NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY OCTOBER
This Prospectus has been duly filed with the
Registrar of Companies.
The Subscription List will be Open on WEDNESDAY, the 14mm par or NOVEMBER, 1923, and Close on or before FRIDAY, the 25ED DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1923.
HONGKONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING AND SAVINGS SOCIETY. LTD.
Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances 1971-1921.
CAPITAL
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thất Mr.
N GERMAIN TUSIEAU la no longer
connected with our Firm
CH. MEUBER, CHAUSSAD
TUSSEAD & CIE
INTIMATION
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The winner of the ladies prize at the Inge bridge party held on HMS3 Tamar
Ning, further cases of semilpox ware notibed to the Medical Officer of Health on Friday last One of those caɛea, Was a Belgian, another British, and the rest Chinese,
because it has been the practice to view them as propagators of dangerous thoughts preaching, that is to any was Mrs Phelips political doctrines regarded as unders mining the foundations of the Imperial Throne of Japan. Oficist crusades against the spread of what is termed danger ous thoughts" in Japan were waged long bofore the earthquake occurred. They inevitably exercised a specially potent Mr. E. Mackay has returned to influence on the military and police forces Shanghai after an absenca, of several of Japan and accounts for the desperate months spent at Home. He travelled við". efforts which appear to have been made | Canada, Mrs. Mackay is returning to. after the earthquake to round up all Shanghai a little later on, car Kobe Office, Mr. J. ABE will take charge THE OLD FAVOURITE. whom the police authorities had marked as Manager of this Branch as from the 15t NOVEMBER 1993. A
Canton, the 23th of October, 1983. ₤1492
NOTICE.
NH THUDA having been transferred to TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mr."
THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD. 14871
HONGKONGA JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE
WNERS of PONIES are Hereby Notified that Ponies must be-Named before being measured.
$10.000.000
1489]
DIVIDED INTO 1,000,000 SHARES OF $10 EACH
Of the above Shares 169,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the 'Directors and their friends. On these $1.00 per share will be paid on application and the balance when called up on the same basis as the remaining capital. The remaining 831,000 shares ranking equally with those already subscribed are now offered for Public Subscription payable as to $1.00 per share on application. The thalance due on each ebare, viz., 39.00, will be called up as and when required by instalments of $1.00 per share at intervals of not less than three months between each call
Any of the shares now offered to the Publia which may not be subscribed for will be allotted in such manner as the Directors shall determine.
DIRECTORS:
DR. J. G. DALMAHOY ALLAN, Alexandra Building, Medical Practitioner. C.E. H. BEAVIS, Esq, 9, Queen's Bond Central, Victoria, Solicilor.
H. A CARTWRIGHT, Esq, 14, Chater Road, Victoria, Managing Director,
HONGKONG DAILY PEESS, LTD.:
CHAN SAU FUNG, Esq., 11, Mai Fong Street, Victoria, Merchaxi CHAU SIU KI, Esq., 8, Queen's Koad West, Victoria, Merchant. FREDERICK ELLIS, Esq., 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Slock Broker. Hor. Mr. K. H. KOTEWALL, Alexandra Buildings, Victoria, Merchant. LEUNG YAN PO, Esq., St. George's Building, Victoris, Compradore, of
`Messrs. Gran, LIVINGSTON & Consul
LI WING KWONG, Esq., 153, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant. LI YAU TSUN, Esq., 75, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant. "THE REVEREND FATHAN L. ROBERT; PROCURE GENERALE DES MISSIONS
ETRANGERED, Procureur General..
WONG PÅK SON, Esq., 220, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant.
BANKERS. »
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
AUDITORS.
Meigas. PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, Accountants,
No.5, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong..
SOLICITORS..
Mess. WILKINSON & GRIST,
No. 9, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong-
REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY:
No. 10, ICE HOUSE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.”
PROSPECTUS.
«(6.) This Company has been formed principally for the purpose of building houses
in the Colony of Hongkong with a view to meeting the great demand for hous ...ing accommodation which exists in the Colony at the present time. «(b.) In particulac it is proposed to take advantage of the offer recently made by the Government for the grant of land for building purposes on the basis of the scheme explained by The Colonial Secretary at a Meeting of the Legislative Council in June, 1923,
The Promoters are in a pontion to state that they have completed negotia tions for the acquisition from the Government of the plateau below “Jardine's' "Look-out," which is capable of accommodating 150 to 200 semi-detached houses. The Promoters are also in treaty with the Government for dumerous other sites in good localities. - K
4.
The Promoters have already received about 2,000 applications from persons desiring to obtain the assistance of this Company in building homes for the applicants.
The Promoters will also entertain, and, if thought advisable, take up any other scheme or schemes which may be proposed by the Government for the acquisition of land for building and development.
(c.) The Company is also empowered by its Memorandum of Association to under-
take business of all kinds connected with the development of building areas.' (d.). The minimum subscription on which the Directors may proceed to allotment is
100,000 shares..
No commission or promotion money is being paid by the Company. () The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incident to the forma
tion and tossing of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled. to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is $5,000. (7) FEEDERICE ELLIS will be the first Managing Director under a contract with the Company at a remuneration of 5 per cent of the net profits of the Company, (h.) The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of a 'Dinsetor is to be the holding of 500 shares in the Company and that the remuneration of each of the Directions is to be $1,000 per annum.
(1) None of the Directors or Promoters are interested in the promotion of the Company except to the extent of the shares taken by them in the Company. (J.) Copies of the femorandum and Articles of Association of the Company-can be inspected at the office of Mesra, WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitors for the Company, at any time during business, bourse
(k) A copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is andered to this
Prospectus and forma part of it...
(1) Application for shares should be made upon the Form accompanying the Prospectus and sent to the Company's Baukers together with a remittance of $1.00 per share, the amount of the deposit...
Where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned in full and where the number of shares allotted is less than the number applied for a pro- portionate amount of the deposit will be returned,
Prospectuses can be inspected at and Forms of Application obtained from the Company's Banker, the Hoxoxosar o Shanghai Hanging CoRFORATION and at and from the offices of the mpady at No. 10, Ica House Street, Victoria, Hongkong...
This Prospectus has born duly filed with the Registrar of Companies,
Duted the Ruth day of October, 1022,
By Order,
CB. BROWN.
Secretary
HOUSE TO LET.
NEXT April for about Six Months.
KELLET MANOR, No. 67, Movar. KALLETT. The House will be for Sale in 1926
Apply-PERCY SMITH, ...
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5, Queen's Road Central.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB."
THE FIFTH GYMKHANA MEETING THE
will be held (weather permitting) at HAFFT VALLEY on SATURDAY, TH, and
WHISKY
A CHOICE BLEND
The Very Finest Old Scotch Whiskies
is now being bottled
at Leith, Scotland
By
Mr. H. Tauda who has been manager
Bussån Kaisha, Ind., has been transfer-
down as "Socialists." It is stated that the Tokyo police called in the Thirteenth of the Hongkong office of the Mitsuj Cavalry Regiment to their aid, and in re to the Firm's Kobe Office. He will
be succeeded in Hongkong by. Mr.
Kaleido und the neighbouring parts-of-
Tokyo they arrested in three days thir ·Abe. teen hundred people, who were packed like sardines in the police station. The The King's Regiment are holding number of "Radicals" found among these farewell Boxing tournament to-night, prisoners is given as 120, and it is now to-morrow and Wednesday. H.E. Tha disclosed-some six weeks after the event Governor is attending tonight to watch that "aine Radicals and five others were the Officers' baxing in which his Private stabbed to death in the Kameido Police Secretary will be figuring. Station, Tokyo," It is stated that "up to the present both police and military seem inclined to justify the killing as a lawful exercise of the powers given them under martial law. The actual killing
"
Mr. C. H. Shields, Postal Commission- or at Shanghai, has received through the courtesy of the Cousal-General for France the information that the Decoration and Brevet of," Chevalier of the Imperial r
Order of the Dragon of Annam" has been... conferred on him by the French Govern
∙ment."
MONDAY, 19TH NOVEMBER, 1923, com Messrs. Macdonald & Muir being stabbed to death is not stated in Any gifts of books or games would be mencing 2.45 P.M., Each Day,
The Charge for Adamon to the Public Excloeurs will be $1. Soldiers and, Sailors in sniform half price, plak
Members are advised that they mast show their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members Enclosure.
Each Member has the right of introducing Non-members to the Members Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Mesers. LINSTEAD & DAVIS at $5 each up to FRI- DAY, NOVEMBER 9TH.:
The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.
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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Scaled
I readers plot,FIED
clearly marked "Tender for the Supply and Delivery of Stores", will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noor of FRI DAY, THE 9TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1923, for the Supply and Delivery of the following Storem
Departments Bougared by Government during the year (1224)
Ironmongery
Household and Sanitary
Brushes, Tools, Lamps, etc Asbestos, Rubber, Packing, Hopes, etc."," Clothing, Drapery, Haberdashery, etc... Bamboo and Cane Gooda, Firewood, etc. Drygatories, Oils, Paints, Varnishes, etc. Lubricating Oils,
Lighting and Fuel Oils.
and a Label to that effect is affixed to the back of each bottle.
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
Wine & Spirit Merchants,
ESTABLISHED 1841.
BIRTHS. DEWING. At Shanghai, on October 3rd, to Mr. and Mrs, A. G. F DewiNG,
*15*2001.
Eza-At San Francisco, on September 21st, to Mr. and Mrs. ISAAC EZRA of Shanghai, a daughter.ge MORTON-SMITH.-At Tainanfu, on October
a com
20th, to Mr. and Mrs MORTON SMITH, TAYLOR-On Detober 8th, at No. 10, Wrought Iron Pipes and Fittings, Brass Mody Rond, Kowloon, to Mr. and
Taps, etc.
Mrs DAVID TAYLOE, a on [1404
Plectrical
Stores
“Iron and Steel Bars, Plates, "Angles, Brass,
Trooper, and other Metair
Co
Storl and Brand Castings, ManufacMCLEOD tared Ironwork, etc.
Timber
Bricks, Cement, Lime, etc. Each of the above Separate and Distinct Tender. Tenderers may quote for sey our or more or all of the above and any one or more...or all bs
mar
or rejected in whole or in part by the Government
Fach Tenderer must produce with exch Tender receipt that he has departed in Colonial Tresenry the sum named on the respective Tender Form as a
*** pledge of the boer. fides of his Tender, which am shall be forfeited to the Crown should the Tenderer refuse or faili out, to the satisfaction
carry of the Government, the whole or any portion. of the respective Tender or Tenders which may
Mr. E. R. Dovey, ARCS, AID F.C.S., will give a Lantern Lecture. to which the Public are invited, on For gery, Ancient and Modern," at the Helena May Institute on Monday, Nov. 3th, at 5.30 p.m. Mr. Dovey has made a special study of "Hand-writing, and; it will, be remembered that he lectured: to a deEghted audienco last winter at the Institute on “Scientific Methods" in, the Detection of Crime.”—ADvr.
dem
is said to have been done by the troops." Four of the five persons who are not classified by the police as Socialists ara described as respectable" people who had bonded themselves together in A number of tronps will he proceeding a vigilance society. What crime these to the United Kingdom and India per
or any of them for that matter cosa Braemar L'astle and 8.3. Derbyshires. mitted to justify, under martial law, their on December 3rd and 7th, respectively.
the accounts. One can quite understand greatly appreciated. Parcels should be. that Vigilance Societies would be able to addressed to the D.A.A and Q.Q... render very useful service to the com- Victoria Barracks, or the Rev. R. J munity in the terrible circumstances.
Northcott Chaplain to the Forces, which followed upon the earthquake, and we trust many of them did, though the Scandal Poin
Senior Revenue Officer Watt raided the quly accounts we have seen given of their operations are not such as reflect credit three Chinese theatres in Bongkong our. upon them. There is one very shocking Friday and arrested a number of the episode recorded concerning them which star artistes. On Saturday they were- suggests that their title is justified only charged before Mr. R. Wood for un- by their keenness in hunting down lawfully having in their possession quanti
ties of opium which had been found in: Socialista. Of this story one of our their dressing rooms in the wings of the Japan contemporaries says: "The facts theatres. His. Worship imposed fixes in have been generally known to the public, various suma with alternative terms of
imprisonments. but mention in the Press has heen for bidden until now, and there is still an embargo on some of the most important, phases. The story concerns the mas sacre of fifty-eight worker refugees from Tokyo. On reaching Itabashi they were examined by gendarmes who had arrested them and it was decided to send then to. Takasaki. Their hands were bound, and they set out in single file for Takasaki, escorted by twelve policemen, M8 Wyatt-Smith, who, has been General at Shanghai for some time,, bas When they arrived at an intermediate Shipping Vice-Consul in H.M. Consulte point named Kumagai, there was a com-left with his wife and children top Wei- motion already in progress. A band of haiwoi, where he will act as Senior Dis Vigilantes composed of members of trict Officer. The staff of the Shipping Young Men's Societies and Reservists Office presented him with a handsome MARRIAGES
silver cigarette box suitably engraved. Societies-bad espied a party in a rail- Mr. J. O. Hutchison, who is just back WILSON.-At Shanghai, on Oct. 20th, ALEXANDER Melzon, of Aber-way carrings and had dragged out of the from. Home leave, will be charge of the deen, to IsingLLA WILSON, of Aber-train "a merchant and four others for Shipping Office at Shanghai hevcefor
ward deen w
the reason that one of the party looked YORKE MCEUX-At Shangbai, on Oct.
Sir Ronald and Lady Maclany arrived 19th, REGINALD WILLIAM YORKE, of like a Socialist who had lived in the town
in Shanghai from Peking last week. The a few years ago." The party were taken visit is in no scuse an official one, rather Nottingham, to daughter of No MCEUAN, of Dundee.to a police station, hut after examina-Boliday trip, says the fall. Drdy Ncxa, tion by the Flead of the Police, they were Lady Macleay having kindly consented to liberated. This greatly exasperated the open the Old English Fayre of the British Women's Association at the end of the Vigilantes, and at this moment the long week Sir Ronald and Lady Macleay line of fifty-eight worker refugees were met, at the Shanghar North Station,
General, Mr. H. J Brett, Commercial. from Itabaali, with their police escort, by Mr. G. S. Moss, suting British Consul- came into view, and we are told in the Counsellor, Mr. S. Chen, represent- papers that when the Vigilantes sawing the Chinese Envoy for Foreign Mrs. O. M. Green, acting Chairman of them they gave a shout and came rushing Affairs, as well as General Ho Feng-hing, and brandishing their weapons, and then the B.W.A., and Mrs. G. H. Stitt Chair- fell upon the workers, who tried to flee, man of the Fayre Committee. A guard crying for help. They were killed to a of honour had kindly been provided by man, it appears. The policemen were the Chinese authorities. overpowered and could do nothing." Bimilar stories are told of these Vigil antes" in many other districts, including Yokohama, where they are anid to have shot dead scores of railway workers who had sought refuge there from an outlying district. It is said that these men were mistaken for booligans. It ja stated News has reached Shanghai of the that the disorder of the Vigilantes within death of Mrs. Jenner Hogg, at Camber. the jurisdiction of the Kanagawa police ley in Surrey, where she had been living. station the only one to survive the for most of the time, since she left China disaster was beyond description" about two and a half years ago. Mrs. "During the daytime the warehouses in Jenner Hogg was for many years one of Yokohama and the officer were freely the best known and most popular ladies ransacked, and at night massacres of the in Shanghai, and her death will be working classes on the thoroughfares mourned by many friends. As Miss were committed. Over eighty hands Mackrill Smith she came out to China of a certain factory in Kanagawa were in 1807, herself and one other being then butchered in a single night. Stories the only two unmarried girls in Shang- like these put a different complexion har. About a year later be married Mr... to that previously given in the reports Frederic Hayley Bell, then a partner in as to the way in which the situation the Bourishing house of Adamson Ball & wae handled under martial law. The Co. There are five children of that mar redeeming feature of the situation is the rage who are living now. Mra. Percy desire manifested in the Press of Japan Lavers the eldest son in Australia. that these cases should be probed to the who has never been in China; Mr. Hor uttermost and that due punishment bert F. Bell, Lieut Colonel F. Hayley should be meted out to those responsible Bell, D.S.Q. and Mrs. L N Leele, who for these atrocities. The Press is not is now in England. Mr. Bell died in 1896 adopting the attitude that things like and in 1897. Mrs. Bell married the late that you know, must be, in such an over My Jenner Hogg, who died in Shanghai whelming calamity. It would have been in February, 1020. Mrs Jenner Hogg, surprising jadeed if there had been no says the NC. Daily News, will long bo conflicts between soldiers and hooligans remembered as an ideal hostess and to report, and everyone would have been Unkaza, now & part of Jesafield Univer- prepared to make due allowance where sity, was known far and wide for its soldiers and police and the Vigilantes had generous and deligtful hospitalities. In overstepped the bounds in their desire to earlier years Mrs. Hogg was well know protect property from the depredations as a very skilful member of the A.D.O of booters, but many of these astonishing She was one who took the greatest plete crimes need much better justification zure in doing kindnesses and her friends than has yet been offered for them will ever remember her with affection
DEATHS.
Hona-At Camberley, Surrey on Oct. 10th, Elizabeth Many, widow of the late EDWARD JENNER HOGU, aged 75 WHITGOR-At Shanghai, on October 23rd,
Mr. G. WHITGOS.
be accepted. The deposit will be returned to Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Rosa.
-
London Offics: 131, Flost Streety E.C. any Tenderer whose Tender is ?
For Forms of Tender and further
apply at this Office.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any Tender.
HAROLD T. CREAST,
-Director of Public Works. 26th October, 1923.
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Hongkong, OCTOBER. 29TE, 1923,
HUNTING SOCIALISTS IN JAPAN.
THE newspapers of Japan now reaching U are greatly exercised over the “orgy of murder as it has been described, which took place in the devasted regions immediately after the terrible earthquake, We have learnt through the cables of wholesale massacre of Koreans aud certain others. mistake for Koreans," and world-wide publicity has been given also to the disclosures made in court martial proceedings taken against Captain AMAKUSA who bas con- Two 14 Stones in the Ecary Weights, and fessed to the strangulation of two very Several Local Champions in the Open Eventsrominent socialists and a small child also Several Officers Bouts.
their nephew this foul deed being per- petrated in what he conceived to be
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32 for 1 Night,
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incidents of the kind are now being Ticket Office at Garden Road Entrance to published. Those who are in touch with Maresy Barracks, Open Daily from
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that the hostility manifested towards the Koreans was inspired not by the fact that they were of another race, but
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