ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY
BY
THE MANAGEMENT
OF THE
VICTORIA THEATRE.
THE MANAGEMENT OF THE
VICTORIA THEATRE
HAVE
MUCH PLEASURE IN INFORMING THEIR PATRONS AND THE GENER-
AL PUBLIC THAT, COMMENCING
FROM NEW YEAR
THE
BAND OF TE WILTSHIRE REGI
MENT WILL PERFORM NIGHTLY
AT THE VICTORIA THEATRE.
OF
THER: WILL BE TWO CHANGES.
TE MUSICAL PROGRAMM
THE
REGIMENTAL STRING BAND
T PLAY FOR FJUR NIGHTS
WEEKLY AND TE REGIMENTA.
BRASS THREE TIM S
A
A WEEK.
THE BAND - WIL', PLAY AS WELL ON
WED JESDAYS
MATI VELS.
THE
&
SATURDAYS
VICTORIA THEATRE
ORC 11S:RA WIL', BE IN ATTEN-
DANCE ONLY AT ILEMATINEE PER- .
FORM ANC 48, EXCEPT WEDNESDAYS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CONSIGNEES.
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From SAN FRANCISCO HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS SHANGHAI, & MANILA. The Steamship
"ECUADOR"
The above mentioned vessel having arrived from the above mentioned ports, Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that 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 notifed that they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of the Imports & Exports. Hongkong, before Bills of Lading can be countersigned.
All broken, chafed and dama agel goods are to be left in the godowas, where they will be examined on January 2nd, at at 10 am., and Januarr 3rd 10 a.m.
All claims must be presented within a week of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.
No claim will be admitted after the goods have left the godowns, and all goods remaining unde- livered after January 5th, will be subject to rent.
No fire insurance what er will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.,
Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong 18th Noventher. 1919.
EXCHANGE.
T/T Marks T/T Francs Demand. Paris
$115 Nom,
ᎪᎢ
SELLING.
I T
4.10€
Demand
41914
30 d/s
4/10%
50 dis
4/11
4 m/s
IT Shanghai
T/T Singapore..
207
T/T Japan
184
TIT India.
207
Demand, India 207
T/T San Francisco)
91
& New York.}
T/T Java
247 Nom. -9.85
BUYING.
4 m/s. D/P
5-16
·5/-34
6 m/s, L/C
5/14
30 dis. Sydney and) Melbourne
5/14
30 d/s. San Francis-)
THE
co & New York)
951⁄4
4 m/s. Marks
Nom.
4 m/s. Francs
10.25
6 m/s. Francs
10.37
Demand, Germany,
Demand, New York 941; T/T Bombay
201
Demand, Bombay
T/T Calcutta
207
Demand. Calcutta...
Demacd, Manila
19434
Demand, Singapore. 207
On Haiphong
Nom.
On Saigon
Nom.
PRICES OF ADMISSIN WILL CON-
TINUS THE SAME, AND PICTURE PRO-
GRAMMES OF HIGH-WATER MARK
WILL IN FUTURE BERSENTED
MANAGEMENT OF
THEA RE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY
OF WISHING ONE & ALL OF THEIR PARO SA PROS ERÜTS JW YEAR,
TE
THE
VICTORIA THEATRE"
PAS SOLV D THE QUESTION F A
PUBLIC BAND FOR TE CITIZENS OF
LIONGKO VG.
VICTORIA
FOR COMFORT & ENJOYMENT.
FRECKLES
AND HIS FRIENDS
WELL- NO= YOU SEE
OH-H'ULO MISTER
RILEY GEE, You HAVEN'T BEEN TO
SEE SISTER FOR A LONG TIME,
HAVE YOU?
TVE BEEN OUT OF
· TOWN- WHAT HAVE
› YOU BEEN DOING
~THIS SUMMER
MET-I'VE BEEN DCIN EVERYTHING~~ GOW SWIMMIN', PLAYING BALL=C'MON, LETS
PLAY KETCH!
4 m/s. L/C...
On Bangkok
Sovereign......
Nom.
4.05 Nom.
Gold leaf per Tael... 32.20 Bar Silver, per az...
forward
SUBSIDIARY COINS
DISCOUNT PER $100: H'kong..50 ct pieces
10 5
G
anton Coins
BREVITIES.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 3. 1920.
According to a London surgeon, all animals, except men monkeys, have a third eyelid.
and
A simple device easily attach: ed, has been invented for prevent- ing telephone wires from twisting. Out of its population of 400.- 000,000 it is estimated that-16- 000,000 die in China each year.
Camel's hair brushes are not made of the hair of camels, but of hair from the tails of Russian and Siberian squirrels.
Motor ploughs were not made in Austria before the war, but ser- eral manufacturers have already begun to produce them.
Scientists are trying to squelch! a new eqidemic, discovered in Japan, and called the tsutsuga mushi."
Each year of life leaves its mark on the teeth of cattle, as well as horses, so that their age may be told by inspection of the mouth.
John D. McDonald of Millers Falls, Mass., has married his brother's mother-in-law, thereby becoming steptather of his sister- in-law and stepfather-in-law of his brother.
An ancestor of the horse, now extinct, was called the hippidem.
The earliest glass known to the Romans was in the form of blue beads.
The manufacture of glass was known" to the Egyptians as fat back as 4000 B. C.
Unlike other parasitic insects. there is one species called the
hippobscidae which has wings.
From the tenth to the twelth centuries, the hardy gurdy was the most popular musical instru- ment.
The first improvements on nat- ural harbours by means of break- waters were made by Phoenicians in the days of early Greece.
Hats were much less worn by the Greeks and Romans than by modern Europeans and Ameri-
cans.
Private homes in Hastings, are supplied by a main with sec water for bathing purposes,
The various densities of the atmosphere cause the sun to be seen above the horizon when it actually has passed below.
Horned toads have a peculiar means of self defense, which is to eject jets of blood from the cor- ner of the eye.
An official list of the records of American aviators who served with the Royal Air Forces shows they destroyed 428 airplanes and 55 balloons.
Traveling by night, the hassar, a sort of catfish, will go several deys over land from a diminish- ing pond to another, or from river to river.
Massive horns, 46 inches long and 15 inches around the base, and in the shape of a lyre, are the peculiar possessions of the gala ox, or surga, of East Africa and Abyssinia.
Cotton seed, when roasted, will' make good coffee, is the latest discovery of science.
The advance in the price of do- mestic medicinal plants and root< is said to be due solely to in- ability to harvest the crop through shortage of labour.
The great nostrum of ancient times was what the Romans called mithradtium, which bad; From 47 to 50 different vegetable ingredients.
Upon the invention of a ma- chine for sewing leather shoes, in 1859, was built the great boot and shoe industry of the United States.
Whale oil dots not come from the whale alone. The swordfish
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There are several rivers in Si
and halibut are a large source of beria that flow over beds of solid
whale oil.
:
yields a much as 50 barrels of oil. high degree of scientific skill A whale of humpback variety The tuning of bells calls for Invention of silk plush for the Each bell must produce a perfect Belgium is proceeding with manufacture of hats saved the musical chord before it leaves the plans for the electrification of beaver from extinction in North foundry. America. many of its railroads.
Thirty large employers of labour Thirty-one new species of in-. It is estimated that the state of in Japan have organized under sects have been discovered in a Matto Grosse in Brazil alone ulti-government auspices “The Asso block of red amber recently pre-mately can grow twenty million ciation for the Conciliation of sented to the British museum. bales of cotton annually.
Labour and Capital."
It is estimated that France will ice. have about two millios tons of steel to export as a result of the increase in ber metal resources Par by the mines of Alsace-Lorraine. 8pm.
The Earl of Sandwich was the 651 pm'
originator of the modern sand- 31% pin.
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ch.
Sister Wasn't Speaking of Baseball, Freckles!
MY-YOU DON'T WANT
TO PLAY BALL HERE
IA THE LIVING
ROON!
AW WHAT'S TH
| MATTER = YOU'RE A BASEBALL PLAYER AINTCHA?
`HALK~ WHY," -AO, FRECKLES-
Kazahatı
BY BLOSSER
GEBYAH SISTER, TOLD MA THAT YOU WERE SUCH A GOOD
CATCH
THE MERCURY CARACE CO.
AT YOUR SERVICE
QUALITY
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