NEW ADYKKTISEMENTS
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,
COMPANIES WINDING UP.
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No. 1 or 1921.
THE MATTER of the COMPANIES
ORDINANCES, 1911-1921.
R THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE
DE CHINE
to be made between
TOTICE IS HEREDY GIVEN that by Order dated the 10TH DAY at JULY. TB23 the Court has directed a Mesting to be CORTEDad of the Unsecured Creditor of the Hongkong Branch of theabove asmal BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINs for the purpose of Considering and if thought fis approving (with or
the Scheme of Arrange modification) the ment formulated under the Reglesout Transactionnal under French Law) proposed
the sak Banque
and various classes of its Creditors. The said Meet- ing will be held as the C HALL, Victoria Hongkong, on Wednesday the 12th day of December, 1993, at 3 a'clock in the After 100 at which time and place all the said Unsecured Creditors of the Hongkong Branch of the said Banque are requested to attend Such Unsoared Creditors may attend the Heating and tote therent whether in person or by Proxy provided that all Prozies are deposited with the Provisional Liquidator as his Office situate at the Cparts of Justice, Victoria, Hongkong not later than 12 o'clock Noon on Saturday, the 8th December, 1993 A Copy of the said Boheme Report thereon by the Administrator appointed by the French Court, Summary thereof and Proper Stamp ed Form of Proxy can be obtained from the Undersigned
By the aid Order the Court has appointed the Provisional Liquidator of the said "Banque to be Chairman of the Meeting and directed the Chairman to report the result thereof to be Court
The above mentioned Scheme of Arrange ment will be subject to the subsequent approval of the Court.
"Dated the 6th day of August; 1923.
DEACON. HARSTON & SHENTON, 1,"Des Voeux Road,
Victoria, Hongkong, Solicitors for the Company.
BRUNNER, MOND & CO. (CHINA), LTD.
HAVE TO-DAY resumed Charge of the
G. F. HASLAM,
Divisional Manager.
I company's laterexts in South China
Hongkong, 1st August, 1993.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
INTIMATIONS · ·
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 8rs,
HE Offices of the "HONGKONG DAILY
Thore been remored to 14, CHATER ROAD(3rd floor), to which Address all Correspondence should be dirested.
Hongkong, 16th July, 1933,
AMERICAN CONSULATE-GENERAL.
BECAUSE of the DEATH of the Fax- “SIDENT OF. ÜNIZED STATES OF AMERICA. the Amarican Consulate General WILL BE CLOSED, except for the transaction of the Most Urgent Business, until TUESDAY, the 7TH AUGUST,
OFFICIAL NOTICE
PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIPS NAME
TE HEBERY GIVE NOTIUE that in W
of uniformity with the consequence cambiastion of Names of the other vessels: owned by us under the name of Cup ON
of No
205, STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED, Wing Lok Street, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, have applied in the Board of Trade under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act. 1894, for permission to change the
CHINA" of Official No. 1539019, Groes Teenage Register Tonnage 11.24 hitherto owned by and to have us in the name of "CHIU ON her registered in the New Namo at the Port of Hougkong as owned by us.
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Any objections to the proposed Change of name must be sent to the Registrar of Ship- ping
or Harbour Master' at Hongkong withần even days from the appearance of This Dated Hongkong this let day of Aug., 1923.
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HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS' SHARE AND REAL ESTATE CO, SHARE AND LAND BROKERS,
No. 8, Des Voeux Bond...
2nd Floor
Telephone No, C4308.
FOR SALE.
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JOHN DEWAR
& SONS, LTD.
PERTH, SCOTLAND.
By Royal Appointment
to His Majesty
The King.
WHITE LABEL"
FINEST
1093
A notice of interest to unsecured creditors of the "Hongkong' branch of the
House in two respects, vir (1) that a had been sent in a printed rather than in a written form, and (2) that the hung - Duoque Industrielle, de Chigusappeare, in dreds of signatures were written our advertisement coluniks "to-day,
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WEST LONDON BRANCH:"
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Bombay,
The Corporation undertakes General Bankin, and Exchange Business of every description va in addition to its Brauchen has Agencies in all the principal Cities of the world.
0. CHAMPKIN, Manager.
22, Des Vans Road Central, Hongkong.
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BRANCHES
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London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Vancouver, BC, Honolulu, Singapore, Penang,
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Circumference.
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for the
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND OF ONE
DOLLAR
Per Share
Six Months ending 30th June, 1923, will be
in Good Condition 3 inches mercial centres of China and abroad.
PROMPT SERVICE. · Apply to
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TO LET.
PAYABLE on WEDNESDAY, STRAUGUST, OFFICES in UNION BUILDING-Four
on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Uffice, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Thorsday, 26th July, to Wednesday, 8th August (both days in- clusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors, JOHN ARNOLD; Secretary.
Bengkong, 10th July, 1923.
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SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEIL-
on Fifth Floor.
Apply UNION INSURAÑUE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
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Members British Chamber of Commerci (Shanghai) Mr. T. W. BOWERN, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Incor porated by Royal Charter, London,
Strakship Agents and ShifarOKERS, For the Purchase, Sale and Charter of Vessels of any Tonnage, Passenger and/or Cargo, New and/or Old, with delivery Chius at Yery Low Prices.
SALVADE OPERATORS, MARINE SURVEYORS
AUCTIONEERS, COAL MERUHANTE, FERIGHT BROKERS, METAL MERCHANTS. Machinery For Sale, New and Old in First
Condition.
Steamer are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risks into the Godowodown Co., Lad, st
of the Hongkong-Class Kowloon Wharf and Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained Immediately after landing.
Animal Cargo will be forwarded on unless
is received from the Consignees before Noon, To-day, requesting it to be landed
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Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned, Goods remaining unclaimed fter the 7th instant, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges. ·
All claims must be sent in to me en or before the 11th July, 1923, or they will not.
recognized
be
All damaged packages will be examined on
Tuesday the 7th inst, at
Meera Goddard & Douglas,
10 m by
No Fire Insurance has been effooted."
R. BODENFUSER,
Acting Agent
Hongkong, 1st August, 1923. (1109
P. & 0. S. N. CO.
ARA
STEAMER FOB
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STRAITS, COLOMBO,
TRALIA, BOMBAY," EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS & LONDON.
Through Dilla'of Lading ined for Batavia, Forsian Gulf, Continental, American mad South African Porta
THE Steamship**SOUDAN." Captain TBMM Golyer, Be Be Balle, Carrying Blis Majesty's Mails will be despatched from this Port on or about TUESDAY, 7 AUG. 1923, at NoOK
taking Passengers and Cargo
for the above
Bilk and Valuables and Tes for Italy, France and London (ander arrangement; will be tran shipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer pro ceeding direct to Marseilles and Londre
„Parcels will be received at this Office until Noor, the day before sailing. The contente sud value of all packagos are required.
For farther particulars apply to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE
&.00,
Hongkong, 2nd Aug, 1997,
Agenta.
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Is is announced in the Governmint Gazette that, in pursuance of directions given by His Majesty the King, Mr. F. P. EL Potter has been appointed one of His Majesty's Counsel for Hongkong.
A Chinese was admitted into hospital on Friday, suffering from two bullet wounds in the right leg. He described himself as a fisherman and told the police at Taipo Station that he had been shot by two Chinese uear the border. The police subsequently detained two men in “ connection, with, the affair.
MATTING TANAN
The death occurred at Shanghai last week of Captain William A. Carlson, who was for upwards of 50 years in the acr
The changes in the Legislative Council we reported in week nga are officially notifsil in the current issue of the Government Gazette viz that Mr. H. W. Birding boen appointed by E.E. tho Governor, provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to be a member of the Legislative Council, wize:Mr. A. G. Stephen, resigned'; and that Mr. A. R. Lowe has been appointed to be an Un- official Member of the Legislative Council during the absence from the Colony of the Hour Bird.
· severn? sheets of paper without the Pett-
H.E the Governor has appointed. Mr. tion or a precis of it being written or printed at the top of each sheet.. The F. R. dilams to be a member of the Petition, which occupied nearly six fool Authorised Architects Committee during cap folio pages of print, was accordingly the absence on leave of Mr. A, C. Little, written out, and the sheets of signatures The total output of the Kailan Mining were påsted together so as to foria ons Administration's mines for the week end- continuous sheet;"nearly seventy feet in || ing July 21st amounted to 93,576 tons and length, and it was duly presented to the the sales during the period to 94,044 tons,
House by Colonel JoHN. WARD, M.P., about a month ago in this form, which, it was supposed, fulfilled all require. ents Now comes the news that the report of the Committee on Public Feti. tions shows that the Petition, to which nmny hundreds of residents had attached their signatures, is found to have re- ceived but 83 signatures, the others being not counted, “in sécordance with n order of the House of Commotis wat only those signatures to which addresses are affixed are to be counted." We do not know what value these addresses would have for members of the flouse of Commons. One night reasonably | vice, of the Chinese Maritime, Customs.
He retired about six years ago. For tho it was quite sufficient
past three months Captnín Carlson had to know that the signatorics were been an inmate of Dr. Fearn's Sana- residents of the Colony of Hong. torium. Deceased, who was a native of
Nor do kong.
Swellen,, has a daughter and two grand- ♫ we know, who, in
children residing in China, place like Hongkong, would think of affixing "ng_address to his signatum on A Chinese third-class passenger on the petition, unless specially requested to Chign was killed by a strange accident on Friday night. It appears do so, and when the appeal was made that at 10.30 o'clock the steamer collided for signatures no one appears to have with 'a' janks'at Whängmoon Creek, and known.
a piece of timber on the junk protraded that the full, address: WLS
through porthole" on the lower deck essential Maybe, someone who first and struck the passenger square on the "signed the list at the Hongkong Cluby chin.The force of the impact was so gave the. Club as na address, and othersgrent that the man's neck was broken
and death was instantaneous, whose hignatures followed, wrote "disto", or a couple of commas under the auldress to represent that word, and those pre- suunably have been counted as signatures indue and proper form, while the rest, who omitted to indicate an address, are disregarded as not being in inccordance with the orders of the Ilouse) It may He mentioned, that when a copy of these erders" was sent out to Hongkong it was hardly possible to inke a fresh appical for signatures, and the Hon. Secretary of the Constitutional ing the Rev... Kirk Maconachie men-
At the Union Church on Sunday możn...”
Reform Association, when attaching the tioned, that some of his friends bad sheets of signatures to one another, daly gained the impression, from the wording lol:Command Orders, that the Rev. G. R certified each sheet is correct and Lindsay, Vicar of St Andrew's Church. signed it and the signatures of the Kowloon, was taking up his regidenco at members of the Committee were the Manse and would conduct the ser
vices during his, Mr. Maconachie's), attached to the concluding folio. In z
vacation in Japan. As a matter of fact, covering letter to Colonel WARD the the Rev. G. R. Lindany, was at present secretary mentioned that foreign residents in England and all that the notice in Command Orders ought to have conveyed in the Far East, being comparatively few was that the RovW. T. Lindsay, a in number, the address “Hongkong" minister of the Wesleyan.connection, was was considered a sufficient address in taking over his duties as Chaplain to the Euch document, since any question Forces to those not of the Church of England persuasion. Mr. Lindsay's arising in regard to any particular name address was wrongly given as The BIRTHS.
might easily be settled by a reference Manse." He was sorry, that. Command ELLIOTTAt Hongkong, un August 4th, to the Far Eastern Directory (which, weOrders had made the blunder; the newa
to Mr. and Mrs. D. ELLIOFT, " 8_5011,
papers had repeated it and would bot Shanghai and Manila papers please may say, is in the Library of the House correct it until Command Orders correcte [1140 of Commons and in the Colonial Office). | ed it. [So far as we are concerned. ROBERTS.-At Shanghai, on July 30th, to Indeed, any name on the Petition could he DO request to do so has reached.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Roszary, a son.
us.-ED.]. Mr. Maconachie added that casily verified by the Hongkong Govern various Wesleyan ministers now staying at MARRIAGES.
ment, if nccessary. When the Petition Cheung Chau had kindly undertaken to COOPER-GRAST-At St. John's Cathe
drni, Hongkong on August 3rd, by was returned to the Colony no objection conduct the services at Union - Church during his absence and to respond to any the Rev. Copley Moyle, Joux SISSON
was taken in the letter of the Clerk to other calls that might be made upon the ST. GEORGE, youngest son of the late the Petitions Committee to the absenco minister. late Cxas. ED, Cooper, of NZ, to
That the Public Peti- NOLA MACDONALD, youngest daughter of addresses,
Committee of the late PETER GRANT, of Ein- tions
should now. burgh.
(1130 cause of that omission, count the Katz-SIPUNT!--At Shanghai, on July
signatures
instead of 1,300 20th, WILLIAM KATZ to NADIA SIPUNT
odd, the number netaally affixed to the Petition, lis, of course, irrelevant ] [ Cana Hongkong, on July 27th, 1923,
ELLA AUGUSTA CARD, nged 25, daugh to the question of principle involved in Among the many messages of con- ter of Mrs. E. A CARD, of New the prayer of the Petition, though one dolence received on Saturday, by the Milton, Hants, England. 1141 CARLSON-At Shanghai, on July 31st, Committee can justify setting up a new Hongkong:
would very much like to know how, the American Consul-General, was the follow- ing from His Excellency the Governor of Capt. WILLIAM A CALRSO”, nged 80
Government House, years CARTER-At Vancouver, B.C., on July
Hongkong, P sati, ROBERT JAMES CARTER, in his
4th August, 1923. My dear Consul-General, 60th year, the beloved husband of M. E. CARTER (Shanghai).
As supplied to the Houses of Lords and Commons.
·SOLE AGENTS:-
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
Wine & Spirit Merchants.
copy.
PHONE 616-
DEATHS.
Hongkong Office, 14, Chater Bond. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, EC
The Daily Press.
Hosakang, Avatar 67, 1923.
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PRESIDENT HARDING'S
DEATH.
THE GOVERNOR'S LETTER OF SYMPATHY.
I have instructed my nide-do-camp to call upon you officially this morn ing to express the great regret,with which I havo reostved the news of the and death of President Harding.
On behalf of the British community here I desire to express our :: Byrd- pathy with the American people “in their great loss.
Believe me, a Yours sincerely. (Signed) R. E. STUBBS,
Governor
objection to the Petition over sixteen months after their Clerk has stated cer- tain definite objections as being, appar ently, the only objections Every sigah- tory knew what he was signing. The text of the Petition had appeared in the local newspapers, and for the Public Petitions Cunimittee to reject all but, 83; out of a total of 1,000 or 1,000 signatures of people who, by signing, declared them- selves to bo residents of the Colour if Hongkou is a proceeding which must sceni incomprehensible to everybody in. the Colony. However, the fact that late with expresions of grub-Cap-
The following officials called at the Consu THE COLONYS PETITION.
Petition has been received from Hong-tain Neville; Aide-de-Camp, to Ethe The latest cable that has come out from kong is recorded on the journals of the Governor (on behalf of the Governor), London regarding the Petition from this House and we may be sure that the Major General
IL the General Officer Commanding Sir John Fowler, Calony to the House of Commons for members of the House of Commons in K.C.M.G.), the Colonial Secretary (Hon. amendments to the Constitution of Hong-giving consideration to the arguments Mr. A. M. Fletcher, C.M.), the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees-Davica), kung "with the object of securing to the in the Petition will be made acquainted Commodore Grace, B.N. and Lieut- izhabitants the rights of self-government with the fact that it was signed det hy Comm R. E. Worthington (Naval Secros SAN FRANONCO: The Crocker National Bankin, purely internal local affairs, as
tary), Captain Humphrey (Aide-de-Camp E inte by over 1,500 residents of the to the General Officer Commanding), the REUTER summarises it, will be read with Colony and that due weight will be given Consul-General for Portugal, the Consul
however, unmingled to that important fact. 'umazement-not,
for Peru, the Vice Consul for Feru, the Acting Consul for Siara Harbin
with amusement; for who can fail,
Out of respect for the memory of Hongkong Peking Tokohama to be amused by the reverence for
Eight more, Crown lots in Stubbs Road President Harding the Consulate is to Kashgar Bhanghai
are being put up to auction.
be closed until to-morrow,
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HONGKONG BEANCH:
Red Tape which this cabled informa tion reveals? We mentioned recently
The name of Mr. C." H. Burton has
Interest allowed on Current Accounts and in explanation of the belated pre-been added to the Dental Register of the Fized Depaite. Torma on application. Local sentation of the Petition, that when it Colony Billa discounted.
was sent one come seventeen, thonthe ngs it was returned; pis" doś - being in accordance with the orders of the
Foreign Exchange on the Principal Cities o) the World bought and sold.
KA. RODGERS,
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Official nolification is given that the Chinese Seamen's Union Bank, Ltd., has bee struck off the Register.
The baseball game scheduled for
| Saturday afternoon between the U.S.N.
Pampanga and the S.C.A A tonma, was 'postponed.
Flags at Government House, Head- quarter House, at the Consulates and at many American and British, business houses were low at half-mast