy, picture in which he appears, to the specta
every; of this Cony is in a very direct sense yesterday, with the theft of two pieces ing his life in his hands to pat
tor it seems that Mix is continually tak
thrillera the result sea-power, for with the sea of silk and a gold wristlet watch on on the screen, but this sort of stuff coniea routes owo tourish; with them March 3rd and two bed sheets on April naturally to Tom Mix. The more hit closed woecome a rock peopled by a 27th. Mia Kacher, the owner of the which has a bus love theme, will be con
does of it the happier be is. This thriller, starving owd. The repository and articles having dismissed the smh for tinued for two days more. agent of power is the Royal Navy. negligence of house duties, taxed defen Our fact the insurance premium we pay dant with the theft of the silk and called in peace that we may escape utter in the police. A search of the amsh's destruction war, and until war is effects was made by the police who found banished in the earth, we must maintzia, pawztickets relating to all the stolen s Boot xa adequate standard of articles. The Magistrate fined defen strength,tunately, the Washingtondant $50, or three weeks' hard labour, agrooment saved a from the strain on the first charge, and 390, or 14 days of a buildikompetition during the next on the second.
No. 1a, D'Aguilar Street, Tolerbone No. 9
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The many friends of the late Mr. Petor. Marshal, Divisional Manager of the will be pleased to hear that the Chiness Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, treverament his conferred upon him the 3rd Claas of the Excellent Crop." It
sad thing that the intimation con ferring this honour was not received prior to the death of Mr. and Ma Marshall,