CONSIGNEES.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
From EUROPE AND STRAITS.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"PENANG MARU."
having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before NOON, TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the 14th December, 1919, !l be subject to rent.
1
I
CONSIGNEES.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
From USAKA KOFE, &
MOJI.
The Company's Steamship
"KASADO MARU
having arrived from the above
the 6th December ports, an Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
Goods nat cleared by the 12th December will be subject to rent. Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examin- ation by the Consignees re presentative and the Company's Surveyor's Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10a.m. on Wednesday and Friday. All claims must be presented within Thirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be re cognized. No claim will be ad- mitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
No fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Co.'s Consignces are requested to representatives at an appointed send in their Bills of Lading for hour on Tuesday & Friday. All countersignatures immediately. claims must be presented within OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,
Y. YASUDA,
Manager. Hongkong, 17th Nov 1919.
days of the steamer's arrival, here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left he Godowns.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
Agents,
Hongkong, Til: December, 1919.
EXCHANGE.
SELLING.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
T/T
5,2
Demand
3/24
30 ¿/s
5:23%
60 3/s
5/214
4 m/s
5/256
T/T Shanghai
Nom.
T/T Singapore.
22016
T/T Japan
203
T/T India..
Demand, India
024
& New York.
1011
253
Nom. 11 04
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From BOMBAY & SINGAPORE
THE Company's Steamship
NANKING MARU,"
T/T San Francisco
T/T Jara T/T Marks T/T Francs Demand, Paris
having arrived from the above ports, on the 7th December, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns et Kowloon. where 30 dis. Sydney and
BUYING.
4 m/s. L/C
4 m/s. DjP
5/4 5/444
6 m/s. L/C
5/453
delivery can be obtained as soon
5/434
Melbourne
as the goods are landed.
30 dis. San Francis-1
co&New York f
Goods not cleared by the 13th
4 m/s. Marks
4 m/s. France
10238
Nom. 11.43-
11.54
Demand. Germany. -
November. will be subject to rent,
6 m/s. Francs
224
224
213
Damaged packages must be Demand, New York 10114 left in the Godowns for examic-T/T Bombay ation by the Consignees' repre- Demand. Bombay... sentative and the Company's T/T Calcutta Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Demand, Calcutta... Douglas. at 10 a.m. on Wednesday Demand, Manila and Friday. All claims must be Demand. Singapore. 2016 pented within Thirty days of On Haiphong the steamer's arrival here, after On Saigon which date they cannot be re- cognized. No claim will be ad-Sovereign.... On Bangkok mitted after the goods have left Gold leaf per Tael... 29 75 7334
the Godowns,
Xc fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Consigners are reduested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,
Y. YASUDA.
Manager...
Hongkong, 8th December, 1919
Bar Silver, per oz
forward
Nom.
Nom. Nom. 3.80 Yom.
SUBSIDIARY COINS
DISCOUNT PER $100: H'kong 50 cts pieces
· 10 5
Canton coins
Siver down.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
THE
HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH.
BREVITIES.
Java, famous for its coffee, pro- duces one-seventh of the world's supply of cane sugar.
From three to six million school
children in the United States are underfed, says Miss Jesse R. Ha ver, legislative representative of the National Consumers' League The largest vaults in the United States are said to be owned by a Cincinnati bank. The main door of the raults weighs 76,000 pounds and the walls of the vaults are 26 inches thick, being made of railroad rails, concrete and glass slag.
The first step in the evolution of the automobile is said to be made by a French engineer, Joseph Cugnot, who in 1760 con ceived the idea of transporting war material in a type of vehicle in which steam should be the mo tive power.
A New Zealand sea snail se- cretes an indelible crimson ink.
The chrysanthemum was intro- duced into England from China in 1790.
London Lancet reports several cases in which teeth, knocked out of their sockets, have been replaced successfully by dentists. Science has never determined in what manner rats transport It is believed that they eggs. carry on nest robbing in gangs.
On Peruvian highlands is found a plant called "vegetable sheep. In color and form, it resembles sheep at a little distance. The natives use it for fuel.
a
A species of the dwarf Green- land fir, estimated to be 200 years old, although less than two feet high, grows near Kummelstown, Po..
The largest statue in the world
will be carved from the natural rock in the inland sea of Seto, Japan. It will be an effigy of Nich- iren, the Japanese patron saint.
A tiny Fellow bird in India makes its nest from two leares of a tree, sowed together, which protects it from the keen eyes of its enemies.
It is proposed to erect a wire- less station on the coast of British Columbia with a speaking radius of 6000, which would establish wireless communication with the Orient.
A chemist testified that beer contained 2.75 per cent alcohol when it left Milwaukee contained 5 to 15 per cent. when it reached Chicago, the result of being ex- posed to the sua.
The first steel ship launched was the Ethel, built on the Tyne 42 years ago.
Only as early as 1886 the type writer was a sensation and its users were centres of interest.
A game of card is said to have Suggested the system of life in- Surances now so universal.
The famingo stands, instead of sits, on its nest to hatch its eggs.
During the winter a toad can go without food for from four to six months.
Snowflakes are caught as they falk and photographed, in order to obtain beautiful and novel art designs.
The famous Trinidad asphalt lake has been found of uniform character down to 150 feet below the surface.
No white man' was able to en- ter Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, until 1904 when Francis Young-❘ husband fought his way in.
Cafes take the place of clubs in Raris, the very few clubs existing there being mostly gambling
resorts.
Alabama leads the Un ted States in peanut production, its land devoted to this industry covering as much as 1,000,000
астее.
Rain falls sometimes in the scientists $2 dis. Sahara Desert, and
bave discovered underground. par. streams that could be made avail- $40 pm. 44 pm.able for water.
German has about 4,000,000 trade union workers.
COMPANY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919.
REPORT.
CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO., (1918), Ltd.
The report of the above Com pany for presentation to the shareholders at the first ordinary general meeting to be held at the offices of the Company, St. George's Building, Hongkong, on Saturday, 20th instans, at 11.30 o'clock a.m., states:-
The General Managers have now to lay before the shareholders A statement of accounts and balance sheet for the 14 months The Gross Profit for ending 30th September, 1919.
the above period is...$186,059.75 Interest...
After allowing for
21,900.81 Charges...
6.497.19
Writing off for depre- ciation on the Com- pany's Lizes. Build- ings and Machinery, &c.
42,980,26
71,378.26
The Balance to be
dealt with is... ...$114,681.48 which it is proposed to appro- priate as follows, viz:- To pay
Consulting
Committee's and
Auditors' fees ..$ 2,900.00 To write off Goodwill
Account
67,000.00
Tourite of Prelimin
ary expenses in con- nection with the re- construction of this Company
To transfer to Reserve for Bad and Doubtful Debts
To pay a dividend at
the rate of 8% p.a on 100,000 shares of $5 each fully paid up for.. 9 months (from date of Incorporation) To pay
& dividend at the rate of 8 p.a. on 100,000 shares of $1 cach paid up for 5 months (from due date of first call......
€,546.13
4,902.03
30,000.00
3,333.33
$114.68 1.49
Consulting Committee.-In ac- cordance with the Articles of Association the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., Messrs. G. W. Barton, A. H. Compton, and T. F. Hough retire, and being eligible offer themselves for re- election.
Auditors. The accounts have been audited by Messrs. F. Mait- land and E. A. M. Wliams, the latter acting in place of Mr. A. R. Lowe. Messrs. F. Maitland and A. R. Lowe are eligible for re-appointment.
رد
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
General Manare maj Hongkong, 3rd Dec 191
PAINTING BY CANDLERVIE
TITIAN'S SECRET. Night is the painter's close season, unless he gambles on the chance of his work bearing the light of the morning after.
Now comes a portrait painter to whom the lights are all one, a candle or an electric bulb serving him as well and as surely as the
san.
Mr. H. Keyworth Raine, whose portrait of Mrs. Attwood recently hung for a few days on a wall at the Savoy Hotel, and whom the Earl of Effingham has bubbed a "Knight Painter without the K. tells me (writes
a Daily Chronicle correspondent) that he has spent eight years in perfect ing Ľ colour system which enables him to produce daylight effects with certainty by arti- ficial light.
In support of his theory that for certain effects a candle beats the sun hollow, he quotes Sir
Sister Seems To Be Rather Sensitive.
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Anyhow, I wish my builder the colour system, they hint that knew the secret and would paint it must tie the painter down to my house some fine night with
immortal pigments.
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