NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
INSURANCE OFFICES.
BANK HOLIDAY.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that AU N
INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of BUSINESS
MONDAY, 13th OCTOBER, 1924
By Order,
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Secretarios, PRINTURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.
MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11TH,
INTIMATIONS.
BANK HOLIDAY.
N accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1919. the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, the 13mm OCTO. BER
Hongkong, 8th October, 1934
DOUGLAS
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STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
will be issued for ROUND
HONGKONG AND CANTON. TICKETS daring the Stenths of JULY 20
Hongkong, 10th October, 1924,
£1349
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE
SYDNEY DID BRISBANE
(AUSTRALIA).
THE Stormahip
TOHKOH MARU
haring arrived from above ports, on 10th
OCTOBER, from Hovexore to TOCKHO (Pagoda Anchorage and Betars, Calling SWATOW and AMOY on both the Upward
by the Company' New
Steamer
And Downward-pointed
HAZt, the Boduced Rate of $80,
Bound Yg7, including Monis while |
for the
the Steamer is in
hours.
These Special Tokets will be available for Return ONLY by this Steamar, sither by the
for which
bit fasued or by her foliow ing Sailing from Foodhow. Duration of Stay
The Steamer will Leave HorGross from the Com pany's Wharf at 5 pm. Arriving at Daylight on her Retura (Weather permitting)
October, 1924. Consignees are hereby, requested at Foochow copies 8 to 9 days' and the |
to present their Bill of Lading in exchange for Delivery Orders, and take immediate delivery from alongside the Stenmar.
All Cargo not take delivery from "the Steamer by 11th October, 1924, will be landed into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whar! and Godown Company, at Kowloon, and stored
Consignees st
* TIME.
All broken, chaful and damaged Cargo in to be left in the Godowns, where it will be examin
ed on the 16th October, 1991.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Gedowns, and all floods remaining undelivered in and after 18th October, 1924, will be subject to Bout
No Fire Insurance whatevor will be effected.
YAMASHITA KISEN KOGYO
KAISHA,
Agents
Hongkong, 10th October, 19
H.K.W.G. & M.C.L. CHILDREN'S FÊTE.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25ru, 1924,
TO JE HELD AT N
THE VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS' PARADE GROUND (By Kind Permission of Cal. L. G. BIRD, D.3.0.) at 3 1,30.
-:
NAVAL CRUTH.
MOST ATTRACTIVE SIDE SHOWS:
GOLD Pus l'oXD. BOLL BOWL OR PITCH
ÁUST SALLIZ B-SATH AND SWinte
MINIATURE RIFLE RANGE JOY WA Dir.
RAYLIS SWEETS. CIGARETTES.
Txa-60 Centau
ADMISSION -- Adulta.
BALLOONS,
1327)
Childrea
50 Cente, ...20 Cente,
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEET.
TING will be held (weather permitting) at
HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 1171, and MONDAY, 13 OCTOBER, 1924, commenc-,
at 315 EX Each Day. The First Ball
Rung at 2.4..
The Charge for Admission to the Public Enclosure will be 31.
Soldiers and Bailors in uniform, Hal Price, Members are advised that they mast show their Season Tickets to obtain Admission to the Members Enclosure.
Fach Member has the right of introducing 2 Non-Members to the Members Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Mosers. Letras & Davis at $5 each up to FRIDAY, OCTOBX 10TX.
to
The Company's Steam Launch will convey passenger from PAGODA ANCEDZAGE FoodHow Cay, if
For farther required.
and Dates of Sailing, Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers, Douglas Stransite Co., Len.
(908
Hongkong, 17th Jane, 1934,
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTIES
Bituste at TAI KOK TSUI in the Colony of Hongkong,
To be Sold by AUCTION, .
Subject to a Reserva Price
од
WEDNESDAY,
the 15TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1924 At 3.00 ..
In ONE LOT
PT
ME. LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers,"
In their Anction Rooms in Duddell Street
th The Properties consist of ---
ALL THOSE Pieses or Parcels of Ground kitaate at Taikoktani and registered in the Land Office de Baction. A of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 898 and Kowloon Inland Lot No., 991 together with the Messnager, Erections and Buildings thereon (if any).
Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be obtained from---
MBASKA, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Prince's Buildings, Solicitors,
or from M2015. LAMMEËT BROTHERS,
1294
Auctioneers,
TO LET.
Glass Window adjoining the NEW P SHOP Facing the Harlour with Plate
& O. BUILDING, wuitable for a Steamship Business. Frontage, 17 Feet: Depth 5 Feet, with Yard and Outbuilding Layerd
"Address" A.B." care of Daily Press.
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TO LET
LET-One SINGLE BOOMED
PIEDRA STRIPT. MA
INTIMATIONS
LIVERPOOL
RAT VIRUS
as used by the Indian and
Colonial Governments with
phenominal success.
The most scientific preparation for the de-
straction of RATS on the
market. *
Now Introduced to the
Far East for the first time,
A limited supply at present
is available.
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wo have stated, no fewer than 1,181 cases were notifed. When therefore we review the statistics it is impossible to be con-
·édent that because we have enjoyed.com- plete freedom from plague this year, we may not see a recrudescence of the past seventeep fears and has been u epidemic next year. However, we hope | very highly esteemed members of the that one clear year will be followed by Shameen community who much regret his other clear years. The anti-plague car-departure.
Mr. Julien Egmar, manager of the FAR Lyons Arm of Messrs., Boyer, Match & Co., silk merchants of Canton, is retiring and leaving for home on the dimboise. Mr. Eymar has been in Cant for the
11 am to 1 pan, and from 2.30 p.m. to 6 P.M.-ADVT..
Were
Two man charged on 'emand at the Central Magistracy yesterday with the unlawful possession of daggers, fined $100 each by Mr. R. E. Lindselt as an alternative to hard labour. Thr!
was one in- fines was paid. The case which Inspector Appleton' explained af
there the last bearing, that
ysterious aspects, a threatening demand for $1,000 being involved in it.
were
EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
(THROUGH LIUTER'S AGENCY.]
OHINA
OUT OF HER DEPTH. ROME FINANCIAL CRITICISM,
assistance, China may rapidly sink into decadence and become an international menace, while with sound guidance and i strong but fair control by the Powers, China and her people could be developed into a fastor making for the permanent peace of the world."
SOVIET-MUKDEN · AGREEMENT.
JAPAN
SURPRISED.
LONDON, October 10th. An article in the Financial News takes an optimistic view of the commercial and paign so long maintained by the Sanitary Miss Elizabeth Keith begs announce industrial progress of China, but con- Department was bound to tell in the end, that, owing to the success of the two clades by saying that China is cut of and in each deende we have not only days exhibition of colour prints held her depth. Thirteen years of experiment- scen a reduction in the average yearly
at the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden on ing with a form government entirely cases, but a far more striking reduction Thursday and Friday, she has decided to foreign to her nature sad history and in the percentage of cases, taking into continue the exhibition to-day. The ex-people have shown clearly that, without account the great growth in the popula-hibition will be open in the morning from tion Rat extermination is regarded as the principal key to the success of the campaign. We do not know how many millions of dead rats have been examined sinde the campaign was started, but we see from last year's Medical Reports that post-mortemIN were held on nearly a hundred thousand rats in 1923, and among all these only eleven were found to be plague infected. We shall never be able
PILING, October 10th.. to keep the Colony free of rats, and this
Reuter's correspondent learns from an campaign of extermination has to go on
authoritative source that the Japanese from year to year and every dead rat bas
Government knew nothing about the to be examined for evidences of plague.
Soviet-Mukden agreement until after it The means of communication of plague
had been signed, the terms of the agree to human beings is the feå which leares
ment coming na a complete surprise.. the plague infected rat. Hongkong's :
While no oficial statement on the subject freedom during the past year is all the
can yet be made. the Japanese consider more emarkable because, according to the
The heavy downpours of rain yesterday that the Soviet coup de main in regard Canton papers, plague was fairly preva afternoon interfered seriously with the to the Chinese Eastern Railway intro- lent in that City some months ago, and set programme for the ceremony of the duces an entirely new situation, giving, it has hitherto been an article of faith laying of the cornerstone of the new the Russians complete control of the in the Sanitary Department that when edifice at Bonbam Road of the Church of commercial affairs of the railway, and plague is prevalent at Canton it will Christ in China, popular known as the that the whole situation requires the most eareful consideration on the part of Hongkong Mission Church. There was a inevitably spread to Hongkong because of the great daily passenger and freight large attendance of Chinese to witness the ceremony. Unfortunately, just before traffic between the two places. This year, the commencement of the proceedings, have seriously shaken the Chinese Govern at all events, the theory has been falsithe rainfall was exceptionally heavy and ment's confidence in the Soviet Ambas fed. Even if next year disappoints our the Chairman (Dr. Wan Man Kai) an-sador, while Chang Tsa Lin's part in the hope that plague has been at last, ex-nounced in the course of a short opening egotiations is an unwelcome surprise to terminated in the Colony, the evidence address that it was necessary to curtail the Japanese. of the whole range of the statistics of the proceedings. HAMILTON.-At 151, The Peak, on October plague shows that the efforts of the
The site for the new church was deco- 9th, to Mr. and Mrs, E. W. HAKILTON,
rated with bunting and fags in honour Sanitary Department have not been in (1351
of the occasion but these presented no vain; and while a year'a complete free-joyous appearance in the steady fall of Hongkong Ofee: 11, Chstar Boad.
dom from the disease is an achievement rain. There was also an abundance of Karakhan, the Soviet Ambassador at London Office: 281, Fleet Street, E.Cupon which the Department can well we plants adorning the site and these, un-
SOLE AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON
a son.
CO., LTD.
է:
BIRTH.
The Daily Press
Honokone, Ocroasa 11tu, 1924.
THE COLONY'S FREEDOM
have been achieved.
J
Yesterday morning up to. p.m. the rainfall recorded at the Oservatory was 2.95 inches.
1
THE NEW CHURCH OF
CHRIST.
CORNER STONE LAID YESTERDAY.
Japan.
Incidentally, the agreement seems to
EUSSO JAPAN BELATIONS.
"M, KARAKHAN'S STATEMENT."
LONDON, October 10th.
A Moscow message states that M.
congratulated, it will be a source of satis. like the Bags, locked charmingly fresh. Peking, in an interview, declared that faction to the public to know that there A specially erected platform, fortunately the Russo-Japanese negotiations have roofed with matting, was situated at one entered the final stage. The principal is to be no relaxation of the measures by side of the site, and on this stage the questions in connection with the Tsarist which this happy result is believed to Church choir, the officials of the Church, debt are practically settled. The two the Rev. T. W. Pearce; LLD., who laid countries have agreed to postpone the the stone, the Bev. J. Kirk Maconachie, settlement of the Novo-Nikolaievak in- the Rev. Chiu Kwan Hoi, Secretary of cident and would conclude a treaty pro- the Council of the Church in Kwangtung,viding for the examination of all public the Rev. Cheung Chok Ling, Pastor of and private claims at a future conference. the Church, the Bev. Li Shu Kwai, the The question of the evacuation of Sagha- Her. Yung Ting Shang and others assem.lien bad not raised any difficulties. The only danger was that Japan might prolong Dr. Wan Man Kai, in opening the pro- the purparlere into the winter and thus ceedings, referred to the unfortunate have a pretext for postponing the evacua
tion The Soviet Government was pre- pared to place at the disposal of Japan forty per cent of the oil-bearing terri- tory in the Saghalien fort concessions The outcome of the conference now de- pends upon Japan's commercial claims.
FROM PLAGUE,
THE Annual plague season" is con- sidered to be at an end by now and the.
Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne took the place fact that the Colony-for the first time of Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon in thirty years has been entirely free Magistracy, yesterday morning.
The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong OFFICE on 1ST FLOOR. No. 1418. from bubonic plague throughout the year |
to be present.
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HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION,
IS GIVEN the: The
FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEET. ING of The HONGKONG BOXING AS- SOCIATION will be held at Mosers. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd.'s Board Room, on TUESDAY, the TE DAY OF OCTOBER. 1994, at 5:15 p.m., for the following purposes pem 1. To receive the General Committed's
Beport and Statement of Accounts for the year ending the 30th day of June; 1924
To elect Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Official Referee, Manager, Secretary and Tremaurer and the General Committee for the year 1924-1925.
3. To appoint an Auditor.
By Order of the General Committee,
T. G. BENNETT. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer.
Flangkong, 7th October, 1824
is
Apply PROPERTY OFFICE, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lan..
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OFFICE
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TO LET.
BOOMS in CENTRAL POSITION
Apply LINSTEAD & DAVIS, JAlexandra Buildings.
BLUE FUNNEL LINE,
*ORESTUS" FROM U.K. AER. 7.10.24.
34 PIGA OORATES, ETC.
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Hongkong,
No. 4,200/33.
IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES NOginal Bills of Lading covering the above
ORDINANCES, 1911-1923,
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IN THE MATTER OF THE HONG. KONG CHINESE, MERCHANTS' STOCK & PRODUCE EXCHANGE MART COMPANY, LIMITED.
(IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION). TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 181 of the Companies Ordinance, 1911, that À MEETING of the CREDITORA of the above-named Company will be held at the Officer of the Comp sny, NY 26, "DE VAUX BALD CENTRAL, Victoria, on FRIDAY, the 171 OCTOBER, 1924, at 1: You.
Dated 3rd day of October, 1924.
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IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Packages are said to be LOST and will be declared Nail and Void if not presented to This Office before the 14ru Octonia, 1924,
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
TO-DAY,
at 2,80, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,15.
Reginald Denny
with
Li
CHENG HAN PO, Liquidator.
Laura La
PUBLISHED TO-DAY. HONGKONG "WEEKLY
PRESS.
WONTAINING ALL THE WEEKS LOCAL NEWB.
The Faper to send Home,
"in
Plante
SPORTING
YOUTH
A Dazzling romance of the Younger Sel.
THE CORONET.
حرق
bled.
For being in unlawful possession of state of the weather and also to the large four cocoanuts, a Chinese was fined $4 number of people present which clearly at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday proved that the congregation realised the a further charge of importance of the event. The ceremony morning, and on offering a bribe of 10 cents to an Indian constable, defendant was fined $10.
he said, had been delayed for a long
FRENCH TRADE MISSION TO TAE EAST.
a matter of sufficient interest and importance to justify the prominence given to it at the last meeting of the Sanitary Board. It was in the year 1504
time owing to the work of the Govern that bubonic plague first made its pearance in Hongkong and claimed no
ment in widening the road at tho fewer than 2,617 victims. Though there Charged at Kowloon Magistracy yes-corner of No. 8 Police Station, but now
PARIS, October 9th.. The French mission to Japan, men- has been no year sincs, until the present, terddy with causing an obstruction by that the corner stone was to be laid he
will be absent for two months. in which the Colony has been entirely leaving a quantity of building material hoped that the work of construction tioned earlier, leaves in January, and free of the disease, it is worth pointing in Shanghai Street, a building contractor would be proceeded with as fast as poss-hended by an engineer, M. Ader, of the ible and that the church would soon be Ministry of Commerce which organis out that no annual epidemic has claimed named The Sui was fined $10, and an completed.
ing the scheme jointly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a view to develop a larger number of victims than the first order was made for the clearance of the After the singing of the hymns in ing French interests in the Far East.
Chinese and the offering up of prayers of the series, notwithstanding the fact obstruction within 48 hours.
The Government bas' invited the big the Rev. T. W. Pearce laid the corner industrial concerns to appoint members that the population of the Colony in the S. Matthews, described as a ship's stone, bearing his name in gold lettering. to the mission, and contribute to its cost, Several short addresses in Chinese and select their own delegates for each meantime has trebled. Only in one year officer, and whose address was given as brought the proceedings to a close, trade represented. The Government bas of the past thirty has the total risca care of the Kowloon Docks" had a
The new Church of Christ when com- been led to organise this mission in con- pleted will coat a quarter of a million sequence of the success achieved by a above the 2,000 mark. That was in 1914, 830 bail estreated yesterday morning, dollars and it is to have seating accom similar Belgian mission to the Far East. but in several years the total was overwhen he failed to appear at the Central
modation for 1,000 people. A thousand. As recently as 1999 na many Magistracy to affswer a charge of failing as 1,181 cases were notified. In 1923 the to pay for hired moter-cars
THE TYPHOON. number was only 148. There have been
At the Kowloon, Magistracy, yesterday, The Royal Observatory announced in years in which the total was much less Mr, C. D. Melbourne made an order for typhoon appeared to be nearly stationary the midday report yesterday that the than that. In 1910, for instance, there
about 100 miles E. or E.N.E. of the were only 3 cases; in 1916 the number was 29, and in the following year 28; but, as the experience of subsequent years has shows, these low ɓgures did not contain a trustworthy assurance that at last
A report from "the Royal Observatory, the Sanitary Department had gained the
Hongkong, states that at 5.35 pm yes terday, pressure has decreased moderate When Capt. J. B. McCaw, of the ssly over NE. Japan and slightly at Che mastery over the disease. Though in eight years following the year 1914, the Lok Sun, answered a summons at the foo. It had increased slightly over For mosa and Luten and was nearly station yearly total of cases did not average Marine Magistracy yesterday for having,ary at Hongkong
Reports from the Empress of Australia much over 200 a year--in two years being as alleged, moved his ship without, per- indicate that the typhoon was in about over the 400 mark and in two other years mission from buoy As to buoy B11 on Lat. Zadeg. N. and Long 117deg. E., at embraced in the period being below 40 July 1st. Mr. C.-J. Thompson, Chief 2.p.m. ycaterday, moving N.N.W.
the confiscation of five Smith and Wesson revolvers and 950 rounds of ammunition. Revenus Officer Lanigan stated that the arms and ammunition were found un-
claimed on Godowns.
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a wharf at the Kowloon
a year-the comforting reflection that the Boarding Officer, asked permission to disease was steadily being exterminated withdraw the mummons. This was grant- received a rude shock in 1922 when, as ed
4
Prataa
"..
The Manila warding yesterday morning was that the typhoon was in Lat 21
degrees N., Long, 117 degrees E., moving W.N.W.
LATE
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TO-DAY'S WEATHER.
and moderating N.W. to S.W. winds and The local Observatory forecasts strong more rain for "to-day.
ARGENTINE TLIGHT."
SHANGHAI, October 10th. A message from Kagoshima says thah Major Zaani has left for Kushimoto.
Kusanoro, October 10th. Major Zanni has arrived.
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THE WATER SUPPLY. The Water return for October 1st gives the storage in the reservoirs supply- ing the City as 1,911 million gallons aguinat 2,145 millions on the same date last year. The consumption. during September WOH .281
million gallons against 211 million during September last year. The supply was restricted in 1923 owing to the failure of the Bowen Road conduit, while in 1024 a full supply was given except in districts west of Eastern Street.
At Kowloon the storage was 374 million gallon against 382 million on the same ate last year, and the consumption 50 million gallons during Septembór against. fully supply during the month for both 60 million during September, 1923, with
Years"