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TO BE LET.
TO LET.
Оде OFFICE ROOM, partly furnished, in Powell's Building. Apply P. O. Box No. 39.
TO LET-Two Isrge OFFICE. ROOMS, Prince's Buildings. Immediate possession. Harry Wicking & Co.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Undersigned bave received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Thursday, the 20th. April, 1971 at 3 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street
Apply | 5-Seater & Cylinder
—10-LET, —Charming House. -higher levels, to let furnished including Piano & Victtola. Tela- phone, hot and cold water, bath- rooms, tennis lawn, gardens. Moderate rent.-Apply P. O. Box Na 435.
FOR SALE.
Touring Cer
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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The Steamship
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1922
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS. SCOTTISH COMPANY.
AFTER THIRTY-ONE YEARS
Mr. B. B. Bridger. Retiring.
'i
Nos. 5 and 6 Platoons and Band.
·" KENDAL CASTLE "
0.0. Os Inspection, Murray
After over thirty-one years' From NEW YORK & BOSTON. Parade Ground on Thursday, residence in the Colony, Mr. H.B
Consignees of Eargo are bereby | 20th, April
Bridger, enginear in charge of the informed that all Goods are being Drees: Drill Order. Helmets, installation department of the landed at their risk into the Go-Kilts and Sporrans, Khaki hose Hongkong Electric Company, is downs of the Hongkong and Kow-tops and abort puttias. loon Wharf, and Godown Com- pany, Ltd. at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forward- ed unless notice to the contrary be given befors 19th. inst.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining unde livered after the 25th. inst, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under- signed on or before the 5th. prox. or they will not be recognized...
All broken, chafed, and damag- ed foods are to be left in the Go- downs, where they will be exam- ined on the 25th. inst, at 10 am. No Fire Insurance has bean effected.
NOTICE.
ROYAL RONGKONG
going Homs to enjoy his well- earned retirement. He sails to-
Russia.
of
(SD) T. W. HILL, Lieut. O.C. Scottish Co, H.V.D.C.morrow by the Empress
Hongkong, 19th. April, 1992,
Mr. Bridger first came to Hong. kong as long ago as January. 1891, with the P. & O. Company. In November of the Dext year be joined the
atafi of the Hongkong Electrio Com- pany, with which firm he has remained ever since. ~Mr. Bridger has seen many changes since he he first joined the Hongkong has been in Hongkong. When Electric, electricity was a novelty to the Colony. The Company had only been formed two or three years and electricity had been in use in Hongkong only some six months or so.
GOLF CLUB, Special Caddles will be avail able at Fanling on Sunday, 23rd. April Fee 70 cents, including railway fare.
NOTICE.
National Loans of the Third
Mr. Bridger is a well-known Year of the Republic (1914) and Freemason.having been a member Bills of Lading will be counter-of the Fourth Year of the Repub-of St. John's Lodge (618) for over signed by
lic (1915).
thirty years. He is now acting. With reference to the Notice Grand Master of the Grand issued to the Press by the under Lodge of Scottish Freemasonry. signed under date 23rd March, Hongkong and South China Dise 1922, in which was published atrice. As a mark of goodwill and list of the schedule numbers of esteem the local Masonic com- those 510.000 Bonds and $1,000 munity presented him with an Bonds of the above Loans for the address at a farewell supper held the interest and redemption of a short time ago,
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Agents. Hongkong, 19th. April, 1922.
/NOTICE.
which the Inspector General of Joining the Volunteers in 1993. Safe, Sure, and Guaranteed Customs in responsible, the public Mr. Bridger served for ten years, Cure for Leprosy, Leucoderma is hereby notified that, owing to severing his connection with the Patches, Eruptibus, Pimples, &c, an error on the part of the Minis-corps in 1903 with the rank of in four weeks, Patients willing try of Finance, three numbers sergeant. During the war, 1914- Hudson to be treated by Post are wore omitted from that list, 19, he served in the Hongkong)
requested to write. Rs S-per namely.
Volunteer Dafence Corps. week. Foll Particulars free under cover. "SRI" Works, Beadon Sq. Calcutts (T) India.
(with 2 spare wheels and tyres in first class condition, only done 8,000 Miles, "on view 2 afternoons! before day of sals") 5-Seater 4 Cylinder Hupmobile Touring Car
(with spare tyre & wheel) in first class condition, done) under 6,000 miles.
5-Seater Cylinder Buick Touring Car
(with epare tyrej
HONGKONG HOTEL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
“་
TEA DANSANT
THURSDAY.
FRIDAY.
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. WILL HENDER
and the HOTEL JAZZ ORCHESTRA.
DINNER DANSANT EVERY EVENING (Sunday Exċepted) 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
TO-NIGHT
CARNIVAL NIGHT DINNER DANSANG Fancy or Evening Dress Optional.)
WILL HENDER -
and the HOTEL JAZZ ORCHESTRA.
SATURDAY, April 2nd DINNER DANSANT WILL HENDER
and the
JAZZ ORCHESTRA.
SUNDAY, April 3rd
ORCHESTRAL CONCERT,
THE COMBINED BAND WILL PLAY DURING TIFFIN & TEA.
Tables for abere may be booked at the Hotel Reception Office.
FRANCE AND HER COLONIES.
4th Year Loan: $1,000 Bonds:
In addition to the Masonic
Mr. address,
Bridger
the State shall shoulder 150.000,- W23 Nos. 2231, 2332. 2733-
000 francs of the burden. Under and that these three Bonds are presented with an address by the and
present circumstances it is not redeemable, and interest coupons Institution of Engineers
surprising that the more sober- which they bear payable, from Shipbuilders, & report of which
section of Parliament demurs a HONGKONG GENERAL CHAM.the funds under the administra-ceremony appears elsewhere in
trifle before pledging the tax- tion of the Inspector General of this issue. He has also been the
payers to such an extent. Since Customs.
recipient of several parting gifts, amongst which are a suit case,
part of this sum is certainly going F. A. AGLEN
Several contracts for ensuring to be granted for bettering Inspector General of Customs, blackwood tray and travelling
with the clock from the European staff of steamship connection between relations
colonies, of the Members of the HONG Inspectorate General of Customs, the Hongkong Electric Company France and her colonies have which are
sure to repay "the Peking, 5th. April, 1923.
BER OF COMMERCE.
THE ANNUAL MEETING
KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on: Thursday, April, 20th. 1922, at
Built recently done up and overhauled.4 o'clock precisely, in the OLD
FOR SALE.-British Steam Launch-49.6 ft. length. 9.6 ft. breadth, 5.6 ft. depth. Registered Tonnage 11.72. I.H.P. 35.Speed 8 knots. For farther information apply to The China Mining and Metal Co. Ltd. Hongkong.
FOR SALE. Oce practically new Semi-Diesel motor 175 HP. 2 cylinders 275 R.P.M., together with complete set of spare parts in perfect running order. Can be Been on application to The Far East Oxygen & Acetylene Co. Ltd.
LOST.
LOST-Between Kennedy Rd. Married Quarters and H. M. S. Tamar a Gold Bracelet of Egyp- tian Coins. Finder rewarded.- Apply Box No. 690 clo Hong kong Telegraph."
DANCES AT THE PRINCE'S PAVILION.
With the permission of the
in first class condition.
All tyres on above cars practi- cally new.
On view now at Russell Street Garage.
Terms-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Friday, the 21st. April, 1922
commencing st 2.45 p.m. at No. 3 Kimberly Villas,
Kowloon
A Quantity of Valuable House- hold Furniture
(Full particulars from extologue)
* Also
One Upright Piano by John
Brinsmead
On view from Thursday, the 20th.
April. Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Government, afternoon dances, EX-ACTIVE SERVICE
from 5 to 7, will be held in the Pavilion, on Monday. the 24th. and Tuesday, the 25th. April.
Admission (not including re- freshments) 50 cents for each
date.
MEN'S ASSOCIATION,
Tickets can be obtained at FANCY DRESS
Moatrie's or at the door.
Any surplus will be sent to 3. Dunstan's Home for the Blind..
The Hongkong Hotel Company
are kindly giving the Band, free of charge.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that the Thirty-third Ordinary General
MASKED
CARNIVAL
Et
PRINCE'S PAVILION
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, CITY HALL, for the following purposes -
1. To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended. 31st. December, 1921.
2. To elect a New Committee. 3. To transact
any General business.
By Order,
D. K. BLAIR,
Secretary.
· Hongkong. April 8th. 1922.
Messrs. Lemmert Bros. are instructed to sell
The Steamship "KAM MA ** Now lying in the Yaumati
Typhoon Refuge.
under an
Order of the Court by
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Ou
TUESDAY
The ad. day of May 1922 at
3 o'clock p
In One Lot
at theirSales Rooms, Duddett Street
The ship is a wooden ship of approximately 1800 tons capacity with accommodation for about 800 Chinese Passengers.
Length 252 ft. or thereabouts. Beam, 25 ft. on thereabouts. For permits to view apply to Messrs. Lammert Bros. The Auctioneers.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
THE TWENTY-FIFTH OR- DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Compang. St. George's Building. No. 6, Con- naught Road, on Wednesday, the 26th. April, 1923, at 11.15 o'clock a.m. for the purpose of receivior a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ended 31st. December, Messrs. 1921. and electing a Consalting
Comittee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED
from Thursday, 20th. April. 1922.
until Wednesday, the 26th. April, |1922, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Haugkong, 18th. April, 1922.
THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL COMPANY LIMITED.
SILIMPOPON COAL
SATURDAY, 22nd April, freably mined
at 9 p.u.
The undersigned are prepared to quote prices for best quality SILIMPOPON |COAL, trimmed into Bankers at: SEBATTIK OT SANDAKAN (British North Borneo) or
to
Mesting will be held at the BAND OF THE KING'S REGT. contract for regular Bunker Sup-
Company's Offices, St. George's
Single, $3; Double $5.00 Obtainable at MOUTRIE'S. MEMBERS' TICKETS:
Single, $2 "Double $3.00 Obtainable from Committee.
Building on Saturday, 22nd. TICKETS: April, 1922, at 11 30 a.m. For the purpose of presenting the Resort of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 28th, February, 1922, and electing Directors and Auditor. The Transfer Books" of the Company will be closed from the 15th. to
plies for 6 or 12 months at favour- able rates.
Steamers calling at SEBATTIK or SANDAKAN exclusively for Bunkers are exempt from pay- ment of ordinary Port Cbages. The minimum draft of water. alongside the Company's Wharf at Bobattik is 28 foot at low water
For further particulars apply to Messrs. JOHNSON, STOKES and MASTER, Prince's Buildings,
or to,
Duddell Street.
THE FUTIEN BANK,
--24. Connaugh:-Road, Central- General Banking and Tacbanga Basin Transacted Loss Granted Approved Securities,
or is one of the colonies.
A Big Shipbuilding Programme.
conditions
and also pleasing reminders from been signed by the Government mother country for the money ex- the Chinesa staff of the Company.in the course of the last few panded upon them, the Under
Mr. Bridger bas made no real months, the
upon Secretaryship for the Merchant plans for the fature and is not which this shall be done being Service has been bold enough sure whether his retirement will revised in favour of such lines as already to order that the building be spent in the "Old Country the Messageries Maritimes and programme shall be started, even the Chargeurs Reunis en account if it is necessary and it has been of the widely different economic found so to borrow ships from com- the stocks at the Naval arsenals. conditions prevailing in parison with those of pre-war And so, whereas the private daya. At the
time,
shipping concerns bave ordered building programme regarding twenty-six liner totalling 289.- A large crowd of spectators passenger steamers and 600 tons and twenty freight and gatbered on the HK.C.C. ground freight
LAWN TENNIS.
Yesterday's Match.
same
and
passenger passenger steamers totalling 161,- last evening, when, in the semi-steamers has been drawn up with 900 tons, the State bas arranged final of the Doubles Championship the assistance of the Ministry for for the building of: one passenger Ng Sze-kwong and W. Lock. Wer the Colonies, which has defined steamer of 13,800 tons for the Indo- met and defeated F. A. Redmond the requirements of overseas Chins service; one of 10,000 tous and G.R. Sayer. The match was France. One sees that the task for Madagascar; two steamers of won in three straight sets, the of the mother country is very the Duc d'Aumale type-4,500 account of damage tops each-and two Mustapha game score being 18 to 10. On the great on whole, the contest wasdisappoint-sustained to the mercantile fleet -3,500 tons each, for North ing, none of the players showing in recent years, when the yarde Africa; namely, a total of 491,300 up to championship standard. were too busy building and toos. These vessels will te Ng Sz kwong and Redmond were repairing chips of war to be able ceded to the Messageries Con- the more outstanding of the four, to help make up the deficiency.tractuelles and similar subsidised but there was a general lack of In fact, the task in so great that, lines when they are completed. consistent excellence. The win-even if the money is found for Orders bave still to be placed for ning pair will now have to meet payment in regard to new ships, another 107,300 tons of shipping. the victors of the match in which the scheme can hardly be carried ons sees, if the requirements of the Lo Brothers play Wong Po-joat except with foreign assis the competent ministries are to be Keong and Yvanovich.
tance. One can only conclude tha", satisfied.
NEWS FROM CANTON,
Re-arranging the Expedition.
There are a number of games granted that the financial side of Readers will recall that France down for this evening, the most the question provides no check, is due to receive certain com- promising being that between foreign yards will find business pensation for war losses from LAMMERT BROS. the M. W. Lo and S. A. Rumjahn, in song
French shipping line the Germans, but this has Auctioneers,
the third round of the Oren owners for some time to come. been sadly reduced by agreements Singles,
On looking at the minimum reached latterly to the Treaty requirements as defined by the of Versailles. Several steamers, Colonial Ministry, one finds that it ir true, bave passed from Ger- France needs 25 vessels to assure man to Fronch bands, smong the connection with territories over- | best of which is the Cap Arcona. Beas: twenty-two for North This vessel is not exactly a Africa,totalling 88,000 tona treasure, for as long as ten years Our Canton correspondent re-twenty of 11,000 for the Far East ago she delighted the eyes of purts that the removal of the 220,000 tons: sight of 9,500 South Americans. The Brussels military headquarters of the tone for Madagascar and Reunion Convention of March, 1919, dealt Cantonese expeditionary army 76,000 tons six of 4.000 tons a serious blow to French repara- from Kwailin to Shinkwan is now specially for Morocco-24,000tion prospects, which the French in full swing. All the battalions tons; six of 10,500 tons" for find harder to bear since T.8. have been ordered by Sun possessions in the Pacific-63,000 and British experts three months Yat-sen to start for the east, and tons; five of 6,000 tons for the latar declared their appreciation the Kiangsi and Yuanan troops, Antilles-30,000 tons; four of of their difficulty in assuring the commanded by Li Lieb-chu, 8,000 tons West and Equatorial colonies of an adequate quantity bave already arrived at Wuchow Africa-32,000 tous; four of of shipping. This was then sad will proceed to Shinkwan by 8,000 tons for the Near East estimated to bave been decreased way of Hoibin instead of via 32,000 tons. That is to say through the war by sixty per cent. Canton. The other forces will $65,000 tons of shipping
Unfortunately, the French follow Sun to Canton and proceed
Interest of Fixed Deposits --
For 12 monthe......
5% per actum, For mops4=
For monthe
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4 ред вадиш, 3% per
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2 per ARRUM.
Current Accounts :-
2% per and on the Dalfe Credit.Balancee of over $100. LA CHE TA,
Manager
MADAM
A. MEYERINCH
by way of the Canton-Hankow of Commerce, which looks at the Anglo-French agreement of And according to the Ministry position was further impaired by Railway.
It is stated that Chan King. things from a different angle, the December 14th, 1920. Then, it ming bas agreed that the division above list should have added to will be recalled, Francerenounced commanded by Shu Shung chit: three 25,000-ton liners for the ber claim upon half the tonnage New York service, in place of the which was due to her by the shall be independent of the control of the headquarters of the superannuated Savoie class; three Treaty of Versailles from the Cantonese army, and that he has of 20,000 for South America; and German shipyards on condition supplied it with five million Eve of 12,000 tons for the Eastern that Engiand did likewise, and dollars as initial expenses.
Pacific. That is to say, another furthermore, chartered to France As Sun Yat-sen is due to leave eleven ships totalling 195,000 tons, 109,000 tons of steamers.
ministries Wachow for Canton to-day the requirements of the two matters stand, France claim, aggregating 760,000 the new shipping to be coded required information concerning of
tona.
by Germany, will not amanat to the port can be had on applica-
As has been 'said, general much more than 40,000 tons portant military meeting recent- Gowns which are on display which all leading military, scheme has been put forward by tow fair-sized Atlantis liners. BRADLEY & CO. LTD.
Isis anticipatedfthat Allied sid at Empress Lodge, Kowloon, naval and financial omstals were the competent authorities. This Agents,
Room 11. Hours 10 a.m. to present. It is understood that is on the form of a bill, a decision will be repaired for supplying The COWIE HARBOUR COAL
the Northern expedition was on which has not been made by French needs, including those of CO. LTD.
12.00 and 2 to 5
discussed. P.ш.
the Benate. It is proposed that her Colonial service.
Begs to announce that she Spring Tides, Charts of Cowie has just received direct from the 22nd: April, 1922, both days OPEN TO ALL,Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any Paris a few of the latest models
inclusive,
リ
By order of the Board of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON
& CO., LTD.
Agents.
Hongkong, 5th. April, 1922.
Buffet Supper by Hongkong Hotel tion to
inclusive.
Wear what you like; but maak.
Afternoon and
Dinner
(Wednesday).
Chan King-ming called an im-