NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1923.
SUBSCRIPTION LIST NOW
OPEN.
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The Subscription List Opened on the 14TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1929, and will Clase on or before FRIDAY, the 23RD DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1923,
HONGKONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING AND SAVINGS SOCIETY. LTD.
Incorparated under the Companies Ordinances 1911-192
CAPITAL
$10.000.000
DIVIDED INTO 1,000,000 SHARES OF $10 ́EACHL
of the above Shares 169,000 bare already been subscribed for exah, by the Directors and, their friende On those $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 ou application. The balance due on each share, viz, $9.00, will be called up as and when required by: instalments of $1.00 per share at înterrals of not less than three months between
ch.call
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- Any of the shares now offered to the Public which may not be subscribed for will be allotted in such manner as the Directors shall determine.
DIRECTORS:
D2, J. C. DALMAHOY ALLAN, Alexandra Building, Medical, Practitioner. C. E. H. BEAVIS, Eng., 9, Queen's Road Central,, Victoria, Solicitor.
H. A. CARTWRIGHT, Eaq, 14, Chater Boad, Victoria, Managing Director,
Hoxerone DAILY PRESS, LTD.
CHAN SAU FUNG, Esq, 11, Mai Bong Street, Victoria, Merchant. CHAU SIU KL, E., 8, Queen's Houd West, Victoria, Merchant. FREDERICK ELLIS, Esq., 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Slock Broker. HON. MR. B. H. KOTEWALL, Alexandra Buildings, Victoria, Merchant. LEUNG YAN PO, Esq., St. George's Building, Victoria, Compradore of
Messrs, GIES, Livinorrox & Co.
LI WING KWONG, Esq., 153, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant. LJ YAU TSUN, Esq., 75, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant.” THE RETREIND FATHER L ROBERT, PROCURE GEsxxald des MISSIONN
ETEANBENES, Procureur General
WONG PAK SON, Ese, 220, Quem Road Central, Victoria, Merchant,,
BANKERS..
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
AUDITORS.
Mas, PEROY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, Accountants,
No. 5, Queen's Road Central Vitamin Wang
SOLICITORS.
M2885. WILKINSON & GEIST,
No. 9, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.
REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY:
10, ICE HOUSE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.
PROSPECTUS.
(a) 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 recommedation which exists in the Colony at the present time. (b.) 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 as a Mooting of the Legislative Council in June, 1923.
The Promoters are in a portion to state that they have completed ncgotis 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 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 Promoters will also entertais, 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. (2) The minimum subscription on which the Directors may proceed to, allotment is
100,000 stares.
(6.) No committon or promotion money is being paid by the Company.
The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incident to the forms- tion and fleeting of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is $5,000, (g.) FARDEKICK ELLs 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, (.) The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of a Director is
the holding of 500 shares in the Company and that the remuneration of each of the Directiors is to be $1,000 per annum.
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to be
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.
(4) A copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is annexed to this
Prospectus and forms part of it.
(1) Application for shares should be made upon the Form accompanying the Prospectus and sont to the Company's Bunkers 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 Bankers; the Horaxosg and Shanghat BANKING CORPORATION and at and from the offices of the Company at No. 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Hongkong flug time tollass
This Prospectus has been duly filed with the Registrar of Companie Dated the 20th day of October 1921
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY, CLUB
OWNERS are Benuinded that Entries for
GYMKHANA, to be held on 1st DEC-
EMBER, CLOSE TO-DAY:
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SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE.“ NOLISHMEN: Wishing" to "Join the
E Society should apply to G. EL PIERCY,
Hon. Becretary, clo MATHESON &Co., LTD.
THEATRE
Mestra. JARDINE,
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USUAL PRICES.
Booking at "ANDERSON'S.
"GLEN LINE, LIMITED. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROX UNITED KINGDOM AND
STRAITS.
THE Motor Vennel
THE
"GLENAPP”
having arrived from the shove poru, Comigneer of cargo by ber are hereby informed that all goods are being landed at their risk into the aszardous and/or extra hazardous Godowis of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence, and/or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 23rd November, 1923, at Noon, will be subject to
Al broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godewas, where they will
be examined in the presence of Consigners
by Mesare Goddard & Douglas, on 22nd November, 1993, at 10 AM. Claims against
INTIMATION
Choice
Confectionery
New Stocks Just Received of the Very Finest Quality.
American Chocolates.
H. FOSS & Co.'s, elegant 1lb. boxes:
Fuller's
Almond Fudge
Chocolate Caramels
Assorted Caramels
Peppermint Lumps
ke..
the Steamer including those for cargo short A. S. WATSON
delivered must be presented on the special form provided, and must also be submitted of arrival, otherwise they will within 30
not be
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in SAT Case whatever."
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE MATHESON & Co., Lan,
Agenta Hongkong, 16th November, 1923. [1382
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CO., LTD.,
Hongkong Dispensary.
Phone 18.
la commemorasion of the promulgation of the modern industrial State, and
without it you might na well attempt of China/Chiouul Chiafitution, the to fight modern artillery with bows and Ministry of Finance has given instruc Arrows. What the latter phrase implies tius for the issue, of a Commemoratīvu
revenue Stamp. must be left to time to disclose. Though Great Britain is the only free trade country in the world, she is unlikely to
Mesars Lane÷Chawford,a Ltd.,
find herself free to set up tariff harriers entirely moving their Ladies Department against foreign imports without provokisto new and commodious show rooms under the Hongkong Hotel, lately oc Ling retaliatory measures of some sort.
the trade of the United expied-by-the-Hotel Motor Show Room. The balance of the Kingdom in 1991 (the latest statistics They are opening there on Monday next given in the reference books for the with an entirely new, stock.
present year) showed an excess of im
A Peking message sintes that since. parts, amounting to £278,439,000. By far the largest imports were from the United September 25th the bodies of 870 Chinese States, ainoanting in value to £274,730,124. ↑ were regavered among the debris.of their 'British exports to the United States houses in Yokohama, and 350 more in amounted to not more than £64,308,334. various streets. It is estimated that We took from Argentina us millions' about 200 more bodies remained to bu The body of the Chines worth of imports from France 53 mil recovered. hons, from Denmark 42 millions, from Consul-General was among those found, the Netherlands 38 millions. From Ger
Mah Jongg will, it is said, be the rage many we took but 20 millions-as-ngaiaat 70 millions before the war; and from of London during the winter months. Russia we bought to the extent of hardly The cran is spreading with remarkubio three millions as against 40 millions nudity. Ar last as supplies are received" before the war. The import trade from they are being sold out, Just after the Armistice a serious attempt was made to introduce the game there, but the effort the United States is, practically double what it stood at before the war, while languished. Is has derived a fresh im-
our exports to the United States, if we
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take into account the rise in values, have petus from the presence of so many substantially declined. It does not neces- Americans during the summer,
The following forthcoming. weddings sarily follow, however, that the United States would be the hardest hit by the are announced: Mr. John Daniel Flem- protective tariff Mr. BALDWIN contem-ing Kinnaird, Merchant, Peak Hotel, ta plates. Wheat and four, raw cotton, MissAnnabella Jamieson McMillan, tahco, sugar, bacon, and 'fish, combine to
form a very large proportion of the huge route from Scotland by the ss, Carm
vonshire; Mr. Noel William Bailey total value of the imports from the United Clarke, civil engineer, Shanghai, to Miss States, and all these things are not to Dorothy Mary Burwell, Harrogate, Eng- ke taxed. Machinery, metals, oil and land: Mr. Harry Robinson Kirkby, Hong- motor spirit represent the main lines o kong Police Force to Mes. Slay Purchon imports from the United States under Barley-in-Wharfdale, Leeds.
the heading of "Manufactured articles."
but the total is trilling compared
In reply to the notification of the
.with the value of the food and Chinese Foreign Office regarding the raw material imports. On the other canellation of the bonds of German band the United States is our big. Loan, concluded previous to the Euro- War, the German Legation has gest export market, France
pena conies
&ext, and then Germany which, by the
ISS DOHIS WOODS is leaving the Hongkong. Often J. Chater Road..
London Office: 131, Fleet Street, B.C. resuda lemtion Early in DECEMBER
N°
NOTICE.
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[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Management of our Hongkong Branch has been Taken over by Mr. LEON DAVID WALOH of Shanghai.
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3. ULLMANN & CO.
NOTICE.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
The Daily Press.
HONGLONG, NOVEMUER 1724, 1951,
lodged a strong, protest, giving siren
way, is taking from us at the present reasons why these bonds should be time twice as much as we are exporting honoured by the Chinese Government, to her, though, of course, vastly less than President Tao Kun has instructed, the she did before the war, while our great Ministry of Fines and Foreign Affairs export trade to Russia has practically to consider and reply to the points raise:l disappeared. Mr. BALDWIN on the argu- by the German Legation. mcot of figures will have a difficult task, Two subrifterna of the „King's-Lieut. we imagine, to persuade the electorate C. E. Driver, M.Cmployed under the that the interests of such a country as Air Ministry, and Lieut. J. J. B. Gaffney. Great Britain enn best be served by MLC of the 2nd Battalion, HongkongTM breaking with the Free Trade policy have just been promoted to the rank of which has coral bar, yn mail during the captain Capt. Driver wou the M.C. in past eighty years. Opinion on the sub the Great Wai, and Capt. Gaffney; who ject is certain to be sharply divided and
was formerly in the disbanded Royal Irish the general clection will prove one of the Regiment, saw a los of hard fighting in most interesting and exciting that has
France, Belgium, Macedonia, Serbia, taken place for many years.
Bulgaria, Turkey, and Egypt, in the course of which he was mentioned in despatches, "received the 1914-13 Star, Entries for the next Gymkhana do War Medal and Victory Medal and the to day,
Fifteen cases of small-pox were notified in the Colony on Thursday-one Irish, the rest Chinese.
Mr. W. Russell Brown assumed the administration of the Government of the
THE GENERAL ELECTION. By this time the British Parliament has been dissolved, and for the next three weeks we shall be getting in the daily cables some reflection of the heated con-
Cares, Nes: 99948/82956 standing in the over
YERTIFICATE No. A/190 for Nine traversy which is certain to develop the policy of Protection 01). Society's Register in the Name of KWONG which Mr. BALDWIN has decided to test Territory of Weihaiwei on November 4th SING LUNG of Yokohama has been declared.
It is impos- LOST or STOLEN, and if at the expiration the opinion of the untion.
The Manila Observatory yesterday One Month from the Date hereof the abovasible to conceive of any question of a
Same Document be not forthcoming the will be deemed Cancelled and of No Effect more controversial character on which reported a typhoon in about 128deg. aad NEW CERTIFICATE for the said Mr. BALDWIN could make an appeal to Long. E 12deg. Lat, N., moving West, Shares will be indPAUL LAUDER,
the Sonety
General Manager, Acting
[1564 Hongkong, 12th November, 1923.
of
"Paradise wound up is a heading given by a Penang contemporary to liquidation proceedings of Paradise Rubber Estates, Ltd.
Military Cross
An investigation by Professor Ernest E. Starling and other eminent author-
ities into The Action of Alcohol on Man," leads them to distinctly anti- Pusyfoot conclusions. Incidentally, Prof. Starling: writes: One point which I may mention in favour of the moderate us of alcohol and which is not generally kuowe,ix that opiam eating did not appear in the East until the rise of the From that fime the drinking of wine. Mohammedan religion, which probibited onward the poppy was cultivated for opium, and was eventually carried eat to China and Japan with the great Moham medan wave,"
the country, and the Opposition certainly bas, good reason to complain of the suddenness of the decision to fight an
We regret to learn that the locat election on what Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALD
branch of the Mercantile Bank of India, described as an undisclosed scheme of
Ltd., received news by cable yesterday HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND
tariffa and Imperial preference which The total output of the Kailan Mining from London that Mr. Percy Mould, CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
have been conceived by sections of capit- Administration's mine for the week Chief Manager of the Bank, died on the 14th inst. The late Mr. Mould was for the NOTICE OF MEETING.
alists in their own interests, and which ending Novesuber 3rd amounted to unverul years the
manager Cof TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the will increase the cost of living and en-97,943 tons and the sales during the Calcutts office, and previously in his career, had been an accountant in the FIEST
YEARLY ORDINARY
Singapore office, A few years ago ba MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of THE Courage the formation of truste." It period to 06,160 tons HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CON- remains to be seen whether this repre
Major-General Sir John Fowler, visited Hongkong whilst on a tour of will be held at HONGKONG
Campbell As Chief Manager in 1912. Air. Baldwin claims to be acting in the James Jamieson, 11.M.'s Consul General Deceased had been in ill health for some interests of labour and counts very con at Canton, came down from Shanghai on moths past, having been on sick leave The flag of the local sines May last. branch of the Bank was Bown at half- classes. He advocates protection of the the P. & O steamor Malwa yesterday. country's industrica not because it is
A hoase coolie employed at the Peak mast yesterday. wanted by a section of capitalists in Hotel who que charged with the theft of Sir Erge
Ernest Marray Pollock, K.C., who bar their own interests," but because he is
a gold wrist watch belonging to Mrs. been appointed Master of the Bolls, in péranaded that it is only care for the Stubbings residing at the Peak Hotsi, ucussion to the late Lord Sterndalok unemployment, evil from which the was sentenced yesterday by Mr. Wood K... Sir Ernest comes of a family of country is at present suffering. We get to receive ten strokes of the birch.
STRUCTION Co., LTDeshents the views of Labour generallyK.C.M.G., Col. Davy, C.M.G., and Sir inspection. He succeeded Mr. James
Pedder
ON WEDNESDAY. the STH DAY OF
of receiving the Report of the Board of Dir-fidently on the support of the working ectors and a Statement of Accounts for the period from 28th October, 1922, to the 30th Jane, 1923, and of electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company! will be CLOSED from the 22nd to the 28th November, both days inclusive..
By Order of the Board,
8. COURTNEY-COOK,"
Secretary Hongkong, 16th November, 1923. [1575
HONGKONG WOMEN'S GUILD
mad.
"AND
from Mr. Baldwis's speech in the House
consin of the Hon. Mr. H. E Pollock. eminent judges and jurists indeed, ha might be described as an hereditary judge.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen is stated to have In 1910 he became Solicitor-General, and of Commons on Wednesday the clearest
that offen when the Coalition Governe iden yet given of what is in his mind. convened a conferenss of the Kuoming a little Inter Attorney-General, resigning The Government, he said, did not pro- tung to be held at Canton on January ment went out of office last October, As 15th next, to which all branches through a holder of these offices he acquired what pose under any circumstances to tax
right to a judgeship. Since 1910 he has MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE wheat, flour, and meat, including mutton, out the world, are invited to and dele has come to be regarded as a prescriptive cheese, butter and eggs, but they re gates. At the momcat it seems likely sat in Parliament as Usionist member for tant the venue may have to be changed. the.. Warwick and Leamington division, GARDEN FETE
served a perfectly free hand in every
being unopposed at the last election. ingelee. The Government speks to Four armes robbers, who carried two Addressing his constituents at a dinner at impose duties on manufactures generally revolvers, and two daggers, between them Leamington Bir Ernest said he thanked God that he was born spoor, and he had for the purpose of revenue and tarif secured admittance to the second floor had to work hard for his own living negotiation, together with full power to of No 23, West Street, Hungbom, by Industry was impressed upon him by his impose larger duties which the circum calling qut the naine of the tenant at father an & quality to be exercised, and those early days to work hard and un- stances in particular industries require about 4.46 p. on, Toursday, and they be thanked all those who asked him in The power for bargaining, he declared,rchbed the tenant of property valued at gradingly so that, he might lay hold of
bis opportunities with all his might Was a Docessary part of the equipment, 64.80.
SALE OF WORK.
In sil of LOCAL CHARITIES and other CHILDREN'S FUNDS
To be held in the Grounds of GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER &ra, at