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FAJOR J. W. CLARK representing the Department anal, Government of British Colenbis, in u present staying at the HONUXON. HOTIt and will be glad to uraish information to anyone interested in British Columbiu.
Major Cark-sail on the Empress of Hussis," Augnet W0th.
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ESSRS, DEACON, LOOKER, DEA- MUS & BARSTON. of Nis 1, Des Vous Boa Cexers Solicitors, have for investment the anus of $200,000, and are prepared to consider applications for the advancement of the sun on First Class Mortgages of Hanse Property
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KIRDI. Hon. Secretary.
PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S
NAME
I, GEORGE
of DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers of DOUGLAS STEAMSHLY COMPAST Lrn. of Hongkong, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that 'm consequence of a wish to have the below. mentional Steamer varry similar name to other Steuners of the "Dovelas Stars COMPANY, LTD.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, ATGUST 7r, 1923
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
Isaur or 17ra Fasicaft, 1922, or 109,650 ADDITIONAL Sman or THE NOMINAL Value or 810. At a PazxitM OF 35
Excn. (33 Pra Suara Paid UP).
HAREHOLDERS are reminded) that a S. SECOND INSTALMENT the above of $5 per share (83 plus $3 premium per TUESDAY the 15th where) falls due August, 1922, Remittances shockd be made to the Company Bankers, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong, on or before that date.
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THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY the wo to TUESDAY, the 15TH AUGUST. 1919 (both days inclusive), during whit period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. V. WARD,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 27th July, 1952,
TUE FAVOURITE INVENTION OF..
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·THOMAS À. EDISON
**TME. PRONOGRAPH WITH, A SOUL”
IS HERE.
JEUR, EDISON -
MENIC
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1ST FLOOR, POWELL'M BUILDING,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAN NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMER "DEVANHA,”
Arrived HONGKONG ON, 2ND ÅVOUST, 1922 FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORTSAID, ADEN, BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-
named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company's Godowne at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.
Ilave applied to the Band of Tra-te, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in expect of the ship TUNGUS" of Tons- berg. Official No. 71812 of Gross tonage 1823:30 Tons. Register tonnage 10g Tone, heretobefore owned by WILHELMSEN's Damp-6 KIRNAKTIESELORAP for permission to clange her name to HAIFOONG" and to have her gistered in the new name at the port of Hong- kong award by the DoUGLAS STEAMSHIP
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COMPANY, LTD.
Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hongkong within Seven (7) days from the appearance of this advertisment.
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Dated at Hongkong this 5th day of August, GEORGE WINSTANLEY BARTON," DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., 1330]
General Managers.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM).
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tint as INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE SHILLING Share on account of the year
per 1929 has been declared.
The DIVIDEND will be payable on and after WEDNESDAY, the 23rd day of August, 1922, to Shareholder on the Register on TUESDAY, the 8th day of August, 1920, and will be paid to Shareholders on the Colonial (Hongkong) Register at the exchange rate of 2. 7d per Dollar.
By Order of the Board,
W. E. ROBERTS,
Hongkong. 24th July, 1922.
DAIRY
Secretary.
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Optional goods will be landed here unless instructions have been given to the contrary
hours before arrival of the steamer
Goods not cleared within 8 days, including date of arrival will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance, will be effected by us in any case whatever.
INTIMATION
same was the case in England, where the the authorities would allow it, as the fact that the Treasury notes were con authorities themselves admit in stating vertible was carefully concealed from the that one of their reasons for refusing to public for a long time, although the allow gold to be exported from Japan
SEASONABLE SUMMER attempt to maintain their valite by is that is would lead to speculation in
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Its dryness and aroma áre features which give this drink the popularity it deserves.
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WATSON'S STONE GINGER BEER
Prepared by a process of partial fermentation which gives it the distinctive flavour which is so pleasing to the palate.
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Possesses the characteristiö stimulating and refreshing qualities of Champagne; it has a delicious flavour.
Damaged packages must be loft in the Godown for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Surveyors, Mesem GODDARD A.
DougLAB, at 10 AM. on Mondays and
Thursdaya
*All Claims must be presented within ten days of the Steamer's arrival here, after, which date they cannot be raouguised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods- have loft the Godawn.'
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BIRTH...
ANOTHER BIG PIRACY;
SUI YIK" WITH A80 PASSENGERS.
HELD IN CHINESE WATERS,
PIRATES BAID TO KAVE” BOARDED
VESSEL AT HONGKONG..........
The ... Sui Fi came into Hongkong
making them convertible was obviously gold. The value of the notes is not the aseless if the fact of their convertibility value of the gold and on exchanging was locked up. is the bosoms of the Japanese notes for gold and taking the officials. The secret leaking out, however, gold out of the country, the speculator at a late hour last night and reported the notes were madri inconvertible, thus could get more for it in notes of another that she had been pirated whilst on bor Shan- again. prochialing gold from errculation, country than its value in notes in Japan. outward journey from, Hongkong-to s Is this henceforward to be the normal The Japanese authorities know this and me, which is half way between here and state of affairs? Is geled" to become, as it it is the dread of seeing the gold go out Swataw. The pirates are believed to- were, a State monopoly, rationed out to of the country which make them adhere have boarded the vessel in Hongkong. the goldeniths, but sever passed front to the embargo, although a reduction of Chinese watchman named Chan Ping hand to hand s a base eirculating the paper currency to the point where and a Chinese passenger were wounded medium? The adräntages of "gold as a some at least of the gold was forced into by the pirates who were armed with re- medium of exchange are that it is not circulation would adjust the relationsvolvers, and 130 passengers were rounded so plentiful as to be subject to wide between the gold and the notes and up and robbed of their money and be Auctuations in value in terms of other prevent any such exodus as is feared longings. The value of the stolen pro- commodities, and at the same time not so Japan is in the position to do this be perty is not known but it is safe to scarce as to be not attainable by all cause her finances have been improved and estimate at a high figure. From the com- not impaired by the war, but gold having pradore's "department alone $1,300 were been erected to the position of a fish taken imineusely desirable in itself, the passibi
countries. Its intrinsic value in the arts and sciences also make it of worth in
Interviewed at midnight, the Mastor
itself-in fact,, if it did not possess this for its retention overweighs other con of the vessel; Lai Yow," anid that the
intrinsic value it would never have Lecquired the position of a medium · of
exchange, now almost world-wide.
Is there any other" commodity which would answer the requires conditions? Proposals have been midle that another standard of value should be taken, such, for instance, as wheat. In this case, of course, the standard of value would not
siderations,
Sui Fi left Hongkong for Shamusi on the early morning of 31st July and prior Quarantire against Hongkong has been to her departure the 180 passengers, in- withdrawn by. Bangkok..
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A farmer in the Hui Lay district of wang ung has discovered silver ore on his farm.
The V.R.C. advertise, the programme the Night Fete, which is being arranged for Friday next.
be the medium of exchange, even as gold.of
Stern measures are being taken by the the recrudescence of gambling in the military authorities at Canton to suppress
while remaining the standard of value, is no longer the medium of exchange. The objections in this direction, there fore, would not be greater than to gold. Feity. But the requisite stability in a standard
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The bodies of a Japanese seaman and a cook of a revenue launch who ware accidentally drowned the other day in the harbour have been recovered.
of value would not be attained, since Hongkong will get a draft from the 1st The 2nd Battalion King's Regiment at foodstuffs are not only very perishable. Battalion in Ireland in the coming troop- but their value fluctuates very greatly.ing season. A bad harvest would disorganise the currency system to such an extent that system of barter would have to take The case of its place temporarily. Russia in point. After an issue of notes which utterly swamped all the gold reserves in the country and reduced the currency to a condition of worthlessness; a return has been made to coins, which,
cluding eight first-class passengers, were searched for arms by the police. Nothing was found.
Before leaving the Colony
the vessel took in tow, at Shaukiwan, a junk containing material for the Chinese Government Ammunition Factory
Shanmei,
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All went well to San. Mun, the Chinese
were cleared, and at 1.30 p.m. the same, Customs Station, where the ship's papers,
day, the Sai Fik continued her journey
for one and a half hours, suddenly shots. from there for Shanmei. After steaming
were heard and a minute later an armed man appeared at the wheel-house and held up the Skipper, ordering him to- keep quiet or he would be shot. A few minutes later he was joined by three
On Friday a tree fell in the grounds of armed men. The pirates, who spoke the St. Stephen's College and a Chinese Finkka dialect, gave instructions for the youth, 20 years of age, was caught in vessel to be steered to Tau Tan and freei the fall and injured. He is at present there to a place called Sam Kok. During in the Government Civil Hospital."
the voyage from Tang Pai-where the Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, the new pirates first held up the vessel-to Tau of whatever metal they are made, de commander-in-Chief on the China Station Tau, the pirates proceeded to loot the represent something of value and com in succession to Sir Alexander Duff, is vessel. They cleaned out the compradore's parative permanence, irrespective of expected to reach China in October to cabin and collected the passengers luggage political conditions or national crises, take up the duties of his new post.
in a heap, ready for moving. The watch- mag and one passenger who showed signa &Here, indeed, liex the chief reason for
of resistance were promptly, shot attand wounded.
real money,that if cannot be affected by any change in the national polity, idcompetence of government, State extra
"or aty qther, outside waste, vagance or AERATED WATER MANUFAO TUREBS cause. The man who has gold and silver in his pocket has something of value which no action of the State can imperil. It may, of course; be taken away from him by forec, but this is a risk which he
If the danger is is prepared to run. Dove-At Blackheath, on July 26th to extreme he will board it; if there is little Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Dove, of Shang-likelihood of such danger he will lend it hai, a daughter, «
to others in return for something, with the certainty that bo car get it back again. Nations that cling to real money especially in these times, are not without wisdom, although, of course, the degree in which real money is insisted upon is a measure of the instability of the State.
In times of political stability real money may hardly be seen, the transfer
DEATHS.
PIDGE.—At Shanghai, on July 28th, Many CROCKZE, only child of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Pidge, aged 11 months. TALBOT-At Shanghai, on July 28th, WILLIAM JOSEPH, SCcond surviving son of Star, and Emily Talbot, in his 13th year,
ODERN BUNGALOW, Fully Fur. HoxazonG Orion: 101, DEB VOUX ED., O. Mey, Tebe Let or Losnon Orion: 131, FLEET ST, E..ence of wealth being largely done by Sold as from September 1et--Write A.Z. FARM NEWS. office of this paper,
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list free. Address: Oreo Stamp Co., Box 723, THE STANDARD OF VALUE.
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Is gold the only standard of value that is possible Prof. GUSTAV CANSEL, the eminent Swedish ecocomist, thinks that
According to the Japan Chronicle, the warship Settru will be sunk off the coast of Tosa at the beginning of this month at sacrifice to armament restriction. She will be used as a target for shooting practice for the first Squadron.
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An inmate of No. 45, Gough Street, has reported the theft of $917.70 cents from a box in his room, which is believed to have been opened by means of a dupli- ate key. A similar theft is also reported by the teannt of No. 13, Cheung Sha Street, who says that 8206 Las been stolen from his room.
At Sam Kok three inks came along- side and the loot was transferred into two of these, whilst about twenty men swarmed over the side into the other. junk, and the Sai Yik was then allowed" to proceed on her journey to Shanmei.
At Shanmei the matter was reported to the Chinese authorities. In addition to locting the vessel of clothing and money,' two revolvers, were two rifles and stolen from the armoury as well as a quantity of rifle and revolver 'ammuni- tion. Her cargo of rice, gal fish and machinery was not interfered with The Water Return for August 1st shows
The return journey of the Suf Tik ta that the water in storage on the island Hongkong was delayed owing to the of Hongkong on that date was 821.59 typhoon in the neighbourhood of Swetow. millions of gallons as compared with The . Sui Tik is owned by the Fok. 2,031.44 millions on the corresponding Hot Company, of No. 6 Connaught date last year. At Kowloon the antity Road Central. in storage was 105.14 millions as com- pared with 352.50 millions last year.
Information received from Macao by last night's steamer was that the town is trouble. The soldiers are still patrolling quiet and that there has been no further the streets. It is now gathered that the paper, although always at the back lies explosives used were improvised bombs the knowledge that real money is avail. made up of bundles of sticks of dynamite,
to which time fuses were attaches... able. Here.arises another point about a medium of exchange that is of import- Audiences at the Coronet: Theatre are ance, and that is its portability. The thoroughly enjoying Peck's Bad Boy," the delightful picture which features as precious metals answer" this requirement, the star artist young Jackie Coogan, the especially gold, which through its high small youngster who finds himself famous value contains much wealth" with "little at the tender age of six as the result of his phenomenally successful appearance weight or bulk. Substitute wheat or any in "The Kid" with Charlie Chaplin.
toer commodity for gold and we are confronted not only by the problem of
The exmine sweeper, Petersfield, late of the broken-up South American Squad
BRITISH VESSELS PIRATED. WEST RIVER INCIDENT.
The Kwong Mn, fair-sized steam launch, and a lighter named the Tin fing, both of which are registered as British vessels, were pirated on the last trip to Samshai up the West River. A reporti of the incident is being communicated to H.B.M.'s Consul at Canton by the owners. of the vessels the Kwong-li S.S Company. The pirates met the steam Taunch of Tung Mt whilst she was towing the lighter, which contained 200 tons of coal, and boarded her from two junks. The pirates numbered 20 in all, and were armed with mauser pistols. They were apparently of the opinion that the lighter contained rice, and expressed disbelief Laterizons at Swatoa modena that we must go as far as to abstain from carriage. At present there is no doubt succed the despatch ship Alacrity on the opened up the hatches and ascertained ter AND, approximately 7,000 square feet on we must henceforward economise in gold deterioration but by the problem ofron, is being got ready at Portsmouth to when told that the cargo was coal. They China Station. The Petersfield will be themselves the contents of the cargo. They storied brick and concrete bailding aitable for the luxury of an actual gold circulation.a tendency to hoard gold, symptomatic of ready for her new commission by the end next looted the vessels and look away office and godown! Further details apply;
This would mean that while gold was the unsettled conditions of the times, and of August or beginning of September. money and clothing to the value of 8000. £85]
WG HUMPHREYS & Co theoretically the standard of value items to be one reason why each Commander Cecil N: Reyne, commanding Of arrival at Sam Shui the master of
Chinese Customs authorities, would-be locked up in the banks as a country is so latent on maintaining its the Petersfield, has just been promoted the launch reported the incident to the
captain. gold reserves and refusing to put gold metallic reserve. That the money is
Commander-Thomas H. Binney, D.S.0.. into circulation. But this very jealousy locked up in the banks now is certain.
chief executive officer of the flagship: The United States in 1941 imported in guarding the stocks of gold has its that China Station, has just en COLLISION IN THE HARBOUR. ill effects. For one thing it has raised promoted to the rank of captain, after a $cc0,000,000 worth of gold and exported prices The gold is all in the banks and service of five and a half years. Well
H.M.S. MAGNOLIA", SINKS A JUNK nit and up to. April this year had
merited, will give satisfaction to his imported $97,000,000 worthy and again place has been taken by paper, late rank. His promotion, so well
largely in excess of the actual value of friends in Chiza and the Straits. Another Shortly, boforo mid-day yesterday in exported wil Fet gold is not insgely in
the gold reserye. Thus, the actual local promotion is that of Lieut-Comman-collision occurred in the harbour, in mid- THE VALUE OF GOOD SIGHT circulation he States. All the trurrency has been more than doubled, der Thomas B Drew. C.B.E. of the stream, between the HM.8. Magnolia and Hawkin who has been advanced to the a largo Chinese junk The junk was cannot be over-estimated. Sight stands trictions on the circulation have band currency, like everything else, berans of commander after within a few badly holed and sank a few minutes after for everything that is valuable or enjoy. removed; gold certificates are gun being comes cheaper the more common it is. months of five year's service in his late the collision. Fortunately no lives were Iost, all the occupants of the junk being rescued by people In a sampan and by PECK'S BAD BOY able in life. You cannot tell if your eyes issued, but still to demand gold is There is hardly a country in Europe rank.
are right; you may see well yet have almost considered a crime Gold has which has not cheapened its currency, The telephone to Cheung Chow was the crews cf two launchesis de defective eyes. If you wish to have your been set up as the modern fetish, to be and a good many out of Europe. China again out of order during the recent The accident occurred right in the eyes tested, the Retracting Boom of The without which means the finging away has adhered to a real money basis and typhoon As consequence, the black track of the Hongkong Kowloon ferrios Hongkong Optical Co., successor to of the national destiny. Japan continues thus has not suffered so much except in signal was not lowered until 9 o'clock on and the junk's mast and sail, as well as Baturday morning, and the whereabouts a portion of the jank were visible above Clark & Co., Betracting and Mann her embargo on the export of gold, and so far as she had to rely on other coun of the ferry launch was unknown from the water yesterday afternoon. A danger factoring Opticians the most competent although the notes are nominally ex- tries for her supplies; but Japan, which 3 am, or Thursday morning, when it fing has been fixed to the masts of the optical establishment in South China changeable for gold, to obtain that gold now has a note circulation almost four left the island, until 8.30 am. on Friday, sunken craft
key It is said that the junk attempted to cross when it re-appeared. The launch had re locried zu Ba, Queen's Road, Central means application direct to the Bank of times that preceding the war, has mined in Hongkong in the interval, but the bows of the Mangolia just after the is a your service. They have the equip Japan in the capital and the undergoing cheapened her currency to that extent, it was not known at Cheung Chow latter had left her buoy on her way ont meats to teet your eyes accurately, of an examination as to the reason why solely through her refusal to allow gold whether this was the case whether she of harbour to the aid of the Chousang. had run behind a neighbouring island,The junk had on board 86,000 bricks, Testing the sight and fitting glasses is the gold is wanted, which effectively, proto circulate. As a result gold could now for shelter, or whether the had gone to which accounted for her sinking so EVERYWOMAN. their specialty -ADYT.
rapidly. Her crew numbered seven, hibits gold coming into cirvulation. The be exported from Japan at a profit if the bottom,
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