NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
WANTED-Young Lady, ten years drygoods experiance, Eng- land and Canada, desires position same or any business capacity. clerical of otherwise. Capable managing department Hongkong. Mies Shanghai of Singapore. Grecs 1108 Burrand Street, Van- couver, Canada.
WANTED-By married couple for the 1st of October, five rooms unfurnished, with servants' quar ters, mid level preferred-Apply Box No. 597 c/o Hongkong) Telegraph."
WANTED.-A nurse for a girl aged 31 years, at the Peak. Apply by letter to Box Na 398 c/o Hongkong Telegraph."
WANTED.-Office in Central! locality. Apply Fuji Trading Co. Ltd.
WANTED-Competent Steno- gra her with knowledge of filing -Ap ly Box No. 591 ca "Hong- kong Telegraph."
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TO BE LET
LET-With immediate possession. No. 4 Queen's Road Central Hongkong. Offices only sinate on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. and 5th Floors. Entrance in Daddell Street. Hongkong, with use of two lifts, each floor fitted with Electric Wiring for lights and two lavatories. At ply to Box 593 e/o "Hongkong Telegraph."
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE HONGKONG
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Friday, the 19th. August, 1931
commencing at të am
at No. 1 Godown of the Hong- kong & Kowloon Wharf
& Godown Co. Ltd. Kowloon
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TELEGRAPH.
HONGKONG HOTEL' CO., LTD.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1921.
FRUIT AND THE CHILDREN.
SLAVERY UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG.
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
All About Hongkong. MEETING of the above Com
A WORD OF WARNING.
Under the above beading the pauy will be hold at the HONG
Sound ripe fruit is good for Methodist Times of July 14, has KONG HOTEL Pedder Straat, Victoria in the Colony of Hong children, but damaged or over-the following long article
Thare has come into my hands lung on WEDNESDAY, the ripe fruit is exceedingly, can- TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF gerous, especially at this time of lately a Diary which tells. in JULY, 1921, AT NOON, for the year, causing diarrhea, dyson oirdumstantial language, a story purpose of considering, and, iftary, cole, indigestion and worms, which, if it were widely known, thought fit, approving the draft When you have reason to ought to create a passion of ruoral new Memorandum of Association suspect that your child has eaten indignation comparable to that of the Company which will be fruit of a doubtful character the inspired by the crusade of Jose- submitted to the Meeting. A best course is to administer a dose phine Butler.
Much of the Diary is too in- Wire, print of such draft new Memo-of Baby's Own Tablets at once,
randum of Association and for these Tablets quickly but timate and sacred for repetition. print of the existing Memoran-gently cleanse the stomach and It tells the story of the call of a dum of Association of the Com-bowels, and can be given with woman to a difficult and painful reveals the Voice the service, and pany may be seen at the Com-absolute safety even to pany's Hegistered Office in the youngest or most delicate infant. which called, and the source of Hongtong Hotel, Pedder Street Baby's own Tablets, the Cana-the strength by which the call aforesaid, and a comparison of the dian children's remedy, are also has been obeyed. HEUndersigned have received print of the existing Memoranduma specific for teething troubles, THE
instructions from the Solicit-of Association with the print canstipation, colds, and group. ors for the Estate concerned to of the draft new Memorandum of They bring calm, natural, health Association will show where in giving sleep and promote regular sell by Public Auction on
the draft new Memorandum of developmes, From chemists, or Friday, the 19th August, 1931
Association differs from the exist-direct and post free at 50 cents ing Memorandum of Association, the vist from The Dr. Williams Should the Meeting approve of Medicine Co. 96zechuan Road,
Memorandum of Shanghai. Association
or without! with A Private Collection of Old
modification. the subjoined Re- Chinese Paintings.
solution will be proposed as Resolution, On view from Thursday the an Extraordinary 18th inst
Damely
Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddoll Street
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
THEUndersigned have received
instructions to sell by Public! Auction on
Monday, the 22nd August, 1931
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their bales Rooms, Duddal} Street
A Quantity of Valuable House hold Furnitäre
TO LET-Furnished from (Full particulars from catalogue)
on
about 1st Feb., 1922. for 10 months, six-roomed house middle levels, garden and tennis court in excellent situation, rent $250. Apply Box No. 599 co
Hongkong Telegraph."
TO LET.-Shameen, Can:50.- A well-built and desirable house,! suitable for office and residence. Immediate possession. Apply to David Sassoon & Co., L:d.. Hongkong.
TO LET-One Flat to let in Tavri Building 41. 1st Floor, Nathan Road, Kowloon.-Apply to J. P. Vasunia 38. Wyndham Street 1s: Floor.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the exclu-ive exhibition rights for Hongkong & China of the Serial Cinematograph picture en- titled "VANISHING TRAILS" consisting of a set of 15 episodes of two reels each is the propert of the Middle East Films Ltd. and fortber that these rights can only be sold or leased by the Middle East Films Ltd. or their duly authorised agents.
Proceedings will be taken against anybody exhibiting such films who have not obtained pro- per authority from the Middle East Films Ltd. to exhibit the
BADO.
DEACON LOOKER DEACON & HARSTON,
Solicitors for" THE MIDDLE EAST FILMS LTD Hongkong, 10th August, 1921.
HONGKONG WATER POLO ASSOCIATION.
A'so
1 Cottage Piano by "Collard
Collard "
! Victor Typewriter (new) On view from Saturday the
20:h jest.
Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS.
ΤΗ
such
Dow
TO AID VIENNESE ARTISTS. An exhibition of etchings and wood engravings by Austrian artists has been opened at the (That the provisions of the Medici Galleries, Grafton street Company's Memorandum of London, in aid of the artists of Association with respect to Vienna. its objects be altered so as to read as shewn in the print
Here are one or two extracts Nov. 6, 1919. "In May, 1913, years before going to seven China, I received these words as distinct message: "That thou arest say to the prisoners: Go forth; and to them that are in
Show yourselves darkness: This morning, on waking, I heard them again.clearly and distinctis, and I understood them at last."
Thou hast small strength '— well, Christ knows all about that.... Is this an allotment of Providence which can use our): disappointments better sometimes than our achievements?. ΤΟ Philadelphia, hardly judged and jadging itself bardly, Christ utters His Well done. thou hast small
signed for the purpose of THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL strength, but thou has done a
identification by the Chair- man of this Meeting. and also for the following further! purposes, namely ---
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COMPANY LIMITED.
SILIMPOPON COAL.
great thing kept the word of My patience and not denied My
name.
In the train, October, 1920.
We must not
to be bopa
mowers
AT YOUR SERVICE
CARS THAT ARE COMFORTABLE.
RATES THAT ARE REASONABLE
DRIVERS THAT ARE RELIABLE.
SCENERY THAT IS ENCHANTING.
SATISFACTION THAT IS ASSURED
Hongkong
Phone No 1337
BY
*PHONING EITHER
Kowloon H
The United Motor Co., Ltd.
Phone
WORLD THEATRE 337
(Next The Sun Co. Des Voeux Road, Central) All Tram Cars stop at this Theatre. Tuesday, the 16th to Thursday, 18th August.
-9.15 P.m.-
BETTY BRICE
in
"LOYALTY"
An Intensely Dramatic Story
of Gripping Actions in six parts.
5.15 p.m. Matinees: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.
"THE FLAME OF THE YUKON
2.30 p.m. and 1.15 p.m. 17th & 18th episodes of "THE MOON RIDERS.".
JJ
The undersigned are prepared For the purpose of considering. and, if thought fit, approving the to quote prices for best quality
SILIMPOPON And to gather the ripe gold draft new Articles of the Company freshly mined which will be submitted to the COAL, trimmed into Bonkers at cars
Unless we have first been Or SANDAKAN Meeting. A print of Such new SEBATTIS Articles and a print of the ex-(British North Borneo) or sowers
And watered the furrow with isting Articles may be seen a contract for regular Bunker Sup the Company's Registered Office plies for 6 or 12 months at favour- tear-.~
has passed over. One of in the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder ble rates. Street aforesaid. in such printi
Steamers calling at SEBATTIK the last things he did was to go the portions of the proposed new or SANDAKAN exclusively for through this journal.... Perhaps Articles which differ from the Bunkers are exempt from pay- he will help us from the other existing Articles are indicated by ment of ordinary Port Charges, side. There are furrows to plongh undering in black ink and by The minimum draft of water in eternity. where His servants arginsim notes. Should the Meet alongside the Company's What serve Him."
That a cause should be un- ing approve of such new Articles at Sebattik is 23 feet at low water! with or with out modification. Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie dertaken in such an atmosphere Auctioneers, the subjoined Resolution will be Bay (Sebatik Harbour) and any is in itself a vindication of its November, 1919. My husband, tions, it may be a much more And inquiry bas Lieut.-Commander Haslewood, acceptable state of existence than proposed as AS Extraordinary required information concerning rightness. Resolution, namely
the port can be had on applica-strengthened the impression that, was Superintendent of the freedom."
"The course of events included the Diary has given. The cause Admiralty Chart Depot at Hong- (That the new Articles altion to
is the Abolition of Child Slavery kong. Une evening we were an extended and careful enquiry. ready approved by this Meet-
in Hongkong, and the people who horrified by the screams of a child the outcome of which was that ing and for the purpose of
have been chosen to serve it are which came from
a Chinese my husband was compelled to identification subscribed by The COWIE HARBOUR COAL Mrs. Haslewood and her husband, house. We wondered if this was choose between, giving up bis Lieut. Commander Haslewood, anything to do with the system position or preventing me from
of child slavery of which we had continuing the campaign. Readers of the Methalist Times already heard dark hints. The chose to relinquish his position.
"Confirmation of my conten- will recall our previous references maiter was reported to the police. (5) That it is desirable to capi-to this subject, and in particular and the reply was that probably tions was provided from many
The statement quarters. talise the sum of $1,000,000 the article by Watcher" which it was a slave-girl."
HE Undersigned have received instructions from the Soliei- tors of the Estate concerned to sell by Public Auction on Wednesday, the 17th Aug. 1931
commencing et 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell
Street,
A Private Collection of Valuable Antique China and Curios
of various periods.
comprising:
the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Com. pany to the exclusion of and
in substitution for all the existing Articles thereof. AND NOTICE HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a SECOND EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
Five coloured, three coloured. MEETING of the Company will famille rose, blue and white. be held at the HONGKONG dambe and caledon vases, jars, HOTEL, Pedder Street aforesaid, wall plates, bowls, pen-holders. on Saturday, the THIRTEENTH seal boxes, white incense burners and dishes, etc., etc.
On view from Tuesday the 16th August.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction of
Thursday, the 18th Aug.. Jos commencing at 2.45 p.m. at No. 6 Stewart Terrace, No. 92 the Peak
A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture
Comprising:
DAY OF AUGUST, 1921, AT NUON. for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceed- ings at the above mentioned Meeting and of confirming, if thought fit, as Special Resolutibus, the above mentioned Resolutions! (Nos. 1 and 2).
Should the first of the above! Resolations (No. 1) be confirmed as a Special Resolution by the requisite majority, the alterations in the Company's Memorandum of Association consequently in- volved will be submitted to the Supreme Court of Hongkong for! confirmation.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the said SECOND EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING to be Teak hatstand with bevelled held as aforesaid will be continued mirror, Chesterfield sofa and arm for the purpose of considering, chairs, made by Powell Ltd. Carand, if thought fit, passing the LA meeting of the above
pet, Lace and Casement Curtains, following further Resolutions as Association will be held on Wed-etc.
Extraordinary Resolutions, name- nesday the 17th inst., 6 o'clock, at the Victoria Recreation Club.
Teak extension dining table ly:- and chairs, sideboard with bevel-
Representatives of Teams intended mirror, dinner waggon. icel ing to compete in the Water Polo chest, tea tables, dinner crockery Shield Competition are requested and glassware etc., etc.
to attend.
R. C. WITCHELL
flon. Secretary.
VICTORIA RECREATION
CLUB.
Fourth Night Swimming Fete will be held on Friday 19th iosty at 9 o'clock sbarp. Attractive pro- gramme. See Posters. Entries for open events close on Tuesday the 16th inst.
Band in attendance. Admission -Members 50 cts., Non-members, $1.00. Ladies, Sailors & Soldiers 50 cts.
Reserved seats can be booked at $1.50 at the Club.
R. C. WITCHELL,
Hon. Secretary,
Teak double bedstead. Brass mounted single iron bedsteads. Teak wardrobe with bevelled mirror, marble top washstand,; toilet crockery, etc.
On view from Wednesday the 17th August (afternoon)
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.
NOTICE.
.Madame LA VAUTE is show- ing for one week a special selec- tion of the latest American Gowns, Blouses, Hats, and Sanshades. Ladies are invited. to view, mofoings "only, at King Edward Hotel (46),
BRADLEY & CO. LTD.
Agents.
CO. LTD.
R.N.
He
WAS
being part of the undivided was published in our issue of "At once I felt that I could not made frequently that slavery in profits of the Company stand: June 2. Now it is possible to place rest until I had got to know the Hongkong is illegal, but the facts ing to the credit of General before our readers further in-real facts of the case. I made of the case were generally ad- Reserve, and accordingly that formation which has been given careful enquiries in many quar mitted. Here are two extracts for the purpose of effective to us in an interview with Mrs. ters, and then I wrote a letter from the Press: such capitalisation such sum Hastewood.
PRELIMINARY FACTS.
to the Press. My letter in the "On one point there will be no of $1,600,000 be distributed as
South China Morning Post was dispute, and that is that Chinese bonus among the share-
"Perhaps I ought, Erst of all, followed by a leading article. children are bought sad sold in holders of the Company is proportion to the shares in to call attention to one or two which stated that the question this British Colony without their preliminary facts," said Mrs. had cropped up from time to consent being in any way obtain- the Company's present
"Hongkong Haslewood.
was time in the past twenty years, ed, and that no attempt whatever Capital of $1,000,000 held by
jis made to hide the fact."--Heng- them respectively on the date Caded to the British in 1842, and bot without any result
Although slavery may not be hereinafter referred to, and is now a Crown Colony. It has sand no authority seems strong kong Telegraph, November 5, 1919. that a bogus be declared ac population of about 200,000, of and energetic enough to alter it.. rordingly.
who
to person
another
by
And further that whom 6,000 are Europeans. It is The old resident regards it, we legally in existence in this colony, the Company's Board of Dir:controlled by a Governor and a regret to say, somewhat cala girl can be bought and sold, and ectors be and they are hereby Legislative Council. In 1844 a law lously. Newcomers are generally she can be beaten by her owner. promulgated forbidding stocked when they learn that If that is not slavery it is difficult authorised to satisfy such as bongs as far as possible by slavery in Hongkong, but it was such a condition as slavery exists to know what is."St. John's
Cathedral Magazine. disallowed as unnecessary, bo-in a Batish colony.'
"I want people to know also the distribution in manner
"The suggestion which I made aforesaid of 100,000 shares of cause the English laws as to $10 each credited as fully slavery extend by their own for immediate dealing with the that in raply to questions in the paid up among the persons Proper force and authority to evil was that some system of re- House of Commons the truth of are registered as the Hongkong." In 1878 the Chief Ju-gistration should be established my statements bas been admitted. tice of Hongkong declared that which would afford protection to The Under-Secretary for the holders of the shares con- stitating the Company's pre- there were in the colony 'between these unfortunate girls. I asked Colonies said that a custom exists sent Capital of $1,000,000 on ten and twenty thousand female for the support of all those who in Hongkong whereby children such date as the Company's slaves through the failure of the still retained the instincts of and girls can be transferred from Board of Directors shall Government to enforce the exist-British men and women, and said one
of a money payment laws.' The matter was that I intended to communicate means decide-such last mentioned ing shares to rank pari pasau brought to the attention of the at once with the Home author- (Bansard, Nov. 4 1920); that no wages are raid to the children with the shares constitut. Home Government, and the resultities, specially mentioning
of an ecquiry was that Lord Member of Parliament who gain and girls who, after the transac Company's ing the
DID. sent Capital of $1,000,000 Stanley of Alderley stated that ed firsthand knowledge of the tion referred to above, are put to in respect of all profits the Chief Justice bad exaggerated matter when visiting the Colony, work by their employers (Dec. 8. (3) That each of the existing of the Company earned since greatly. So the matter dropped, and who knew the true, sordid 1920); and that no provisions are the 31st December, 1920 though. from time to time refer-and shameful facts of the case. made with regard to the hoare of 20,000 fully paid up shares of $50 each constituting the and such distribution to be in ences were made to it in both the This M. P. was Colonel John labour and the kind of labour Ward, who has frequently asked which can be demanded of even Company's present Capital of satisfaction of the aforemen Colonial and British Press.
"The facts are that in almost questions in the House on the the youngest child thus banded" $1,000,000 be divided into 5 tioned bonus.
21. 1910). fully paid up shares of $10 AND NOTICE IS HEREBY every Chinese house there are subject, and who is helping in over for a money payment (Dec. As a matter of fact, the Gor- each so as to make such ALSO GIVEN that a THIRD one or more girls who are in vir-every possible way.
tual slavery. They are there "The latter which I wrote to Capital $1,000,000 consisting EXTRAORDINARY GENER
100,000 fully paid upAL MEETING of the Company under what is called a system of the Prese, and the campaign ernment has so far done noth- shares of $10 each.
will be held at the HONGKONG adoption, but the truth is that for which I then began roused a fierce ing which can be regarded as like HOTEL, Pedder Street aforesaid, money-payment they are hand-opposition. At once there was ly to meet the situation. The Col (4) That after the division on WEDNESDAY, the THIRTY ed over by their parents. The an official defence of the system, onial Office has issued a paper on police-court records contalo which was not denied but justified. Mui Tsai (servant-girls) in Hong- aforesaid, the Capital of the FIRST DAY OF AUGUST, 1921.
a campaign of mind which they are treat those who ranged themselves in action as Company be increased from AT NOON, for the purpose of abundant evidence of the cruelty am sorry to say that antung kong. This paper describes our $1,000,000 consisting as a-receiving a report of the proceed with. foresaid, to $2,500,000 divided ings at the above mentioned ed. In many cases they are defence of the Chinese system representation, and while no
to compelled
live an im-was a prominent missionary, knowledging the custom of so into 250,000 shares of $10 Meeting in so far as regards
It is impossible to terminate it. "The each by the creation of 150,- Resolution Nos. 3, 4 and 5 above moral life. They are the chief This is an illustration of the kind called 'adoption, declares that it 000 new shares of $10 each and of confirming, if thought fit, source of supply of the brothels of thing that was
of the East
It is no exaggere-appeared in an interview with a Chinese are above all intolerant- such new shares (subject as such last mentioned Resolutions tion to say that boatloads are Chinese official who has a large of interference in family affairs. . It is in fact impossible. hereinafter mentioned) to be as Special Resolutions.
brought from the mainland to say in the affairs of the Colony, issued at such time or times Dated this fourteenth day of Hongkong, and hundreds of them being an unofficial member of the to impose Western ideas on Chi- are shipped to ports in China and Legislative Council.nese family life, and reforms can India.
Slavery is a damnable thing only be introduced gradually. "So far as my husband and in principle, but in certain cases, To this there is one conclusive
(Continued of page D.): are concerned, the story begins having regard to certain condi-l
of
and
and on Bach, terms
the July, 1921. conditions in every re- spect B3 the Company's Board of Directors, mey think fit.
By Order of the Board.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
said.
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