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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
WAR MEMORIAL.
SUBSCRIPTION LIST,
For the erection by Public Subscription, of a building to bej run on YM, D, A. linės, to bel called the "War Memorial Institute and to be managed for) the joint use of the Navy, the Army and Civilians by a Joint Board of Directors.
A portion of the sum raised will| be devoted to the erection of a per-| manent stone memorial which will be put in hand at an early date.
SATURDAY
JANUARY 29. 1921..
ROYAL.
NEW
THEATRE
TO-NIGHT. For a Short Season only. REYNOLDS DENNISTON LTD.
“
presenta
io
The Popular Denniston Players
The Mirthquake one long loud laugh-
PLEASE GET MARRIED
(To-morrow)
Prices.
Size.
Mike.
Tyres. Tubes.
5 C
$ C
28 x 3
Fisk Clincher!
20.00
$.00
28 x 3
U.S. Chain (Clincheri
25.00
$.00
31 x 4
Fisk (Clincher)
35.00.
12.00
Lists may be, found at- Messra. Lane Crawford Mes-rs. Kelly & Walsh
33 x 4
Dunlop (Straight side)
75.00
13.00
Mesara, Moutrie
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Messy. Wm. Powell Ltd.
34 x 4
Fisk (Straight side) N.S.
65.00
15.50
The Hongkong Chub
Saturday
The Hongkong Cricket Club
34 x 4
Fisk (Clincher) Pain tread
60.00
15.50
The Club Lusitano
The Engineers Institute
34 x 4
Dunlop (8.50)
95.00
15.50
35 x 4
L.S. Chain (8.5)
35 x 4
Dunlop (Clincher)
100.00 16.00
-95.00 16.00
The Victoria Recreation Club The Kowloon Fricket Club The Kowloon Bowling Club The Peak Club
37 x 5
Dunlop (Clincher or S.S) 130.00 20.00
the Play that was penned to make people laugh **THE GIL FROM RECTOŻS“
For the first time in Hongkong
"THE CO-KESPONDENT"
PRICES:
At the request of many "SHE WALK B IS HER SLEEP For the first time in tongkang
"SOP HIF
Rua Weiman's remarkable play
ICONITTĀL"
The populat laugh play "THENKISSED SKIDE"
54. $2 and $1.
Performance. 945 pm. SHASP.
BOOKISG AT MOUTRIE'S.
During the season The Peak Tramway Co. will run a special cars 15 minutes after the performance.
ROYAL
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAP CO
24. Des Vaux Road, Central.
Tel. 482 & 3525.
Tel. 482 & 3552.
The Club de Recreio The Chalgengower y lub
M. J. BREEN,
Hon. Secretary War Memorial
Committee.
THEATRE
"THE PHARIES"
THE BOOKSHELF.
(By "Librarian.")
THE ART OF THE PEN,
dark. It is richer, indeed, in jewels and precious metals and CUTIOUS ornamenta than
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tlosses. The sheperil on the hill) ade seblum tells his tale inter rupted. Mange mes in honour of ancient internal deities that Any contribution from the pendelight in death are practised in of Mr. Rubert Lynd invites atten tion. this articles and sketches in the daily journals and the periodical Press are usually good reading, but they do notshow him) at his best This
is not only because of the lim izations in the scale of such work; there is also the pain factor, which
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hidden places, and the echo of these reaches him on the sighs of the wind and makes him shudder even as he looks at his beloved." Then we have this miniature of Tennyson:
"He wore a postiral cloak, and avoided the vulgar crowd physically: he had none
of
a
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG TUTORIAL & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
GRAND
43, Bonham Road. Opposite the University Tel. No. 12. P.O. Box. 523. Principal
JOHN P. JONES, B.Sc., M.E. Min.
The Institute seda Sperial Fre jaration (Class and Pirate. Day and Evening. Und and Comparalizace › be riversity Matriculation Degree Exadinations.
New desin has you comine!
in English, Mathematis Trigun me Turial Classes are being vend vere.
try. Mechanics. Physics, Chemistry History. Ungraphy, Latin French, ie Hongkong Unredon July Examinations,
Private Tui» can ske de bad in these tests
Prong me tapes on plication.
inimici, if not fatal, to high; Browning's taste for tea parties. grade composition, No such Rot Browning had not alea party influences deflect him in the
imagination; Tennyson. 15 he has just producent volume
great degree, had." under the tile of "The Art Letters." published by Pismote graphic in their setting than
The Sketches, of course, loom LADIES' RECREATION CLUB- Bowin. In the engenial
when detached,
Lynd
"
mosphere of heller Wellnes Mr. Mr. Laval dies not affiliate to appears akain BS the the weight-and-measure order of graceful essay M. Tubigin with criticisin, believing thatre be is happy in the late fecriticism is not the imposition of book, a rather obvious and there theoretic laws, but an attempt to fire an eminently apposite label.to catch the inner light and to One feels that many writers communicate its secret. The end literature must have adopted this of criticism is less he giving tille, and yet I do not remember to have met with it. Commonly reminiscent of Matthew Arnold.
than conversion." Thi is i we speak of ang comel 1 inora (2 course these are terms of en venience, to distinguish hterature from plastic and other art-formede There is a vast print-output that is not art, beamet is not-femra ture, which is essentially an art
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A general meeting will be held
the City Hall on Wednesday February 2nd at 12 noon.
Your atten-lance is Specially requested
LOROTHY DIGBY,
Hon. Secretary.
Major-General Sir Archibal!} Anaon is in. if he has not com peter, hus 95th year and in |Abos: Myself and Obers" he
looks tough we reigns bark rott and the title chosen by Mr. lagadecupied the Throne, Some things the days when another George conveys a gentle reminder of the fact.
A gallery of pen-pittures is presented to us covering a wide and varied range. Such different figures as the "Bard", Donte Bunyan. Popra, Swift, Horace Walpole and Cowper rise into view, and, coming-neater to own time, Coleridge and Sheller Tennyson and Willian Morris carry us into the company of the Orest Victorians, among whom WA mag surely also include Meredith, though his span of over eighty years makes us thin: of bira of later date. Prof. Saintsbury, Dr. Grase, and some Georgian writers in prose verse bring us to contemporare figures.
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and
in the earlier chapters have 18 strong element of cutres temps dutres prowaras, as when the author refers to the branding of deserters During big lung military and Idministrative ester-Generati Anson was in charge of the Straits Settlements, where very different conditions then prevailed Bhis was in the 'sixties and seventies!, as may be judged. from the fact that Governors were allowed to trade!
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Speculative and Political,signalise Mr. Balfour's; return to the literary field. In their scope breadth as well as depth-the author vies with his! versatile countryman, the late Andrew Lang-
Mr. Land's manner, it will be seen, is not the didactic, but the pictorial-expository, He is no
Mr. Chesterton's folios always writing a text-book, but a series arouse interest, which the of essays. The purpose is rather Zionist activity increases in the to encourage the appreciation of case of his latest, "The New literature than to furnish Jerasileam,"
& guide for writers, albeit OK.C." recent visit to the
youug aspirant, and Holy Land.
the
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St. Andrews Hall,
MONDAY
31st January
at 30
P. m,
FAREWELL
RECITAL
Sklarevski
Sklarevski
Sklarevski
Tickets at ANDERSON'S Prices $3, $2 &51.
BILLIARDS.
Another League Match.
In an inter-M.ss League match played last evening in the Cen-
of
will give a
VARIETY -PERFORMANCE
in aid of
The Portsmouth Disaster Fund forthe Dependents
of the me. lost in KS Submarine.
Tuesday, the 15th and Wednesday the 16th February,
Prices
$3, $2 and $1.
Hooking at MOUTRIE'S.
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH MEN'S ASSOCIATION
0.
NOTICE.
MARATHON RACE.
th To be held under the auspices
ahove Association o Thursday, 10th February at 4 p.m. To be run in Kowloon, distance tout 7 miles.
NOTICE.
ADVERTISEMENTS,
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
Flessa note we have removed four Offices to Mercantile Bank Building. No. 7 Queen's Road Central 3rd Floor.
WANTED.
WANTED.-To rent or buy Godown near waterfront per Ist February next. Apply Box 499 to "Hongkong Tolegraph."
WANTED.-Stewardess for steamer proceeding to Liverpool middle of March 1921. Applicants. MANNERS & BANKHOUSEwith previous experience and certificates of services only need apply. Messrs. Batterield and Swire.
LIMITED.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
5. S. SAI CHOU"
TO BE LET.
TO LET-Comfortable house Nos. 11 and 13 Liberty Avenue
NOTICE is hereby given that Ho Man Tin, for Europeans. the Steamship "Sal Chau" In her Apply to E Hing & Co., 25 Wing present condition as she lies of Wo, Streat. Shamshuipo in the Harbour of
of the Court Hongkong will be sold by Order
by
DO
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Tuesday the 22nd day of February
1921 at 2 o'clock p.m.
br
Messrs LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street
TO LET-Fully furnished fat (1 rooms) at top af Prince's Buildings, from 1st. April to 31st. October. Apply, Gilman & Co. Ltd.
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The Thirty-fourth Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of
The Ship is a Chinese Ship Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.,
registered in Canton and her! dimensions are approximately as follows:-
Length Breadth
Depth
241.6 feet 13. 19.
Gross Tonnage 1156 Tone
Registered Toanage 745 Tons. For Further Particulars and conditions of Sale apply to
F. E. NASH Bag..
Solicitor.
$ Queen's Road Central.
or 20
Messrs LAMMERT BROS, Daddell Stree: *Auctioneer.
·Hongkong, 28th January, 1921.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Particulars and Conditions of THE Undersigned hay-rec-ired date to be held on Monday, Auction va The letting by Public Auction
instructans to sell 55 Public the 31st day of January. 1921, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, bl Order of His Excellence thel Governor, of one Lot of Crown! Entrants to be nominated by a Land at Ma Tau Kok in the at No. 127 the Peak Bieton ** member of the Association. All Colony of Hongkong. for A Quantity of Valuable Household
Route to be announced later.) Silver Trophies-1st. 2nd and 3rd. Open to all European in the Colony.
applications for entry to be sent
to the undersigned.
D. G. PURVES. Secretary Sports Committee, C/o Jardine Mesheson & Co. Lid
NOTICE.
The Shareholders of the Ban- que Industrielle de Chine are herewith informed that an interim dividend of Fra.-29. per-share- will be paid from February lab, 1921. on presentation of their certificates at the Head Office, in Paris, and any of its agencies
THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
St. George'y Building Chater Road, Hongkong.
Telegraphic address Globe Hoogkong:
Notice is hereby given that as
fel. No, 200.
tral Police Mess, the "R.G.A.from the Ist day of February nex: Victoria best the homesters by 4Mr. William Eric Haly will take games to 2. The scores were a charge of the above Company's business in Hoogkong as Acting Manager.
follows:-
R.GA VICTORIA (4). Sgt. Barchard
150
account of
S. Sgt. Gillard
130
Mr. Gur. Thomas
150
Q.M. Harman
88
Sgt. Miller ...
S. Sgt. Hunt...
150" 114
H.K. POLICE. (D).
Mr. Gerrard...
100
T
Earder...
141
T
Carpenter
107
Reid
*
... 121
Earnshaw
Wilon
150 -150
some older goes, will find here a number of pages from which they
Mr. Anthony Hope has not been may benefit.
over-writing himself. He resum- Alinstrating the author'ses his place on the active-list. faculty of vignette production, I with a novel entitled "Luciads." will adopt Mr.Lynd's own plea for quotation from the subject-matter, The latest publishers' catalo the more gladly because this gues include" Boxing" by Lord method, deprecated by critics of Headley, who won the-amateur the superior sort, has a direct championship when be was Mr. value. This is how be limns the R. G. Allanson-Wiun. personality of Donne, pioneer of
the school of poetry. vaguely JAPANESE SCHOOL CHILDREN'S designated the "metaphysical" - FUND FOR CHINESE FAMINE.
"It is mysterious and at Two million elementary school times repellent laland. It lies children throughout Japan lave only intermittently in the sun. contributed one hundred thousand A fog-hangs around it coast, andyan to famine telic. The indi- at the base of its most radiantvidual child's share ranges from moontain tops there is, as a role, three to five sen. Mex. Noguchi miasma-infested swamp. There and Najiri, directors of the are jewels to be found scatter Imperial Educational Society, are among its rocks and over its shortly leaving for Chins with surface, and by miner in the the money.
The Ho Kom Tong Cups.
R H. P. KEWLEY, Local Manager. The Liverpool & London and -Globe Insurance Co., Ltd.-- 22nd January, 1920.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL-
RACE WEEK.
Dinner Dances will be held on fthe following flaten :
Wednesday, 23rd. February 1921.
Playing at the Palace Hotel last Saturday, 16th. February, 1921. night. R. Thomas-(-176) beat A. Tse Tak Oa (-150), 250-245.
DERBY DAY.
Best breaks.-Thomas, 2T, 17, Thursday, 24th. February, 1921 17: Tse, 18.
J. M. V. Ribeiro, (-200) beat A. Rowe (-100), 250-274.
- FANCY DRESS BALL AND *SUPPER. (Fancy Dress optional)
Best breaks-Ribeiro, 20, 18, Tickets $5. For head includ 17, 17, 16, 16; Rowe. 15.
Monday's Games.
ing supper and refreshments.
d view at the fact that the ac
6 p.m., S. H. Stroud (-209) v. I. Commodation will be limited, and Seymour (-125).
in order to avoid overcrowding, p.m, J. Brook (-200) v. Wong Pu-honi (-200).
intending patrons are advised to book early).
term of 15
Friday, the 4th January, 1020, commencing at 2.45 p.m
Furniture
Lid, on Friday, February 4th. 1921, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the rear ended December 31st, 1920.
The Transfer Books of the Com- January 25:b, 1931, to Frday. pany will be Closed from Turaday. February 4th, 1921, both days inclusive.
By order of the Board of
Directors.
W. S. BROWN. Secretary.
Hongkong, 20th January, 1920.
NOTICE.
THE INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
The Directors of the above Company have declared an In- serim
Dividend on Deferred Shares for the year 1933 at the Tat of 6 Der share.
Dividends for Shareholders on the Colonial Register are free of Income Tax and will be paid at the rate of 2 1 per dollar.
Dividend Warrants will be ob tainable pa and after Saturday, 26th February, 1991, at the Com- pany's Office.
Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 19th February
years, with the option of renewal at a Crowuj Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor comprising: - Chesterfield sofa & to 28th February, both days in- of His Majesty the KING, for one chairs, Mackwood tables, stools elusive. further term of 75 years,
and jardinieres, mother of pear! JARDINE MATHESON & CO. LTD. Haid curio cabinet. took card PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.rable, ery chairs, pictures, old
General Managers.
Batt zasuremente
200
200
0
G.
P
NOTICE.
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Particulars and Conditions of
bronzes, carpete, rugs. brass Hongkong, 26th January, 1931. Fender electric fittings etc., elc.
Teak extension dining table and chairs, teak sideboard with beveli led mirror, tak dinner tapona,
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
His Excellency the Governor
American refrigerator glassware, has kinds consented to open the teak screen etc., etc.
new Cathedral Hall on Monday.
Single leak & iron bedsteads 131st inst, at 3.15 p.m. and at tak wardrobes, teak dressing 15.38 p.m. the Annual Meeting of rable wa-ha tände,
seatholders and subscribers will chest of
be hel All members of the. drawer enam-lled baths, geyser etc., etc.
congregation whether seatbalders or not, are cordially invited to attend both functions.
Hongkong. 28th January, 1921.
Also
A Quantity of Ferns in pots
And
1 Grand Fiano by Steinman & Son (in fine condition)
Catalogues will be framed.
On view from Thurs lay, the
Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
te letting by Public Auction 3rd February. Sale, to be held on Monda. the 31st day of January, 1921, at? p.m. at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of Crown Land bebind Inland Lot No. 1618, Shaukiwan Road. in the Colony al Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal atj a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for cae further term of 75
years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
*41933
Foland Lol Nə, 1392-
Lewatiny,
21a18 Braukiran Band.
Body
PEĻU SAJAUN
A.
I W.
Sýrleston, | fees fleet. } /
+
FOR SALE.
MILNER'S SAFES
APPLY TA
LAMMERT BROS
Duddell. Street,
FOR SALE.
One Hornsby ---- Ackroyd » Oi!}
Engine 31 Horse Power Fuel: Kerosens. Complete with cooling
NOTICE.
THE KOWLOON LAND & BUILDING CO., LTD..
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY SECOND ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Com- pany will be held at the Company's offices Victoria Buildings "on Friday 4th February 1921 at 12 Io'clock noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc- ftors tozether with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December 1920.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY 26th Janu- ary to FRIDAY 4th February both days inclu-ive during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directory. MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE
Secretary to
apparatus; in good condition. May The Hongkong Lind Investment
be viewed by appointment at
GEN CLUB HILL BARKACIS, KOWLOON.
A spy to the undersigned.,
LAMMERT BROS.
& Agency Co., Ltd. General Agents for
The Kowloon Land & Buildi
Co., Ltd.
Hongkong, 19th January, 1921.