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BOSHIGAURA.Finest Seaside Sammer Holiday Resort in North China Fire miles from Bairan, but connected with the ziny by special motor and carriage road and aleotris garden. tramway. Yamato Hetal (35 rooms) and 12 furnished bungalows is charming aliff Bathing Boating, Fishing, Golf, Tennis, Billiards, Orchestra twice a week. Capital place for children. OGONDAI —Most beautiful and select Seaside Resort in the Far East. Two miles from )
Arthur. Formerly the Summer Resort of the high Russian officers and officials. Yamato with detached servanta' quarters, Excellent and 10 vilas and bungalows, Habel Bathing Wonderfal Seenery, Historic Basteleids, Rained and Dismantled Forts Miles to charming Walks and Drives Abundant Pienicing Facilities. Orchestra twice a week. Beat place for high-class familles. PORT
ARTHUR-Famous for its two memorable Bieges and is beautiful landlocks Harbou Beholly one hour's journey Dairen by express train. Yamato Hotel (16 rooms) Susident place of historical and scanty interest to fill a month with a fresh walk or drive every day. Most healthy and salubrious spot in the Far East.
The famous Diamond Mountain of Kores. A special Summer Resort KONGOSANT for climate and scenery, Bosatitul peaks and charming sasendes,
rivalling (11 rooms) at Chosari,
OUR LONDON LETTER. SHOULD BETS BE TAXED TO
HELP THE REVENUE: LIBERATS IN PARLIAMENT TENDING TOWARDS RE-UNION,
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, February 22nd,
MR. LLOYD GEORGE's RETURN.
The outstanding feature of the House Ruhr occupation was the speech of Mr. of Commons debate this week on the George. It had all the old fighting
MONDAY, MARCH 9615, 1923.
THE DUKE'S WEDDING:
All sorts of rumours and reports have been current with regard to the wedding of the Duke of York and Lady Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey, and many people have been making the arrangements in detail for the
folla
the
But it has only now been officially that the arrangements will not ded an adopted in the case of the marriage of Princess Mary. On that occasion an elaborate series of stands were erected inside the Abbey, by means which large number of guests were pluvided with accommodation
The King and the Duke of York both desire, however, that a minimum of expenso
proved beyond all pose incurred, and there will accorel
the
be no stands in the nave when the of doubt that the ox-Premier han
enters into the bonds of Holy The decision is bound to cause Matrimony
disappointment to a consider last Hons of his ascendancy over historic. Both sections of Liberals the able number of persons who had ressou to House. The ocension was in some respects feeling of Asquithians and the National Liberals
rale expect invitations to the ceremony; but no who follow the Lloyd George banner doubt the general opinion will be that the were agreed that Britain: ought to declare right line has been taken, as the present definitely against the policy of the time is not one for any unnecessary dia- resolution on the subject instead of put- French, and they agreed to support one play involving expenditure.
down two resolutions.
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There is considerable apeculation about wards Liberal re-union It shows that the expected drawing together of the divided tour will adopt towards the sugges legion, about which there have been many tion that a tax should be put upon prophecies, has set in; but at the same time made with bookmakers The idea is being
Canvassed in
quarters an in responsible there is not at present, the least intention to endorsed by respectable organs in the Press. scrap the respective electoral organisations.
So far as I am aware, no statistics are Liberal prominent
to me available to enable a calculation to be made remat Renuion is
of slow to after the debate,
in a fact that has to be borne as to the total amount of money that changes in mind. But, with the Labour Party as the month, but I have heard it stated by people on horses in the course of a twelve- hands official Opposition in Parliament,
any
intimately connected with racing that the tendency towards the consolidation of thy sam is well over a milion pounds per shattered fragments of the old Liberal Party is a matter of profound interest and import ance. It is at present Conservativos verius Labour in the House of Commons. Liberalism is not dead by any means: and the time will come!
THE WREN CENTENARY.
annum.
But within an appreciable addition to the
It is a curious coincidence that just as preparations are being made to celebrate the bicentenary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren, who built St. Paul's Cathedral and many famous churches after the Great Fire of London, the Church of England (or, at all I events, a number of the Bishoption of nineteen of the places of are pressing for the sale and worship built by the
the great architect. The Bishops covet the money that could
handled be
the sites on which the churches stand were available for their
Obviously, it this could be brought the range of taxation it would national income. Nobody has suggested that casual bets between friends ought to be subject to a tax, and, indeed, any plan of the kind would be impracticable because of the difficulty of collection; but in the case of bookmakers it would be as with whom betting is regular business as to collect a tax from the fraternity
it is to collect tobacconista
BOXE HUMBUG
fron brewers or
Of course, the religious folk are apt to object to taking money from betting men, although there is a lot of cant in what is said on the subject. What they really. dislike in that any plan to impose a tax in effect, legalise betting everywhere.
present needs. There are some of the on bookmakers present betting
City are among the strongest apr y de heavily fined by a magistrate,
CAN
.
who
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who would not hesitate to spend the capital on foreign missions, or on some other causes not illegal on a racecourse, but it is in the dear to their evelesiastical hearts. But noth-street or in a public-house-which latter.
You ing of this kind will be done without a grimis, ke bets to any amodnt with a book-
after all, the poor man's club. struggle against what must be regarded by ma
as you do not every lover of the past as an act of vandaliam maker in his office so long
do It is worth noting that business men in the pay him
of the "booty money there; if you
is treated as a criminal, and the proposal put forward by the exponents of Wren's memory is
the nation.
likely as not sent a telegram backing life of of the
religious
being com- horse to his own bookmaker the day before.
If batting is wrong according to the memorated by
by meetings, including one at the Mansion House with the Lord Mayor in code one may well say with Falstaff the chair, and a banquet at the Royal Ins help the wicked" for there are precious few titute. The architectural students of Lon- who do not sin in that way now and again. don
dress ball next month, Iam told that bookmakers of repute would to give a fancy dres Gre also, by way of commemoration So far the welcome a tax in reason, as it would imply London County Council is the only public registration, and the alimination of the dis body that has raised a voice against the reputable element who prey on the public. threatened destruction of the Wren char.B ches; bat, happily, nothing can be done in this direction without the sanction of Parliament.
MES, ORKISTON CHANT.
WEATHER REPORT.
moral
Mar, 27th ab 1213-Prossus has decreas al considerably at Guam and sught y majority of other raporting stations,
in
d
6.m. this morning the typhoon was abont Lat. 12 deg. N. and Long. 114 deg. Its direction of motionis still uncer zio. Hoderate monsoon my be expected over the China Ben.
I have no doubt many readers in the Far East who are approaching middle-age will be able to recall irs. Ormiston Chant, whose death is announced this week, at the age of seventy-eight. Some twenty odd years ago she was the central figure in a campaign which she carried on with the support of the late Sir James Macdougall with the object of ridding London of the scandal of music-hall promicades. These were the days when the young ** bloods" used to visit the Empire, the Alhambra, and the Pavilion in the course of their energetic of 6.42 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hour coding ab and flamboyant efforts to "paint the town red," and generally enjoy the feeling noon, 28th Mar., is as follows:- Mra Chant hours in a raffish manner.
of sat herself to stop that
form particular pleasure, and concentrated her attention Hongkong to Cap Rock
the
on popular halls mentioned, and
also
on the old Aquarium and Winter Garden opposite Westminster Abbey. But it took
many years
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 1,26th Mar, 0.03 inch. Total since January 1st, 1.18 inches, against an average
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to get the London County Formon Channel Council, the body responsible for licensing
FOLECAST
N.E. winds, rood! erate; flaa to alendy.
The same a
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matters, to agree to make the screening of South east of Chinabetween (The same a refreshment bars from the auditorium com-
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pulsory. Next the lady attacked the gay Hongkong andLamocks and frail ones
mes of her sex who were to be met with on the promenades, till in due course they were harried into the streets Of course, it has only meant banishing the evil from one place to another, and if the promenades as they existed in the old days have disappeared their patrons have gone underground, as it were, and are now to be found in night clubs.
Bouth cosas of Chins between. The sease as
No. 1. Hongkong and Bainsa
FRENCH DEMANDS ON ENGLAND,
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER. Hongkong Observatory, March 25th.
Previona un Date on Date
Day st
An the risk of seeming to harp on one subject in my articles for several weeks in
I think it worthy of calling at succession, tention to the sustained interest in the question of the French occupation of the Barometer Ruhr. It is always being referred to at Temperaturn
Lean public meetings and elsewhere; and
account for it texcept by saying that the Wind Dibastion political instinct of the people of this coun
Humidity.
Fores
try, which is seldom at fault over big issues Weather.
of policy, perceives that this action of the Rain
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French will lead to trouble-probably an: Fichtert open-air Temperature on Sith ... 70 other European war, sooner or later.
As I have stated befort, the longer France Lowers open-air Temperature on 18th stays in the Rubr the more deeply she will
become involved in serious troubles. The serious matter so far as
into
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we are con.
we
cerned is that we, as the Ally of France, are in danger of being drawn desire complications to avoid. The French this week asked far
leave
to
small corner the area ecopiad by British troops to enable them to complete their transport by rail to and from the Buhr. That has been conceded. They also asked for the fall use whole of of the railways throughout the whole the occupied British that has. boen
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From Mar. 26th to Apr. 1st, 1928.
HIGH WATER
LOW WATEL,
H'kong
H'kong
Btandard Time.
Time.
bm. It in
h. m.
refused. The latter meant that the Mom 265 20.
French, wanted the unrestricted use of the
for military parposes,
which
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I mean strirea and sabotage calling for
to inflict in the zone under our
ETISt that we could not
permit the Wed 28m7545
control. It is no part of our business to Thur. 29
hold the German population down in
support of the French military domination of Germany, and this is what opinion in London is now persuaded is the real object of French policy. I shall not be surprised if, before this letter reaches your aidle, events will compel the withdrawal of "the British Army from the Rhineland.
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THIS PROSPECTUS HAS BEEN DULY FILED WITH THE
REGISTAR OF COMP ANIES.
The Subscription List will Open on SATURDAY, the 24th day of MARCH, 1923, and Close on or before SATURDAY, the 31st day of MARCH, 1923.
HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST COMPANY,
LIMITED.
[INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES 1911-1921.]
CAPITAL
$3,000,000
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DIVIDED INTO 200,000 SHass or $10 ExcH...
Of the above shares 100,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. On these $2.50 per share will be paid on application and the halanes when called up on the same basis as the remaining capital."
In addition the Directors are allotting 30,000 shares credited as fully paid up under the terms of the Option and subsequent correspondence thereon referred to in paragraph (a) hereof.
remaining 70,000 shares ranking equally with those already subscribed are now offered for public subscription payable as to $2.50 per share on application. on subsequent The balance due on each share, vis, $7.50 will be called demand as and when further capital is required.
Any of the shares now offered to the public which may not be subscribed for will be allotted in such manner as the Directors shall determina.
DIRECTORS
Jony Scorr HansTor, 1, Des Vinx Boad Central, Hongkong, Solicitor and Notary
Public,
Sp
Hon. Mr. Crow Shou Sox, Bank of East Asia, Ltd., Des Vieux Road Central,
Hongkong, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council.
JAMES HARPER TAGGART, Managing Director, Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., Powell's
Building, Hongkong.
The Very Bev. Father LEON ROBERT, Procureur General des Missions Etrangeres,
1, Battery Path, Hongkong.
ARTHUR RYLANDS Lowe, 3, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, Chartered Accountant.
FRANK MALCOLM LANE CRAWFORD, Managing Director, Lane Crawford, Ltd.
Chater Road, Hongkong...
FONG TAT HANG, Compradore, Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong.
PETER KINGSON KWox, Bank of East Asin, Lui., Des Vœux Road Central, Hongkong
Merchant:
BANKERS
THE HONGKONG & SHANGILAI BANKING CORFÓRATION.
AUDITORS
LINSTEAD & Davis, Alexandra Building, Des Vœux Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong
SOLICITORS
MORSI DEACON, HARSTON & SPESTON, 1, Des Verux Road Central, Victoria,
Hongkong.
REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY FOWELL'S BUILDING (2nd floor), Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong. SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY (pro tem
T. A. BARRY, Powell's Building (2nd foor), Des Vaux Road Central, Hongkong.
PROSPECTUS
(a) This Company has been formed principally to acquire by purchase (under the terms of the Option nad subsequent correspondence thereon hereinafter mentioned) from Lane Crawford Limited (whate Registered Office is situate at Ice House Street, Victoris, Hongkong) nod tevelop by building thereon A of Marine Lot No. 7 nud Office the land registered in the Land
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$843 MA Leante in Des Yeux Roadk
commonly known Central, Hongkong The
price of the land is 81,000,000, $300,000 dif which will be satisfied by the issue to Line Crawford Limited of 30,000 shares purchase of this Company credited es fully paid an. Of the remainder of the price €148,781.0 will be paid in cash, firal the balance of 81,218.30 will be satisfied by the taking over by the Company from Lane Crawford Limited of the Mortgage repayable on the 20th April, 1927) for that mount now subsisting on the property in favour of Lanford Limited and carrying. interest ar
6% per annum. In addition to the purchase price payable as above, the Company will under the Option hereinafter mentioned, pay the brokerage of ons per cent. en the purchase price amonnting, to $10,000 which is referred to in para graph (6) hereof, and also indemnity Lane Crawford Limited to the extent of
of the Plazed Specifications referred to in 326,394.30 in respect of the
paragraph (+) hereof.
cquisition of such sand bears date the 5th day of for the acquisition. The Option March 1923 and is made between Lane Crawford Limited as Vendors of thes one part and Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, one of the partners in the firm of Deacons Harston & Shenton the above mentioned Solicitors to the Company, as Trustee for the Company of the other part. A copy of this Option and the subee quent correspondence thereon can be inspected at the offices of the mid tors to the Company (No. 1 Des Yeux Bond Central,, Hongkong) at Solicitors
time during business hours. A copy of the Mortgage above referred to which bears date the 5th day of May 1992, and is for a term of Five youre from that date can also be inspected at the same place and tims
There are no other Contracts relating to the land to be acquired
by the Company.
it On the land to be acquired as above by the Company is proposed creet a modern seven-storied building with a Basement, so as to afford accommodation for Stores, Shops, a Safe Deposit Vault and First-class Office Booms, particularly suitable to professional people. The Site is considered to be specially favourable for such a building, being in the centre of the business part of the City and class to the Hotels, Banks and Shipping Offices, etc.
(b) In respect of the above mentioned Option a brokerage of 1" on the par- chase price of $1,000,000 amounting to $10,000 is payable by the Company to the Solicitors to the Company in respect of the sale of the land the subject of such Option.
(e) Under the last mentioned Option the Company are to be under the obliga
tion of indemnifying Lane Crawford Limited to an extent not exceeding 828,294.30 in respect of the cost of certain Plans and Specifications pre pared in 1992 in connection with the building which Lane Crawford Limited at that time proposed to erect on the said land.
(d) No other commission or promotion money will be paid by the Company.
(e) The Company to pay all preliminary expenses of and incident to the formation and floating of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business and also all costs and expenses in connection with the acquisition of the land and the Assignment thereof to the Com pany, the estimated amount whereof is $20,000.
(f) The minimum subscription on which the Directors may proceed to allotment
is seven shares.
(2) The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of a Director is to be the holding of 1,000 shares in the Company and that the remuneration of cach of the Directors is to be $1,000 per annu
(h) Directors are interested in the promotion of the Company as follow→→
(1) As to Mr. Harston in respect of the brokerage mentioned in clause (b) (9) As to Messrs. Taggart, Lowe, Crawford and Harston to the extent that they are Directors of Lane Crawford Limited who are the Vendors of the land to be acquired by the Company.
(3) As to Messrs. Taggart, Lowe and Haraton to the extent that they' Directors in the Hongkong Hotel Company Limited who are
are
Shareholders in Lane Crawford Limited, that he is a Director
As to the Rev.
of the
are
Dairy Father
Robert to the extent that
leo and Cold
the
Vendors aforesaid
Shareholders in Lane Crawford rage Company Limited who (6) As to all the Directors other than The Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Sam, Fang Tat Hang and Feter Kingson Kwok that they or some of them are Directors of other Companies with whom the Company may do business.
(i) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can
be inspected at the aforementioned offices of the Solictors to the Company at any time during business hours.
A copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is annexed to the Frospectus and forms part of it.
(k) Application for shares aliould be made upon the Form attached to the Proem pectus, which should be detached therefrom and sent to the Company's Bankers (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) together withe
remittance of 32.00 per share, the amount of the deposit.
Where, no allotment is made, the deposit will be returned, in ful where the number of shares allotted is less than the number applied for, a proportionate amount of the deposit will be returned.
(1) Prospectusca can be inspected at and Forms of Application obtained from the Company's Bankers (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) and at and from the temporary offices, of the Company in Powell's Building (second floor), Dea Hoad Central, Hongkong.
Vœux
Dated the 23rd day of March, 1923,