1926-02-16

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

OST.Ona Fakineso BITCH, Ten

Months Old, White and Exora Mari ing. Howard.--Apply to Da BLACE,

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$37, FEAT.

THE HONGKONG BENEVOLENT

SOCIETY.

867x ANNUAL GENERAL THE MEETING of the HONGKONG

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY will be häld at the CATHEDRAL HALL on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2éru at 11 am. All Are Cordially Invited.

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EVELYN A. WARREN, Hon. Secretary.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. RACE MEETING -1926.

MARCH 1st, 2ND, SED AND 6TH.

TUCKETS OF ADMISSION to the Public may, be obtained from MESSEY KELLY & WALSH or at the GATE. Price-$3 Per Day. Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform31 Per Day.

No. one Admitted without a Ticket to be shown to the Ticket Inspector at the Gate.

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Treasurers.

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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

RACE MEETING 1926.

MARCH 1st, 2D, SED AND 6TH.

EMBERS have the privilege of in-

Mtroducing Two Non-members to the

Members' Enclosure.

A Limited Number of Tickets are avail- able and may be obtained from Messrs LANSTEAD and Davis, Alexandra Buildings on or before SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 1926.

Price: 310 Per Day or $30 for the Meeting,

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Treasurers.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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· RACE MEETING 1926.

MARCH 1ST, 230, Yun and 6TH

THE Stewards request the pleasure of the

Presence of the Ladies at The Races.

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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

RACE MEETING" 1926.

MARCH 1ST, 2ND, 32D AND 6TE...

PASSES for SERVANTS will be Issued on Application to Masazs. LINSTEAD AND DAVIS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. NO Servants will be allowed inside the Enclosure of the RACE Couns during Race Days WITHOUT TICKETS.

These Tickets are only available for Servants while in Attendance on their Employers or when On Duty at the

Various Standa.

Any Chinese found loitering about with Sorvants Passes in their possession will forfeit them and holders will be Removed from the Enclosure.

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. "EMBERS' BADGES of AD MISSTON M

are Now Ready and may be obtained by those Members, who have not already received them, from Masans. LINSTEAD & DAVIS, ALexandra BUILDINGS.

INTIMATIONS

KOTICE.

THE HONKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, 1926

WILLIAM TAM is No Longer in the TOTICE IS HERESY GIVEN that Ma. Service of Our Firm and that the Power giren him in Signing Per Procuration Is CANOEL- LED From This Date,

CHINA TRADING" AGENCY. Kongrong. 10th February, 1926. (8178

HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.

ANNUAL BALL.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONO, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED,

*NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE

BE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING of NHARE- HOLDERS. in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, No. 6. Def Volux Rob, on TUESDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 1926, at 13 o'clock Noor, for the purpose-df receiving & Report of the

Directors, together, at. Acconats, and electing with a Statement

Directors and

The

TRAN

BOOKS of the Company

will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, to TUESDAY, 15 FEBRU

MEMBERS are Reminded of the follow-ARY 1906 both days inclusive, during, which

"1ST RAL PRACTICY-FRIDAY, 19TH 'FEB-

RUARY, 5.30 to 7 xx.

2ND REZL PRACTICR-TUESDAY, D

FEBRUARY, 5.30 to 7. Êx.

BALL

FRIDAY, 26TH FEBRUARY, 9.30 r..

Those who have already handed over the 1st

Practice Dance Tickets will be Admitted by presenting the Sad Practice Dance Tieksta. Suitable Arrangements will be made for Ad. mission to the Practice Dance to be bold on

33 FEBRUARY.

Members are also Rommded that they will be liable for Subscriptions as previously in tracted unless the Hox, SECRETARY is Notified ∙in writing of any Changes on or beforo

TUESDAY, the 23RD INST.

A. K. MACKENZIE,

Hon. Secretary c/o Messrs. Holyoak, Massey

da.Co... 120. Queen's Building,"

(Tel C. 9492)

Hongkong, February 11th, 1926,

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PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE.

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VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY Situate and being SECTION A, B, C, AND THE REMAINING PORTION OF KOWLOON MABINE LOT No. 8 AND A MOIETY OF KOWLOON PERMANENT PIER No. 4

TO DE SOLD

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.

BT.

PUBLIC AUCTION

WEDNESDAY, THE

24TH

FEBRUARY, 1998, AT 3 C'CLOCK P.X. IN ONE LOT. EX

DAY

Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers, AT THEIR AUCTION ROOMS, No. 5, Dúddell Street.

The Property consista of:

No Transfer of Shares can registered. By Order of the Board of Directors.

JOHN ARNOLD,

Secretary. Hongkong, 26th January, 1928.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The

NO ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL EETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL,

on SATURDAY, the 30% | FEBRUARY, 1996, at 11 ...for the purpo

the of receiving

Raport of

of the Directors toge ther with a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31ar Dzczaz, 1995

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED form the 10TH FEBRUÁRÝ to the 92ND FEBRUARY (both days in- dlosive), during which Feriod No Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

JOHN D. AUMPHREYS & BON,

General Managers. Hongkong, 3rd February, 1996.

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THE HONGKONG, & ' KOWLOON. WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE THIRTY-NINTH ORDINARY HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lad.. on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2320.. 1926, at 11 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Dir ectors and the Statement of Accounts for the Year ended December 31st, 1925. The TRANSFER BOOKS ¿f the Dom- pany will be CLOSED froin FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1926, to TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23an, 1926, Both Days: Inclusive.

ANNUAL MEETING OF SHABE-

By Order of the Board of Directors,

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Acting Secretary, " Hongkong, February 4th, 1826. [8145

HONGKONG®& SHANGHAI

·BANKING CORPORATION. 2

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

Celebrated

DRY GINGER

ALE

Its unique dryness' delight- fal aroma, and rich flavour are features which give this beverage the IMMENSE POPULARITY it deserves.

It has been repeatedly de- clared by travellers, tourists and others, that WATSON'S DRY GINGER ALE is - UNEQUALLED by any similar product throughout the world

In any case, we hope, that nowhere Coms bedding on the second fear of will the misleading statements contained | No 44, Des Your Road, was set alight. in this manifesto be taken too literally, by an oil lamp on Saturday morning, but was quickly xtinguished by fireman of Is tells the world, for example, that the Central Station with hand buckets. "Hongkong, for many years, was looked

A Chinese employed at the King upon as the premier colony in the Orient Edward Dispensary in Queen's Road was beam in the kit- by the British imperialists, but now it found hanging from

chen at the rear of the premises on Suh- has changed into a desolate island, on day. Life was found to be extinct when account of the boycott. We who live the police were called.

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On Saturday afternoon, the daughter of a Chinese resident in Hollywood Road was walking accompanied by an amah when a man came up from behind, snatch ed a gold pendant she was wearing and bolted in the direction. of Wellington Street.

in Hongkong, however, can sce no * To celebrate. Chiness. New Year, the evidence of this. If 900,000 labour members of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce held their manual tea party comrades" left Hongkong, it would on Sunday afternoon in the Chamber. still leave half a million people in the There was a good gathering and a very

enjoyable time was spent. Colony. But the figure of 200,000 is as much a figment of the imagination as is the statement that Hongkong is a place of desolation. We should think it prob- able that 20,000 is an outside estimate of the number of men still absent from Hongkong, and the Central Executive" A well-known figure in Singapore Committee of the Kuomintang

knowthipping circles has passed away in the person of Mr. Frederick Archie Dowland, as well as we do, that ninety per cent who for many years past has been in the of these men would be back in Hongkong shipping department of Messrs. Boustead to-marrow if the terrorists in Canton a widow.

& Co. He was 58 years of age and leaves. coased to employ effective means of preventing them. The Colony is not

The Hongkong Hockey Club dinner. badly needing these men; others have which was to take place at the Hongkong taken their places. We doubt if there is Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters. really anything patriotic or spontaneous has been postponed from February 18th about this agitation. It is maintained to February 25th to avoid clashing. simply because it is putting money, obwith the interport golf dinner whith tained by unscrupulous extortion, into the takes place next Thursday, pockets of a small gang of intimidators.

If this manifesto had been issued over

In his report to the Harbour Office the signature of "The Strikers Cont- yesterday, the master of the Talma, from mittee.

or some such body of ignorant Calcutta and Singapore, states that dur SPARKLING MINERAL WATER men, we should be less astonished at the ing the voyage to Hongkong two deaths ladicrous mis-statements it contains occurred on board. One death was about Hongkong, but when we see it through heart failure and the other issued over the signature of "The Cen-through tuberculosis of the lungs. tral Executive Committee of the Kuomin-. tang which, we understand, consists of The Public Works Department are in- thirty-six of the most intellectual mem-viting tenders for the carrying out of bers of the party, the moral turpitude drainage works in Kowloon, New Kow revealed

this document circulated to loon and New Territories, West of the alt organisations through the Press of the Railway, and also tenders for carry- whole country," is frankly amazing, whening out similar works in KowlooD, the composition of that. Committee is New Kowloon and New Territories, East · borne in mind.

of the Railway."

"PYERIS

A Delicious Table Water, healthful and refreshing.. Sarpassing in quality the celebrated European Spa Waters.

Blends excellently with Wines and Spirits, especially Whisky

IN QUARTS, FINTS & SPLITS.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.

Established 1841.

First all these pieces cr. Parcels of Ground situate at MoxoxoxTSUI in the Dependency of Kowloos, and Colony of HONGKONG and registered in the Land NURDINARY YEARLY MEETING Office as Sections A.B.C. and the REMAIN- of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation ING PORTION Of KOWLOON MAkins Lot: will be held at CirY HALL, Hongkong, on No.84 (being the whole of the Premises SATURDAY, the 2718 FEBRUARY, 1926, comprised in the Crown Lease of Kowloon Nook, for the purpose of reserving the Esport Marine Lot No. 84) with the Buildings of theft long ending in ad crected thereon and secondly & Moiety of Statement of Accounts for the

DECEMBER, 1945. One Equal Undivided Half Share of and in the right of Frecting and Maintaining a Pier over the Crown Foreshore and Crown Land shown on the Plan Annexed to the Crown Lease of Kowloon Pörmanent Pier No. 4.

Total Ares of 80,307 square feet, or thereabouts, The Property Firat described contains a

and is held under a Crown Lease for the Term of 75 years Benewable for s Farther Term of 76 year..

The Crown Rent payable in respect of Sec- tions A. B. C. and the Remaining Portion of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 84 is $832 per annum and in respect of the Moiety of Kowloon Per- manent Pier No. 4. 3150 per annun

Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had from:-

Mem here are Reminded that these Badges on FROM will also Admit them to All Tha EXTRA RACE MEETINGS. This Year,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

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NORTH CHINA INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

SCRIP LOST.

ORIP OERTIFICATE of SIX SHARES Numbered 6655 to 6660, registered at the HEAD OFFICE in the Name of WING SIN SUN Has Been Declared to be LOST or MISLAID, and Application having been made to the Court of Directora for a Duplicate, NOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Certificate be presented or any objection lodged at the Offices of the Company in Shanghai on or before the San MARCH, 1926, a New Certificate will be issued.

By Order of Court of Directora, «

C. MG. BURNIE,

General Manager Shanghai, 3rd February, 1926..

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S.S. "GASCOGNE” (WEST - AUSTRALIAN STEAM

NAVIGATION CO., LED.) LEAVING HONGKONG FOR WEST AUSTRALIAN PORTS VIA SINGAPORE

ON OF ABOUT 17 FEBRUARY."

EXOLLANT PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION.

For Freight and Paige, Apply- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD.,

Agents.

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MESSEE, DEACONS, Vendors Solicitors.

1, Des Voeux Road Central, MESERS, LAMMERT BROTHERS, The Auctioneers Hongkong, 11th February, 1996,

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DERRINGTON.

RIGH CLASS, PRIVATE HOTEL,

8, PRAX ROAD.

TEL. CENTRAL 4364,

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"GLEN" LINE, LIMITED,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM UNITED KINGDOM via PORTS. THE Motor Vessel

* GLENOGLE“. having arrived from the shors ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hasardous and/or extra_hazanfone Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and | Godown Ca., Ltd, whence, and/or from the

#harves, Delivery may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by the 17th February, 1918, at Noon, will be subject to Rent

All brokan, shafed and damaged Packages are to be left. the Godowns, where they will be amamined in the presence of Consignees by Mears Goddard & Douglas a =-16th February, 1998, at 10 AM. Claims against the Steamer ináluding those for Cargo short delivered

be presented on the Special orm provided, and must also be sabraitted wikhin 330 days di sarival, otherwise they will" DOS be recognised.

Bo Tire Insurance will be affected by us la say essɛ whaterw

Billa of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lan,

Agent Hongkong, 8th February, 1726, (0176

For the information of our readers beyond the confines of the Colony

A six-reel flm "The Leipzig World who

may have read the statement Fair-from the Middle Ages to the Pre- that Hongkong has been changed into tent Time," is to be shown to a select a desolate island "by the boycott, we audience interested in international com- may say simply that it takes a very per-merce and industry by a representative verted imagination indeed to notice it of the Leipzig Permanent International What we have observed during the Commercial and Technical World- Fair, China New Year holidays is that there at the Queen's Theatre on Thursday is no noticeable difference in the crowds morning. compared with other years; that tram- cars have been carrying the usual fonds-

The tourist ship Belgerland on arrival of holiday makers and that every motor at Singapore had to go to the quarantine" vehicle in the Colony has been on the anchorage, owing to a case of small-pox streets loaded with Chinese joy-riders on board. A male passenger was landed We should be inclined to think, indeed, for treatment. The examination of pas that more Chinese have been in Hong kong this New Year than is usually the sepers and the fumigation of the ship case, for the simple reason that so many by the Port Health authorities involved have preferred to stay here rather than a delay of about half a day before the risk the danger of being plundered or passengers were allowed to disembark. held to ransom by the brigands which now infest Canton and the whole of the the streets during the week-end, there Considering the crowded condition of Delta. Nor will there be any appearance was fortunately an absence of serious. desolation" about Hongkong when accidents On Friday a Chinese boy was the business of the Colony resumes after taken to hospital suffering from injuries the holiday. There is no scarcity of to his leg. A Sanitary Board coolie was labour in Hongkong, and it would prob also taken to hospital. A Chinese woman ably surprise the members of the Central received minor injuries through being Executive Committee of the Kuomintang knocked down by a tram-cer; and two. who talk about Hongkong baving been Chinese boys, one in Hongkong and the changed into desolate island, if they other in Kowloon, were knocked down by saw the thousands of workmen who troop motor-car and motor cycle respective in and out of the big labour-employingly. establishments of the Colony every work-

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Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, London Office: 131, Fleet Street, EC.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Hongkong Office 14, Chater Road. the ToTH FEBRUARY, to SATURDAY; the $7 FEBRUARY, 1928 (both days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be Registered:

By Order of the Court of Directors,

A. EL BARLOW,

Chief Manager, Hongkong, 8th February, 1926.

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The Badly Press.

HONGKONG, FENZUARY 16TH, 1926.

HONGKONG AS PERVERTED. adi IMAGINATION SEES IT.

We observe, that over the signature of The Central Exceative Committee of Kuomintang" a lengthy telegram

ing day We do not say that the boycott makes to difference to the Colony. Ipears that one life was lost in the sinking Contrary to an earlier report it ap- must throw a great many Chinese out of the local ferry steam-launch Lee Fat of employment, but the difference it makes in the general appearance of the close to the western Praya Wall carly on Colony is certainly not the difference teing brought to the surface it was found Thursday morning last. On the launch between great prosperity and desola that a Chinese bad met his death through tion!"?

the mishap. His dead body was found Lin the cabin in which he was sleeping at the time of the sinking. He has been identified as an accountant from Wham- poa. It was not known that he was on board when the launch sank..

A“ Naval Observer" informs us that Festerday the flags on the Cenotaph were hung upside down.

Honour the Chief Justice has

Commodiona FLAT, Looking over: Lyemas issued for circulation throughout ordered that the next Criminal Sessions

...

6) Large" and 1- Small BEDROOMS with the Bathrooms Attached in a. New Quiet’and, Pass and Three Minutes from the Ferry China on the eve of China New Year shall be, held next Monday at ten absconded with sums of money belonging Suitable for Married Couples without Children, for the purpose of rousing the people

o'clock or Friends willing to share. Catering sa Be quired-Box No. 3180, c/o Hongkong Daily to give support to the strikera in order Press

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to make a united stand against Imperial ism We suppose we shall not be con- tradicted if we say that the members of

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Mr, G. 8. Kennedy-Skipton has been appointed to act as Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and as a Deputy Registrar of Marriages."

The appointment of Mr. J. B. Wood TO. 51, GRANVILLE ROAD, KOW: this Central Executive Committee " N LOON,

as Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court GEMA

regard themselves the intellectual of Hongkong is gazetted. The apoint Apply to SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. cream of the party. Several of them ment dates from November 23rd fast.

are leading officials in the Government

ls in the Go

A Chinese was hurt on Saturday when al:Canton, who are telling us that the he was caught between amator-cat driven by Mr. Levabach and a Hongkong Hotel like it matter between the strikera bus in Stubby Road. He was only

slightly injured.

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Mancanzia. Baxx).

or About MARCH, 1928, WHOLE themselves and the Hongkong Govern- O FLAT SPACIOUS BUME of ment, and who say they are quite unable A proclamation by H.E. the Governor OFFICES in the Famrox Buildixe" - az

extends the Maintenance Orders (Facil. VICTORIA BUILDING, No. 5. Quan's Bolo to understand how it is that their sin-ities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1921, CHITRAL (between CRAXZHAND BANK and cority is doubted when they profess to to maintenance orders made by courte în

South Australia. Apply to—“

be simply neutral spectators of the con

·BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE, test, and not active participatora in it.

Four armed robbers decamped with Chater Road.

Now, in this manifesto issued over the on Sunday night. A shop, assistant who $110 from a grocer's shop in Shamahnipe signature of the Central Executive struggled with one of the men was

stabbed in the band. Committee of the Kuomintang it is de

TOLIT,

INGS (Basement).

BKUBATABY

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LUDOWNE in ALEXANDRA BUILU. clared Our Party, for the purpose of Mr. Bow, of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., The police have received a report from

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accomplishing the Chinese National that a typewriter, valued at 8500, was & B. Watson & Co, Lab, Revolution, dares to take the leadership, stolen from the office some time between

Tuesday and Friday last. and lead our patriotic fellow countrymen

Dick Norton and his New Globe of the whole country to support the Trotters left Hongkong for Shanghai spirited struggle of the s 200,000 labour on Saturday on the s.s. President Pierce The party was given a great send-off by comrades unanimously, and uphold the numerous friends at Kowloon present national strike up to the very

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