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INTIMATIONS
BANK HOLIDAY.
accordance with Ordinance Me. 5 of 1912
EXCHANGE BANAS will be CLOSED for the Trassection of PUBLIC BUSINESS MONDAY, the 1971 OCTO BER.
Hongkong, 8th October, 1924.
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEET. ING will be bold (rather permitting) at HAPPY VÄLLET on SATURDAY, 117, and MONDAY, Frя OCTOBER, 1924, commend- ing at 3.15 m, Bach Day, The First Ball
st 2.45 1.3. Rung
be
INTIMATONS
THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
INTIMATIONS
LIVERPOOL
285
following DEBENTUBES ware Dras
PAVILION OCTOBER, 1934-
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on MONDAY, the &TH
443
671
50
291
85
301
702
314
$5
370
388
566
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133
416
571
187
417
631.
786
291
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960
841
146
199
482
493
190
730
Hoklers of Drawn Debentures who desire to
The Charge for Adriation to the Publiebe Faid on the 51er. Ocraaax, 1996, ste zu. Enclosure will be 31.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform, Half Fries. Membere are advised that they must show their Season Tickets to obtain Admision to the Members Enclorure.
Each Momber has the right of introducing 2 Non-Members to the Members Enclosure, Tickets for who can be obtained from Mosers, Lista & Davis at $5 soak up to FEDAŤ, OCTOBER 1OTE.
The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.
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qnsated to inform the Tronenvers, Messrs. PRAT SMIR, Satu & FLIMING, on or befor THURSDAY, the 30th OCTOBER, 1924.
AND NOTICE IN HEREBY GIVEN that the Debentures numbered an abore which are Not Cashed on the 31st October, 1924, will be Paid on the 30 Ara, 1925, after which date they will conse to bear interest.
By Order of the Committee.
L8 GREENHILL,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 7th October, 1924
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MONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION, DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The
LIMITED.
NFIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEET-ICKETS will bed for ROUND ING ANNUALOGEN BOXING ATT KRETS doing out
BOCIATION will be held at Mers. JARDINE, OCTOBER, from Horazowe to Foowwow MATRZION & Co., LAD'S BOARD BOOK, on (Pagoda Anchorage) and Betors, Calling TUESDAY, the 14 DAY or OCTOBER, waze and Awar on both the Upward
and Downward 1924, at 5.15 r.x., for the following purposes :---
Voyage, by the Company's Well-appointed Steamer 1. To receive the General Committee ALNING the Bed, Bate at $80, Beport and Stat rant of Accounts for tor the Bound Vorage, including Maale while the year ending the 30th day of Jan the Steamer 1921
4. To elect Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Official Heferve, Manager, Secretary and Treasurer and the General Committee for the year 1994-1925..
3. To appoint an Auditor.
By Order of the General Committee,
T. G. BENNETT, Hoa. Secretary and Treasurer.
Hongkong, 7th October, 1924
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IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES, 1911-1923,
$39.
IN THE MATTER OF THE HONG KONG CHINESE MERCHANTS' STOCK & PRODUCE EXCHANGE MART COMPANY, LIMITED.
(In Voluntary Liquidation). –
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, puranaat to Section 181 of the Companies Ordinance, 1911, that A MEETING of the OBEDITORS of that, above-named Company will be he'd at the One of the Company, No 26, Dzs Vaux BOAT CENTRAL Victoria, oa FRIDAY, the 17 OCTOBER, 1924, at 12 Hook
Dated 3rd day of October, 1924.
1936)
CHENG MAN P9, Liquidstor.
THE COMMITTEES
OF
ST. GEORGE'S AND ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETIES
HOPE THAT MAXWEMA WILL, ENDEAVOUR TO BE FRMENT AT THE
GRAND CONCERT 50
ON TRAFALGAR DAY,
OCTOBER.
21
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at 9.15.x.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NOriginal Bulls of Lading covering the abors
Package ars asid to be LOST and will be declared Nall and Void if not presented to This Office belors the 1st Octosýr, 1924,
BUTTERFIELD & BWIRE, Agunta.
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ONSIGNEES P
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mes hereby notified that the Carys will be dis charged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will be at Consignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Bit's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery
7th October. @down on and after
will be landed, Optional Cargo
uniora Notic have been given prior to Btomer's arrival.
All broken, chafel and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godown and Fridays between
where they wateined on say Tuesdays and Las hours of 1045 M. and Noor within the frem storage period.
there will be
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods are left the Etonner's Godown, and all Goods rawhining undelivered after the 13th October, with be subject to Bent
All Claizan against. the-Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 27th October, or they will not be recognised.
Na Fire Insuramos will be affected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenta.
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in Port.
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The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days and the Steamer will Loare Borexone from the Com- pany's Wharf at 5
at 5 p.m., Arriving at Daylight on her Return (Weather permitting).
The Company's Steam Launch will canvay passengers from PAGODA ANCHORAGE to FOOCHOW CITT, il TONTTU.
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A large number of peoplà 'took the A grand concert is announced to take These statements are particularly strik place at the Theatre Royal on the 2nding a coming from the pen of the opportunity yesterday of visiting Mim instant by Efrem Zimbalist, a well known Founder of the Republic himself, but is is Edith Keith's exhibition and sale of perfectly obvious that, after twelve years, coloured printa in the Roof Garden of violinist. The booking is at Moutries.
China remains a Republic only, in name. the Hongkong Hotel. The subjects, which In connection with the recent discovery The cause of the failure to achieve what are very charming, comprise Chinese, of a tea-merchant's body in a box in the enthusiasts expected is, of course, Kordu, Japanese and Filipino studies,... Connaught Road, one man has already that the Chinese people were totally the Chinese street scenes being particu been charged with murder as reported in unprepared for so great a change, and larly interesting. In portraiture Miss our columns yesterday, and a second man the remedy, as Dr. Sew indientes in his Keith has some really fine work on view,
new Constitution for the Construction Chinese Actor" and "The Game of arrested at West Point.
af China," is, in effect, to abandon, for Chess being prints especially worthy of the present, any attempt at Constitu- note. tional Government on republican lines, and submit to a military Dictatorship for a period until settled conditions are
Yokohama's population will soon re- turn to pre-earthquake dimensions. The Latest returns show that 340.000 persona are now living at the port. The month after, the earthquake a year ago, the
The Captain of the Hugo Stinnes vessel, Carl Legien, has reported to the Harbour Office that one of the steamers employed on the vessel died at sea from pneumonia on October 3rd, when the established; then to a period of " poli- ship was one day out from Singapore.
tical tutelage lending. finally to the full A junk which was on us way to Marae bloom of Constitutional Government population had dropped to $50,000. (£ from Kowloon City, with a cargo of stone. This is to all intents and purposes the former residents, many were killed was swamped in the typhoon and sack adopting the programme outlined in the and others departed immediately after Dear Fan Lan Point (Lantau Island) Reform Edicts issued in the last years of the disaster. The present population in Eleven people the Monarchy, It was an eminently within 100.000 of the former mark, and oa Saturday morning. were on board. and all, fortunately, were practical programme, but it did not suitoficials express opinions that Yokohama saved. The junk is assessed at $3,000. . the book of the Republicans because in will be once more at its normal popula- The Fancy Dress Ball organised as the first place a Military Dictatorship tion or above within two years, says the December by the Naval and Dockyard then would naturally have" aimed at the
Japan Advertiser. Branch of the Hongkong Women's Guild suppression of the red republican move- and Ministering Children's League was ment, and, secondly, because it would. so successful that it has been decided to have led to a Constitutional Government repeat it this year, and it is hoped to system with a constitutional Emperor at hold it at the City Hall on Friday, its head, rather than a President ap
pointed by popular election.
November 7th
THE NEXT TYPHOON.
The Observatory Report yesterday gave the position of the Southern typhoon at Has note a.m. as about Lat. 20 degrees N., and,
the experience of the past twelve years Long. 190 degrees E., moving N.W. or
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An unemployed coolic, was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, worn.more than sufficed to show that ing, with stealing two pairs of shoes from popularly-elected President of a Republic A Manila Observatory telegram re- the cargo of the sis. President Pierce, and China is just as visionary and 18 ceived at 10.10 am gave the position as
was sentenced to three weeks' imprison- ment, with hard labour. Mr. Hamilton said that cargo broaching was becoming a very serious problem, and it would
have to stop.
utterly impracticable as the election of about 1912, and 20 N. moving N.W.
A President for the British Empire 7 Even after China has passed through the period of political tutelage which Dr. Box YAT SEN proposes, is it not even more certain than it is to-day that "dis:
Hongkong lies approximately in deg. N. and 114 E.
A message received at the American Consulate at 7 o'clock last night from the Manila Observatory reported the typhoon
LATER
A tax for military purposes has been sension and disintegration" would tend west of Balingtang Channel moving imposed on rice produced in the prefecto increase and multiply when it came W.N.W or NW. sures under the control of the Bungkiang to electing a President to represent the
At a late hour last night a Daily Press and Shanghai authorities. The tax will whole of China? While Dr. SEN YAT
representative was informed, at the Royal be in fores for the duration of the war. Sex's new draft Constitution is a most Observatory, that they had received
BLEEKER-At Shanghai, on September Bice transported from other places to disheartening document to issue on the
30th, to Mr and Mrs. J. J. BLZXIR- Woosung and Shanghai is to be taxed i eve of the thirteenth anniversary of the warning of a severe typhoon within 60 HASPELS, 800. KENNEDY.-At Shanghai, on October 3rd. a picul at the first Custom House is Revolution, it has, at least, the merit Yorth West. The typhoon was stated to
to Mr. and Mrs. J. W.-KEDY,
MARRIAGES.
вод.
pazes d
With reference to a paragraph which MILNE WASHINGTON.-At Shanghai, on
October 1st, JAKES FEEDERIC WILLIAM appeared among our Canton news o2 MILNE, to RACHEL, second daughter of Tuesday which stated that Mr. Shax Pak Captain WASHINGTON, Inte of the Hudson Bay Company.
Min, a well-known Hongkong Chinese READER. HARRIS-TURNER-At Weihaiwei, merchant, had been engaged as an adviser or September 24th, MONTGOMERY to the Civil Governor of Canton," we READER HARRIK, younger son of the
late Reader Harris, K.C., to MILL-learn that this is incorrect, or at all CEST DAMARIS TURNER, only daughter events, no offer of such a post has been of Sir Skinner and Lady Turner.
miles of Lat. 21, Long. 110 E, moving
be 120 miles east of Pratas Shoal moving North West, and threatened the coast.
At 4.30 p.m., yesterday, No. 1 signal was hoisted, and remained in position throughout the night.
TWO POLICEMEN ATTACKED. THREE ARRESTS MADE.
of boldly facing the facts of the Ritua tion in the country. Nevertheless, it is an utterly futile document. Marshal Wi PEI-Fe and Marshal CHANG T80-LIN, and every other War Lord in China is doubt- less in thorough agreement with Dr. Suy Yar Sex as to the need of a period of Military Dictatorship, but the question of immediate interest is: Who is to be the Military Dictator? The answer to An exciting incident took place at that 'question, of course, is being sought Haiphong Road, Kowloon, at 11 o'clock -- in the present war; but who can eater-last night. A group of coolies, obviously Motor-busses are to start to running fä tain the faintest hope that this war will lying in wait for their victim, suddenly Shanghai to-day. They will run from really settle the question for the whole set upon two policemen, one Chinese and The Band along. Avenue Edward Vil, of China once and for all. Would Dr.. the other an Indian. So sudden was the Avenue Foch, Great Western Road to SON YAT Say be satisfed, for instance, attack that the constables had no time Race Club Stables and do dhithling to see Marshal Wu PaI-PU instal himself to draw their weapons. Other police Well Road as far St. George's Garage. as the Military Dictator of China? Of happening to come along, joined in the The return trip commences "this point course, not. Dr. Bur's idea of Military affray, and, as a result, three arrests wore along Avenue Foch and Avenue Edward Dictatorship is dictatorship by the poli- made. The two injured constables were VII. to The Bund. The headway or time tical and military groups with which he taken to hospital. interval between vehicles will be from 6 to 9 minutes and will be regulated a får ma possible by public, requirements.
TRURAFIELD-ARCHER-At Chungking, on made to Mr. Shuru Pak Min and it would
September 18th, AUBREY CHARLES not be accepted by him if it were.. THURSTIELD, Lieutenant-Commander, Royal Navy, ILM.S. Teal, fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Thursfield, to CATEERINE FRANCER SHELLY ARCHER, only daughter of Major B. F. B. Archer and Mrs. Archer.
Hongkong Offes: I, Chater Boad. London Office: 181, Fleet Street, EC.
Daly
TORS
Horskons, Octosas Jūru, 1924.
is prominently identified. On the other
hand, can we hope to see the great mili- tary organisations of WV PEI- recon-
THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE The route is divided into Ave sections ciling themselves to such a dictatorship1 and the fare is at the rate of five centa Again, "no." We fear indeed that the day A through fare, however, has gone by when we can hope even for per section. will only cost 20 cents.
a succesefyl_Military Dictatorship in
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REPUBLIC. TO-DAY in the Chinese calendar is the first day of the thirteenth year of the
TOFFICE 18M ROOMAD Republic. In the twelve years that have From the now number of the Silver China which is not founded upon an
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CIVIL WAR IN
CHINA.
(THROUGH KAUTEE'S AGENCY.) CHANG ENTERS SHANHAIKWAN.
SHANGHAI, October 9th
A Japanese report from Mukden states that. Chang. Tao Lin entered Shanbur
and the casualties many. kwa last night. The fighting was heary
UHANG REPORTED TO HAVE
́ ́BROKEN THROUGH.
passed since the Revolution, which Well, the official organ of the Boy Scouts agreement by the leaders in: the present; brought about the abdication of the Association of Hongkong, we learn that internicine strife, and we are driven to Monarchy and the institution of repub the number of members of the Association confess that we see little hope of this. In Republicans who can discover any cause is going up by leaps and bounds. lican institutions in China, what has
June there were seven members in July for satisfaction or rejoicing on this thir been accomplished that can give the
fifty-two and to-day over a hundred. "It teenth Anniversary of the Republic must Chinese people cause for rejoicing in
be invincible optimists.
BHANGHAL. October 9th. According to reports from foreign celebrating the thirteenth anniversary of mean, says Mr. Champkin, the Acting
sourcen at Shaphaikwan, Chang Tao Lin's that Hongkong is Commissioner, the Revolution? Dr. Sux YẤT Box, the
forces broke through the Chibli army taking a real intercat in the Boy Scout
"A chimney being overheated at the
last night. Up to the present there a Father of the Revolution and the Founder of the Republic, in the remark-movement. It means that the community Hongkong Hotel yesterday, resulted in no confirmation from Mukden,
SHANGHAI, October 9th. believes in your ideals and is backing slight outbreak of fire. The Fire able document we published yesterday,
General Wong Ping, commanding the you to live up to them and to advance Brigade ware summoned and quickly ex-retreating Chekiang forces from Bung- sums up the resulta in terms which
must
kiang, attempted to enter the French them in every way you can. It is not tinguished it
concession to-night, but was refused per- command universal agreement. The
so much a victory for you as a victory
mission because he was in uniform.. sole achievement of the Revolution from
FURTHER UHIBLI DEFEAT.
TOKYO, October 9th.
1911 up to the present time," he writes for Scouting, but it is for you to justily the public faith in the Boy Scout more-; deliberately, is the Name of the Re- public. From the standpoint of nationalment and this should be a matter of
While Mr. H. Teale, of 2, Jordan Road, Kowloon, was away at Shanghai, 1 burglars took the opportunity of visiting
interest, China has not advanced to the Personal Scout. It may be added that his house, from which they took property Fengtieners completely occupied Shan
the present number of the Silver Wolf position of equality among the Nations, From the standpoint of the people's is well
worth $400.
The total output of the Kailan Mining and is full of interest for Scouts Administration's mines for the week end
interest, no progress has been made to the high standard of rocent |
in political and economic development, and many others. Among the articles is ing September 20th amounted to 77,502 Moreover, the danger of dissension and one by Mr. Justice Gomperts on Fishtons and the sales during the period to
3,678 tons. disintegration grows from day to day.'ing in Hongkong."
A message from Mukden, says that the
haikann last night, routing, the Chili ites, who ara treating to Chinwangtao in Confusion. The
pine that there will be no further "Well informed correspondents here. hatilities, but many Chibli-ites are going over to CLang Tao Lin and probably to Tana Chih Jai; thus offering good officen between Chili and Mukden.