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WEDNÍSDAY, COTOBER 31 1923

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG & CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDER3.

THE SECOND ORDINARY

ANNUAL MEETING of Share- holders in the above Company will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2, Lower Albert Road, Hong- keng, an MONDAY, 5th day of NOVEMBER, 1923, at Noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st JULY, 1923.

The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be CLOSED from 29th OCTOBER to 5th NOVEMBER 1923, both days inclusive.

By Order of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS,

M. MANUK,

Secretary. Hongkong, 19th October, 1923.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER

OF COMMERCE.

CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL.

BEGINNERS CLASS in the

A study of Mercantile Cantonese

will be commenced on MONDAY, November 5th, 1923, if sufficient sup port is forthcoming.

Intending STUDENTS bould cali upon the DIRECTOR OF STUDIES (the Rev. Dr. T. W. Paaren, 0.B.E) De SCHOOL-Zotland Hall, Icohouse Btreat any day this week (except BATURDAY) between p.m. B.80. p.m.

By Order,

D. K. BLAIR,

Secretary. Hongkong, October 20, 1923.

G

R.

HARBOUR MASTER'S

DEPARTMENT.

and

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Scaled Tenders in triplicate which should be clearly marked "Tender for raising or removing the Wreck LOONG SANG" will be received at the Harbour Depart- ment until NOON of MONDAY, the 5th November 1923.

Tenderers are to raise or remove the wreck LOONG SANG as she now lies in Hongkong Harbour.

The Government does not bind Itself to accept the lowest or any tunder.

C. W. BECKWITH,

Commander R.N., Harbour Master &c. Hongkong, October 26, 1923.

"LEST WE FORGET"

NAVY LEAGUE BALL.

ON FRIDAY, November 2nd, at

9.30 p.m., for the relief of Widows and children of

Those who died in the War.

Tickets obtainable at

MOUTRIES, ANDERSONS, HONGKONG HOTEL

and

ENGINEERS' INSTITUTE.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

OWNE

NOTICE.

WNERS of ponies are hereby notified that pontes must be named before being measured.

By Order

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary,

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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GYMKHANA THE FIFTH

MEETING will.bo.bold_(weather) permitting) at Happy Valley, SATURDAY, 10th and MONDAY 12th November 1923 commencing 2,45 p.m. sach day.

The Charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.

Boldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.

Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain admission to the Members' Enclosure.

Each member has the right of in- troducing 2 non-members to the membora onclosure, tickets for whom can be obtained from Mesara. Linstead & Davis at 85.- each up to FRIDAY November 9th,

The Steward invite the Indios of Hongkong to be prosent.

-Hongkong, October 20, 1923.

MARTIN'S

APIOL STREE

NOTICE.

This Prospectus has been duly filed with the. Registrar of Companies.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Subscription List will be Open on WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of NOVEMBER, 1923; and Close on or before SATURDAY, the 17th day of NOVEMBER, 1923.

HONGKONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING

AND SAVINGS SOCIETY, LTD. Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances 1911-1921.

CAPITAL

$10,000,000, DIVIDED INTO 1,000,000 SHARES OF $10 EACH.

Of the above Shares 169,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. On these $1.00 per share will be paid on application and the balanco when called up on the same basis as the remaining capital. The remaining 831,000 sliares ranking equally with those already subscribed are now offered for Public Subscription payable as to $1.00 per share on application, The balance due on each share, viz., $9.00, will be called up as and when required by instalments of $1.00 per share at intervals of not less than three months between each call.

Any of the shares now offered to the public which may not be subscribed for will be allofted in such manner as the Directors shall determine..

Directors:

Dr. J. C. DALMAHOY ALLAN, Alexandra Building, Medical

Practitioner.

C. E. BEAVIS, Esq., 9, Queen's Road Centrol, Victoria, Solicitor. H. A. CARTWRIGHT, Esq., 1A, Chater Rond, Victoria, Managing

Director, "Hoxokong Daily Prese.” Ltd,

GHAN SAU FUNG, Esq., 11, Mui Fong Street, Victoria,

Merchant. CHAU SIG KI, Esq.. 8, Queen's Road West, Victoria, Merchant. FREDERICK ELLIS, Esq., 10, Tee House Street, Victoria,

Stock Broker.

HON. MR, R. H. KOTEWALL, Alexandra Buildings, Victoria,

Merchant.

LEUNG YAN PO, Esq., St. George's Building. Victoria. Compradore, of Messrs. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.

LI WING KWONG, Esq., 153, Queen's Road Central, Victoria,

Merchant.

LI YA TSUN, Esq., 75, Queen's Roud Central, Victoria,

Merchant

THE REVEREND FATHER L. ROBERT, PROCURE GENERALE DES

MISSIONS ETRANGERES, Procureur General.-

WONG JAK SON, Esq., 220. Queen's Road Central, Victoria,

Merchant.

Bankers:

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Auditors:

MESSES. PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, Accountants, No. 5. Queen's Roid Central, Vietoria, Hongkong.

Solicitors:

MESSRA WILKINSON & GRIST,

No. 9, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong.

Registered Office of the Company:

No. 10, ICE HOUSE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.

PROSPECTUS:

(a) This Company has been formed principally for the purpose of building houses in the Colony of Hongitong with a view to meeting the great demand for housing accommodation which exists in the Colony at the presenttjrno:~~~

(b.) In particular is is proposed to take advantage of the offer recently made by the Government for the grant of land for building purposes on the basis of the schonte explained by The Colonial Secretary at a Meeting of tho Tegislative Council in June, 1923.

The Promoters are in a position to state that they have con- pleted negotiations for the acquisition from the Government of the platean below 'Jarding's Lookout," which is capable of accom- inodating 150 to 200 semi-detached houses. The Promoters are also in treaty with the Government for numerous other sites in good localition.

The Promoters have already received about 2,000 applications from persons desiring to obtain the assistance of this Company in building homes for the applicante.

The Promoters will also entertain, and, if thought advisable, take up any other scheme or schemes which may be proposed by the Government for the acquisition of land for building and development.

(c.) The Company is also empowered by its Memorandum of 'Association to undertake business of all kinds connected with the development of building areas.

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(d) The minimum subscription on which the Directors may proceed to allotment is 100,000 shares.

(c.) No commission or promotion money is being paid-by-the Company.

(.) The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incident to the formation and floating of the Company down to the timo when it becomes entitled to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is $5,000.

(9.) FREDERICK ELLIS will be the first Managing Director under a contract with the Company at a remuneration of 5 per cent. of the net profits of the Company.

(.) The Articles of Association, provide that the qualification of a Director is to be the holding of 600 shares in the Company and that the remuneration of each of the Director is to be $1,000 per annum.

.) None of the Directors or Promoters are interested in the promotion of the Company except to the extent of the stares faken by them in the Company.

(j) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can be inspected at the office of Messra. WILKINSON

& Grier, Solicitors for the Company, at any time during business

hours.

(k) À. copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is annexed to this Prospectus and forms part of it.

(1) Application for shares should be made upon the form accompanying the Prospectus and sont to the Company'a Bankern together with a remittance of $1.00 per gliaro, the amount of the doponit.

Where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned in full and where the number of shares allotted is loss than the number applied for a proportionate amount of the deposit will be returned.

WANT

Esher (Surrey) and the Dittons Urban Council shelved the question whether Mr. R. T. Morris, one of its ADVERTISEMENTS members, should lose is seat as he

SE WORDS'S INSERTIONE,

STPREPAID. Every additional word Conta for 3 insortions.

TU LET

تسليم

OLET Next April for about ***"six mouths, Kellett Manor, No. 67 Mount Kellelt. The house will be for sale in 1915. Apply, PERCY| SMITH, 5, Queen's Road Central.

FOR

FRENCH TUITION

Write to 2

G. MOUSSION c/o "China Mall" office.

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND

NEAR.

In the international yachting contest America gained a number of points, but she will not be able to prevent the cap going to Great Britain.

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Kemmerer, Wyoming, was the scene of a mining disaster, 200; men being entoinbed as the result of an explosion in one of the pits of the Kemmerer Coal Co.

Labour Exchange returns show that 1,191,800 persons were wholly unemployed on August 6. This is a decrease of 3,694 compared with the preceding week, and 294,078 below the return on Jan. 1.

Kempton Cannon, the veteran jockey, has issued a challenge to Stephen Donoghue to a match in | order to prove his contention that there is not a difference of 10th be- tween the old style of riding and

the modern

Enormous damage has been caused by torrential rains in India, particularly in Malabar and South Canara, where thousands have been rendered homeless by the resultant floods. Many bridges and roads, Have been washed away.

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By the death of Sir Augustus Webster, BL, the eighth holder of the title, which was conferred in 1703, the baronetcy becomes extinct, his son, Second Lieutenant G. Webster, Grenadier Guards, having been killed in action during the Great War.

In a statement issued by the pre-

sident of the All-India Congress Committee, the Kenya decision, It is asserted, brands all Indians as slaves, and brings home the utter futility of trusting to the British sense of justice and of hoping for an honourable place for India in the Empire.

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took a job with a council contractor when his refusal would have meant his losing the "dole"

The Westminster coroner will hold an inquest on Mr. J. E. Free- man, Mayor of Maldon, Essex, who was killed through falling from a fourth-floor window at the Hotel Cecil, where he was spending the first day of his honeymoon.

- The Napier supermarino ---Sca Lion, which won the Schneider Cup last year, has been further in- proved, and hopes are entertained that instond of a speed of 145 miles an hour she will at the contest at Cowes in September attain 175 miles per hour. Her tiny wings of 30ft have been reduced to 24ft. and the engine has been increased from 450 to 600 horse power.

DR. MORRISON'S DIARIES.

Mrs. Jeonic Wark Morrison, of The Mount, Witley, Surrey, late of Kungshien, Hutung, Peking, China, who died on June 20, aged 34. widow of Dr. George Ernest Mor- Irison, for many years Correspon-i

dent, of The Times at Peking, and later Political Adviser to the President of the Chinese Republic (representing China Versailles Conference), left pro- perty in her own disposition of the gross value of £38,433, with the personalty £37,481,

at the

The

Mrs. Morrison stated that her husband's diaries and papers were being read by Mr. J. B. Capper, late

of assistant editor

The Times, with a view to his under- taking the editing thereof. In the event of his being unable to do so, she suggested that Mr. G. E. Buckle and Mr. Geoffrey Dawson (the late and present editors of Times) should be consulted, and if neither could suggest a suitable editor, it was her wish that these papers should be deposited in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, New South Wales, to be kept from the public for twenty-five years, these diaries contain much of an intimate nature, and if they fall into unscrupulous hands I fear much harm could be done." She stated that her late husband had a very intimate and considerable knowledge of the events therein mentioned, and that these papers form a valuable record of the history of the Far East contempor

ary with his times.

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She desired, but created no trust in the matter, that her sons should and that they should go to a pre- have the best possible education, patatory school recommended by Mr. R. G. L. Irving, housemaster at Winchester, where they are to proceed later, and then to Oxford

of Cambridge, and thereafter to Harvard(U.S.A.}or McGill(Canada) University, with such further course at a university in Europe as should be considered advisable. She especially desired that the service of some well-educated and cultured lady (mentioning a name in this connection) should be engaged to

left:-

By the decision of Judge Wood-look after and bring up her sons. She desired to be buried-at-Sid- rough, of Omaha, in an action mouth with her late husband. She arising out of the seizure of a British ship off Fire Island, while landing liquor, the authorities are justified in seizing British vessels engaged in liquor smuggling although outside the three-mile limit.

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Staffs employed in Government departments totalled 304,511 on July 1, an increase of 795 compared with Juac 1. The main increase was in the Post Office, and it is ex- plained that this, is due to the engagement of the temporary staff meet leave and seasonal pressure.

Her collection of jade, Chinese porcelain and furniture and other curios and works of art, equally between her three sons with the request that they would retain thern, but if they should not do so, requesting (but creating no trust in the matter) that they should give them to the Public Museum, Mel- bourne, Australia; to Catherine, sister of Roberts Everts (Belgian Minister of Peking), the diamond and pearl brooch given to her by her husband; her collection of editions of" Robinson Crusoe" to her son Alastair: £100 to Bishop Norris, or other the Principal of the During a dense fog the Southern Anglican Mission at Peking, upon Railway Company's Channel Is

trust for the income to provide lands steamer," Princess Ena," ran prizes or scholarships bearing the on the Minquiers reef, midway be-

name of her husband for the tween Jersey and St.

promotion of education in connec Fortunately the accident was not

tion with that Mission; £100 and a serious, and subsequently she relife annuity of £60 to her nurse floated, and was able to proceed Sarah Jane Toovey; and an annuity under her own steam to St. Malo.

of $84 (Max.) to the widow of Sun Chi-chien, her late head boy in Peking.

to

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Malo,

No signs are yet apparent of any settlement of the boilermakers' dispute. The Ministry of Labour, after carefully reviewing the situ- ation, have decided, that no useful purpose could be served by inter fering at present. The struggle, which is now in its sixteenth week, has seriously affected many other branches of industry.

Following the action of Governor MacMaster, of South Dakota, in establishing State petrol-selling stations, where the charge is 3d per gallon against 11d charged at public and Standard oil depots, the Standard Oil Company-announce a reduction of price to 7% per gallon in eleven. States, including South Dakota.

AN APPEAL TO BRITONS IN CHINA.

100,000 DOLLARS

URGENTLY NEEDED FOR

THE "ARETHUSA” TRAINING SHIP.

2,800 OLD BOYS HAVE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY, AND 6,300 THE MERCHANT SERVICE

Pete

THEIR MAJERTIES THE KITO AND QUEEN. President: ILIII. THE TRISCE OF WALICH Chair! Treanzeri

QUE, MALDIAN," "Faj, M.K.

Dep. Chairman, CLAYTON, Faq.

Chiframes of blắp Committees

HOWSON P. DEVITE, ZOG.

Joint Secretarient

U. BRISTOW WALLEN and HENLY a. UOPELAND,

There are a total of 280 vacaricies at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. It is pro bable that the lower limit of are for unisstuir tu Sanduina?""UND"? Woolwich will be raised from 17% Cheques, Drafter, ere, ahould be made years to 18, but the change will not ALBURY ROMES &

payable to And sans toxin the-become-operative before the entrance examination in November,

(m) Prospectuses can be inspected at and Forms of Applica- tion obtained from the Company's Bankers, the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING, CORROBATION and at and from tibe offices of Company at No. 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Hongkong.

Dated the 20th day of October, 1949.

1924.

ARETRUNA TRAINING. BRIP. |–16d Bhiwbury Avánné Lóndon, W.03.

SALE!

SALE!

SALB!!!

GREAT REDUCTION

SALE

FOR 20 DAYS

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From October 18 to November 6.

THE WING ON CO., LTD.,

DES VOEUX ROAD, CENTRAL.

COMPARISONS ARE INVIDIOUS. But the

HONGKONG PRINTING PRESS stands for distinctive and high class LITHOGRAPHY WORK. We have removed to 6, Queen's Road Central, (above Bank of Canton), Kowloon Office, 1, Bowring Street. The same personnel will serve you and that bans 100% emetsacy. LITHOGRAPHERS-ENGRAVERS-EMBOSSERS-ETC,

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Tel. 0.437. Kowloon 8£8.

(We have ordered several new machines for our plant).

PENINSULA STORE

REMOVING TO

NEW PREMISES

KOWLOON HOTEL BUILDING.

From November 5th.

MUSICAL

OPEN IN

MERCHANDISE

KOWLOON HOTEL BUILDING.

From November 5th.

FRENCH NATURAL MINERAL WATER

VICHY CELESTINS

In bottins, half and splità

for Gout, Diabetes, Rheumastism, Gravel, Arthritis

VICHY-ETAT PREPARATIONS

VICHY-ETAT SALT

—Natural”unic from the water.

In tine and bottlon.

VICHY-ETAT TABLETS 2 or 3 after meals VICHY-ETAT COMPOUNDS digestive aerated water.

make digestión sany.

to make your own

Refusa sukatifutes.

PIANOS for SALE or Hire

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.,

Tel. 2127.

94A. Wanchal Road.

HOP CHEONG

HIGH CLASS FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS.

DEALERS IN

Swatow Hand-Made Drawn Thread Work New and Old Embroideries Silk, &o, &c. No. 55, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG, CHINA.

J. T. SHAW

TEL, CENTRAL 692, LADIES' & GENTS'. TAILOR

ANOTHER CONSIGNMENT OF

SUITINGS & OVERCOATINGS

JUST ARRIVED SUITABLE FÖR AUTUMN & WINTER WEAR

Surra From $60.00

Perfection in Style and Fit Guaranteed

11 Beaconsfield Areado

Hall)