NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, 1923.
SUBSCRIPTION LIST NOW
OPEN.
The Dubscription List Opened on the 14TH WAY OF NOVEMBER, 1923, and will Close on or before FRIDAY, the 28RD-DAT-OF-NOVEMBER, 1923,
HONGKONG
DEVELOPMENT BUILDING AND SAVINGS SOCIETY. LTD. Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances 1911-1921.
CAPITAL
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS-
MURNOTICE...
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Management of our Hengkong Branch has been Taran over by Mr. LEON DAVID. WALCH of Shanghai.
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3. ULLMANN & CO.
OBAIGENGOWER CRICKET CLUB
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be hoki as the Club : Howwn on FRIDAY the 16th Inst.,, s: 8 PM.
R. BASA,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 15th November, 1923. [1387
"HARFORD," 189,
THE PEAK (MAGAZINE GAT),
LET-Furnished for 9 Months, from TO LELB Motor Road and
PUBLIC, GARAGE.
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$10,000,000
DIVIDED INTO 1,000,000 SHARES OF $10 EACH.
Of the above Sharee .169.000 hare already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. On these $1.00 per share will be pail od' application" and the balance when called up on the same basis as the remaining capital, The remaining $31,000 shares making equally with those already subscribed are now. offered for Public Subscription payable as to $1.00 per share on, application. The balance due on each share, tiz, $9.00, will be called up as and when required by instalments of $1.00 per share at intervals of not less than three months between sach call,
Any of the shares now offered to the Public which may not be subscribed for. will be allotted in wach nuancer as the Directors shall determiné,
DIRECTORS:
D2 J. C. DALMAHOY ALLAN, Alexandra Building, Medical Practitioner. C. E. H. BEAVIS, Esq., 9, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Solicitor.
LA. CARTWRIGHT, Esq., La, Chater Road, Victoria, Hanaging Director,
BONGKONG DAT Pass, L.
CHAN SAU FUNG, Es, 11, Mai Fong Street, Victoria, Merchant CHAU SIU KI, Esq., & Queen's Road West, Victoria, Merchant. FREDERICK ELLIS, Esq., 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Stock Broker. Her. ML. E.. H. KOTEWALL, Alexandra Buildings, Victoria, Merchant. LEUNG YAN PO, Esq., 3. Geargs's Building, Victoria, Compradore, of
Mesurs. Gres, LIVINGSTON & Co.
LI WING KWONG, Ess, 158, Queen's Road Central, View
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Marchant.
LI YAU TSUN, Esq, 75, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant. THE REVEREND FATHER L ROBERT, PROCURE GENERALE DES DIASIONI
ETHANGERER, Procureur General.
WONG PAK SON, Ese, 220, Queen's Eoad Central, Victoria, Merchant.
BANKERS
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
AUDITORS.
MEES, PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, Accountauis, No. 5, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong.
SOLICITORS.
Messas. WILKINSON & GRIST,
No. 9, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY :
10, ICE HOUSE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.
PROSPECTUS.
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.
(.). In particular 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 June, 1923.
The Promoters are in a position to state that they have completed negotia tions for the nequisition from the Government of the plateau below "Jardine's Look-out," which is capable of accommodating 150 to 200 mi-detached houses. The Procters are also in treaty with the Government for numerous other sites in good localities.
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 Framoters 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.157,
(e.) No cammistion or promotion money is being paid by the Company,
The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of sad incident to the forma tion and Boating of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is $5,000.
(9.) FREDERICK 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. (2.) The Articles of Association provide that the goalification of a Director is to be the holding of 500 shares in the Company and that the remuneration of each of the Direction is to be $1,000 per annum.
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. (1) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can be inspected at the office of Messrs. WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitors for the Company, at any time during business hours. ----
A copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is annered to this Prospectus and forms part of it.
Application for shares should be made upon the Form accompanying the Prospectus and sent to the Cotapny's Bankers together with a remittance
$1.00 per share, the amount of the deposit.
Where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned in fall and where the number of pauros allotted 19 less tasu, the number applied for a pro- portionate amount of the deposit will be returned A
Frasprotases can be inspected at and Forms of Application obtained from the Company's Banker, the HorazonG-And Bhangrat Banking CorporatiON and at add from: the offices of the Company at No. 10, Los House Street,
cteria, Hongkong..
pectus has been dgh fled
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H. E. GOLDSMITH, DR. P.W.D.
TOLET.
IX BO MED HOUSE on the PEAK, March till November, Fully Furnishel, : Bathrooms Flash System, Hot and Woll Water, etc.
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LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Alexandra Buildings.
HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND
LTD
CONSTRUCTION
NOTICE OF MEETING. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of THE HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CON- will be held at Tin
STRUCTION Co. r Street, Hongkong
HONGKONG HOTEL,
WEDNESDAY,
ALD
the TH DAY of NOV, EMBER, 1983, at 1200 Noos, for the purpor of receiving the Rapart of the Board of Dir ectors and a Statement of Accounts for the period
"from 28th October, 1922. to the 30th June, 1923, and of electing Director) and Auditors.
TEA TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 2nd to the 28th November, both days inclusive...
By Order of the Board,
S. COURTNEY COOK,
"Secretary," Hongkong, 13th November, 1923. [1875
HONGKONG WOMEN'S GUILD
and MINISTERING. CHILDREN'S LEAGUE
GARDEN FETE
AND
SALE OF WORK:
In aid of LOCAL CHARITIES and other CHILDREN'S FUNDS
To be held in the Grounds of GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, at. 2 P.M.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE PENINSULAB & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMER
"KAISAR-IHIND."'
AKRITKO HONGKONG ON 1STE NOTEMER, 1985. FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, GIBRALTAR, MARSEILLES, PORTSAID, ADEN, BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above- Tessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR BISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company' Godown at Kowloon, where cach consigament will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed
Optional goods will be landed here males instrmation have
have been given to the contrary jing kännere, belove arrival of the steamers
B
INTIMATION
Choice
Confectionery
New Stocks Just Received Quality. of the Veryan
American Chocolates.
H. FOSS & Co.'s, elegant 1 lb. boxes.
Fuller's
Almond Fudge'
Chocolate Caramels
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Assorted Caramels
Peppermint Lumps
&c.
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
Hongkong Dispensary.
Phone 16.
Hongkong Olies: la Chater Road. London Office: 181, Fleet Street, EC.
The Daily Press.
HONGYONG, NOVAMERE 16′′ḍ, 1923.
mare
CORRESPONDENCE.
WEN.
(TO THE EDITOR OF
"THE" MONOXONG DAILY FAKSS." SIR-May I through the medium of your columns, call attention to a form of sport which in the past held considerable interest, hut which of late seems role- gated to the limbo of forgotten things i
weighed down by the impossible burden of interest on war dehts at home and
broad." But in the latter respect Great GYMNASTICS FOR BUSINESS Britain is in the same host, and is pre- pared to shoulder the burden, as being the lasser of two evils, if the new Ropar tions inquiry which has been proposed results in decisions which reduce the "impossible burden" imposed on Ger many. On the brond issue that Germany shall pay to her fullest capacity all are agreed, but British statesmen, under the
Trefer to Gymnastics. It is, I suppose,' advice of their exports, have come to take pretty much the view, that General the ambition of every healthy man to retain his youth as long as possible. That SHUTS expresses when he says: "It is
ambition, glorious as it is, can never he no longer a question of reparations, but attained without some physical endes- whether ermany shall live and become your, and, as time passes, the will to n gaping wound in the body of Western make the endeavour becomes more and Civilisation.". In the eyes of France, more subjected to the insidious calls of however, further relief of Germany means comfort and the exigencies of everyday that France and the Allies would have life. The effort can be made, however, to withdraw not only from the Ruhr but and few methods are more pleasant than also from the Rhineland, while "Germany, Kymnastica alla pote free from Allied observation and coatrol, freed from her foreign debt and with no internal debt, would grow once overwhelmingly strong industrially and Poland and Czecho- militarily. Slovakia would have to look after them selves for France would be too weak to help them. For France there is only one way of viewing the consequences of lotting Germany down more lightly. Frage, say the French diplomats, would
Such na opportunity now presents itself be ruined, and if French, civilisation crashed it is certain that the fate of the in the shape of what I would call The Business Men's Gymnastic Class," which rast of Europe would be in the hands will be hell in the Gymnasium of the of Germany. Would it help Great Y.LC.A. every Wednesday evening, at Britain, they ask, to find herself and her 5.15 p.ni. The management and instruc millions of unemployed (they do not tion of the class, which commences on greatly exceed one million, by the way) Wednesday, 5th December, will be in the increased by fierce German trade com capable hands of Mr A. E. Dome, per- petition, face to face with a newly revived haps the best gymnast in the colony.
The Gymnastum itself is the finest in militarist Germany! The answer to that the Far East, and offers every facility for is, of course, that it would not "help all kinds of gymnastic work, basket hall and swimming. The intention of the class Britain" to be faced with a revived is, primarily to afford an opportunity for militarist Germany, and British statesmen those who have at some time beer keen who are out of sympathy with French and interested in the sport to try their keep themselyes fit. Secondly, if n_sut policy are obviously unable to contemowe once again and at the same time plate the impossibility of preventing any ficient amount of interest is evinced, to such dangers as those which loo an give a display. I. have been
to stato that full prominently in the minds of the French particulars can be obtained from Mr. D. Neither British interests nor the intercats C. Logan, of Holyoak, Massey & Co., Ltd., to whom all enquiries should ho of the world at large can be benefitted by addressed, and to ask all gymnasts to a policy which crushes the economic life rally round and give the venture the sup of nation of eighty millions of people port it justly deserves-I am, sir, your
truly in the very heart of Europe-a nation. which before the war was importing mer chandise from other countries to the value of nearly six hundred million pounds sterling a year-a sum much in excess of the value of her exports. Sooner or later that wider conference for which General Suurs is appealing in the cable we publish to-day must be convened it not in time to stave off the impending disaster, then for the still more difficult business of seeking to repair it.
There are, I know many whose relaxa tions are tempis, cricket and the like; those who keep themselves fit by means of long walks and the playing of week. end golf; those, again, who confine them" selves to more strenuous, sports auch na football or rowing. At the same time, I feel convinced that there are men-who for various reasons do not participate in these or other sports who would dearly like the chance of improving their health by some other means.
A leather factory and, over 200 small houses and matsheds on Tai-she-tau, or Kupper Island, Canton were destroyed by ffo on Wednesday.
THE POWERS AND GERMANY FRANCE's, latest move in the Reparations question is not one that is likely to meet the British view of what is necessary, any more than it incets the view of the United States Government which has declined in
There will be a Cinematograph Enter the sirgumstances to participate in the tainment at the Helena May Institate inquiry. A cable told us yesterday that to-day, Friday, November 18th at 3 pm. the Reparations. Commission had decided Tickets 50 cents each, family ticket for unanimously to hear the Germans on four people, $1,50-Abyr.'" Germany's resources. Yet in all the dis- cussion that has taken place on this
The applications so far received for question of Germany's capacity to make shares in the Hongkong Development, Goods not cleared within 8 days, including the reparations the Allies have been Building and Savings Society, Ltd., are fate of arrival will be subject to rent. i.
denmading Frazee has shown that she stated to excood expectations. The sub No Fire Insurance will be effected by
by us in Whatever.
does not oare a row of pins what cription list closes on or before the 23rd zy L
nurt be left in the the other Damaged y
Powers may think of insty edpackager must Godowns for axamination by the Consignos, and Gerniany's recources she insists on the Company's Surveyors, Mears GoBDARD
Dovatas, et 10
10 AM, on
*, on Mondays mad Thursday be
receiving from Germany a minimum
The passengers who arrived or the sum of £1,300,000,000. She insists that&O. Kaiser-I-IInd yesterday in
"ONE OF THE CLASS November 16th, 1993
THE PIRATED JAPANESE STEAMER. ATTACKED BY TWO GANGS.
VESSEL RANSACKED. - According to a radio message received at the Hongkong office of the Yamashita Kisen Kaish the Tai To Maru, which stranded about eight miles from the port of Wharapan, redosted under her own steam on Wednesday night and she at once proceeded to Whampoa and Canton to discharge her cargo of coal, about 3,000 tons. The Skipper (Captain Arai) and the crew qust have been pleased when the vessel refloated if only for the reason that the vicinity is infested with pirates According to the latest informa tion to hand, during the time the vessel was on the bank she was attacked and boarded by two separate gangs of pirates The first gang are said to bave done their all the valuables belonging to the crew. work very thoroughly, taking practically In addition they took a Japanese steward and two Chinese tally clerks and the pilot. The three Chinese are still in the hands of the pirates, but the steward was released shortly after he was taken away. and he eventually found his way hack to the vessel. Later, another gang of pir ates completed the work of the brat gang. making sure that nothing of value hai
heen left.
The above news has been received by wireless and no further details are yet. to hand. The Japanese Consul-General in Hongkong, we understand, is entering
All Chains must be presented within ten day Germany should pay her, full debt to cluded Mr. and Mrx C. Montague Ede, a protest against the outrage: «
of the Steamer's at here,
they cannot be recognized.
No Claims will be wimitted after the Goods have left the Godowni.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO Hongkong, 18th November, 1993. [1680
MIS
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB INTRIES for the Seventh Base at the ENTRA GYMKHANA MELTING to POST THE DECEMBER Nill be
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France with the exception of the sums Britain and the United States are will
Mr. and
Miss Me and Mrs. Owen
W. Hamilton, Mrs. and
Hughes, Miss Hughes, Mr. W, L Leask. ing to remit on the war debts owed by Mr. and Mrs. McGregor, Mr. and Mrs. France, Alf that France is proposing
now is the appointment of a committee. M. Alves, Mis Alves, Mr. Jorge, Mr.
Experts of Allied and associated and Mrs E D. Evade, nationalitics to furnier data whereons the fixation of Gerinan payments in 1924,
SOLDIER REFUGEES. AMMUNITION WITHOUT PERMITS.
A number of men associated with the various armies in Kwangting, arrived in the Colony na refugees on Wednesday night, two of them had ammunition on thom, and this led to their appearance at the Magistracy before Mr. L. Smith yesterday on a charge of having ammuni- on without permit from the C.B.P under the heading Lilicit, Opium ap The first, who had only four rounds of peizing in yesterday Daily Pren to revolver ammunition, was asked by His hotWorship if he was one of these Yua say that he is not and does not known generals and defendant replied, the Wong Lai Sang who was on Weds" No, I am only serving as a soldier
His Worship (to the interpreter): When day sentenced by the Magistrate for he comes to Hongkong he raust stop being
Ma solliery being in possession of licit opium
ISS DORIS WOODS is leaving the Colony.on NOVEMBER 16TH, will
Mr. Wong Lai Sang, with the firm of resume Tuition Early in DECEMBER 1525 and 1020 should be based. It is an Messrs. Hazeland & Gonella, architects,
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abricus effort to overcome the present etc, writes with reference to the report Impusse, but it can only succeed in per Petuating a wrangle, which it were beat for all concerned to terminate at the earliest possible moment by definite dect sions now that it is possible to guage more accurately than before the burden of reparations that Germany is capable of bearing. ⠀⠀ The Intest French proposals are of top restricted a character to com
and British approval, though, it would
ENTRIES":
Inspector Purden stated that the Police did not take a serious view of the case, Mrs Stubbings of the Peak Hotel was and a fine of $100 or one month's hard the complainAT
R. Wood
NOTICE.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. VERTIFICATE : No. A/120 for Nice Sharer, No. 99849/96956 am in the Society Register in the Name of KWONG scem no improbable that they will be Chinese hours o SING LUNG of Yokohama Ans brou declared accepted by a majority on the Bopara charg LOST OF STOLES, and if at the expiration tions Commission as a way out of the watchi of Ons Mouth from the Date hereof the above.
Worth
Document be not forthrowing the Same umpasse, France is committed to the The de will be destined. Cancelled and of No Effect, view that if Germany 18 let off more and NEW CERTIFICATE for the said lightly it would toean that the recovery morn Bhagus will be issued by the Society
HEROCITING EAUL LAUDER, -4- of the devastated regions of France, would
Bedelayed nod“ “ the pountry would
Acting General Manager.
Ho, 12th November, 1323
before Mr. which a
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labour was imposed
The other man claimed to be a brother of General Chu Pui-tak, commanding a 4% section of the Yunnanese army pow at the wri East River front. He was charged with
the hotel. having in his possession 169 rounds of ammunition ffis excuse was that the and. Ha luggage belonged to his brother, the this General, and he was unaware of the
presence of the ammshition.
The Magistrate, remarked that, 158, was large number to have been carried unnoticed, and finell the maT –$200,