THE HONGKONG, TEL
PH
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1919.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB,
Annual Aquatic Sports will be held on Thursday, 2nd, Friday, 3rd, and Saturday. 4th October, 1919, commencing on the first two days at 4.30 p.m. and on SATURDAY at 3.30 p.m.
Admission-Members, 50 cents each day or $1.00 for three
days.
Non-Members-$1.00 each day or $2.00 for three days.
Ladies, 50 cents"asch-day.
Soldiers and Sailors, 25 cents each day,
Band will be in attendance on Saturday and Refreshments for Ladies provided.
Principal Events
440 Yards Club Championship.
220 Yards Club Championship,
100 Yards Club Championship.
100 Yards Ladies Championship.
2 Lengths Team Race open to any Unit, Corpe or Club.
WATER POLO,
The other races open to Ladies, Girls. Boys and the Army and Navy all post entries. Full particulars given at the V.R.C.
G.
NOTICE.
R.
TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.
The institute will re-open on Monday, October 6th.
Students will be enrolled at the Education Office only, and should apply at once for entry
forms.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHINESE LANGUAGE
SCHOOL..
A Beginners' Class will be started on Monday, 13th October at 5.15 p.m. at the New School, junction of Zetland Street and Ice House Street (Masonic Hall Premises).
re-
Intending students are quested to send in their names to the undersigned for enrolment.
By Order,
E. A. M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary. Hongkong, 29th September 1919.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG STOCK
EXCHANGE.
R. E. B. WITCHELL,
Hon. Secretary.
NOTICE.
THE ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
NOTICE.
LTD.
| SANITARY" BOARD OFFICE, HONGKONG.
CONSIGNEES.
PACIFIC MAIL'S.S. CO.,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
8. S. "
ARCHER ** From SAN FRANCISCO &
MANILA.
To the Owners of Domestic Buildings.
Take Notice that under No. 3 The above mentioned vessel of the Domestic Cleanliness and having arrived from the above Ventilation Bye-Laws (as amend- mentioned ports, Consignees of ed), every Domestic Building or cargo are hereby informed that part of such building within the their cargo will be landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, and stored at Consignees' risk.
Consignees of cargo are hereby rotified that they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of the Imports & Exports, Hongkong, before Billa of Lading can be countersigned.
All broken, Chafed and dama- aged goods are to be left in the godowns, where they will be examined on October 7th at 10a.m., and October 20th, at 10 a.m.
All claims must be presented within a month of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.
NOTICE.
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All persons with the exception of persons of Chinese
race, wishing to leave the Colony must have in their possession & VALID PASSPORT. Passengers not in possession of passports will not be allowed to leave the Colony.
All persons with certain excep- tions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the Eastern Division of the City of REGISTRATION of PERSONS Victoris, and the Eastern Division ORDINANCE 1916 Forms of of Kowloon and New Kowloon, Registration giving the parti- occupied by members of more culars required may be obtained at than one family, except those the G. P. O. and at all Police within the European Reservation Stations. or in Kowloon south of Austin
The Penalty for non-compliance Road or those parts of a Domes-is a fine not exceeding $50. tic Building used as a Shop, Office Godown: must
E. D. C. WOLFE,
C. S. P. cleansed and lime washed through out by the owners during the Hongkong, 5th September 1919. months of October and November.
or
be
N.B.-The word “throughout "* used in this Notice means that the houses should be limewashed in respect of all the walls of each room, and cubicles, partitions. stair casings and stair-linings, all ceilings and the undersides of roofs in main building, offices, and servants' quarters and in- clusive of verandahs.
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No claim will be admitted after the goods have left the godowns,
The backyard must have its and all goods remaining unde-Containing Walls limewashed up livered after October 9th, will to the level of the first floor. be subject to rent.
No fire insurance wbatever will be effected.
Consignees are requested to secd in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO...
The Yearly General Meeting of the above Club will be held at the Club House North Point on 5.30 p.m. and notice is hereby Friday the 10th October, 1919, at given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the Club will be held at the Club House on Friday the 10th | Hongkong, 2nd October, 1919. October. 1919 at 5.45 p.m.
Business: As posted in the Club House.
RE MACDOUGALL, . Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd October, 1919. "
NOTICE.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
THE-THIRTY-EIGHTH OR- DINARY GENERAL MEET- ING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Manegers. Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd. Des Vœux
As Operators, U.S. Shipping Board.
G.
NOTICE..
R.
It is hereby notified that on and after the 1st October. 1919 Rickshas will run on Caine Road and Bonham Road. Stands will be at the following places:-
1. University.
2. Junction of Bonham Road
and Centre Street.
3. Nethersole Hospital. 4. Junction of Caine Road and
• Old Bailey,
5. At top of Glenealy.
CAPTAIN SUFERINTENDENT
OF POLICE.
Road, Hongkong, on Friday 17th Hongkong, 26th Sept., 1919. October at noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts. and electing Directors and Auditors.
both days inclusive.
It is hereby notified that the
The Transfer Books of the date for the December Settle- Company will be closed from the ment is fixed for Tuesday the 11th October to the 31st October 23rd December and not the 29th as previously advertised.
By Order of the Committee.
W. LOGAN.
Secretary, Hongkong, 1st October, 1919.
NOTICE.
BOARD OF CONSERVANCY WORKS OF KWANGTUNG
By Order of the Board,
JARDINE MATHESON
& CO., LTD.. General Managers. Hongkong, 2nd October, 1919.
CONSIGNEES.
NIPPON YUEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. From EUROPE AND STRAITS. HE Company's Steamship
“YOKOHAMA MARU,"
FLOOD CONTROL WORKS. Sealed tenders will be received at the Board's Office, the Bund, Canton, until 2 o'clock p.m. on Monday the 13th of October 1919 for the construction of a Flood T Gate at Masai, East River, Tung- kun District, about 15 miles above
Sheklang, which works will form having arrived from the above a part of the system of flood ports, Congsignees of Cargo are control in the East River.
hereby informed that their Goods; Drawings, specifications and are being landed and placed at other information may be obtain- their risk in the Hongkong, and ed on application to the Chief Kowloon Wharf and Godown Engineer, Board of Conservancy Company's Godowns at Kowloon,. Works Office, the Bund, Canton, where each consignment will be against a deposit of $25.00 Canton sorted out mark by mark and Currency, the money being re-delivery can be obtained as soon targed when the drawings and as the Goods are landed. specifications are handed back to the office.
The Board of Conservancy of Kwangtung
THE BUND,
NOTICE
PEEK BOOK.
Canton.
Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before NOON, TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the 8th October, 1919, wll be subject to rent.
Damaged packages must be left In the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Co.'s representatives at an appointed hour on Tuesday & Friday. All claims, must be presented within At St. John's Cathedral to-day ten days of the steamer's arrival by the Eer, H Copley Moyle, here, after which date they cannot MA. Sidnez Henry, son of the be recognised. No claims will be William Peek and Mrs. admitted after the goods have left
Highbury New the Godowns.
Art: Walter Palmers
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
Agents Hongkong, 1st October, 1919,
NOTICE.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY.
LIMITED.
PUBLIC-AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
SATURDAY. the 6th Oct, 1919. commencing at 10.30 am. at No. 1 Saifee Terraco (Top Floor), Kowloon.
Carved, painted or polished woodwork in good condition, A Quanlity of Vauable House- however, reed not be limewashed, but must be cleansed.
The Board is prepared to lime- wash free of charge a limited number of buildings in these divisions. Owners who desire to avail themselves of this, offer should apply in writing to the Secretary on or before the 7th, of
October.
Choice among applicants will be in the absolute direction of the
Presidect.
The Eastern Division of the City of Victoria is bounded on the west by Gilman Street and Peel Street.
Kowloon is divided into the Eastern and Western Divisions by Nathan Road and a straight line drawn from the north and through the Yaumati service reservoir to the Northern Bound- ary of Kowloon.
(S8.) C. M. W. REYNOLDS
Secretary. Hongkong. 1st October, 1919,
NOTICE.
WISEMAN LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE is hereby given that
The Fifteenth Ordinary annual that an Extraodinary. General meeting of the Shareholders in and Finance Company, Limited as the Company's Office 14 Des Meeting of Humphreys Estate the above Company will be held will be held at the Hongkong Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong.
hold Furniture
comprising
Teak Sideboard, dinner waggon. dining table and chairs, Ice chest. Filter. Iron bedstead, Teak ward- robe with bevelled mirror, Dress ing table, Sewing machine., Japan- ese Pictures. Electric Lamp. fan and fittings etc, etc, etc.
On-view-on-day-of-sale.- Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery
Geo, P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
WISEMAN
LIMITED.
The Best Tiffin
in town To-day
is at
THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
JAPANESE PENETRATION.
A correspondent writes to the Times as follows →
building up their bodies to fit them for the strennous days of the future. Japanese doctors and dentists are everywhere. The capital of the Marahall group, is great hospital at Jaluit, ke orowded with natives who come There has been a quiet, an- from all the atolla to be hesied of advertised, but truly remarkable their ailments or wounds, and to development going on in the make them fit and ready for islands of the Pacific in the last vigorous labour. decade.
already interested in
Much can be said in praise of the intentions of British investors at present doing for the native Judged by present efforts and what the Japanese authorities are these people. Under their late brutal islands, the delevopment in the masters the Germans they were wonderful proportions. The ex-Japanese ideals are apparently Pacific will shortly assume neglected and despised. While
plant and marine products will tensive development of all tropical splendid in many respects and, create in the Pacific in the near the Japanese are a materialistic on British lines," as they boast, future a zone of great commercial people. The natives ever sincs activity. This progress, however, the Japanese have been in oocupa- is liable to the dangers incidental tion of the Marshalls have felt to a rendezvous of many nations. themselves unnecessarily spurred Keen, perhaps bitter, rivalries in on by Japanese ambitions and trade will spring into existence. administrative regulations. They Without exaggeration it might are even be said that this state of affairs has already begun.
constantly at variance with the authorities, but Japan- ese activity admits of no senti- mental loss of time and opport- unities. An instance of this took place within a few days of the occupation of the Archipelago in 1914. An order was issued
CATTY
In the past Australian traders have been most active. Since the war they have in a most com mendable manner made every effort to keep ships upon the Pacific, and to prevent the ruin calling upon the natives through- of the prospects of the islands for out the two sections of the group many years, which was on more to replant with cocounts all wasta than one occasion imminent and hurricane-swept land, the These traders in pre-war times task to be accomplished in three had to contend with the years. The natives, some 10,000 unscrupulous competition of the in all, were appalled. The task Germans. They fought long, was gigantic, and there was fairly, and valiantly, and main-not the necessary amount of Sained a goodly amount of this young man labour to trade. By the fortune of war, by out. Deputation after deputation curtailed shipping and the difficul- from the kings and chiefs to the ties of obtaining frequent and Japanese Governor was without adequate supplies of goods from result. The authorities turned the Old World, the Australians | deaf ears to all appeals, and drew have suffered a serious rebuff. up a list of fines and punishments The Japanese, who were little for failures to comply with all Known in the Pacific islands five thedemands of the administrativə years ago, having during the war order. The result will be that in being able to supply large quanti- output of the Marshalls will be shipping, and seven years' time the copra ties of goods suitable to the three times greater than it is Pacific trade, have scored immen- now, amounting to many sely, and promise by their energy hundreds of thousands of pounds to command the greater part of in annual value. the whole of the Pacific islands trade within the next five years. The advance of the Japanese in the Pacific during the war days has been amazing; their trading ships and luggers are to be found in the remotest corners of the most isolated islands. ..
much available
Japanese traders in the Pacific are smart business men, who all speak English fluently and are adepts in acquiring native languages. They are, as a rule, men who have received a com mereial training in England or North America, and they are Not only was Australian trade eager, enterprising, and energetic. -which of course is also British In their spare time they are -checked in its progress by the school-masters. Japanese trade war, it was. and is now, more
has attracted the natives because acutely than ever hindered by the the trades with the utmost dili- Commonwealth. The constant gence have set themselves to hold-up of shipping is its worst study the native tastes and enemy, and this has given splendid requirements. Trade is brisk, and opportunities to the keen Japan-competition by other nationale is In May last, when being practically impossible. Every held up by paltry industrial dis item and article of trade is dis- putes in Australia; the Japanese tinctively Japanese in make, were opening up new steamship design, and attractiveness. The lines in the Pacific, and actually range is from needles to anchors, were able to include German New from preserved fruits to patent Guinea, for which Australia has medicines, from sewing machines accepted a mandate. These to gramophones, from mest labour troubles are destroying the sauces to lager beers, from scents
Commonwealth and contributing and shoes. very largely to the Japanese In preparing for the future the Japanese authorities are looking far ahead. A line of modera tourist steamers of 2,000 tons, especially built for the trade, plies regularly between Japan and the Marshalls, returning via the Carolines and the numerous ad- joining islands..
WISEMAN'S. commercial opportunities of the and pomades to Europesa clothes.
Price
Usual
$1.00
Hotel on the 10th day of October on Saturday, 18th day of October, 1919 at noon, when the subjoined 1919, at 12.30 o'clock in resolution, which was passed at the afternoon for the purpose of the Extraordinary General Meet-presenting the Report of the ing of the Company held on the Directors and Statement of Ac- 24th day of September, 1919, will counts to 31st July 1919. be submitted for confirmation
cunts to 31st JulyBocks of the Punch ticket for as a Special Resolution.
Company will be closed from 11th
to 18th October 1919, both days 30 meals $25.00.
That the new articles already approved by this meeting and inclusive. "for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman "thereof be and the same are "hereby adopted as the Articles "of the Company to the ex- clusion of and in substitution "for all the Articles thereof.". Hongkong dated the 26th day of September, 1919.
By order of the Board.
G. RAPP,
Secretary.
NOTICE.
THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
By Order
D. K. KHARAS,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 1st October, 1919.
NOTICE.
COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE CO., LTD.
Mr. Edwin Lester - Gilbert Arnold has been appointed Assistant-Manager for China of the above Company.
W. H. TRENCHARD DAVIS,
Manager for China. Shanghai, 24th Sept., 1919.
WISEMAN LTD.
Tel. 407.
IN. GERMAN HANDS.
advance in Pacific.
A great advantage to the Japaness is to be found in the higher wages paid to European masters and crews. The salary of an Australian shipmaster will range from £35 to £40 a month, and his keep; an Australian sailor gets £13 to £15 per month, and he must have every food luxury possible for his employers
British firms must wake up and
pay attention to what is going on in the Pacific at the present time. to procure, according to union It was British pluck, energy, and
dictation A Japanese captain
enterprise that first discovered
will pass rich on £4 to £6 a the wonderful resources of tha month; a Japanese eailor only Pacific Islands. Australians are. receives from £1 to £2 a month, worthy of all praise for their and he is contented, loyal and splendid pioneer efforts in the efficient on a diet of rice and Pacific trade, but at present the Japanese plums.
Commonwealth is in the throes
Five years ago the Japanese of industrial unrest and it would and their wares were unknown in seem that the Mother Country the Marshall Islands, and it must undertake the task of might be added, anywhere in the restoring the balance in a manner“ Central Pacific Islands. Austra- which will enable the British to lian trade despite German owner reap the reward of their dis- ship, was paramount. To-day the coveries and their enterprise. How a corporal in the Scottish Japanese hold the trade. of the Rifles, who was starving in a whole of the Marshall group prisoners of war camp at Lemberg, entirely, a loss of over £200,000 a
ADMITTING GERMANS. parted with his watch and ring This year will see the end of at present being admitted to the year to Australia and Britain.
Two categaries of Germans 'ZTO for bread, was explained to the Portsmouth coroner. when the Australian trade in those islands, United Kingdom, Mr. circumstances of the death of after a faithful service of over 25 (Home Secretary) informed Sir J, Shorth William Shore, of Southsea, were years. Japanese trade is spread- Butcher in the House of Com- investigated.
ing rapidly in the British Crown
mons. These were, he added:- Shore, who was only 29 years Colony of the Gilbert and Ellice (1) British wives, who had of age, was found hanging from Islands, and mainly through the a banister at his home when apathy of the Colonial Office, urgent reasons for coming here,
auch, his wife returned from shopp- which is well accquainted with serious illness of parents. No for example, as the ing. Witnesses affirmed that he the facts.
conditions were imposed on their had made a brave effort to over- Five years hence the Marshalls landing (2) German business men come bis depression since his will be a populous and prosperous when their presence in this demobilisation. ⠀
New Japan Commercial magn country would be for the benefit Head Ofce: 6 Des Voix Road Cl He had stated that during his fates of Japan have already of British trade. Such men, the
Hankow Branch: Panoff Building," three months at Lemburg he was planned to put these islands, Home Secretary Company will be closed from 1st
said, were given 21 days' solitary confine which by ignorant people were admitted subject to appropriate FOR THE YEAR TO COME to 11th October 1919 both days to black bread, not fit for is pig to important, on a progressive com- stay and the places they visite
ment and that meagre portions of supposed to be commercially un-conditions as the duration of the Preetion Imber adt, la allikblogs, inclusive.
best way of pruriding for the future, Lipals, sat; were thrown to him. He mercial basis, and several in- They werde required By Order
was practically ruined and broken dustries in connection with the mudicate with, the. in health in consequence, of the coconut palm and its products report to them treatment he received:
will be established. The natives residence. have been warned to this effect, were not and they are undergoing a process.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS The Twenty-third Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Share- will be held at the Company's holders in the above Company
Hongkong, on Saturday 11th day Town Office, 2 Lower Albert Road,
the afternoon for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Ac counts to 31st July 1919,
of October 1919 at 12.30 o'clock in
The Transfer Books of the
M. MANUK/ Becretary
Hongkong, 22nd September, 1919.
THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK,
LIMITED.
THOUSANDS.
A Verdict of guide while of insound wind was returned,