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THE LUNGKUNG DAILY PRESS,

SATURDAY,

WANUARY Alas

INTIMATIONS

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LADY travelling to London with three Children ages 41, 9 years and 6

ORDINARY

THE KOWLOON TANTE AND BUILD- ING COMPANY. LIMITED. TOMOE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MEETING & SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company' Offices Victoria Building on THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5TH, 1820, at 19 o'clock Noax for the purpose of receiving the Report of Directors together with Statement of December Accounts for the year ending ist. Doce

1918.

The REGISTRAR of SHARES of the Com pany will be OLOSED from Wednesday, 28th. January to Thursday, 6th February 1920 (both days Inclusive), during which period Registered

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ADX and Gentleman going to Vancouver L with 3 Children ages 7, and 2)

MONTRA LM on March 1886 from Honby desire.communicate with Lady travel. Who would be ling by the same atramer wiring to help with the Children. Ter

armaged un application.

MR HORNELL, No 111, The Feat.

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Terma-

319

ADX returning England with 3 children

wonthe, by an "Agora" on February 9th, no TRANSFE of SHARES can be Lage 1 TIG OF EXPRES OF STOMATA

Hongkong, wishes to communicate with passenger who would be willing to Past with Children un voyage. Offer.10/- her day.

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BILLIARDS.

PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON,

EXHIBITION Game.

333

MONDAY, FEBUARY, 2ND, 1930.

E. D. GOLDING (Winner of Silver Cuph

W. PITT

(ex-champion of the Colony) Champion for 8 years. 500 up

Game to Commence at 6.30 F.3.

334

IN THE NETHERLAND CONSULAR COUBT AT SHANGHAI (CHINA)..........

In re ESTATE of BAREND DIRK

KAPTEYN, deceased.

DURSUANT to an order of the Court

PROMOE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court appointed H. E. BODDE Esquire, of the Holland Cains Trading Company, 43, Kisna Boad, Bhanghai, and EL. HUNTER, Exquire, of 95, Babbling Wel Rosd, Shanghai, to be joint administrators of the estate of the late Banand Diez KAPTEYN. of Shanghal, who lied at Shanghai on the 18th of January, 1920.

All persons having claims against the said estate are hereby advised to forward a statement thereof, with vouchers attached. to the administrators aforementioned, on or before the first day of April 1920, after while date said administra ors will proceed to liquid-ste the state in accordance with the law of The Netherfauris.

And all persons indebted to the sail estate are required to make payment forthwith to the administrators aforementioned.

Done this and day of January, 1920

AJ. VAN BOVEN,

Clerk

NOTICE

.

THE ANNUAL OPEN BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP the Colony held under the auspices of the VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.

Entries close on TaxUART. 3187, and are to be accompanied by entrance fen of 82.

The number of points to be played and other, arrangements will be decided a Meeting of the Competitors.

The competition is open to all in the Colony.

RH B. MITCHELL,

Hon. Secretary, VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.

295

NOTICE.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LED

VERTIFICATES No. 1845 and 3833 for 2 ant 1 old silver shares Nos, 10840/10880 and 10125 respectively standing in the books of the Bociety in the name of EDWARD WILLIAM MAITLAND OF YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, have been declared LOST and if at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the abovn documents be not forthcoming the same will be deemed cancelled and of no effect. OH. P. HAY

Deputy General Manager. Hongkong, January 18th, 1990"

By Order of the Board of Directors,

MOWBRAY N NORTHCOTE

Secretary to the HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & ACRNOY

Co. Ladej. General Agents for the KOWLOON LAND AND BULDING CO., LTD.

[933 Hongkong, January 21st, 1990.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the above-named Company will be OLOSED from FRIDAY, the 9th day of February, 1920 to MONDAY, the 18th day of February, 1990, both days inclusive.

Dated this 29th day of January, 1990.

By Order of the Board,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.

Agents

UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY,

LIMITED.

GIN.

A

“inab

the Hon.

"FOLLOCK 3 mation, of course, was intended to avoid, or reduce to a minimum, though, it is extremely doubtful, we think, whether it would be found to have much, if any advantage in that respect over the alterna- tive auggested by His Excelency. Fress- ing for a division, certainly serves to em phasise the views of a minority especially when, as it usually is on a Colonial Legislative Council, the views of the up- officials are in opposition to those of the official members--but in this case it revealed a defection in the unofficial It is to be hoped that the defeat of the motion does not mean that the matter will end at that We trust that

are agents for and hold ranka

on March 11th, from Hongkong desires, com- municate with Party travelling by me stacks of the following well-known is EXCELLENCY will still follow the course steamer who would be willing to help thư Children Termas 10 be arranged on sppifcation

Apply

A. WILSON Custom House, Canton

·₤200

KOBE CLUB.

FELICATIONS are invited for the port of Resident Secretary STEWARD, Fariabed House, Light, and Hest provided: Applications atsting Salary required should be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, References necessary. Duties to pad end of March

TO LET.

Gins

BURNETT'S

OLD TOM

BURNETT'S

1306

DRY.

GILBEY'S

ST FLOOR No. 2, Des Voeux Road

Apply

OLD TOM.

128

1s Controllab: For Office

CE, WAHREN & CO., LTD.

GILBEY'S

DRY

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

-ROOMED Furnished Flat at THE PEAK, from June 1st, for eighteen months

HE FIFTEENTH ANNUALGENERAL

MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will | $160 per month without. Este and Linen

be held in the Offices of Messrs. DODWILL &Co.,LIMITED on MONDAY, FERUARY BIS, 1920, at 11,00 3, for the purpose of receiv ing the report of the General Managera together with a Statement of Accounta: to: 31st December, 1919.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 2nd to th February, 1920, both dates inclusive.

DODWELL & CO, LTD.

General Managers. Hongkong, January 27th, 1030. HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO

STEAMBOAT 00., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE ONE HUNDREDTH ORDINARY MENTING BEDRE HOLDERS Y

the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Mansions, on TUES PAY, FERUARY 10TH, 192, at 13 o'clock Noos, for the purpose of receiving & Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, election Dite declaring is Dividend and

sant Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from January 227th to February 10th, 1940, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Diries ora,

JOHN ARNOLD, Bidety Secretary?”

Hongkong, January 13th, 1930.

241

INTER-MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION.

WEITZE CRETE PuKring InstaLLATION,

TENDERS are bereby invited for pamping. plant capable of discharging 198,000 gallons per minute against a totar head of 18 feet.

Specifications of detailed requirements can be obtained on application to the under Kigned.

J. R. LINESS, elo British Municipal Council, Tientsin Tientsin, January

ary 15th, 1920,

[201

(BY ORDER OF THE, SECOND

MORTGAGEE).

FARTICULABS

AND

CONDITIONS OF SALE

OF

VALUABLE” LEASEHOLD

FROPERTY KNOWN AS No. 15, SAI WOO LANE To Z Soto BY PUBLIC AUCTION

Ox WEDNESDAY,

the 4th day of February, 1920, at 3 r at his Sales Hoo

Br

GEO, T. LAMMTET, 'Auctioner.

Box 310 Carn of “Day Press“ Office

390

TO LET FURNISHED, For 8 months from April 1st, 1920. ROMUED HOUSE at. Magazine Gap. For terms and particulars apply to:

No. 134 Care of Daily Prem" Office.

A

THE

LET.

·GODOWN sé: Yanzesti,

Exchange still kope jumping Lesterday's quotation was de Mid. damand

convert the German Concession into an Thare it movement at Hankow to

International Settlement.

One case (one death) of corebrospinal. fever and one case (ono death) of enteric fever were reported in the Colony on Thursday..

An interim dividend of five taels per share will be paid to the abareholders of the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd, whose names are on the register on the 4th of February nexh

Early one morning last week, Mr. Edney Page's house, 17, Yates Road, Shanghai, was broken into by a gang of burglars, who made a clean sweep of a great quantity of valuable silver and some pieces of old brass in the dining- room:

Le proposed to take. The main thing is to secure, if possible, the removal of the military establishments to less central parts of the City and Kowloon, and it must be perfectly plain fo HIS EXCELLANCY that in anything be may be able to do towards that end he will have the united support of the residents of the Colony.

The Housing discussion drew some

Bishop Lander has this week held con- firmations at Kongmoon and Halaban. welcome as well as some disappointing

Tomorrow he is to confirm and preach. information from the Government. Itt Canton. He expects to return to the clear from the speech of the COLONIAL Colony on Monday, but has many jour SECRETARY that the Government is doing neys into the country to take before he More

towards solving the Housing

leaves the Diocese. problem in Hongkong-nt Kowloon as well as on the island than it is com- monly given credit for; and there is information in the speech which should give the newly-formed Kowloon Hesidents Association a considerable amount of satisfaction, and material for discussion and consideration. What is disappointing is the announcement that the hotel and housing accommodation which the Govern ment had intended to provide at Kowloon Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, at Shang- out of a fund accumulated under the hai, and Mrs. Stephen, lease for England 10th, ол The RM.8. Empress of local shipping requisition scheme, nader

The famous collection of Chinese anti quities, formerly belonging to Li Hùng- chang, have been purchased by a syndicate of Swedish business men, with a view to putting them up for auction 'in New York. A few choice pieces will be retained for the National Museum in Stockholm.

Mr. AGL Stephen, manager of the

which some fourteen ships were operated/dria, and will probably not return to A. S. WATSON & CO., by the local Shipping Controller, has had since Mr. Stephen went home on leave.

LIMITED

216

WÌNE® AND SPIRIT, MER:

TEL. No.

HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA

TION. CO. LTD.

TO LET..

1307

4-ROOMED FLAT, top of Prince's Build: ing, Fully Furnished, from April 1st, to October 31st, 1920,"

For full particulars apply to

GILMAN & CO. LTD.

TO LET

187.

BOOMED Furnished Bungalow at the

PEAL from early March.-- No. 3 Seymour Terrace from Middle February, **"Apply to —

LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

TOLET:

SHOP in Nathan Bond; Kowloom.

Apply 10-

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANŰZ

CO., LTD.

Buildings

Aler

TO LET FURNISHED AT PANCING,

FIOT MARCH LO NOVEMBER YOUR-ROOMED BUNGALOW Stled

ith Electric Light and Fans through

Tania Court also -at-Large Garden and Links and Sheung Shui Stations.

Apply

P. C. POTTE, 11, Queens Road Central

Shanghai this year. It is nine years

on les

Efforts are being made to nacertain whether it is possible to organise the fix- A tures for the Rugby Cap this year. practice game will be played on Tuesday on the Club ground beginning at 5 p.m. After the game it will be possible, to some extent, to say if there is any pros- pect of organising the fixtures for the Cups

to be indefinitely postponed until the Courts have decided a claim by the ship ping, firms concerned for the return of the money to themselves. Meanwhile we leave the matter where it is. HE. THE GOVERNOR and the Flor. CoLcataL SECRETARY both wanted to know what the housing problem" really is what the actual shortage of houses is in the Colony Accurate information on that point is, of BIRTHS

course, very difficult to obtain, but that HAMILTON—At Chungking, on

The preliminary announcement is made to Mr and Mrs. J. J. L the abortage is very great is clearly estab HAMILTON, a daughter.

lished by the enormous rise in rentals that a big American newspaper" is HAMMONDAt Shanghai on January

Sad, to Mr. and Mrs. BAM HAMMOND that has taken place in recent years into be started in Feking "The Great daughter.

all parts of the City and Kowloon. It is Republican will be printed in Chinese, a grievance which the Chinese resident and will propagate republican ideas and | Mre and Mis. P. G. TATE, & daughter.fully shares with the European, and weideis, and advocate albeer commercial

Shanghai, o, January 22nd,

DEATH

are afraid it is not sufficiently recognized relations between the United States and, TOONE-At Shanghai, on January 23rd, that it is the primary reason for the Ching. The report adds that the ventura

"ALGERSON EDWARD ALFRED, agedia

months, gneumonis, son of Aubrey high cost of living a factor which must will be strongly financed. G. Toone

dangerously. menace the future prospe HONGKONG OFFICn: 104, Dar Vaux Boan, Crity of the Colony if it is not promptly

LONDON OFFICE: 121, Praxi Smam, E.O.

s

The Daily Press.

HONUXORO, JANUARY 31ST, 1990.

cho. There are thousands of houses.

in the Colony to-day on which the "rentals are three or four times what were charged when those houses were bailt

CANTON NEWS

MACAO SEXLAMATION.

January 30th

We Chinabu, the Vice-Minister for

If the storekeeper has to pay higher Foreign Affairs of the Military Govern- rentals for his premises he has to chargement, has addressed a letter to the Tuchun. customers more for the goods he sells stating that the Portuguese Consal and Similarly, if the coolie has to pay more the British Vico-Compul conferred with THE COLONY'S NEEDS.

the Military Government yesterday, andi for what he buys and for the modest

suggested the appointment of a special. Tus proceedings of the Legislative accomodation that serves to shelter him commission to discuss the question of Council yesterday covered references to hd must demand more for his labour, demarcation of boundaries between Macro a rather wide variety of questions in and so we get what is now a common

and China. Meanwhile, the reclamation justification for charging high rentals---- which the community is very keenly interested, and we think we shall be labour costs are high and co are the one of the Chingchow shures will be postponed. interpreting the general sense of the of building materials, Why is it so CE CONDITIONS. Colony in expressing satisfaction with Simply because there is an insumi the accommodating spirit in which the of horses. It may be difficult to get back Government received the proposals and to lower rents and cheaper labour, but suggestions made to it. The two ques. adequate housing accommodation would

A report from a member of Parliament in Shanghai concerning the peace pour- parlers between the North and the South states that the following are the term proposed(1)

of first importance raised were the serve to check the tendency towards the Han Shi-chahe South will recognise

as the President, (2) both

the new and old Parliaments are to be dissolved, (3) the Tuchun of Kwangtang wangai, Yunnan, Kreicbow and Ste-

Housing Question and the kindred subject aggravation of the evil-and would do of whether it is not possible for the civil much to lessen it. So far as the problem and military authorities to come to some for Europeans is concerned, the position Garage and Stables close to Fanling Go arrangement to have the military estab-has not been met in the way it was hoped chuen ahal, remsin, but new Tuchuns will fizhments removed from the central part it might have bean met some years ago. be appointed in Hanan and Sheng (4) of the City, with a view to affording Take the Peak properties as an instance Shum Chun-huen is to be appointed as Director General of Railways in the Eight. greatly-needed facilities for commmer of what we have in mind The Gover Bouth West Province; and. (6) General fcial expension. It does not require king ment threw out the suggestion that the Luk Wing-ting and the Funnan Tuchun, residents in the Colony to appreciate how bigger firms should build reudences for Tong Kai-yew, are to be appointed FOR SALE

important this is, if the Colony's growth their stalls. What has been the response Inspector General in the South-West Pro- MALL & Boomal semi-detached House and future prosperity as a commercial How many firms have built houses f

at Magazine Gaps Excellent state of entrepôt are not to be hampered and im usted, figures greatly in excess of to form the railway directorate, and the Several have bought up existing houses vinces. Chum Chun-huen is taking stepa repair. Tiled Kitchen, good Drying Boom NOR SALE LOT No. 62, immediately PORTION of SECTION Q of Marins Lot and Servants Quarters Bath Rooms tred peded, and we are glad to notice that what those houses cont to build, in every Commissioner of the Canton Customs ha

Behind the Russian Consulate, with an No 9 The said premises are held for the with Geyser, Porcelain, Bathe and BHE. THE GOVERson agreed that the ment itself eet a bad example in that been naked to contribute a sum of $30,000

Harden aboos 4,000 sq. feet. Price $17,000 Mortgage arranged if desired.

Box No -198, Apply

Care Daily Prem

BRITISH CONCESSION, SHAMEEN, CANTON,

area of 12.845 square feet, mesauring 90 x 140 feet, frontage to creek which is adjacent to Western Exit leading to Coast Bosts berths, Shamshai Railway and Grand Trunk Line to Haakow, now in construction.

Apply tom

HERBERT DENT & CA

325

Being all those pieces or parcels of ground Situato at Victoria, Hongkong, and knowɛ, and Registered in the Land Office as The REMAINING PURTION of SECTION

of Marine Lot No. 81 and the REMAINING

erm of 809 years granted by two Crown Leases dated respectively the 24th day of September 1858, subject to the payment of the ANNUAL CROWN BENT of £2/134 and £0. 68. Od. respectively and to the per formance of the less covenants in the said Crown Leases reserved and contained and subject also to an Indenture of Mortgage Registered in the Land Office by Memorial No, 62705 and to the principal ⠀ ausm of thsteon thereby

FRENCH LESSONS 3,00 100 and

secured, interest

For further particulars and conditions of male, apply to

D'ALMADA

AND MASON, Vendor's Solicitors

G. MODSBION,

16. Mozzison HILL BoiD.

ME. GEO. P. LAMMERT

Auctioneer. Hongkong January 28th, 1990,

317

case we can call to mind. The Govern

surplus as the monthly matter is one of very considerable im respect; and, thus, instead of doing some from the Custom surplus a

While he

was unable, for a thing to solve the housing problem, it expenses of the directorate,

helped to aggravate it.. Obviouely, the GIRL STUDENTS' STRIKE, technical reason, to accept the resolution need is for more houses and plenty of The girl students of the Normal School,

rward with the unanimors them the more there are the cheaper

Office

*188

portance

broug

FOR SALE SUPER SIX FIVE SEATER MAC LOUGHLIN MOTORUAR, upholstered in real leather, all latest improvements and in splendid condition. Potsession March 1st gwner leaving Colony.

Apply

HENRY HUMPHREYS * ́A ́exandra Buildings.”

of the unofficial members, His things generally are likely to become, who have been on strike for over a month, There is abundance of land for roiden marched in a body to the Civil Governor's EXCELLENCY, nevertheless, expressed him tial purposes, given the necessary facili, yamen to hand over, & petition reiterating in priciple, in entire agreement ties of communication-say by tramways their request that a qualified person be with the motion, and announced that he to the other side of the Peak or a tramway

and it is only by opening up extensive The Governor was not in his yumen at proposed to send the motion to the Secretonnelled through the base of the bill appointed to replace the present principal tary of State and ask him to agree to a arate for building purposes in this way the time, and the girls were informed joint investigation of the matter, between and planning their development, that the that the Governor is looking for is com

Government can hope to successfully solve themelet europeo the War Office and the Colonial Office in problem which is every year becoming petent person to take charge of the school

and that they should return. This inter-departmental circumlocution is more acute