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all Correspondenca shonid be directed.
Hongkong, 16th July, 1923.
THE Offices of the "HONGKONG DALLY FOR SALE BY PrivatOWLOON, CHATHE ROAD (3rd floor), to which Address Ben Frontage, baring a Total Ares of Upwards of 37,000 Square Feet upon which are erected, Godówns and four Chinese Housex, For Particulars apply to JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER. Solicitors,
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SERVICES CONTRACTUALS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
TONSIGNEES of Cargo Erem MARSELL
LES, &c., in connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and. Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkdog.
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COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT." Godown O, BuDEPOSIT AND CURRENT ACCOUNTS, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained
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LETTERS OF CREDIT.
baving arrived, Consignees of Cargo sro hereby informed that all Goods Wharf landed and stored as their as are being hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godownstately after landing.
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whence delivery may be Ltd. whence Co obtained
the
goods are landed. No Claims, will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered, after the 30th of Abroll be subject to routed Goods
are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined by Messrs. Goddard & Dongle an
on the 30th August, 1923, at 10 am All Claims against the resuel must de presented to
before the 2nd undersigned the of September, 1983, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by JOHN MANNERS,& CO., LTD. +11067
Agents.
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ARRIVED 28TH JULY, 1923.
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intimation is received from the Consignes Cargo will be forwarded on unless Noon, To-dar, requesting it to be landed before bere
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by after the and Goods remaining unclaimed 23rd be sabject 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.
by
All damaged packages will be examined on Thursday, the 23rd instant, at 10 am Mesars. Goddard & Donglaw.
No Fire Insurance bas been effected.
R. RODENFUSER,
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The Steamship "BOWES CASTLE.". FROM NEW YORK.
YONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Ltd. Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.,
1 Case Metal Nuts. (Wire Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves
Cloth)
delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded"unless notice to the contrary be given before 17th inst.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods
1 Case Raw Felt (Bull have left the Godowns, and all Goods
Jackets)
remaining undelivered after the 23th inst will be subject to rent
TOTICE is HFREBY GIVEN. that the Original Delivery Onier No. 1496 dated 1st August, 1923 on the HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND Gooows Co., LTD. in favour of Mesurs. HARRY WICKING & Co. is said to have been LOST and is therefore declared null and void?
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"DODWELL & CO., LTD.! Agents. Lloyd Triestino S. N. Co.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Certificate No. 2814 for 30 Shares numbered 35303 to 55339; Certificate No. 1817 for 25 Shares numbered 09861 to 59875; and Certificate No. 4820 for 8 Shares numbered 2403 to 2410 all registered in the Sanre of GEORGE BOYES have been LOST or DES- and should these Certificate not
be
20 to the Company befors the 15T
DAY OF SEPTEMBER. 1923. New Certificates for the said Shares will be issued and the old Certificates will thereafter be held by the Company as Null and Void.
·JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managera.
Hongkong, 15th August, 1921
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»THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO., LTD.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR ($1.00) per Share for account 1323 will be payable on THURSDAY," the 23 AUGUST, 1923.
Shareholders are requested to apply for Dividend Warmats at the Company's Office, St. George's Building, Hongkong.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 2nd inst., or they will not be recognized.
Al
to
1 broken, chaled, sad Jamager! Goods are bc left in the Godewas, where they will be examined on the 23rd inst at 10 am, by oar Surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & DOTOLAR
No Fire Insurance has been affected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL CO.,.. LTD.
Agents.
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coment and rope-making, carried on by- The Hongkong and Whampoa Bock Co- British companies, "will show what in Ltd., are to launch on August 30th the being done in Hongkong in manufactures steamer Slang, built to the order of It is to be hoped that before the Ex- the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co hibition takes place, the possibility" of Ltd. British importers and exporters com The diauer dansant at the Repulso, Bay, bining in an exhibit to illustrate the Hotel, previously announced for Satur Colony's merchant business, which was day next, has been postponed till Satur auggested in the statement we published day, September 1st..
yesterday. will have developed, into an
actuality. Admittedly there is uthing Our Canton contemporary states that very spectacular about the operations of native banking houses in the city are our import and export drms in cassia, doing a brisk business in buying and sell- vinnamon," ginger, galangal, 'groundnuts ing marks. All that can be said about it
By Royal Appointment any or the great-staples of com- is that it is certainly a first-class stamble. metre. piece-goods, sugar, rice, flour. Dr. Wu Lion, Teh, Director of the cotton yarn' and kerosene, coal, ore and Manchurian Plague Prevention Service, tin, with a host of other articles too arrived in Hongkong, yesterday, by the
to His Majesty.
The King.
P. O. 8.3. Kashmir.“
numerons to mention. Nevertheless, it should not escape the consideration of British business firms that it will be silk forwarded from Hongkong by 'advisable to bave an exhibit in the Hong. Haiprex, of Canada on July 29th arrived
WHITE LABEL" kong enclosure at Wembley Park, if only in New York on August 18th having been
* FINEST SCOTCH WHISKY
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OF GREAT AGE.
AWARDED 50 COLD AND PRIZE MEDALS-
Mr. D. J. Purves, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, has been appointed Honorary Secretary of the Kowloon Re-
sidents' Association, süceveding Mr. C. M. McDonald, who has now left Kowloon.
for the sake of establishing contact with 21 days in transit. the host of traders' who will foregather at the British Empire Exhibition. It has been proved to the mutual satisfaction of firms here and at home "as well as in other countries--sometimes the school of instruction has been a hard on that the middleman, much though he may be abused by a certain school of economists, has been and will tong remain in dispensable for transaction with the traders of China. There are many sub stantial and very obvious reasons for this. There is, for example, the language difficulty, which is an insuperable burrier |
Mr. A. A. Tuson, British Vice-Consul at Tientsin, has been appointed
ns Vicu Consul to succeed Mr. H. F. King, the British, Codul at Swatow. Me. Tuson expects to leave for his new post some time next month.
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An armed robbery, is reported to have
in many cases to direct trading relations occurred on Monday night at Lan Nei
THE VICTORIA VAT with anufacturers in other countries: Wan, village, Sai Kong district. Six men,
The very finest old SCOTCH WHISKY.
As supplied to the Houses of Lords and Commons.
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one ariped with a revolver and another
with a dagger entered the house of one of the villagers and stole money and valuables worth $77.
During the absenen of Lieut.-Colonel W. N. Nicholson, C.M.G.. D.S.O. - ofi tearg (with the permission to travel in. China) the duties of D.A.A. and Q.M.G., China, Command, will be performed by Captain E. R. S. Dods, M.C. 2/4th Bombay Grenadiers (K.E.O.).
are
but, even more important, is the technieni knowledge which the middleman can bring to hear in putting through business and the sense of security with which he inspires the manufacturer, who, though many thousands of miles away, has every There was a big fire at Bangkok on facility for ascertaining, his financini | August 12th a theatre and over twenty standing. Well established and fully re- ¦ brick shops, being destroyed. The build cognised as the British u zrchant is in the ing, which belonged to the Privy purse China market, however, it is just as well were not insured, but the stocks were in that the opportunity afforded by the most cases, the bulk of the loss falling on Exhibition abould be taken of doing a
Chinese insurance companies.
little advertising on the well tried plan of "keeping one's name before the path lie." A single firm would scarcely be the expense of exhibiting. but if the merchants of Hongkong can set aside trade rivalry and combine in a joint display, in which all their names, and the commodities in which they
The following extracts from the London. specialise, will appear, they cannot fail to
Gazette
published in Command reap a common herefit. Even the produờ- tion of a commercial handbook of Houg Charles Mitchell to be Quartermaster Orders :-Infantry-King's Regt.-R.S-M、 kung's 'exports and insports, for which with the rank of Lieut. 14th July, 1923; there is still time, might serve the par Memoranda-Lieut. and Tempy.. Ordin- pose and prove the best way of securing ance Officer ith Class H. T. Bell, f.p. lasting results from the Exhibition.
list, late R.F.A. is restored to full pay The local Exhibition Committee would whilst employed with the R.A.0.C." 14th seem to have a somewhat thorns pro- Játy. 1993; Royal Army Ordnance Corps QUINCEYA Shanghai, on August 17th. bien before it in deciding how to allot The undermentioned Ordnance Officers
WILLIAM QUINCEY, aged 78.
amongst the Chinese exhibitors the 3rd Class and Majors to be Orduance. amount of the Government grant. There Officers, 2nd Class with the rank of is a sum of $150,000 to be shared out Lieut.-Colonel 30th May, 10 Bt. Lieut. among twenty-five people, or, in the last Celone! B. A. Hill, D.S.O. extreme, if the whole of the Government and Chinese Chamber's guarantee of $100,000 and $50,600 respectively is called upon, then twenty-five people will divide $300,000. The problem is further.com- plicated by the fact that some of the twenty-five exhibitors will doubtless make good profits, "sone will make small profits. and some will make nó profits at all. It may prove the simplest and fairest way the East augther large steamer went It is not a mere chullition of luval pride of solving the problem to allot the ex-ashore in the turbour. The vessel was the let us reverse the order and avoid any according to the nature of the exhibit to assert that Hongkong and Londonhibitors varying percentages of the total, rust. She dragged her anchor in suggestion of the houstfulness hinted at which they control In any case, books --that London and Hongkong have a good will have to be kept in order to ascer
BIRTH. BENBOW-RowAt Shanghai, on August. 18th, to BLDRED, er Barrow, wife of Mr. E. S. BENBOW ROWE, FR.G.S., a daughter.
DEATH
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The Daily Press.
** Hosarong, AUGUST 21xD, 1923,
HONG KONG AND THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION,
TUESDAY NIGHT'S GALE.
ANOTHER LARGE STEAMER' ASHORE.
6.S." REPOSE" STRANDED IN THE. HARBOUR
On Tuesday night, during the gale from.
Kowloon Bay and went ashore at Kow-
in Dock Point right alongside the s.s.
Tui Lez.
The 6. Repose was purchased about.
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very little difficulty in de. Steamship Company and on her arrival. portant banking centres andas thevising a perfectly satisfactory plan of in port she was sent to the Whampoa account given in our columns yesterday diatrifiution.
Deck Company to be fitted up for service of the progress of the Hongkong section
with her w owners. On Saturday sho of the British Empire Exhibition reminds
had a very narrow escape from being us both are great" mercantile, centres.
driven ashore during the typhoon On Mr. H. T. Creasy, the new Director of that occasion she dragged her anchor and Public Works, is expected today by their company, with other vesse's was driven P. & O. Mantua.
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The P&O B, Mantug with the
acrong the harbour towards North Point. After the typhoon she was taken back to Kowloon Bay and re-anchored there.
for which they set as distributors English mail of July 24th, and parcels of On Tuesday night when the gate was Hongkong, like London, constitutes July 18th is due in at 4.20 p.m. to-day. une of the gateways of Empire, and the
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policion of hor merchants may promote Mr. A. W. J. Watt has been promoted
or impede the great tide of British trade Agent for the Hongkong and Shanghai
working up strongly the again dragged: her anchor and was carried by the fores, of the wind to Kowloon Dock Foint where on the shore and her stem in fairly deep the grounded with her stern high and dry.
upon which, in the long run, the Empire Bank at Hankow, where, hitherto he has water. Bhis is in close proximity to the depends. The reflection should act as a beon Acting Agent,... corrective of narrow and self-seeking views.
stranded river steamer, Tai Lee and narrowly missed striking that vessel. Had The Straits Settlements trade returns this happened in all probability (vorý Hongkong is the guardian of British trade in China and it is satis for July show imports 846,509,000 and ex-serious damage would have been done to
both vessels. factory to learn, therefore, that although ports $60,114,000, increase of $17,920,000 the Chinese community, proportionate to.
and $12,803,000 respectively. its numerical strength, will, occupy by
·
It is thought that "no great difficulty will be experienced in re-floating the Repose In the meantime her present PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of the desposition is delaying the" salvage work on far the greater part of the space in the truction and wreckage caused by the re- the Tai Lee as well as being a menace to Hongkong section of the Exhibition, cent typhoon, including steamers aground her safety.
Late yesterday afternoon a Naval tug British interests in Hongkong, will not and steamers submerged with funnel and and the Whampoa Dock Company tug be unrepresented. Kowloon and Teikoominata exposed, rough peas, eten, may be Docks will have an exhibit of local ship-obtained at Mrs Fona's, No. 7 Wyndham building activities, and industries like Street.-Adve
Sir Henry Kawick, were at the scene of the tranding and it was hoped that the vessel would be refloated during the even ing.