THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO BE LET.
TO LET-European flats in
Lee Building, Wanchai Gap] Read, Apply to 32 Eonnedy Rd.
SHOPS and OFFICES in the
Now Building now being erected on the old Post Office; site in Queen's Road Central and Pedder Street, the ground door accomodation being suitable for. Banks or large stores.
For
terme apply to the undersigned.
NOTICE.
NOTICE
Having to die to win is one of the mouldy objections to life insurance. It is not funny, not fair. You must die, then why
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ADMINISTRATION. Ltd., Shanghai, hereby gives notice that E. G. Isborn is no longer connected with the Company. By Order of the Directors. LUDVIG SYBERG,
Acting Manager.
R. H, Kotowall & Co., Alexandra ST JOHNS CATHEDRAL, Buildings.
TO LET--Offices on 2nd Floor in Victoria Building, No. 5 Queen's Road
Central. Also from 1st September Ground Floor suitable for Banking Business. Apply to Mr. Poom Lai Fung
Mesure. A. J. Lane & Co.
sime building.
SPACIOUS Offices on Ground
Floor of No. 4. Duddel Btrost, newly fitted with teak- wood "Panels and counters; suitable for Banking and other businesses. Electric Light Installation completed. Centrally located... Ready for immediate
A Memorial Service will be
held on Friday August 31st 15 30 p.m. in memory of these who lost their lives in the recent typhoon.
D. O. de SILVA, Actg. Manager.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE
ASSOCIATION,
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923.
FORTHCOMING AUCTION SALES HUGHES & HOUGH LAMMert
GENERAL AUCTIOMERS
AND
BROKERS...
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion. (For Account of the -Con- cerned.)
on WEDNESDAY, the 29th August, 1923, commenc- ing. at 10,30 a.m., at 11, 12, 13, Shaukiwar Read..
Marble statues, Bronze figures, 1 Liquor cabinet by Mapplu and Webb, Tapestry suit and covers (complete), carved curio cabinet
and quantity of ivory curios.
PUBLIC
OUR BOOKSHELF.
BROS. Some Literature of the
AUCTIONS.
Period.
Miss Marjorie Bowen has writ- THE Undersigned have receivNettles" (Ward Look, 7-). It is a tena fine modern novel, "Stinging ed instructions to soll by picture of the pitiful life of one Public Auction on
[brave, gifted women. So actúri Monday, the 27th. Aug. 1973-dees the authoress make the awful
commencing at 11 a.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, 12 Kegs Indigo Paste
8 Barrel Ultramarine Blue 1 Case Dyes 40 Cases Mangantite
. And A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods. Torme: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
THE attention of Membere of to the fact that the Motoring sideboard (bevel mirrors), large the Association is directed Blackwood, sideboard, teakwood
Supplement of the Hongkong dining table with 2 extra leaves, Hongkong, August 24th, 1923.Telegraph (which will be publish- dining chairs, China cabinet, card ed weekly, on Saturdays) is the table, wardrobes with bevel mir- Official Organ of the Association.rors. American brass bed, box
In future, all official notices & ottoman, dressing "table (bevel,
TE
HE Undersigned intimations to Members will mirror), 2 prs. velvet curtains, by Public Auction on
received instructions appear in the Supplement.
enamel bath, marble-top wash- stands, Ice box, Meat safe, dinner service. glass ware, pictures, and 1 set aluminium cooking pans, &c., &c.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
From Tacoma, Seattle, Van' couber, Victoria, Yokohama, Dairen, Shanghal.
sccupation. Apply to Bor No.The Company's Steamship 154 cjo " Hongkong. Telegraph.
HAWAII" MARU "
P. M. HODGSON.
Hon. Seorptary.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE.
FOR SALE by private Treaty having arrived from the above or
valuable land at Kowloon with sea frontage having a total area of upwards of 97,000 square foot upon which are eracted golowns and four Chinese houses. For particulars apply to Johnson. Stokes & Master, Solicitors, Prince's Building.
FOR SALE.
The Steamship "PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'
Manila, having arrived from
Aug. 24th. consignees ports, on the 23rd August, are hereby notified that their Conaigheas of Cargo are cargo is being landed at their risk hereby notified that their goode into the Hazardous and/or Extra- being landed and placed Hazardous Godowns of the Hong- at their risk in the Hongkong kong and Kowloon Wharf at and Kowloon Wharf end Godown Kowloon and stored at consign- Company's Godowns at Kowloon ees' risk. where delivery can be obtained
are
Consignees of cargo must pro-
Also
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BAT GUANO * KASTERN AGRICULTURAL
FERTILISER 00
4.
Jeivors St.. ard Floor
Hongkong
Write
to-day.
Tol. 480.
DO NOT MISS- ROCHA'S
POPULAR AUOTION SALES
Every Tuesday Thursday & Saturday At 2.30 p.m.. Specialist is the Valuation of Household and Office Furniture,
endurance of Lucie during the last days of the fiendish degenerate her husband, that it is painful) even to read of, and the relief of the and is as real as the relief felt! by any sensitive playgoer who| feels the tension lifted in a power- ful play. As a Home reviewer re- marke, anti-feminism appears to [ba the keynote; but Mies Bowen. guards herself from any such" label by insisting that her book aball be taken as the story of one woman only. That there are many in roughly the same cir- [cumstances. (there can hardly be have many such indomitable heroines) to sell one cannot but admit. At the same time, fortunately for women, the busy and the sensible perforce Sapbie Falconer type, and the predominate over the terrible
abstract knowledge of their pre- ponderance in numbers, with its cruel suggestion of superfluity, is not always in their minds. The mother of Sophie, bora for better paigns and adventures, which things, and driven by maternal cover Egygt, the Indian frontier, love for her atrocious daughter, Aden, and Mesopotamis. This added to impecuniosity, and record, in itself of the utmost general shiftlessness, is excel-interest, is full of footnotes to lently done. The great dector who history. One of them is provided comes upon the scene in time to by the chapter in which Sir deliver Lucie from a perpetual George recounts his observations nightmare, is perhaps more of the conquest of the Philippines
1
Wed., the 29th. Aug., 1923. commencing at 10,45 s.m. at No. 51 Godown, the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Oo, Ltd., Kowloon 128-Bales Indian Tobacco Loaf,
1 Piano by Challen & Son, Lon-Torms Cash on delivery.
don,
LAMMERT SROS,
Auctioneers.
1 Herring Hall Marvin Safe.
1 Bronze chandelier with
lights.
6
Victrola and cabinet, and about 100 records.
1 Large cut-glass punch bowl
and spoon.
Terms, cash on Delivery. Catalogues will be issued. On view 28th instant.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 24th Aug., 1923.
THE Undersigned have receiv. ed instructions to sell. by Public Auction on
Wed., the aoth. Aug. 1923.
commencing at 11a.m.
& Kowloon Wharf & Godown
Co., Ltd. Kowloon
A Quantity of Miscellaneous
Goode, comprising:
and Exports, Hongkong, before CE." WARREN & CO, LTD.Porcelain, Bills of Lading will be counter- signed.
All broken, chafed and damag- ed carge is to be left in the
as soon as the goods are landed. duce an Import permit signed by Goods, not cleared by the 30th the Superintendent of Imports AL. 1933, will be subject to rent Damaged packages must, be FOR SALE-One C. O. 2
Direct Expansion Refrigera- left in the Godowns for examine ting Plant manufactured by the tion by the Consignees rep American Carbonic Machinery resentatives and the Company's Co., Wisconsin. Refrigerating Surveyors, Mesars. Goddard and Godowns capacity 7 tons for 24 hours. Douglas, at 10 am. on Wednes examined at 10 am, on Aug. 30th. For specification and order for day and Saturday All Claims at the Company's Surveyor & inspection apply to Holyoak, must be presented within Ten Meas. Anderson & Ashe. Massey & Co., Ltd., Engineering days of the steamer's arrival here. Department, Queen's Buildings, after which date they cannot be Hongkong.
LOST.
$20. reward given to the
finder of so Airedala Terrier bitch lost in Wanchai, Apply Lai Pak Hoi c/o China Sun Motion Picture Co., Ltd 74 Queens Road Central. Any body who keeps this dog will be pros- ocuted.
recognized. No claim will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, '-
No fire insurance whatever will be effected.
L
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature. immediately.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,
K. SHIMA,
Manager. Hongkong, 24th. "August, 1923.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LTD.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
WING 10 the receipt of numerous complaints from
patrons as to the incivility of various members of the staff of the Hotels under the Management. of this Company in Hong- kong, such complaints being to the effect that "Cash" has been demanded in satisfaction of Liquors supp ied, and patrons thereby inconvenienced by not being allowed to sign "chite," we beg to draw the attention of our clientele to the terms of the Liquors Ordinance, 1917, an extract from which is hereby given :-
2. In this Ordinance---
(a) "Cash" means any. coins
the Colony.
or
notes current in
which in.
(b) Salo includes any transaction in
toxicating liquor is supplied for any consideration whatsoever, direct or indirect,
S. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section, no person shall sell any intoxicating liquor for consumption on or at any licensed premises except for cash.
(2) Sub-section" (1) of this section shall not apply to the the following:-
(a) any sale by
a
|
where
it will be
All claims must be presented within thirty days of the steam. or's arrival here, after which they cannot. be recognized. No claims will" be recognised after the goods have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after Aug. 31st, will be subject to rent. No fire insurance whatever will
be affected.
Consignees are requested 10 send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature immediately.
United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation.
A gen18, ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE.
4. Des Vœux Road, Hongkong, 25th. Auguest 1923.
hotel to the proprietor of person residing at the hotel;"
(b) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel of liquor to be consumed in the dining room of the hotel at one of the regular meals of the hotel or of liquor to be con- sumed in conjunction with any other bona fide meal for which a charge of at least thirty cents can be reasonably made;
(e) any sale in accordance with the conditions of his
licence by the holder of a restaurant adjunct licence. '
В servant or employee in contravention of section 3 of this Ordinance the employer, whether a natural person or a body corporate, ahall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinanco unless be proves affirmatively that the salo was against his express orders and without his consent or connivance.' 5. Every person to whom any liquor is, to the knowledge of such person, supplied in contravention of this Ordinance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
4. Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by
The co-operation of our Patrons, with a view to assisting us to carry out the provisions of the Liquors Ordinance, is respectfully requested.
For and on behalf of
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,LTD.
WALTER J. HAWKER.
Hongkong, 15th. August, 1923.
Secretary.
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DA ROCHA'S MART 3. D'Aguilar 81 Pbobs 2933
at No. 18 Godown, the Hongkong shadowy. Welike bim the least of He visited both sides, and the all the charactere as convinging Spaniards gave him a medal. study: but he falls into his place Years afterwards-this is another in a book which will lose Miss characteristic story
King Bowen none of her old public and Edward noticed that it was not will win for her a host of new among Sir George's miniatures, Iron Bars, "Angle Iron Rivets, readers.
and told him to put it up. The Old Wire, Bar ends. Steel Plates,fore this season.
Another lady writer is to the order was obeyed, but as no In Grey miniature existed, Sir George Wethers" (Heinemann, 7/6), Miss used small Spanish coin! V. Sackville- West gives us a deli-Towards the end of the book, is a cata blend of realism that is not frank and manly chapter headed afraid, when necessary, to become" The Mesopotamian Tragedy," brutality, and of romance that in which will be found a full shades off at the edges into a sort account of the wonderful deed of fairyland patient "of human whereby an Indian soldier won pansione. which would have the first V.C. awarded to a man broken the gossamer webs of of his race. A final chapter dis- fairyland proper. "Her lovers cusses the development of warfare have a mystic bond between them during forty years. LADIES' to one another, through the night.
Perfumery, etc., etc. Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
SPECIAL SALE
of ...
BOOTS
&
In Brief.
and over the hills; and at the end
It is a pathetic coincidence that they melt into the darkness of the Downs, are no more seen, ard volume of selections from Lord become legendary. Less this Latymer's poetical works should SHOES should suggest a vaporous eff of his death, in "Selected Poame," have appeared within a few days'
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The Mountainous Palace in The Midst of The Sahara.
sion, it must be remembered that "real" life in plenty, hot and by Francis Coutts (Lane, 7/6)
There ATO Very Low lusty and natural as the soil, is as
several charming thinge, much the keynote of the book as
pensive, gracefully- Prices,
the other element. The last page written, and sincere, among the is extraordinarily artistic. The poems of Francis Coutts-to give only fault is the sbeer improba-him the name by which he is best bility of the language used by the know in the world of letters.
Three books on Shakespears gipsy lover. but we must re- member be is a spirit in disguise. "bakespeare and the Universities have recently appeared :- 'Mr. Stacy Aumoníer, in “Odd Fish" (Heinemann, 7/6), gives bis and Other Studies in Elizabethan public a study of characters, His Drema." By Frederick 8. Boas. cdd fish are found in many waters "Shakespeare's Use of Song, with Oxford. (Blackwell, 128, 61.) from the calm ponds of Mayfair the Text of the Principal Songs." to the rather more troubled
By Richmond Noble waters of Bloomsbury. They are University Press. 12s. 6d.); "The (Oxford all excellent specimene. Mr. Aumonier is at his best when he Authorship of Julius Caesar." By doce not touch on politics, and
William Wells. (Routledge. 78. when he takes the social position
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of his "character for granted.
One of The Scenes' From The French Great Picture.
"ATLANTIDE"
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Here is a selection of new
"The Book of a Bendict. By.
His sketch of the Duke of East novels:- Anglia is spoiled by the implicit Basumption that Dukes feel about Duncan Swann. (Lane, 78. 6d.), themselves much of what other The Black Dog." By A. E. prople, twenty or thirty years ago, "Enchanted
Coppard. (Cape. 78.. felt about Dukes. Nobody really minds a man being a Duke nowa- Agnes days. It is an accident for which he is in no way responsible. The Hopeful Journey." Beatrice. humour and truth of the book is Hall, 78, 61); "Life." By Eeme Kean Seymour. (Chapman and
Wingfald-Stratford. (Collins. 78,
Ibe
6); Casements," By and Egerton Castle. (Hutchinson, 79. 6d.); "The
greatly enhanced by Mr. Boleher's most attractiva portraits. drawing of the constable who61) Punch and Holy Water." guards the British Museum room Blackett 7s. 61. "Why They By John Freeman. (Huret and
is more than worthy of Mr. Aumonier's charming fancy that
did a showcase explode and furn into a bunch of lilies, P.C. 4463 K would write in his note book: "Case No. 661. Assyrian poltery. Exploded and turned into a bunch of lilies. Time noted 11.37,"
owndes. (Heinemann. 59.) Married." By Mra. Belloc
THE CORONET.
"The Mark of Zorro." "The Mark of Zorro," a Douglas ; Herbert Jenkins issues Forty Fairbanks picture, in the Coronet's Years a Soldier" (16)-It is Intest attraction. The setting is in fine book of reminiscences by California. a hundred years ago, Major-General Sir George Young-when it was a part of Mexico. husband, who had the luck to Douggie appears in the role of a take a part in much fighting that wealthy young Spanish aristocrat come the way of the British To all appearances he is a useless officer during the period of and indolent youth, the despair his active service. His reminis of both his father and bis sweet.. dences open in 1878, when he was heart. But all this is merely packed off as a young subalterna pose. He is really Zorro, the to serve in the Afghan War. At masked rider. Zorro is a wonder- Kabul be first met Lord Roberts,ful character. He devotes his who reviewed the force and dis-life to saving the oppressed, and tributed medals for gallantry; The leaves the "Mark of Zorro "→→ Z Commander-in-Chief spotted the made with his rapier-on the now officer, right boning eight tyrannous Government officials, companies and sent for him. Finally, after winning over the "The little great man shook me batter-natured nobles to his cause, warmly by the band, and can he reveals his identity in a startl gratulated me on having gained ing manner. The production is a so fino a corps. From that day clever combination of thrille and forth he never forgot me." We have not space to follow him in the difficult dual role of waster. laughs, and, Douglas Fairbanks, through the bale of all his cam-and hero, is at his best.