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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LIMITED,

BE CERTIFICATE Sa, 1971 for one

S

Terre 30 45 Tow converted into. golt sharps in this Society standing in the name of Messra. DW. BELL & Co., of London, has been IST, nt if at the expiration clone month from the date hereof the abore document be not forthcoming the said certificate will be leemed cancelled and of no affect and a certi- hcate for the 5 gold shares will be issued in its stend by the Society.

TAFL LAUDER,

for lieneral Manager. Hongkong, June 10th, 1990,

LIK

SHIRE LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM UNITED KINGDOM, COLOMBO and STRAITS.

HE Steamship

THES

"QARDIGANSHIKË”

having arrived from the above ports, Con- signees of Cargo by her are hereby informed. that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Gode was of The Hongkong and Kowloon and Godown Company, Limited. Whart

and or from the wharves, delivery

whence, may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by the leth June, 1990. will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined by Meara Goddard & Douglas on 16th June, 1920, 10 AM. Claims against the steamer must be presented within 30 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognized.

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No Fire Insurance will be effected by as in any case whatever.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, KATHESON LT, LID.

"Agent

Bongkung, 9th Jane, 192

₤105)

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, -S.S. ECUADOR VOY 17-OUT.

From SAN FRANCISCO, via HONOLULU -YOKOHAMA KOBE, SHANGHAI

and MANILA-

THE above-mentioned resnel haring arrived Porta above-mentioned the

from

Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that. their Cargo will belanded at their risk into the Purifie Mail Steamship Company's Godowns. a West Point and stored at Consignes risk.

Consignees of cargo are hereby notified that they must produce an Import Permit of the Im- wigned by

ports and Exports,

the Superintergang, before Bills of Lading can be countersigned.

All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be lef

left in the godowna, where they will be examined on June 14th at 19 M. and June 18th, at 10 AM

All claime

ime must be presented within a

week of the steamer's arrival berg after No -which they cannot be recognized

disim will be admitted after the goods have left the godowns, and all goods re maining undelivered after June 15th, ill be subject to reat.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be affected.

Consignees are requested' to send in

their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.

PAUIFIC HAIL STEAMSHIP CO.. Hongkong, June th 19

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 10TH, 1920.

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUR.

TENNIS.

CUP has been presented for Competition amongst Member and Bubscribers during the ammer nonths. Entrips close on lir Conditions and Entry List are punted at the Parilion."

Hongkong, June 8th, 1920,

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HONGKUNG GYMKHANA CLUB.

GYMKHANA MEETING

PREPAID WANTED"

ADVERTISEMENTS.

ON and after this date advertisements of the

* Wanted" variety will be inserted under

a special heading in the “Honoxone Dalt PRESS at a charge of

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$1.00 FOR THREE INSERTIONS they do not exceed 23 woads_in_number and are PREPAID.

An additional charge of 50 cents will bó kunde if the instructions for insertion are not accompanied by cash. ·

Those who prefer their advertisements of this

THE EXTRA & held at the Haret dewcription to be displayed in one inch space,

VALLZY, on SATURDAY, JUN 1, commen- eing at + ..

The Change of Addision will be $1 for others shan Members of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB of GYMELANA Clur,

Soldier and Saflors in uniform Half-Price. The Committee invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.

Hongkong, June 4th, 1920.

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THE WEL SAN KNITTING COMPANY. LIMITED.

NOTICE.

A MEETING of the CREDITORS of the Сокарипу will be held on the Nineteenth day of June, 1920, at the Offices of Hosary. SURWAN, TOMEx & Co., St. George's Building. Hongking; at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, par- want to the provisions of Section 181 of the Companies Ordinance, 1911.

At this Meeting the Creditors will be asked to determine whether an Application shall be made to the Court for the appointment of any person Liquidator in the place of or jointly with WALTER JOUN

the Liquidator appointed by the Company, or for the appoint- ment of a Committee of Inspection. Date. the 7th day of June, 1920.

WALTER J. HAWKER,

Liquidator

THE WE: SAS KNITTING COMPANY, „LTÄ.

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WANTED

JUNIOR Chinese Clerk by Insurance Office

Enowledge of Typing Essential Reply stating experience and salary required

Bor-No. 10, „Cure of "Daily Pres" Office

na hitherto, must give instructions accordingly and will be charged at the old raŽON.

FLL three or four Rooms wanted on the Peak furnished or unfurnished-Apply - Box-B, ∞ = ---Duily-Press."--

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NEW LOAN OF 4 MILLIARDS FRANCS

m...

5% PREMIUM BONDS.

CREDIT NATIONAL. -

HE Bonds are of 506 Fra face valus,

PRICE OF ISSUE 485 FRANCS 8 drawings a year amounting to 20,000,000 Fraben,

with the following prizes -1,000,000 Frames .

500,000

200,000

1

E

100,000 99 11

50,000

The prizes drawn will be free of any taxes, present or future.

The Banda bear interest on and after the 15th of June, 1920.

Applications will be received till the 15th of June, 1920, bý

C

THE BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINË

L BERINDOAGUE,

Mangage

Hongkong, June 4th, 1920.

(103

"TO LET

"TRON" TODO WN

YORRUGATED Yaumati

Apply to-

-THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA-

E.

..TION CO. LTD.

[1040

TO LET...

SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon

Apply to-

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

C. LTD., Alexandra Buildings.

FOR SALE.

7032

NEW

66

COMPLETE PLANT including

REPULSE BAY HOTEL centrating Ore. Just arrived.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12т#:

TEA DANSANT FROM 4 TO 7 P.31. DINNER DANCE Frox 8.

SUNDAY, JUNE 13TH:

ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS DURING

TIFFIN AND AFTERNOON.";.

FLYING :- SUNDAY, JUNE 13TH,

COMMENCING at 230 p.m.

Tickets for Flights and full particulare may be obtained at the HONGKONG HOTEL-Mats Orrick, oraz Rruax BAY HOTEL

J. H. TAGGART, Manager.

MONDAY next,

at 6 p.m.

1914

ORGAN

RECITAL

ST.

JOHN'S

-CATHEDRAL.

1009

A. G. DA ROCHA,

15 THE AUCTIONEER.

Willey Table for crushing and con-

For particulars apply--

CARVALHO & COMPANY,

Machinery, Department:

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Mears. LAMMERT BROS e instructe

to well-

THE STEAMSHIP ̈~JEHANGIR Now lying in the Harbour of Hongkong under an

Order of the Court by

PUBLIC, AUCTION

01

MONDAY,

the 29th day of June, 1920, at 3 o'clock P.M. IN ONE LOT

at their Anction Rooms, in Däddell Street."

THE Ship is a British ship registered at Hongkong of 5206 tens Gross and of 3360.71 Registered tamage and was built by W. Denzy and Brothers, Dumbarton.

For particulars to view apply to Mesra. Lammert Bros., the Auctioneers.

For further particulars,

Apply to--

MERCES. JOHNSON STOKES & MASTER,

Prince & Building,

or to

Messi, AMMERT BROS., the Auctioneers,

Daddell Street

WE HAVE

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INTIMATION

THORNE'S

OLD

VAT

"No. 4

SCOTCH WHISKY

has

Soveral Chinese banks are riparted tö

transfer in one day of some sampoo.

The experience of the Ear Eastern news- papers is much the same, and there is no have been transferring their hero. prospect of an early improvement. Thore serves away from Peking... The Bank of ja a greap scarcity of pulp. Efforta. are Communications took the lead in eting being planned in Loridon to encourage increnied paper production in various

A distressing accident occurred in the parts of the British Empire, and we notice that an Indian contemporary has suggest Shinyo. Mary on June 5th while the sol ed that there is a greater opportunity than was on her way to Hongkong, Two ever previously arisen for the Japanese carpenters fell into the N. 4 organisation of a great paper waking batoh, resulting in one dying immediatly." industry in India. It seems agreed, it The injuries of the other were attered says, that the public demand for reading to and when the vessel arrived in barbar is growing so steadily that any good paper the man was removed to hospital. mills laid down in the near future wil

The report that His Excellency th find a ready-market for their products and British Minister to Peking will proceed unless increased supplies of paper bring Home to be knighted has been circulated down the market people will certainly have for some time IL is now stated by n to pay considerably increased prices for contemporary that His Excellency wil whatever they read. For some years past leave earlier than was first decided, he experts in the service of the "Indian Government have been drawing attention connexion with the proposed renewal of cause his presence is needed at Home in

to the bamboo, as a new"source of paper-

making material. We do not know whether Anglo-Japanese alliance. ther any mills for the manufacture of The celebrated Italian artists Madame We strongly recommend this Whisky.

paper pulp from the bamboo have yet been A. Silvestri and Senhor D. F. Amelias, erected in India, but many in Hongkong kindly assisted by Professor E. Danen The Vat was started in 1881 by the will be familiar with a project of this berg, will give an epen air concert at the kind in Tonkin just before the war began. Club de Recreio, Kowloon, on Saturday, A considerable amount of Hongkong and the 12th instant, at 9.15 p.m. Tickets of French capital was invested in the Tonkin admission, at 81.30 each, may be obtained

late Robert Thorne of Greenock

and the Whisky has been known as

Old Vat, No. 4, ever since.

"

through any member of the Club or at the gate on the evening of the concert

The craze for antique Chinese por: celains, jades," and enamels as household decorations has led one or two enterprising dealers to visit China in the hope of Home paper.

Prip and Paper Manufacturing. Co., and after much difficulty the mill was started on what seemed likely to be a prosperous career. The Company possessed a great area" of bamboo plantation to meet the demands of the mill, the pulp produced was of good quality and appeared to find a market in Europe and in Japan,, Muchị securing bargains, «ays money had been spent in bringing the pro Their experience has been a hard one. duct of the mis to the necessary standard They report that it is as cheap (or even of perfection and more was needed which cheaper) to buy famille verte or famille, at that time it was not, any apparently, e vases in London as in Peking; white to command. When the war started, and" jades, for which the Chinese have extra- the German supplies of sodas and other ordinary reverence, are cheaper at Home WATSON & chemicals used in the manufacture of the by 200 per cent.

SOLE AGENTS:

1028

CO.,

NATIONAL CREDITS PER CENT. 192)

"UNDER THE GUARANTIE OF

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. 1

HE Local Manager of the BANQUE

TINDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE begs to

inform the Publis that subscriptions for above French Loan are opened to-day in its office, 5ị Chater Road and will be closed on the 15th of Jane, at 12 Noon.

5 per cent Premium Bonda of 'F'rn 500 each Fare framed at-the-price of

Fr. 4-only

Interest at 5 per cent, will ran from the 15th of June,

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The Bonds are non-convertible before 1940 and redeemable in 75 years by means of draw- ings (EIGHT DRAWINGS YEAR

A purporting yearly Fr. 20,000,000.-the first prize of each being

ONE MILLION FRANCS.

"ROUET DE JOURNEL Manager. Hongkong, June 2 1920.

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PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON, Corner of Haiphong & Hankow Roads

Tal, Address: Palaos. '.

Tr. K. &

TWO Minutes from Fry and Railway station. This Hotel which has just been completely renovated and refurnished · in now up-to-date in every respect and ander.

English

Management Cuisine under personal supervision of ther

Proprietor. BAR AND BILLIARD BOOMS, TERMS MODERATE. Special Arrangement for Families Application to

J. H. OXBERRY, 77]

Proprietor.

SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE

21. FRAYA EAST, HONGKONG.

о

,!

OR the use of all Men of the Mercantile

Marine and HM. Nary.

Reading and Writing Rooms, Billiard Room, Officers Boom, C.P.O. Boom Bestaurant, Concert Hall, Church.

LTD.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

TELEPHONE. 616,

BIRTH. LINTON-In London, on June 2nd, to Mrs.

PHILIP LINTUN, (Shanghai), a xon.

: DEATHS.

BLACK-At Shanghai, on June 4th,

JEANNIE FRASER BLACK, Siater at the C. P. Hospital. Coax At Buntley Gardens, Glas gow, on April 22nd, 1920, Captain JOHN G. CUGAN, Iate of the China

11048 Navigation Company, Ltd. GODFEEX-At Shanghai, on June, 3rd, MARY ELIZABETH, dearly beloved wife

of CHARLES HENRY GODFREY.

Hongkong Ürrica: 104, Das Vœux RD., C. LONDON Orics: 131, FÜZET STRIT, E.C.

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The Baily Press.

The water return for the month of May. bows that 1960.21 million gallon were stored in the City and Hill district, resur- air during the month, against 1217,44 million gallon in Hay last year. The consumption

per head

pulp, ceased, and the prices for substitutes "From other sources rose to fabulous figures. it became no longer profitable to work the mills and they were closed down. The. Company, if we recollect rightly, went into - liquidation," "but what happened ta, the plant and other property of the Company we have no knowledge. We recall this 204 gallons, compared with 24.3 gal- experimental enterprise and its fate belons. In the Kowloon water-works, the couse "we observe that Mr W. RAITT, storage and consumption per head were

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cellulose expert to the Government of 294.48 million gallons and 14.9 gallona re- India, at present on a visit to England "pectively, as compared with 306.48 million in connexion with the development of the gallons and 14.0 gallons in the correspond- pulp resources of India, but primarily tong month of last year. obtain pulping plant for the Forest ReWe have Freeived from Messrs. Edward search Institute in India. The plant is Evans & Sons, Ltd. of Shanghai a copy needed for further experimental work in of the Educational, Directory and Your investigating new sources of paper-making | Book of China, 1920, & reference book for material and for assisting the development all interested in Education in China.

has been made in education in China.

relling and the lack of anything like ade- quate Government financial support. The following statistics for 1919 are given; Government, public and private schools 134,000; teachers and school | officials 326,000; students, 4,500,000.

of bamboo pulp enterprises. For 25 years, The work is divided into three parts, viz. we read, Mr. RAITT has been doing explore (1) general information; (2) an Edica- tion and experiment work in bamboo tional directory of University professors, pulp, the last 10 years in the service of lecturers, etc., teachers in schools and the Government of India. During the others connected with Western education; past five years he has explored the whole and (3) a list of Universities, colleges and of the coastal belt of Burma, and at an schools. In the review of the past yesir approximate estimate he asserts there is it is recorded that unmistakable progress

ufficient bamboo in sight with the Savannah grasses of Assam to produce spite of internal disorder and party quar- 14,000,000 tons of dry pulp per annum. Bamboo being a gras, he states, ite pulp has many features in common with esparto, and it can be used for all grades of paper. It can by so cheaply produced that it can take the place of mechanical pulp entirely. The total cost of production will not exceed one-half of that now being experienced with wood pulp. After 25 THE PAPER SHORTAGE.

years' work on this prohiem in various EVERYONE is familiar with the fact that parts of the world," Mr. RAITT adds, "I the price of paper has been steadily going have cole to the conclusion that no per- The prices of newspapers and manent settlement of the papermaker's oft- magazines in most parts of the world have recurring difficulties of supplies can be been increased and in a great many eases found," except in the annual waste growths a reduction bas had to be made at the of tropical and sub-tropical forents." Tho same time in the size of the productions Indian Government has granted conces Paper manufacturers' prices still show signs to pioneer companies on extremely a steadily ascending tendency.

up.

Hosezone, Jusz 10TH; 1920,

FAR EASTERN

NEWS.

CABLE

[FROM OUR OWN CERISPONDENT, ]

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LI SCM LING ARRESTED..

PEXING, June 8th

Li Sum Ling, formerly of the China Some favourable terms, "and schemes are being { Wiril, later of the Peking Daily News and noteworthy points regarding the cost of developed for the production of about at present an official of the Ministry of newspaper production, were given by Lord 70,000 tons per annum of bamboo pulp. In Finance, has been arrested on a charge Private Cabins and beds in Dormitories BURNHAM and other authoritative speakers view of these, statements it may occur to of divulging the American Aviation, Loam, Motor Launch "Dayspring."

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ON, SALE

Great Varetien wed and noui

DIRECTORY &

CHRONICLE

....

OF

POSTAGE STAMPS

Single, Sets, Packets, Bags, and

On Approval Boots

"FOR COLLECTIONS.

GRACA & co

Dealers in Postage Stamps, Post Cards, -Seeds, Toys, &c., ắc:

No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, HONGKONG

P.O. Box, 620,

"CHINA, JAPÁN, STRAIT SETTLE

MENTS,

at a papermakers luncheon in London the some of the Hongkong people who invested other day. They showed that owing to largely in the Tonkin enterprise to enquire the disturbance of the ordinary paper whether there is no possibility of a re-open- brade by the war the price of paper in ing of those mills.

England has been, increased 100 per cent. and that, adresuit. circulation no longer pays there-that is, the more papers that

Three cases (one death) of plague were

SHORT TERM "LOAN' AT

PER CENT.

PEKING, June 8th. The Ministry of Finance announce, ita. readiness to float & short-term loan for three and a half million dollars to bo taken up. by local banks. It will be repsy- months and will bear able in seven

interest at the rate of 11 per cent.

ADVISERS TO INVESTIGATE CHINËSE

- EASTERN RAILWAY. QUESTION.

are said the greater the proprietors' loss, reported in the Colony on Tuesday: because the actual paper on which the news

The hearing of the case in which Mr. and advertisements are printed cost more. The than the sale price of the whole produc- Flora Guttierez summoned her husband tion. Paper costs £18 to £20 a too more Mr. J. M. Guttierez, for cruelty and in European continental countries than in teglect, has been adjourned vine die, INDO-CHINA, PHILIPPINES London. The New York newspapers have A correspondent writing from Weihai

|gust-cut-down-their sizes by half or more, wer on May 28th mentioned that there bad- gre compressing their make-up" and are been no rain for fully two months and prohibiting

advertisements, display

the dust in somic roads was 1. feet deep.

It is confirmed that the following charging as much, apparently, for these restricted announcements. In we The Christian-Literature Society has advisers, Mcars, Ferguson, Lenox Simp se the Times of India complaining that acknowledged contributions to the Timothy son, and Padoux, have been selected to paper which used before the war, to cost Richard Memorial Fund which give the proceed to Manchuria to investigate the it £13 a ton can

now only be got for following totula: The 6,515; (Gold) #50; conditions in regard to the Chinese. ains and ten times that price. Mex. 5,354.57; Sterling E30.

Eastern Railway.

for 1920

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