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"THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1924

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO. LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

L

25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Evary additional word Cont

for 3 insartlane.

TO LET.

FOR

THE CHINA MAIL.

BANKING IN FAR EAST. THE "STATIST'S" "REVIEW.

CHINA'S ONLY KELIABLE COURENCY.

In its nonul banking number the'

WINNING £114,000.

THE CALCUTTA SWEEP.

Captain Anthony Poole, the winner of a fortune in the Calcutta Sweep, who is refuting to his

SOUL'S RHAPSODY. THE

-(Inspired by a Swulay's En-counter) 'Sie Itur Astra" Virgil (Thus men assond to the skies).

die.

bright star of my natal-hour! plantation in Zinzibar after visiting Light of the spherical sky- his home in Windsor, says good, Como, ebod a message of hope fortune has made no difference to On this world-called spark tint must his normal mode of life. He will

Some few months back it was The functions of ensmos recede,

Calcutta End with decades untold--- announced that has continue in his present enterprise.

A sky of doop molten-gold. Turf Club's Dorby "sweep" was While millions of planets roplete, to be abolished:

This, as we all know, lins nor happened; but the committee of dist-atom of stollar-light!'

club has for some time World, dazed with 'Carousal's sway' the viewed with disfavour the swollen The Fates shall wail of the sight, proportions to which it has at-, of you, in titante deonty. tained of late, and this year cer-

MAIL

WEEK NEWS. ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

Five cases of suspected small-

have been notified. Pegswood, Northumberland."

pox

at

Towcester (Northamptonshire) Grammar School, the main part of

MAIL WEEK NEWS,

ITEMS FROM FAT AND NEAR.

Wilton Newy, a painter, aged about 50, fell on to the line at Earl's Court Station, and was killed by a trais..

Mary Ann Westmore, aged 80,

which was built only three years was knocked down by a tralo between Ventnor and Sandowtr ago, was completely destroyed by Isle of Wight, and died from the

fire.

The Dutch steamer Orestes which grounded in the Danube,

shock."

More than 60 men and women

has been refloated with assistance, joined in a Christmas morning and is apparently undamaged, bathe in the sea at Plymouth, despite a keen frost and the lowest says Lloyd's.

sea temperature of the year.

Statist.publishes the following article on Far Eastern banking :-

The course of business conditions in dapan is of peculiar interest to THE

THE ONE HUNDRED & FOURTH MEETING of ORDINARY

the student of international con SHAREHOLDERS in the Company

ics, ne over since the Armistice will be held the Office of the Company No 4, a Vorex Road

1925, on lower levels, centralsitive to the changing currents of on FRIDAY, Unuary 1924, at LET-April 1924 to January that country has been peculiarly 12 O'clock NO XV the purpose of locality, EIGHT ROOMED HOUSE, international trade and has gen- etc. erally fed the way in undulations of receiving a Renor of the Directors, fully furnished, tennis court,

Suatemal together with

of Apply Linstead & Davis, Alexandra the business curve. In Japan, for instance, with the sudden slump in silk values, the first warning nole Accounts, decirrin: Dividend and Buildings.. electing Diren 143. Auditors,

of collapse of the post-Armistice trade boom was sanded, while the recovery po depression; though only temporary in chatmeter, also commenced in Japan. The cause of this sensitiveness is not for to seek For it was the War which gave Japan its great opportunity of win-

Originally started in a small ning a place in the turbfront of the commercial rintions of the world-way by and for members of the Lpportunity it was not slow to club, the sweep has grown by de- size. Doubtless, with the growth grees until the value of the first of experide and with the restor prize in connection with the last tion of stability, Japan will sole Derby feached the amazing value of down as a great manufacturing £114,000 And that was only forty nation, but at, the present time the per cent of the total sum subscrib. And the love that heaves in my tons, compared with 5,726,300 tons, overhauling, the Cunard liner"

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will CLOSED- from Saturday 19 Juntay.to Friday 1st February 1921. b days inclusive, daring which primo transfer of shares can be regižge,d..

By Order of the Board of Directory.

JOHN ARNOLD,

Secretary Hongkong, January 8, 1924.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA,

NOT

LIMITED

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTH ORDINARY

FRENCH TUITION

Write to

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

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

MEETING of the Club will b YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL HOLDERS will be held ar-the-Regis held in the Jockey Club Room, Hong- tered Office of ine Company No. 10, kong Club Aanex. On MONDAY the Des Voeux Road Central, at 3.00pm, 4:11 February 1924 at 5 pm for the SATURDAY February the 2nd 1921, Durpose of confirming the resolutions for the purpose of receiving the Repassed at the EXTRAORDINARY port of the Directors together with a GENERAL MEETING held on the Statement of, Accounts for the year 10th January 1924. ending 31st December. 1923,

The Transfer Bks of the Cam- pany will be cled from MONDAY. 21st Januare to SATURDAY, 2nd February 1924, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

KAN TONG FO

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 15th January, 1924.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND

FINANCE CO., LTD..

By Order

C B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hongkong 23rd January, 1924.

NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that as from January 28th, 1924

our office will be removed to

CHINA BUILDING

(Old Post Office Site) 1st foor. Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong. Suzuki & Co., Ltd., Hongkong. P. O. Box No 304.

Tel Nos. 464, 468, 3397 & 2453. Hongkong, 26th January, 1924.

WING HING

No

JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY ANNUAL

·GENERAL MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS IN THIS COMPANY will be held at the Hugtong Hotel. Mongkong on SATURDAY, the 9th February 1924, at 11 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Siate- ment of Accounts for the year end-Orders ing 31st December 1923.

The TRANFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 1st February to the 9th February (both days inclusive), during whkh period no trangler of, Shares can be Registered.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1924.

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Shall bring God nearer to me. For Heaven is surely my home. And the warblo of birdlings at dawn, Acoli strains of the air,

ho dew-drops thus hornid the morn, all transport my yearninga thero.

breast

The Royal Agricultural Society's ' show at Newcastle this year creat- ed a record in point of financial over expenditure being £19,101. success, the balance of receipts

While hunting with the Belvoir Pack, General Sir Hill Child was unconscious by a kick on the head thrown and rendered temporarily

'from his horse,

The coal butput for the week ended December I was 5,719,200

the previous week and 5,573.300

of last year.

A widow, Mrs. 'Newbold, of Vardon, Leicestershire, who was to moment allowed to spend Christ have been evicted, was at the last mas in the house.

Mrs. Eliza Grevatt, a widow, her bedroom at Worthing with her She died aged 63, was found on the floor of nightdress in flames. from the burns.

While passing up the Clyde for "Carmania" damaged her bows: outside wall of the Albert Harbour, Greenock.

ders that tho prosperity of a nation 138. 4d., anyone with an arithmeti Shall war o'er the mountains' crost tons for the corresponding week slightly by running against the

rory is getting frequent remin- cannot be solidly built in the course of a few years.

DEFLATION IN JAPAN, 1t-my-bo reculled_that_in_April of 1021 a strong boom began in Jain that lasted till October of this same year. After the letter month fresh depression set in whitit lasted throughout the whole of 1932,

As the price of each ticket is The lights that flush in her oyes al turn of mind can easily figure and rejoler in God's paradise. out for himself the number of

Olet me chent rhapsodies! tickets printed and sold.

The holder of the winning ticket While panting with grief in my

Megh for this particular sweep last year was a young Liverpool typist Dam Strand rushed with its

Shu mooda ed Gwendoline Thomas. received about £57,000, Laving And coarsened in corporal-moshi. previously disposed of a half in-

Five years later it had jumped to £75,000. The winning horse--or, rather, mare was Signorinetta, a rank outsider, which started at the amazing odds of 100 to 1. *N

me sar!

THE WATER 'BUPPLY.

Lost and vedhang of maturin reonrvoirs

the January 1924-

SET AND BIG CASTING WATHE WORES

excepting a temporary rècovery interest to her ticket to some lucky Tet me laze in shados of Vallwalla ¦ June and July. This new period of individual, whose name was never Let me prance! Let me dote! Let deflation proved a bitter experience made public, for the sum of £5,000. for the country, though, its effects Twenty years ago, when Rock Let me dream in Imnquil Nirvana, were tempered somewhat by a large Sand won the Derby, the rule was while infinito ages roar.

-H. M. SILVA. export of raw silk in response to a that the winning horse took fifty The per cent of the money. The first strong American denard. readjustment processses involved prize on that occasion amounted to nutny failures, which found ampleu- £20,000 sant echoes in the banking world.

In the early months of last year (1) considomblo uneasiness, was caused by the failure of a prominent spoculator in Osaka, involving con siderable losses to banks. A period of simin followed in the money market, but eventually the position was cleared with the restoration of confidence inspired by a national and campaign of refrenchiment adjustment of values. Towards the end of November, however, the business world received anusther rude shock by the suspension of the Nippon Sekizen Bank in Kyoto and the Kynshu Bank in. Kumamoto, owing to imprudent speculative operations.

She was drawn by a quartette of young bank clerks, who, on the day preceding the race, offered their ticket for sale for the sum of £400. Luckily for them there were no takers.

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Although in the past tickets for the sweep have been freely sold. by and to all sorts of people all over the world, the club recognises no holder of a ticket other than the member whose name appears thereon as the original purchaser.

To him, and to him alone, is paid Pots These failures led to the amount of any prize, that may runs on the bank in Kyoto, Osaka, be won. and the outlying districts, as well as Altogether 10 banks bid to suspend in Kyushu and various other places. during the crisis, while many others had to face heavy withdrawals by depositors. The Bank of Japan, however, came to their rescue, and played a large part in re-establish ing confidence.

Last year numbers of tickets much as ive pounds being paid in changed hands at a premium, as some instances. It cannot be too widely known that this practice is forbidden by the rules of the club, and that any ticket re-sold for more than the original price-135. 4d-is liable to cancellation.

From time tinie it has been In the spring and early summer of 1023 Japan experienced a freak rumoured that the draw for the recovery in business conditions, but sweep is not conducted fairly- This, of course, is all nonsense, there hits been a reaction since about that, in plau English, it is faked. May last. The recent earthquake The Royal Calcutta Turf Club, to proved a severe blow to the business give it its full title, is one of the and banking organization of the most exclusive organisations in the country, but the people are facing. world, its members being drawn the situation with admirable courage from the same social stratumn as and pumptitudo. At present those of our own Jockey Club. No Japanese trade is seriously handi- more need be said. capped by over-valuation of the yen which multiplice the difficulties of the export trade and makes for free importations of foreign manufactur-ource by the military authorities." ed articles.

Under circumstances such as CHINA'S DOMINANT FEATURE. these it is hardly to be expected that Politics continue to dominate the Consortium formed to extend Chinese industries and finances. financial assistance to China should Tho. Peking Government has still be able to do more than remain

Thieves entered St. John's

Mr. Charles Fordyce, of Ponson- Church, Sutton. Plymouth, and caused .considerable damage, but by, Auckland, who has been in obtained little booty, as their New Zealand for 40 years, has scheme in his native parish of failed. efforts to break open two safes promised £5,000 for a nursing

Gamrlo, Banffshire.

A peasant of 9t, living in the department of Loire Inferieure, France, who had decided to divorce his wife after 62 years of married pronounced. life, died on the day the decree was

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Sir Edward Capel-Cure, for five years Commercial Attaché at the British Embassy in Rome, has had Lake Maggiore, and is gravely ill. a paralytic stroke at Pallanza, on

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The P. and O. liner "Moldavia" Chelsea Borough Council, which

(16,277 tóns), London for Sydney; is mainly composed of Municipal, has had a fire in the cargo in No. 3 Réformers (anti-Socialists), has agreed to pay trade union rates to hold while at Fremantle, but the the unemployed engaged on relief outbreak has been got under

control... works.

The customary ice boating on the The Home Secretary has advised that commutation of the death St. Lawrence has been impossible, sentence passed on Alice Rose this year, owing to the high tem Tumey, aged 20, the servant girl perature; Christmas parties west convicted of the murder of her yachting instead. months-old baby.

Lady Simmons, wife of Sir Anker Simmons, of Bird-place, Civil Servants of the Foreign, Remenham, Henley-on-Thames, Colonial, and India offices serving

in tropical or unhealthy climates who was recently fined £io at Marylebone Police Court for will, in future, be eligible for the NKing Edward VII's Home for shoplifting, has given notice of

Convalescent Officers at Osborne, appeal.

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Melbourne choristers, who have

a drama and twa comedies, in started training to take part in an Duke-street Prison, Glasgow, was opera season to be held there by attended by about 180 men and ame Nellle Melba, are stated women prisoners. Music was pro to be threatening a lawsuit in. consequence of a reported deci- Oracle, Bit. da. Below 2. Abovided by friends of the governor.

sion to import. Italian choristers.

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The Govoramani Avalyau's reports shar at the quality of the water is satisfec- 47

1923 1991 Total all to sist December 60×16 In. 100-768

H. T. OREAAT.

Water Authority. Pable Works Department,

signally failed in anification of the a ille spectator of events. China's INCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. Republic, and internal strife, total unsecured foreign indebtednem brigandage, maladministration and at present amounts to more than financial chaos continue to grow $500 million. in respect to about worst. The following extract from half of which payment is in default. the speech of Mr. A. O. Lang,

CHINA'S TRADE AFFECTED.

THE GREAT. NORTHERN TELE GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.

The following unclaimed telegrams ra lying at the office of The rost Northern Tolegraph Company Limited)

Everybody Kimberley Villas Kow Giles British Consulate, from Pakiag Loon from Tientsin..

V. B. Kang Oriental Hotel Boom: 6 from Shaugh.

chairman of the Hongkong and Chinese trade has naturally been Shanghai Banking Corporation, at gravely affected by the political and the latest annual meeting of lut nanem disorder, gst the revenue institution, graphically pictures the collection for last year again went state of China-

to the high record figure of Hk. "The standing army in larger Tls. 68,000,000, being Hk. Tha than over, and continues not only to 4,100,000 in excess of that for 1921,

Forth Floor, from Shanghai, be a crushing financial burden upon itself a record. The salt revenue!

Captain Chopra, from Kobe the country, but its ill-disciplined collection was also satisfactory,

Nam (2), from Bhanghai units have become a serious menace $65,693,000 being paid into the

Commanderled

Bowne Huron, from to both foreign and Chinese life and Group Banks, but less than $7 mil moporty everywhere outside the bon became available. for meeting. Shanghai Long Man Maw New, from protection of treaty porto. Bands of foreign secared obligations. The brigands, consisting of deserting or increase in the import duties up to Shanghai

jaid soldiery, maraud through the an effective & per cent, ad calorcra provinces, burning, looting, and in accordance with the agreement eidampping with impunity while come to at the Washington Confor the whole country continues to be ence, became effective in January from Nagasaki rent by ever-shifting political die nat, the new artcs to be subject to Rensions and military intrigues. The raison after four years. China has

Kwong

Chong Shing Eastern Strees, from

Tung Bing, from Augus

"as a rent and acknowledgment for the recent decision of the Supreme the privilege," as the town clerk Court that Japanese cannot legally phrases it in a letter to applicants.own land in California for agricul

Loung Leong 7. Olung Shan street,E

E. V. JESSENT

Act Superintendent, w Polding Government, central only in made no progresa in currency uni-Hongkong, 10th January, 1924. namo, in a puppet in the hands of fication, despite the attempt to tire deale contending Tichins. The railways establish a central mint in Shang LASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL are over rat, their traffic disorganizai, and the Shanghai sycen in stil ASIA CHINA TELEGRAPH CO. ed, and their equipment damaged the only bonest and reliable car- by hordes of disorderly troops. The repcy in the country. The rapid revenues which abald go so main-growth of the cotton-spinning. tain the railway nad to pay the per industry, has tow received in vice of the foreign loans secured on check, though still able to form & them, are appropriated at their considerable menace to the Indian Captain

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List of andaimed telegrams lying fo Telegraph Ofice Hongkong. Brownfield, from Leads Asiatik, Jim Bakkol

Burt, from Shape Town

Waterem trade in yarns. Under-capitaliza

Grandoop/ tion, mefficient management, frein Karraqueppälandi. suffoieney, of local cotton and the Dept from s general, political disorder are ros ponsible, for they set back

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prices again, trended downwardin 1923, but wholesale pricon showed a 12 vala overy-Covery from the 1922 level.

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