NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED. WANTED-Immediately.
Male Shorthand Typist. Apply to Wilkinson and Grist.
W
FANTED.-Stabling sacom. modation for one Pony required in Kowloon. Particulars to Box No. 850 elo. "Hongkong Telegraph."
IPS
ANTED-Orders taken for high Class Millinery in all styles, by a European lady: Terms moderate. Apply Palace Hotel-Kowloon.
WA
St
шеп
sborth- LANTED.-Special
and evening class for gentlemen beginners commences on the 1s: February, at Joseph's Branch College, Kow- loon. Also class for advanced students. The Main object of class is to give young desirous of taking up Shorthand on opporunity of qualifying as The eficient stenographers. course is an intensive one cover. A period of six months, after which time students will have attained the ability to write from 60 to 80 words atminute. Further particulars apply by latter to St Joseph's Branch College, K.- loon, and address the envelops "Pitmar's Shorthand.
TO BE LET. TOLET-From 19: June, Eight & Four Room Houses-Ap
ply PO. Box 259.
FOR SALE.
Motor Launch FOR SALE MO Lang and particulars, apply to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
FOR SALE-Private Chair
with covers. noiforms, etc.. also Corona typewriter, almost new. Apply Box No 854 col
Hongkong Telegraph."
HONGKONG BOXING
ASSOCIATION. Tournament, Saturday 27th. Jan,
1923,
a: the
THEATRE ROYAL
at 9.15 p.m.
MAIN EVENT
Fifteen round contest for the Welterweight Championship of the Colent and Harston" Bel
the
"Scott-
Stoker P.D. Morgan, A.B. Dixon
.M. S. HAWYE
.M.S. Cica.. Booking at Moutries:-Mem- bers January 24th. General Public from January 25th.
Usual Prices.
Door open 8 p.. Next Tournament. Race Satur- day, March 3rd. at the Theatre Royal
Tuesday,
THEATRE ROYAL
THE
FAR ASTERN PLAYERS INC., present the
T. DANIEL FRAWLEY
COMPANY
with
ג' .
ADELE BLOOD
in
Current London Successes
TO-NIGHT at 9.15 "THE GOLD DIGGERS”
A farce with ADELE BLOOD
and
T. DANIEL FRAWLEY.
TO-MORROW Tuesday, 33rd Jan. "ENTER MADAME"
A comedy with Miss BLOOD
and
Mr. FRAWLEY.
Prices: 54. Sa & $1. Booking at Moutrie's.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY LIMITED.
In Liquidation)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
The House of Reputation, where everybody goes.
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS
KOWLOON.
TO-NIGHT |}
TONIGHT!!
at 9.15 sharp LAST
NIGHT
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1923
HUGHES & HOUGH
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS
..AND. BROKERS.
THE HONGKONG LAND IN- VESTMENT & AGENCY GO., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
It is a fact worth noting that
the Thirty fifth Ordinary in the course of the gradual General Meeting of Shareholders perfearing of the art of gramo in this Company will be held at phone recording, pianoforte re- the Offcen of Messrs Jardine cords in particular have under- The Undersigned have recaived Matheson & Co, Ltd. on Friday, one vast improvement. In the instructions to sall by Public Aus- 26th January 1923, at 1215 pm. early days of the gramophone were generally rather tion (Fer Account of the Con-for the purpose of receiving the these [carned),
Report of the Directors together unsatisfactory; the quality of the on TUESDAY,
with a statement of accounts for tone reproduced sounded mare Soldiers & Sailors in uniform half price to 2nd Chairs & Stalls only the gard January, 1923, commencing the year ending 31st December like that of a harpsichord or soms auch instrument where the Booking at MOUTRÍE'S,
at 230 pm, at their Sales Rooms, 1992.
The Register of Shares of the strings are placked. It was a Na & Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Company wil be CLOSED from sharp, unsympathetic tone, that Ice House Street. Valuable Teakwood and Blackwood Wednesday 17th. January to gave little idea of the interpreta Fo 16th. January both days tion and touch of the player usive during which period no and blended badly with the rice transfer of shares can be regis of another instrument when
asd for accompaniment. tered. Dining Suites, Chesterfeld Sulas,! By Order of the Board of some time past makers of records- Arm-chairs (new), Tea Table, Dress Directors.
have been experimenting to dis- ng Tables and Chairs, Washstands, MOWBRAY S. NORTECOTE,
c Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Dinner Services, Crockery and Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cut-
SPECIAL TERRIES AFTER EVERY PERFORMANOF.
THEATRE
ROYAL
The World's Greatest Pianist
LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
MONDAY, 29th. & TUESDAY, 30th. January, at 9.15 p.m.
Prices;
$5, $2 & $1
Booking opens at
Moutrie's on Monday, 22nd. January
VATIONAL LOANS.
and the
+
THE KEY TO GROW RICH.
UESCRIBERS to the National |
Loans of the Third Year of HE China Industries Develop ment Banking Corporation NOTICE is hereby given that the Republic (1914)
an Extraordinary General Eleventh Year of the Republic Limited, of 5, Duddell Street, Meeting of the Members of the (1922) are hereby notified that gives to all its depositors a hand-
a oft Company will be drawings for they notified some rate of indeposit held at the Office of Messrs: the above Loans will be held this Linstead and Davis, Hongkong year as follows:- on the 20th. February 1923 at 12.j1st. December, 1923-6th. Draw." ing of the Third Year o'clock noon.
Loan (82.750,000); redemption begins 31st. December: 10th. May, 1923.-1st. Drawing of Eleventh Year Lon the ($1,000,000): redemption be gins 318 May:
November, 1923-2nd. Drawing of the Eleventh Year Loan ($1,000,000); re- demption begins 30th. Nov.
AGEND.A.
1. For the purpose of having in of Section 183 of pursuance Ordinance No. 58 of 1911 of Hongkong an account laid before the Members showing the mancer} in which the winding up has bean conducted and the property
10:h.
00
Authorised
$1,000,000.00 Capital INTEREST.-For Fixed Deposits
1 year
3......6% 9 months
52 6 months
@......5%
3 months....... Q4 For Current Account € For Special Deposit
(personal arrangement). For Current Savings @ 416% For Fixed Savings
(regulations obtainable). the
CHIU CHU KEH,
Lanager.
of the Compsoy disposed of and As the sixth redemption instal of hearing any explanation that ment (34.638,740), due may be given by the Liquidator.Fourth Year Loan, is the final one, no Drawing will take plice: To determine by 2.
Resolution traordinary
E but redemption of the remaining
the undrawn Bonde will commence Hongkong January 9th, 1923.
on 12th. April.
nanner in which the books and accounts of the Company and of! the Liquidator thereof shall be disposed of
C. BERNARD BROWN,
Ligid stor. Hongkong. 22nd January, 1923.
WONG SIU WDON
"BOOTS, SHOES & SLIPPERS FOR LADIES. GENTS & CHILDREN, BEST DESIGNS, PRICES, MCDERATE.· ́
| 21: POSTINGER ST., PHONE 1475
Jan.
23rd
OUR OWN SIX PIECE
JAZZ BAND
will provide the Syncopation
at the
FANCY DRESS
CARNIVAL
at
KOWLOON THEATRE
Ticket: Gentlemen $2.00; ladies $1.00.
Fun commences at 9 p.m. and lasts till the "wee sma' oors,"
The service of the above three
Loans is conducted independent- 15, and forma no part, of the National Consolidated Loan Service.
F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs. Icspectorate General of Cus- toms, Peking, 6th. January, 1923.
HIMROD'S
asthma -Cure
GIVES INSTANT RELEF Kematter what your puspiratory ser Elas may be safering from whether Athina, Jalanan, Nonal Catarrh ye Crdinary Cough you wii kod is thie Lar mese remedy a restorative power thes la simply snaga Allad,
FAMED FOR 50 YEARS Buid în tina by all Cheyleta sad Bweve throughout the Country BEWARK OF IMITATIÒME
The Kwong Wing Co., Ltd.
8. B. In Chow, Thursday. Dee, 23:h. Regular Price to Wusho❤ Eplendid 20%, Clara Pameager Ascommedalion. 25. Des Toka Bd. W.. "Phone Central 303.
Mee Wah Knitting Co.
SIA, Caumway Bay, "Phơus Central L31. Manufacturers of Sooks, Singleta, Sweatere and Underwear, YEUNG PO KWAN, Prezident.
THE SAI HING S. S. Co.
23. Connaught Hond, W.
CANTON-WUCHOW LINE.
A. 8. "XANTINO !"
B. 8.HAINAN
Monday, Wednesday Friday,
HONGKONG-WI CHOW LINE.
*Phone Contra 1779,
THE HIN FAT S. S. Co.
Shipping sad Insurance Brokers, Phone Centrul 3483. No, 187, Wing Lok Biesen,
KWOK HIN WANG,
Proprietor.
On Bing Co.
*-10. Hing Lang #treet.
Kuat & Hardware Kersians, Kimetria
Gagaral Engiasser à Contrastere & "Phone No. Central 3064,
LF. ZAL, Deswal MLH KESE
Furniture, and Housebold Sundries, &c. &c. &c. Comprising:
Secretary, Hongkong, lith. Jan. 1923,
lery, Carpets and Rags. Staircase] THE HOKOKONG CENTRAL Carpets, Electro-plated Ware,
ESTATE LTD.
Electric Reading Lamps, Screens, Blackwood Teapoys, Carved CuriɔOTICE is hereby given that Cabinet, Marble-top Flower Stands, and Side tables.
Also 1 Piano by S. Moutrie in good condition.
1 Baby Grand Piano by John Ereadwood & Son,
In good condition.
1 Upright Piano by John Broadwood & Son. (Full Particulars from Catalogue.)
Hongkong, 19th Jan, 1923.
For
| cover the causes of this ill-success to such purpose that at the present time the piano can be reproduced as well as any in strument or combination of in- struments in existence,
That the practice of tobacco the Ninth Ordinary Gen-smoking dates back to a remota eral Meeting of Shareholders in antiquity is (writes correspon- this Company will be held at the dant) the belief of Dr. J. Walter Offices of Maars. Jardins Mathe-Fewkes, chief of the Bureau of on & Co., Ltd. on Friday, 26th American Ethnology at the amith- January 1913, at 11.45 o'clock sonisa Institution. He has re- am. for the purpose of receiving contly been carrying out explora- the Reports of the Directors to- tions at the Mesa Veree National gether with a statement of Ac- { Park, Colorado, where he has been counts for the year ending 31st, excavating several mounds that December 1922.
have hitherto been supposed to be The Register of Shares of the natural formations. He finds that Company will be CLOSED from they are really the mouldering Wednesday, 17th. January to beaps of fallen bouses and tom- on SATURDAY,
Friday, 25t5. January, both days) ples. Cut of one of these mounds the 28th January, 1923, at 10.30|inclusive during which period there emerged a rectangular ons Am at their Sales Rooms, No. 3, no transfer of shares can be re-storey building about 70 feet Des Voeux Road, Corner of Icefgistered.
[square, accurately oriented to the By Order of the Board of cardinal points of the compass, House Street.
with a circular tower midway in' the western wall. This tower Dr. Fowkes supposes to have been erected for astronomical observa- tion. In the middle of this build- ing he found a circular room 20
A Few Lots of Books
Directors,
belonging to the estate of the late MOWBRAYS NORTHCOLE
Mr. E. A. Hewet: C.M.G. Comprising:
41 Vols. The Century.
Vols. The Century Magazine.
&c., &e.,
&c.
Also
Sundry Household Furniture (removed to Sale Room for convenience of sale)
and.
General Sundries. Hongkong. 16th Jan, 1923.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE The Steamship
"PRESIDENT MADISON"
Secretary
to the General Managers. Hongkong, b. Jan., 1923.
*
THE HONGKONG LAND RE-feat deep and about the same in
CLAMATION CO., LIMITED
diameter. He has given this pre- bistoric rain the name of Pipe TOTICE is hereby given that Shrine Bouse because of the large the Twenty Second Ordin-number of clay tobacco pipes. ar General Meeting of Share-which he found scattered about holders in this Company will be just as they had been thrown held at the Offices of Messrstbere after ceremonisl rites an Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd., on told centuries ago. If Dr. Friday, the 26th. January 1923. Fewkes's theory holds good, at 12 o'clock poor, for the parbis discovery obviously invests pose of receiving the Report of tobacco smoking with a new the Directors together with dignity. inasmuch as it was not statement of Accounts for the only practised in prehistoric times rear ending 31st December, 1922 but was then part of a religious
The Register of Shares of the facctios. Company will be CLOSED from
The death at St. Helena is re- Wednesday, 17th. January to Friday, 26th January, both days ported of a giant tortoise, believed inclusive during which period go to be 200 years old. the anima), transfer of shares can be regis-it appears, was a great favourite tered.
of the Emperor Napoleon I during his captivity in the way sand, and in its was attached to the Emperor. Two gisat tortoises which were taken about balf & century ago to the London Zoo from the THE BANK OF EAST ASIA
neighbourhood of Java were LIMITED.
stated to have been about 160 NOTICE is hereby given that years old, evidences if their age the FOURTH ORDINARY having been ob ained from local MEETING OF inhabitants. Some years ago. YEARLY SHAREHOLDERS will be held there was a tortoise in Mauri at the Registered Office of the tins which must have been, about Company, No. 10. Des Vo D1 hundred years old, for it was Road Central, at 3 30 p.m., Satur transferred by the French to the the purpose of receiving the All broken, chafed and damag.day, February, the 3rd, 1923, fo British on the cession of the Statutory Report of the Directors ed cargo is to be left the Gothe purpose of receiving the island by the former. An example pareuant to Section 66 (3) of the downs, where it will be aramined Report of the Directors together of a tortoise living in captivity Companies Ordinance 1911. at 10 am. on Jan., 26th, by the with a Statement of Acconats for for 140 years is recorded."
The Transfer Books of the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. the year eading 31st December, Company will be CLOSED from Anderson & Asbe. |15th. January to 22nd, January,
1923, both days inclusive.
having arrived from Manila, P.I. on 20th. January, consignees are hereby noti5ed that their cargu is being Isoded at their risk ORIENTAL NAVIGATION Co., into the Hazardous and/or Extra-
NOTICE.
LTD.
Notice to Shareholders.
Hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf Godown Co., at Kowloon, and stored at consignees' risk.
Consignees of cargo must-pro- THE Statutory General Meet-
ing of Shareholders in this duce an Import Permit signed by Company will be held at the the Superintendent of Import Offices of the Company, Prince's and Exports, Hongkong, before Building, on Monday, the 22nd. Bills of Lading will be counter of January, 1923, at 2.30 p.m. for signed.
Bs O der of the Board Directors.
ET.H. BUNJE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 15th. Jan. 1923,
Ching-Kee S. N. Co.
156, Wing Look St., W. *Phanə 3136 gear Hervice between H.K. Darm." Kowchwang, North China YEE TAI HONG. Phone
Central 753.
CHEONG YUE S. S. Co.
18, De Toe Road, C.
8.3. PERANANG Boibre & Haiphong
on Tuesday morning. 1715. lag
For Freight or Passage #pply CHEONG YUE 8. 8. Co.
Pons Centrai 232
Hongkong-South America.
LS, “HWAH PING ** Yer Fright ele," apply CHANGWHA NAVIGATION -CO, Bank of China ELL. Zona Central 1576.
Hongkong-Saigon Line.
6. 8. **TZENACHUS **
For Freight sim. Apply
WO FAT-SING
"Para Cairat 6,
By Order of the Board of Directore.
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 9th. Jan. 1923.
1922.
All claims must be presented The Transfer Books of thei
to
#MO
within thirty days of the steamer's Company will be closed from AFGHAN HOUNDS IN ENGLAND. A novel feature of the National of arrival here, after which they Monday, 22nd January.
cannot be recognized. No Claims Saturday, 3rd February, 1923, show of Sporting Dogs
& collection will be recognised after the goods (both days inclusive) during Birmingham Was
transfer of of Afghan hounds shown by have left the Godowns, and cargo which period no
Major Bell Murray, of Dumfries. undelivered on and after Jan., shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of They are the only specimens in 27th. will be subject to rent.
Bogland and attracted much attention.
No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.
United States Shipping Board. Emergency Fleet Corporation. ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE.
4. Des Voeur Road, Hongkong. 22th. January, 1923,
THE HONGKONG JOUKEY
CLUB.
Annual Race Meeting 1923 February 25th, March 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
Directors,
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 12th January, 1923.
MASSAGE HALL
*K SAKAI T. KANAMORI
18. Praya East.
2nd. Floor
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. /
| FOOTBALL COMPETITION.
NOTICE TO COMPETITORS
Owing to the fact that there will be no 1st. Division.
WE the Members of the Unmatches next Saturday (by rea
dermentioned Ass cistion desire to express our Thanks to the Members of the Buliding Contractors Commercial Associa tion for their Increment of Wages
Entries for the forthcoming and Better Treatment,
We are also indebted to "the Race close on Saturday 17th inst Hon. Secretary for Chines at 3 pm, and must be sent to the Affairs, The Hon. Director of Jockey Club Room 3a, Chater Pablic Works, and Messrs. H. W Road on or before this date.
Entry Forms are now ready Bird and W. L. Leask for their
and can be had at the Jockey both parties to terms.
váluable assistance in bringing
Clab Stables, Jockey Club
Kwongchowan & Fort Bayard Room, (Hongkong Club Annex,
LL. " BUT OX” will be despatched
on the 17th tass
Te Freight targly
- LI FAT S. S. CO.
*Planetral 2287.
Chater Road)- Race Course, Hongkong Club and Linsterd & Daris, Alexandre Buildings."
..
BUILDING CARPENTERS"
ASSOCIATION,
136, Queen's Road East Hongkong, January 15th, 1923,
son of the second Interport Trial Match taking plaos) and that only a few 2nd. Division RAMOS will be played, "the “TELE GRAFE'S" FOOTBALL COM- PETIZIOM will NOT be held
this week..
We hope, however, to resume the Competition next week.
The result of last wook's Com petition will appear morrow's” Telegraph