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WEDNESDAY
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FEMBER
1990.
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Georga Carpentiar bas returned An amusing story of the sitting Mr. Justice Acton, in the Leonard J. Raid writes in a to Paris after his tour in America, of a Dail Eireann Court comes King's Bench Division, London, Home paper: "richer by many thousands of from_the_Wast of Ireland. A recenƒty, delivered judgment in
Faw subjects arouse more lika- pounds," and in an interview, of merchant in a Western town sued the petition of right by Frederick ly controversy in business circles will be despatched for STRAITS which Mr. B. Bennison senda ana farmor for money which was Leanmo, of Claveland Place, than the question of the adequacy
PORTS, COLOMBO, FORT account to the Daily Telegraph, owing to him and obtained a de-Dawbah, formerly a corporal in of the methods of British banks SAID, MARSEILLES, LONDON talked frankly of his plans. cree from the Country Court the Mechanical Transport section meeting the demands of British ANTWERP direct.
"My tour," he said, "has been Judges, but when the Sheriff was of the Royal Army Service industry.
on or about a round of wonders; so wonderful handed the dacres. “ha stated that Corps, against the Crown, claim- It is a subject that has to be MONDAY, the 13th September. bas it been that I am about to go it was useless to try to execute it ing areas of pas alleged to be approached carefully, but taking For Freight apply to and understand it all I would reported to Sinn Fein that the¦tember, 1914, and the rate of pay that British industry since the| MACKINNON MACKENZIE the Queen's Dispensary has Peak preferred. Apply Post Ofoe-
Leaman enlisted in Sep broad view, it may be stated
at present. Meanwhile it was due.
offered
BANKING.
& CO. Agents.
NOTICE.
LS GREENHILL
Hon: Secretary.
We beg to announce that
been removed to ST.
GEORGE'S BUILDINGS,
(OPPOSITE STAR FERRY).
HARPER AND CO., LTD.
G.
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NOTICE.
"MONGKONG.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
to my house in Dieppe and try
apreciate it to the full
farmer had contributed a con- then
Wan ба alarmistice has on the whole been "And then I shall return to siderable sum of money to the day. and the period of very successfully supplied with Amarica, so that I may fight Irish National Loan, and the service was for one year or the financial accommodation. Battling Levinsky, who is said by matter was thereupon investigat-duration of the war. He drew So, broadly speaking, British 22, Des Vœux Road Central, his countrymen to be the best of ed.
pay at the rate of 63 a day till manufacturers cannot up till now
Hongkong. all the light heavy-weight boxers!
A few nights later a motor-car June, 1916, when he was informed complain that their efforts since Hongkong. September 7th, 1920. in the world. About the middle containing four men drove to the that he had enlisted for seven the War have been unduly of October we are to meet. If merchant's house and the men years with the colours and five hampered by lack of supplies of win then I shall be happier, and commanded him to accompany years with the reserve at Is. a credit. That, however, is not to more certain of myself in my them to an unknown destination day, and that he was in debt to say that, bankers' methods and efforts to get a match with Jack He was taken to a schoolhouse, the extens of £120. His pay was their attitude towards the finance] HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB. Dempsey for the world's cham-where he found a'Sinn Fein Court-reduced, and he was compelled to of manufacture are incapable of p onship.
martial sitting. The farmer was repay the amount. He now asked improvement.
Cricket nets will be up for "It is not that I have ever there also.
for payment at 63 a day. The NEW DEPARTURES IS BRITISH practice on Monday, 13th Septem- feared that my right to fight The case was heard at some Crown took the preliminary point
bor, weather permitting. Mem- with Dempsey would be question. length, and the Court retired, that the claimant had no right of Sober post-war reflection em-bers are requested to consult ed. But, wanting to fight Dempsey When it reassembled the pre-action.
phasises the desire for a revolutos notices in the Pavilion as to ar- and getting him to defend his title ident announced that men had His lordship, quoting Lord in British banking. Nevertheless, rangements for cricket and tennis. are two rastly different propasi already been sent to the farmer's Exber, said the law was as clear British bankers, like other people, tions. The way to match-making land to drive bis cattle to the it could be, and had been laid have certainly learnt lessons from was never easy. And, since towa. The merchant was direct-dawn over and over again that all the war, and have taken in- believe it bad for any boxer to ed to sell the cattle and to recoup engagements between those in portant stepsto keep pace with the Hongkong. 9th September, 1920, keep off fighting for an indefinite himself from the proceeds to the military service and the Crown modern requirements of industry. period, I hava gladly accepted the amount of his debt, the balance were voluntary on the part of the It used to be said that the chance to try conclusions with to be lodged in the Court for re-Crown, and gave no occasion for German banker looked for pro- Levinsty.
turn to the farmer.
an action in respect of any alleged spects of successful development. The president added that in contract. Plaintiff's position in the British banker looked only addition the farmer was sentenced the present case was distinguish-for solid existing security. "The man who makes fighting to two months bard labour on his fable, because previous cases dealt Such a comparison, whatever a profession and does not seek own farm, as his conduct was with officers, whereas this case may have been the case before every reasonable opportunity to calculated to bring the Republican dealt with a soldier, but Lord the War, is today entirely
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. take part in serious contest must movement into contempt. It - Esher's words were sufficiently untrue. suffer to have his capacity to said that the farmer is now work-comprehensive to cover both. I:
THE TWENTY-FOURTH OR- Take an instance at random DINARY ANNUAL MEETING fight impaired. So, until Dempseying on his own farm under a might be that there was a species A recent prospectos showed that of Shareholders in the above Com is ready, I go on fighting, because volunteer picket.
of contract entered into, but it by an entirely Lew and promising pany will be held at the Com- ôghting is my trade.
At a Sinn Fein Court at Mohill no means followed that it vested manufacturing concern was being pany's Town Office 2 Lover THE Undersigned have received * After
victory my
three men found guilty of injur in a soldier the right to enforce financed in its development stage Albert Road. over Beckett I was prepared toling the property of local Protest-by & petition of right the pay-by temporary advances from one TUESDAT
Hongkong. meet the champion at the ant residents were given stiffnent of sums to which he claim of the great joint stock banks. SEPTEMBER 1920 at 12.30 the 21st day of earliest possible moment. Mr. sentences, and payment of com-jed to be entitled in respect of his the latter taking as security o'clock in the afternoon for the C. B. Cochran offered me such pensation was imposed on them. services to the Crown as a soldier. mortgage debentures in the new purpose of presenting the Report terms that neither I nor any other
The claim was dismissed. company. Such a policy has of the Directors and Statement! man could refuse, and I am`urder.
been freely, and will be still more of Accounts to 31st July 1920. an agreement with that promoter
freely adopted. until the end of the present year to battle for the title. That is, if Mr. Cochran secures the signature)
MUST NOT RUST.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT TSINGTAU.
Teingtro, Aug. 10-Sir Charles
EASTER AS FIXED FESTIVAL,
The most prominent of recent features in British industry has been amalgamation into bigger
Ambassador 2: HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATE.manufacturing units. Our bankers
were not slow to see that bigger
NOTICE.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from th to 21st September 1920, both days includ
Order
Term
commences Monday, September 13th.
WANTED-To rent, unfu-n- ished 4 or 5 roomed house, fram January first Middle level or Box 463.
FOR SALE.
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TO BE LET.
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Applicants for admission should attend in the Great Hall at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 11tb.
Prospectus 1920-21 upon ap-gineers and Surveyors. plication to the Headmaster.
We have this day establish
Consulting En-
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
instructions to sell by Public Auction 05
Thursday. the 9th September
1920.
commencing at 10.30 a.. at No. 18 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon Round and Square Bar Iron. A Large Quantity of Flat, Steel and Iron Plates etc.
also
50 bales Cotton Belting, ex Harold Dollar. arrived on 17th April, 1918
M. MANUK,
Secretary Hongkong. 1st September, 1920.
NOTICE.
T
15
VARS No
M
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"and
of Dempsey, I must fight under Eliot, British his auspices, and the match would Tokyo, who is touring through take place in London, where China, stayed last night at the In the House of Lords recently industrial concerns meant a need, have won my greatest successes, British Consulate in Tsinan on Lord Desborough drew atten- for bigger banks. That realisation and whose people are my friends his way here. He arrived heretion to the inconveniences arising was the moving force behind the I have never seen Dempsey. this evening by the 7.30 p.m. from Easter being a moreable great banking amalgamation. but before I left New York on train accompanied by Colonel fesat, and from an antiquated But this very board the French steamer La Kusalabe, Japanese
amalgamation bas one result of which rano- Lorraine my manager saw Mr President : Tsinan.
Militars calendar, and moved His Ex- Jack Kearns, who looks after the cellenes
That His Majesty's Govern.facturers complain-entirely Was received at the ment be requested to summon a without reason according to the THE HONGKONG TUTORIAL & affairs of the champion, and be Station by many noted people conference at the earliest possible view of baskers. The process of was most decided in his determ and immediately went to ination not to defend his title Grand Hotel
the opportunity to consider the absorption, says the The Ambassador | advisability of the establishment|facturer. removes responsible outside his own country. If that will lease for Shanghai on the of a fixed date for the celebration control to London, and intimate be the definite and unalterable 24th.
of Easter and of the reform of the touch with local conditions is lost. decision of Dempsey. I do
calendar."
The responsible head of a local
the least
not blame him in degree, though I bave
all
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EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
43. Bonham Road. Opposite the University Tel. No. 732. P.O. Box. 593.
Principal
JOHN P. JONES, B.Sc., M.E. Min.
and
He said the change was desired bank would be in constant touch by many Chambers of Commerce, with every passing phase and along clung to the belief that he will meet me. Assuming that Mr. It was possible for Easter Sunday every feature in the outlook. say.. would come to Europe. for, really. Cochran is not successful into vary within a period of 35 of the bosiery and boo: trades, 0: The Institute affords Special Pr the purse offered by Mr. Cochran bringing Dempsey to England, it days from March 22 to Aprilbatever be the local occupations. paration (Class and Private, Day and is a tremendous one, and one is likely that the fight will take 25. That affected the Whilsun-He had to consider only the Evening. Oral and Correspondence) which before I went to America place in Jule of xt year just tide holiday correspondingly.
situation as he saw it before him. for University Matriculation I never supposed Dempsey would outside New York, in the open. The Archbishop of Canterbury Now, so runs the argument, hef Dagite Examinations. be privileged to share in his own
"I see
that Joe Beckett is said that among the Anglican is only the puppet of London country.
Naw Session bas now commenced. "But, as you know, Dempsey over him was a Duke."
anxious to show that my victory bishops recently gathered from headquarters, which are out of Taterial Classes are being conducted
Like fall parts of the world has been exonerated from the every other British boxer. I bare 14ndon there was a unanimous the
in touch. Without entering into in English, Mathematics, Trigonome
merits of charge ar
the question, try. Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry. evading military
great regard for Beckett. If it is ing that they had no objection one may say
that the History. service, and with the introduc-possible for me to give him ahatever to the Easter festival institution of local boards in Freach, for Hongkong University Geography, Latin and tion of
law which will second match I shall be happy to being fired instead of moveable as manufacturing centres capable of July Examinations. permit 'decision contests in the do so. But good sportsman that at present. They did not wish authoritative advice and guidance New York State. I have a feeling I know him to be I am sure be the holiday, especially in England, (generally to be accepted at these subjects. that American promoters will seek will appreciate my position. It to be divorced from the period of headquarters) is worthy of closer
а
WILLING TO RETURN TO AMERICA
during
lost
commerce,
A Large Quantity of Sundry Goods.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS:
Auctioneers.
FOR SALE.
MILNER'S SAFES
APPLY TO
LAMMERT BIOS. Daddell Street.
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
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NOTICE.
THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT.
CO., LTD.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty cents per share has been declared for the half-year ending 30th June, 1920.
17th September, 1920 at the Such Interim Dividend will be payable on and after FRIDAY. Offices of the Company, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warranta.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be closed from 6th to 16th September, 1920 (both day inclusive) during which period no transfer Shares can be registered.
of
By Order of the Board of Directors.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
General Managers.
NOTICE.
KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.
A Grand Illuminated Promeo- ade Concert will be held in the grounds of the K.C.C. on Satur- day, September 11th, at 9 p.m.. The Full Band of the Wil Regiment will perform (by La permission of Lient. Col. Wynd- ham and Officers), and several well-known local artists will ap- pear. Admission $1.00.
NOTICE.
From the 1st September Mr. L. Gain has been appointed manager of the Erm in Hongkong to re- place Mr. Gaujoin, former man- ager, leaving Hongkong for the Head Office in Tientsin.
B. GAUJOIN . General Manager Brossard Mopic & Co.
NOTICE.
Privsts Tuition can also be had insty pusre.
to outbid Mr. Cochran. For my is
Prospectus on application. this-After five years off the ecclesiastical owa part, the promoting side of the war.
celebration. consideration. fight matters little or nothing. only
which I no: The Anglican Church would ex- THE BASEERS' PROBLEMIS.
methods are travelling fast, under fortune. bat pect the concurrence can only say that of all places in during, that time, earned o
of the As regards short credit, indus-difficult circumstances, in the the world there is none better in more than a few shillings a week, the change.
Roman Catholic community in trial complaints are less common. wake of moving conditions and which I should like what may be I, at the earliest opportunity, de-desirable that
It would be very Long credit is a different matter.
requirements. my last fight to take place than fended my title of heavy-weight should be fixed for some Sunday branch, with eyes on advances one matter which vitally (though HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD
Easter Sunday It is complained that the local
Finally, all must own in the London.
champion of Europe, and surely coming within the 35 days within from headquarters, la often too sometimes indirectly) affects the I may be excused for making a which it now occurred.
importunate in its demands for menafacturer, namely the franc fight for the world's champion- The Earl of Onslow, for the repayment instalments.
An Interim Dividend of $5 per ship the one last and greatest Government, said the matter was
ing of overseas These
demands the man-
asbare bas been declared for the "But it takes two men to make object of my fighting lite.
remarkable advance has been balf-gear ending 30th June 1920. one primarily for the Christian ufacturer will find becoming more' a fight, and if Dempsey will not.
made. After that I want to retire Churches, and on that they re-insistent at the time that is for
Such interim dividend will be yield in his determination not to from the ring, for I bare other in-quired fuller and more definite him the most inconvenient
A QUADRUPLE SUICIDE. payable on and after Tuesday, fight outside America, then Iterests ortside the ring. And be-information. Bot, even if all the namely, in-times of slack trade. A case of double shinju is raj14th September 1920 at the Offices must go to the States and fight sides, after I have fought Dem. Churches were favourable to the That is one of the great problems ported from Fukuoka prefecture, of the Company, where Share- there.
psey. I should have a fortune of change, he asked whether the for the study of bankers and in-Japan. In the small hours of the holders are requested to apply for With very few exceptions at least £100,000, which will be present time, especially in viewdustrialists.
23rd August two waitresses in
Warrants. American people believe-indeed, all the money I need ever want of the political conditions io But in all this, let not the man- the employ of a restaurant in the The Register of Shares of the they did not hesitate to tell me and hope to have. With such a Eastern Europe, was a suitable ufacturers forget that bankers town of lidzuka-cho, Kaho-gun, Company will be closed from 7th that it is as certain as any fortune. when yet not 30 years of time for taking up the question. have also their troubles. Bank-took poison with their lovers. 10 14th September 1920 (both days thing can be that Dempsey age, I shall say, with all the The Government, while syming is the bandareid of industry, seems that the two young men inclusive) during which period will knock me out. say of him that he is the that I bare been well blessed, that not until more settled and that bankers have other problems fathers' money in dissipation, ha registered.
They sincerity and appreciation in me, pathetic to the proposal, thought but it is sometimes overlooked who had been squandering thei no transfer of Sharea can be greatest heavy-weight the world and that the life of the boy of normal times, could any satis-to think of as well as the finance finally been disinherited. Unabl By order of the Board of effective as from the 9th August has known since the Fitzsimmons Lens who became a professional factory results be expected from of domestic industy-vastly and to raise the necessary funds to Directors. era. I am free to admit that he 'scrapper" when but 12 years of such an international conference vitally important though that be. keep themselves in frequent touc is. That is why it is my ambition age, and whose fire: fight was for as was proposed.
Let them remember that with their women, these four re to meet him when and where beb france is indeed a romance."
British banking and banking solved on xhinju together.
MUSTARD & CO.
Connaught Rd. Central
Telephone No, 1186, *
*
The motion was withdrawo.
JOSEPH BROTHERS
I hereby give notice that I have returned to the Colony and that the Power of Attorney given by me on behalf of myself and my firm to Messrs. Rueben Julian and R. M. G. Silva ceased to be
1920.
Manager.
(Signed) E. M. Josep b
JOSEPH BROS.. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1920.
J. H. TAGGART,
Hongkong, 31st August, 1920.
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