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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1913.
S.S. ANDRE LERON." SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
NOTICE.
CONSIGNEES of Caration Man Sabore Beamer are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are downs of the Hongkong- landed and stored at their Ca Raw Felt. (Roll risk into the Jackets)
Kowloon
and Godown On, Ltd. Whart Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEIL-
TOTICE ↳ HEREBY GIVEN that the 1st August, 1923 on the HovoxORG AND "KOWLOON WHARP and Godown Co, Lap. in favour of Messrs. HARRY WICKING & Co. is said to have been LOST and is therefore declared
NO Original Delivery Onler No. 1496 dated
budi stal roid.
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DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents, Lloyd Triestino S. N. Co.
NOTICE.
WING to considerable damage during
OWING to
STEAM LAUNDRY Co., the Management beg to announce to their numerous customers' that al LAUNDRY DELIVERIES WILL RE DELAYED.
THE STEAM - LAUNDRY CO.
YAUMATI
Angust. 18th
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO., LTD.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
NCertificate No. 2214 for 30 Shares numbered 303 to 50334; Certificate No. 4817 for 95 Shares numbered 90851 to 20576; and Certilicate Xo. 4820 for 3 Shares numbered 2403 to 3410 wt registered in the Name of GEORGE BOYES been.LOST or TROYED; and should these Certificates not
be produced to the Company before the 157 DAY OF SEPTEMBER. 1923. New Certifcatry for the raid Shares will be issued no the old Certificates will thereafter be held by the Company as Nulband Void,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 15th August, 1923,
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THE BONGKONG ROPE MANU. FACTURING CO., LTD.
the
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Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unlòss intimation is received from the Consignets before Noox, To-nist, requesting it to be landed høre.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned." Goods remaining nuclaimed after the 3rd instant at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 27th instant or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be examined on Thursday, the 23rd instant, st 10 am, by Mesera. Goddard & Douglas,
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
R. RODENFUSER
Acting Agent. Hongkong, 27th August, 1923.
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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
FROM ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO',
LONDON AND STRAITS..
J
The Steamship "BENREOCH
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
HE Offices of the "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS have been removed to 1A, CHATER ROAD (and floor), to which Address all Correspondence should be directed.
Hongkong, 16th July, 1923.
THE
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO.. INCORPORATED.
HEAD OFFICE
NEW YORK CITY,
INTERNATIONALI BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL-
Cities of the World to provide Commercia Eighty Offices are catablished in the Principa Organisations and Private Individuals with a complete World Wide Banking, Shipping and Travel Service.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE; LETTERS OF CREDIT. TRAVELERS CHEQUES. LETTERS OF CREDIT. STEAMSHIP PASSAGES. HOTEL RESERVATIONS BAGGAGE INSURANCE. CABLE AND POSTAL BEMITTANCES PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE-
Every approved Banking Shopping mad.
P...J. VANHECKE
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform Travel Transaction.
that are being at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Honaxe20 and Kowloon WHAT & GODOWN COMPANY, Lan, whence and/or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Good are left the Gocuras, and al Goods remaining undelivered after the 21st inst, will be subject to rent
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 28th inkt, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, ohafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 91st inst, at 10.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD,
Agents.. Hongkong. 14th August, 1923
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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The Steamship "BOWES CASTLE.” FROM NEW YORK.
may
N INTERIM DIVIDEND' of .ONE
ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed DOLLAR ($1.00) per Sharo for account risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and that all Goods are being landed at their 1923 will be payable on THURSDAY. the Kowloon Wharf, and Godown Co. Li, 23RD AUGUST, 1923,
Shareholders are requested to apply for at Kowloon, whence sud/or from the wharres
be obtained. Dividend Warrants at the Company's Office,ral Cargo, will be forwarded, unless St. George's Building, HopBOKS
The TRANSFER
notice to the contrary be giver before 17th Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, Last,
No claims will be admitted after the Goods the 147H AUGUST 1023. to THURSDAY, have left the Godowns, and all Goods the 23xD, AUGUST, 1923, both days inclusive. remaining undelivered after the 23th inst,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
will be subject to rent.. 1146)
All claims against the steamier must be presented to
the Undersigned on or befare the 2nd inst., or
All broken, will not be recognized.
F
General managers.
THE KOWLOON HOTEL. HANKOW ROAD.
And
and damaged Goods ́aro. to be left in the Godewha, where they will be
examined on the 23rd inst,, at 10 a.m., by our Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas,
No Fire Insurance has been eflected. Bils of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
[1182 Hongkong 17th August, 1899.
OPENING IST SEPTEMBER.
IRST Class
Most Up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Six Stories of Commodious. Large and Airy Boots with every Modern Appliance. Elevator to Every Floor and to Roof Garden. Hot and Cold Water, Electric Lights, Fans and Bells through THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL out. Exceptionally Well Ventilated Bar End Billard Rooms. Moderate tarif and must
STEAM NAVIGATION CO. Excellent Cusine supervised by Experienced Chef Monthly and Family Rates can be STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG. arranged at Mort Reasonable Terms,
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For Terms, apply to
Mr. J. J. BLAKE.
Manageress
COLOMBO...AND BOMBAY,
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED FOR EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN AND LONTINENTAL PORTS
AND LONDON.
THE Steamship
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THE
ADIES and GENTLEMEN Suffering
TOTALIPORE
from any kind of Disease, Lowever carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched complicated and long-standing the case may from this port at Nock on THURSDAY, the be, ars requested to write preant condition of 23rd ACST, taking Cargo for the above the discase, Fall particulars of treatment, Ports. advice, etc., free nader cover. "BR" WORKS, Bendon-aque (E.P.), Calcutta (India).
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■ KIVE-ROOMED HOUSE on BARKEL ROAD, PEAX, close to Tram Station, with Tennis Court and Garden.
Apply Bor B.C.D., ale Hongkong Daily Fren
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Telephone No. C1 4308,
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PRESS.
CONTAINING ALL THE WEEKS LOCAL NEWS,
A09, Papзr to and Home
Steamer for
Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France. „and London (under arrangement) will be con veyed by this Steamer proceeding to Bombay sad there trained to the on-carrying
and London. Parcels will be received at the Office up to 5.P.31. the day before
The contents Bailing. and value of all packages are required For further particulars, apply to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
Agents. August, 1923, Hongkong, lath
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"INTIMATION
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for Foreign Affairs, however, assumed fa.this matter the people are content to that Mr. STEWART was under a misappre-trust the Government. The only ques- hension, and replied that "there are notion about which there has been somer British shareholders. In the linary serious comment is to the effect that in sense of the terin that is so, but Mr. the routemplated expenditure on naval" STEWART knows the position so well, that and air estimates, respectively, the amount was disproportiounte; but as regards this the Government have given adequate assurances that there is no
it is evident to renders here that he, used
the term "British shareholders" rather in the sense of. British partnerships for the British and the Chinese sections are ground for supposing the requirements. largely inter-dependent, and any act of the Air Force will be neglected. which destroys confidence in the safety Sufficient money will be "provided to of travel on one section affects adversely maintain the Force so that it will be the financial returns of the other as, of
equal to apy call that may be made upon course, does the interruption of service ie whenever the energency arises. The in any one section. These interruptions | R.A.F. is not to be starved in order to on the Canton section have been frequent buik a base at Singapore." enough during the past twelve months to adversely affect the revenues of both sections of the line, and, on that seare, the taxpayers of Hongkong have a cause of complaint against the Canton Bichori-
Mr. T. A Gilmore. Vice-Governor of ties, if not a cinim for compensation. It may be that Mr. STEWART when writing Philippine Islands, arrived in the
Colony yesterday on the Tango Muru- cut his question wrote, by a imput calami, British shareholders "instens į The latest additions
Cable communication with Marno is interrupted,
to
the list of
od British hondholders." "having hi his jauthorised architects are Mr. A. J. Lane,
SCOTCH WHISKY in the British nan with which the Mr. F. L. Adanis amil Mr. Ja Tak-chung,
OF GREAT AGE.
AWARDED 50 COLD AND PRIZE MEDALS.
VAT Bobles THE VICTORIA
The very finest old
SCOTCH WHISKY.
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Canton section of the line was built. We. referred to this aspect of the matter of the Union Insuranen Society of Can-
The late Mr. Douglas Jones, formerly.
to at Hongkong, Hodderdoa, Herts, left estate of the gross value of £ist,137 {net personality 28170,045).
this column at the time of the outrage, } and mentioned that the British hond holders had a wider security than the evenues of the railway. Me. MeÑgnL. we plaerve, states in his reply to Mr. Mr. Russell Brown, H.B.M, Acting Stewart's question that "the phlign= | Consul-Ġeneral at Tientsin, has revived tions to British bandholders who sub-notics of his promotion to the rank of Acribed to the loan for the construction | full Consul as from Decumber 10th last. of the line have up to the present always On the turn of Me. Ker from home been met."
So long as that 'continues kuve, Mr. Brown will be appointed to his to be the case the British bondholders higher post at some other port. Mr. have no need to concern themselves very Brown has been in the Consular Servico much as to how the Chinese run the rail- | for nearly 23 years.' way but the Colony of Hongkong, which i owns the section of the line running through British territory, is concerned, The service of through express trains has heen suspended now for several months and. as we have remarked, any interrup tion or curtailment of the through service affects the revenues of the British partnership.
Colonel C: W. R St. John, late RE,
who at one time was in command of the Royal Engineers in Hongkong, died in. India where he was on a visit to his son, Major Oliver St. John, R.A. Colonel St. John, since his retirement had devotca. his energies to Church work, and, besides other positions, was on the committee of the China Inland Missions.
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SINGAPORE IN PARLIAMENT, The British Vice-Consul at Canton notes that imports of raw rubber have SINGAPORE Continues to force its way to shown a steady increase, amounting now the front as a kind of white elephant of to about 40 tons per month. The rubber is used in the manufacture of surgical naval extravagance in the discussions in
instruments and in the rubber sole fne- Parliament on the Admiralty scheme for tories. The principal sole factory turns.. anard base in the Far East. It is un-out 1,500 pairs of soles daily and is to be enlarged. There are a number of other fortunate in sqine respects that the ques-factories producing a cheaper but inferi tion has been mixed up with considera- article. tions of British air policy. The general
A good story used to be told of Sir: argument is that we cannot afford to Henry Howorth, whose death was recent spend money at Singapore and, on aria-ly announced, against himself. He wa tion too. In order to strengthen their ense, asked to take in at a private dinner a the advocates of vigorous air measures have chosen to represent the Singapore proposal as a wicked, waste of taxpayers' money." Why not spend ten millions on nvintion." they ask, “instead of sinking
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using lady, who declared that she was so charmed to meet him, because she wished to talk to him about her fitti........
But I know nothing about dogs, dog. he protested. "Oh, Sir Henry, how can you say I),
she said, "when you have written books about them 1 Never. But surely she oo August 18th, Pests CoNING, of it in the mud at Singapore " The Labour nadam,” he said.
"you have written.The History replied, Tongsha KM. Mines, to MALVINA Party are of this way of thinking. Then of the Mongrels Mongols, undam, Has youngest daughter of Mr and there is the band of critics who have he said, stiffly. Mrs. A. Haas of Shanghai,
satisfied themselves that the day of the FRASER-TURNER-At Hongkong, on
Though a second edition of the Honge Angust 17th, JoxN ALEXANDER, son big battleship as a complete fighting unit Long Daily Press, was printed yesterday of Mr. Thomas Fusen, of Leith, has gone forever. The subamrine has morning when it was found that the first Scotlanúl, to GLADYS Mayne, daughter made, the battleship obsolete. There are Wa so speedily exhausted, it proved
Mr. and Mrs. Jours Tensen, of also the people who in simple faith in regret to bare disappointed No
We entirely inadequate to the demand.
many Grat Barn, Wal-all. England. [1189
their belief to the League of Nations, applicants, but desire to mention that the IATT.-At Lungkou. Patku, on August when the war drum is to heat no longer entire report with the supplementary ath, the dearly beloved wife of and the battleflags of all countries will accounts which we publish to-day will be: reprinted in the Hongberg Weekly Press HYATT, Custome,
be furled. They contend that the Singa which will be published on Saturday next Penssos-At Shanghai, August pare proposal is a breach of the spirit,for the Home mail. We would be glad
14th, HEANING Augustus PETTERSSON, late Chinese Maritime Customs, aged if not of the letter, of the Washington if intending purchasers would send in
Agreement, and threat to Japan. On office, IA,
orders in advance to the Daily Press Chater Read, so that dis- SCHME.At Duxbury, Maas, USA. any one of these lines of argument there appointments may be avoided.
HESEY, the beloved husband of MADOE is aniple material for discussion, and the Scuter. (By enhle, to Shanghai) -
speeches that have been made during the land of Colonel Arthur. Williamson Alsa
The death occurred on July 2ad in Eng-
last two months in both Houses of Parlinger Poftock, a gentleman well-known to E..ment have provided interesting reading these of the Municiral Police Force. His many people in Shanghai, especially But, when all is said, the discussions have connection with Shanghai consisted in: been majoly academic. It will require the fact that since 1911, in conjunction more then, clever word-spinning to turn with Mr. Charles Mayne, formerly 3luni- the Admimity from the policy that has selection of recruits cugnged in England cival Engineer. he had assisted in the
been deliberately adopted with regard to for service with the Police. In sucht, Singapore. The. Blue, water school are capacity he did splendid work, and the supreme, and they believe in the battle has to thank him for the choice of s0 community, the Y.-C. Daily Nein saya,
ship. The economists, who are always many able officers now in the service. with-us-in these days, marry no weight From the time mentioned be had person. ally interviewed practically every recruit. in this matter; and as to the apostles and accordingly his name is well-known It is guany years ago that Mr. GEO of the League of Natians, they are heat is local circles THE METHOD OF MOUNTING, STEWART retired from business in Hong-
kong and sought a new occupation in the ing the air when they tell us that another spectacle glansen is of the greatest in House of Commons, but while he was war in unlikely, or that if war is threat candidates for the degrees of M.B and portance, writes Dr. C. Hartridge, here he took a very netive and, as Chaired the League will function to avert Ch. R. of the University of Edinburgh in- F.IO.S.. Ophthalmic Surgeon and man of the China Association, a promin hostilities. We therefore come back to Thomson and Elsie Thomson, son an
cludes the names of Frank Blacklock Lecturer' on Ophthalmic Surgery to the ent part in pressing for the building of this point, which was made perfectly daughter of Dr. J. C. Thomson, formerly Westminster Hospital, the must be the Canton Kowloon Railway. He night, plain in the debate last mouth in the of the Hongkong Government Medient accurately centred in frames that are therefore, be expected to he well ac- House of Lords, that in the considered Service. Dr. Thomson's elder daughter, Miss Ruby Thomson. MB... Ch. B.. light, strong and fit, well, otherwise the quainted with the details of the owner, opinion of the British Admiralty the D.P.FI., also a graduate of Edinburgh good effect of the most carefully chosen ship of the railway, and when he asked Singapore naval base is absolutely neecs University, is Assistant Medical Officer
of Health of the Borough of Fulha correction may be entirely frustrated by in the House of Commons last month insary for the safety of the British Empire. London, so that the whole family, all of a faulty position of the glasses, or even reference to the recent bandit outrage on When this it said, as it has been anju?" whom were born in Hongkong, are now a fresh source of eye-strain may be intro- the line (ride a paragraph in another quito positively, everything has been served in the Royal Artillery qualified medical practitionere Dr. duced." The Hongkong Option! Co.; column) whether the owners of this rail stated that matters so fare as public throughout the War, and saw much activis successors to Clark & Co., Refracting way including the British aburebold opinion in Great Britain is concerned. service on the French front after the and Manufacturing Opticians, located at ers," were receiving the assistance of the reover, the opponents of the Singa- Armistice he retired with the rank of 53, Queen's Road Central, have the equip present authorities at Cantoo, he pre- pero scheme would seem to have no body Captain, Dr. Elsie is also Registered Nurse and a Member of the College of ent and instrument to adjust your sumably bad in mind the ownership of of opinion behind them. None of the Nursing and served as a nurse dur spectacle to a nicety.—ADYT.
the British section. The Under-Secretary responsible acwspapers are on their side. ing the War 12
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