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NOTICE
ICENCES for VEHICLES and their DRIVERS AT TERtwable on Just Im. 1920, follows:**
PREPAID
WANTED.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 22ND, 1920.
and after this duto advertisements of the
INTIMATION
Wasted variety will be insertel ander WATSON'
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charge of PRESS" at
$1.00 FOR THREE INSERTIONS
if they do not exceed 25 WORDS in number
All Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicle Driver, Tracks, Earts, and Vans Reguntan embossed and are PREPAID,
number plates for all Motor vehicles will be: An additional charge of 50 cents will be realy for issas on the lat proxime, costing unde if the instructions for insertion are not 82.00 per ut. They will be issued with the accompanied by caah. vehicle licence.
P. B. J. WODEHOUSE, Captain Superintendent of Police
[1094 Hangtong. June 21st, 1920.
MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.
EMBERS 2.1! reminded that
MGENERAL
MEETING nf the KINISTIKING CHILDREN'S LEAGUy will be heldi
at Covernment House TO-DAY (TUESDAY),
at 11. It is hoped that as many Members!”
possible will attend.
“E. LEWIS, Eon Secretary.
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Hongkong June 21st, 1920.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEÈS.
TELE P.& 0.8. N. Co.'s Steamer
"DEVANHA"
Arrived Hongkong, on June 20th, 1920, FROM LONDON, GIBRALTAR, HARSKIL- LES, PORT SID, ADEN, BOMBAY,
COLOMBO & STRAITS.
Those who prefer their advertisements of this description to be displayed in one inch space, sa hitherto, must give instractions accordingly and will be charged at the old rates.
Letters are lying at this Office for
Ey Boxes L. 1, N
WANTED.
WANTED
GENERAL POSITION ASSISTANT, Salesman Correspondent or Interpreter by Experienced Gentleina. Apply to Box J. Duify Presa" Uttice.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY, OF CANTON LIMITETI
THE CERTIFICATE No. 171 for on
silver share No- now converted into 5
PRICKLY HEAT
LOTION
AND
PRICKLY HEAT
POWDER
an infallible remedy-Immediately
relieves the irritation and effects a speedy cure.
poli shares in this Society standing in the MOSCATINE.
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named name of Messrs. D. W. BELL & Co., of London, reel are hereby informed that their goods are has been LOST, and if at the expiration of one being landed and placed AT THEIR RISE in the month from the date hereof the above document Bgkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown be. not forthcoming the said certificate will be Company Godowns at Kowloon, where each i deemed cancelled and "ai no offees and a cartie
Consigament will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are Inde
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions has teen riven to the contrary 6 hours before arrival of the Steamer.
Goods not clear within 8 days, including
dase of arrival, will be subject to rant.
No Fire Insurance will be effected be ma
in any whatever.
Damaged packages must be left in the Go downs for examinstics by the Consignees, and the Company's Surveyors, Mantes. GoDDARD
ficate for the & gold shares will be imed in its xtend by the Society,
PAUL LAUDER, for General Manager. Hongkong, June 10th. 1920.
1050
Moser, LAMBERT BROS. are instructed
tax }}
THE STEAMSHIP ~JELLANGIE "
& Douglas, at 10 AM. on MONDAYS and Now lying in the Harbour of Hongkong
"I'HURSDAYS.
All Claims must be presented within tea
days of the Steamer's arrival bere after which
date they can be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the
goods have left the Godown.
HACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Agents
Hongkong, Jane 20th, 1940.
VICTORIA CAFE LIMITED.
(1.95
wsler an
Onder of the Court
-
PUBLIC AUCTION
ÜÜ
MONDAY,
he 99th day of June, 1920,"at 3 o'clock P.M. IN ONE LOT
at their Auction Rooms, in Dukiell Street,
NHE Ship is a British ship registere! at
TRAKS NOTIOR Stan Ag EXTRA- The Finngarng-of-4500-tum. Gross most of
ORDINARY MEETING of the above named Company will be held at tre Company Other 241, Der Vorut Road Central, Victoria
On
in the Colony of Hongkong, at ̧♬ r.. MONDAY, JUK ra, for the purpose of considering the business affairs of Company.
Duted the 19th day of Juuc, 1925,
Yanmati.
Apply to
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3360.71 Registered touage ad was built by W: Deary and Brothers-lumbarton
For particulars to view apply to Montr Lammers Bron, the Auctioneers. For further particulars
Apply to
MIMBA JOHNSON STOKES & MASTER
Prince's Building,
the ...
or to MESAJ AMMEET BROS., the Auctioneers,
Duddell Street
1034
TO LET.
GODOWN ut
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION
CO. LTD.
CORRUGATED IRON
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA-
TION CO., LTD.'
TO LET
SHOP in Nathan Bowl, Kowloon.
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Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
·CJ., LTD. Alexandra Buildings.
FOR SALE.
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and COMPLETE PLANT including
"NOTICE" TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM KOBE and MOJI
THE Steamship
KUMSANG" having arrives troirs the above ports, Consignes of cargo by her are hereby informed that all roodaire being landed at their risk into the szardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godow Company Limited, whence, and/or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained.
floods not cleared by the 25th June, will be subject to rent.
All Eroken, chafed and I damaged packagen are to be left in the Godowns where they will bo examined. Claims against the steamers must be presented within 10 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Tire Insurance will be effected by us in Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD,
General Managers. Hongkong, June 10th, 1920,
(1092
NEW Table for crushing and cons any are whatever.
restrating Ore. Just arrived.
For particulars apply.
CARVALHO & COMPANY,
Machinery Department.
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G. DA ROCHA,
IS THE AUCTIONEER.
A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER
Queen's Board Central, Telephone No. 2932.
boen favoured with ΑΡΙΝΟ Htions rectired from The Concerns will sell by Publio Auction on TUESDAY, June 22nd, 1920, at 2.30 r.., at his Sales Room, Queen's Road Central,
A SPLENDID COLLECTION OF OLD CHINESE PORCELAINS & CURIOS FROM SEVERAL DYNASTIES.
Comprising
A Variety of 3 or 5 culoaral Vases an Plates, Blue and White Vases Figures, and Plates, Old Bronzer, Incense Burners, Peking cloisonne, Crystals, Agate and Judastones Old Vaser, Plates and Ornaments Engravings, Snuff Bottics, and a long line of Sandries.
The Vendor will give ONE WEEK guarantee of the quality for the majority of the goods.
(Catályve- will be is d). TEAMS-Cash on Delivery,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OJEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LTD.
ABD CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LTD. ́¡
ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
" FLPENOR "
are hereby actified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Whart, Kowloon Cargo will be ready, los, delivery from Go where it will lie at Consignee's risk. The down on and after 18th Juna.
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A few drops sprinkled on the hands
or any exposed part effectually prevents the bites of Mosquitoes
and and Flies.
were
notwithstanding the low rate of exchango His Excellency and Lady Stubbs have⚫ARMED ROBBERY IN A BOAT ➡about Tia, 3 to the pound sterling at moved into residence at Mountain Lodge.
VICTIM ESCAPES BY JUMPING which ber ad valorem import duties paid The persistent demand for her food The Visitors' Book will be kept at Govern-
INTO THE SEA products and certain of her raw materials, ment House for the convenience of visitors
be at any price, poured wealth into pockets of her traders and for the moment has no doubt greatly benefited her farmers and artisans Stimulated by this silver shower, the legitimate desire of her
wishing to write their names thoroin,
A harbour hawker met with a dery unf pleasant experience on Saturday night.
An Osaka moşage, dated June 19th He was in his boat, lying off Jardino's capitalists and merchants to be less states: Over a hundred cotton-weaving wharf, when another boat drew alongside have closed down at Sennan, There were four men in the boat and they dependent on foreign manufactures has factories produced à regular boom in industrial heat Caka Three thousand workers havoolambered on to the hawker's craft. Theys enterprise throughout the country.”
The tragedy of it is that all the been thrown out of employment in conse produced knives and threatening to do
quence.
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bodily harm to the hawkor if he called
advantages which might have accrued to the general administration of China from
Mr. and Mrs Duncan Clark, who have out, they robbed him of #81. They them this exceptionally prosperous condition of been spending the past few months in the ordered the bawker to take them to the | trado have been uuliißed by tho still exist Colony, left yesterday for Hoshigara, the China Murchant's wharf and "he 'obeyedi,
ing political disorders. The Chinese summer resort near Port Arthur, and the robbers' bost accompanying him." Government is plunging more heavily into expect to return in-October, for another Here, when he tried to get nahore, he was detained, but he managed to jump into debt every month. Its monthly-require-brief-stay-in-the-Colony,
the sea and was reseped, later, by some ments are stated to be, roughly speaking, sixteen million dollars a month, and the The Kinngnan Dock & Engineering boatmon. He reported the master to the income six, so that the monthly deficit for Works, at Shanghai, is rapidly outgrowing Polico, but so far, no arrests have been. “ a long time past has beent ten millions. its present quarters. It is understood, made. Promiscuous borrowings from Japanese says the N.-O. Daily News, that a now dry |sources have enabled the Chinem Govern dock is shortly to be built near the present ment appareatly to meet the most urgent site at a cost of about $500,000 to $600,000. expenditures, but now that recent decisions
FIVE BOYS KIDNAPPED. GIVEN DRUGGED TEA TO DRINK.
TWO SOLD AT NAM TAU,
in connection with the Consortium have! The Japanese steamer, Wooling Mars, practically dried up the sources of the whilst going up the Yangtze to Siangta, An interesting story was related at little financial tributaries the Chinese was looted from top to bottom and the the Magistracy, yesterday afternoon, of Government is finding itself in a tighter captain returned to Changsha with nothing how a number of children were kidnapped, corner than ever before. According to Mr.left, but the shell. The sub-agent of the DAVID FRASER, the Times Correspondens in sshin Kisen Kaisha who shot dead during tea to drink by a man, who was charged "
for the purposes of sale after being given.. Peking, the Treasury is empty to a degrethe looting..
with kidnapping three boys, and with de
never known before, and no monry at all is
ment can continue
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The latest list of the Nippon Yusentaining two boys for ransom. Kaishu Fleet shows 98 vessels in service, having a totaitoanage of 192,032, and eight ships building, seven of them being ships of 7,000 tons, and the remaining one 5,000 tons. Four of the ships building are cargo vessels.
Mr. A. el Arenili appeared for the defence.
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in night. The most hardened schemers are at a loss to discover a new source of supply and none can see how the present Govern
At the preliminary hearing ano-buy the to exist, except by
was believed to have neted, as a decoy wa almost totally withholding pay from the
also charged, but he was subsequently troops. The wldiers are tired of getting
released and was used as a witness for the notes that the shopkeeper will accept only
Crown. Through his efforts the Police a fraction of their face value, and demand silver. They are in an ugly tem-
British firms in Tsinguo have formed a managed to trace aeather boy, reporter! per, as several recent mutinies suggest, and Chamber of Commerce. The following missing, who was sold at Nam Ta if there is a further diminution in the firms have become members:-The Asiatic One of the boys said that on June 6th driblets that they have been getting, Patroleum Co. (N.C.), Ltd.. Butterfield he was playing outside a theatre with two trouble on a big scale is inevitable, sooner Swire. Cornabe, Eckford & Co., the other boys when defendant caine up to them and invited them into the theatre After or jater." The Government," however, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. and scents to have successfully passed Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd
Dragon -Boar ~~Festival Settlement, baratir the much-discussed peace settlement" between North and South is effected, and the country gets rid of the terrible incubus
A. S. WATSON & the dangerous rocks of the
CO., LTD.,
THE HONGKONG. DISPENSARY.
MARRIAGES.
the chow be gave them 20 cents and told them to meet him at a tea-house in Kow-
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Capitaine de Vasseau P. de Marguerye, loon. They did so and were given some eroiseur-cuirasse Desain accompanied by tea. They drank it and a few mTOR Adjutant de Division F. Genetre and later, felt dizzy. The next thing th M. G. Hanchecorne, Consul-General for know was that they were aboard a steam France, called At Government House launch bound for Nam Tu They were of the present military expenditures, the yesterday morning and were received by told by defendant, to tell anyone who made fear must continue that the Ship of State His Excelleney. Hia Excoliency later in enquiries that they were bound. for the ¡is drifting steadily towards perils and the morning returned the call on board country in search of their relative
dangers greater than those it has been abie so far to avoid. It is continually: being | demonstrated that China's strength resides
the Desain
Another boy stated that he and a friond were sold at Nam Tau for 800 and were badly treated
After similar evidence had been given by
There was no "uorum in the House of not in the wisdom of her politicians but Representatives at Peking on Jane Tath in the industry and common sense of her when an important bill came up, the text business men
It is a hopeful and of which has not been published, but is others, Mr. Areülli said there was no wi- encouraging sign that, in spite of political understood to deal with the abolition of dence whatever that the boys had been CAIRNE NICHOLSON,At Union Church, chaos, the trade of the country has con. foreign post offices in China as well as with taken away either by force or fraud.
Mr. Smith said he had not the slightest Hongkon on June Sist, 1980, JAMES tinued to show such noteworthy develop postal affairs generally" for submission to CAIRNS, of Elie, Scotland, to MARGARET
doubt that the boys were being taken to CATHERINE NICHOLSON, of Kinghorn, meat. It is the more remarkable because the forthcoming International Postal Con.
the country to be sold. He conmutted de Scotland,
[1007 au extensive boycott of Japanese trade ference at Madrid.
fendant to stand his trial at the next. ENCARNACAO-SIMors-At Shanghai, on remained in active operation, in China
June 12th, 1990; ACGUSTO CEBAR
During the absence of the British Criminal Sessions. D'ENCARNAÇAQ
throughout the year, and, as Mr. UNWIN Minister from Peking, Mr. R. H. Clive, to MARIZ LOURDES SIMORS.
remarks in his Review, seems jikely to con DEATH.
tinue The Bearetary has a comment on
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TOMPKINS.-At Shanghai, on June 14th, ELLEN, the beloved wife of E. To KING, aged 56 years.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 104, De Vœux Hog, C. Lordon Cvetom: 131, FIT STREET, B.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, Jun 90an, 1920.
CHỈNA'S FLOURISHING TRADE
CAN trade in Chins really be in a flourishing condition? The man who roads of the protracted political strife which keeps large military forces in the held playing at the game of civil war, and moreover keeps the Government of the country in a chrono state of impecuniority.
might weli suppose the heading girenik
this article to be ironic if he is not familiar with actual trade conditions in China. It
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chief of the Far Eastern Department of
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FRAUDS.
the boycott which is the more noteworthy the Foreign Office in London, will be in THE HANKOW RACE CLUB because of its appearance in a Report of charge of the Legation as Chargé d'Affairs-
Mr. Clive has had long diplomatic experi. THE COMMENTS OF THE JUDGE the Chinese Maritime Customs Administra-
eace in the embassies in Rome, Tokio, tion. The boycott, he says, " no doubt
We have already briefly reported that considerably injured Japanese trade, at the Cairo, Berne, and Stockholm, having acted cost of heavy loss and much injustice to
in the latter two as Chargé d'Affaires. He D N. Haigh, who was recently ap Chinese traders, and has served to engender is expected to arrive in Peking this month, pointed Secretary of the Hankow
Club, was sentenced to three months' hażd and keep alive feelings of bitterness and In despatch to the House of Repre labour for forging certain cash sweep resentment on both sides. In so far as this sentatives at Peking the other day, the was the object of its authors, its success President anbmitted the names of three prizo tickets, Mr. C. A. Kirke, Acting Provincial Judge, in pronouncing the is undeniable. But it is not by methods candidates for the posts of Chinese Minis
One case (one death) of plague was re- ported in the Colony on Saturday.
of this kind, which merely add to the preters abroad to the House for sanction. sentence of the Court, said: -You came to vailing chaos and serve the ends of politi. These candidates are Mesars, Shen Jui Hankow with letters of introduction frum eai schomers, that the effective recognition lin, for the post of Chinese Minister to various persons witnessing to your inte and preservation of China's sovereign Sweden and concurrently Minister to Nor-grity of character, to your uprightness in business and to your reliability. On the can be attained."
way, Liu Chung-chi, as Minister to Spain strength of these letters, and of your odu- rights
and concurrently Minister to Portugal and cation and past record you were placed in Wang Chi-tseng, Minister to Mexico and a post of trust, and you have flagrantly abused that trust You, whose, acts should" concurrently Minister to Cuba.
have formed an example of honesty to all the employees of the Club; have made His Excellency the Governor gave your own name and the names of your dinner party at Government Houses countrymen a by word among them. It Friday evening. The guesta present were has been urged that your offence was Commodore W. Bowden Smith C.B-E, cannot agree that was the case. On the "The total number of cholera cases re-R.N., Mr. Bowden Smith, His Honour contrary, your acts show deliberation and ported in Kobe to June 14th was 27 and Mr. Justice Gompertz and Mrs. Gompertz, forethought. Attention has been drawn to in Moji 16.
Col. and Mr. J. R. Young, Miss Young, and to the fact that you have a wife and your traitened financial circumstapiss
To-day is the tinth anniversary of the Coronation of His Majesty King George V
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committed in a moment of weakness. ——
is surprising, but it is nevertheless true, that the returns of China's trade during the year 1910 showed that the country's foreign trade exceeded all previous records. M. Robert Everts, the new Beigianan, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, C.B.E., Hon. child to keep at home. But your post The annual Review of China's Trade for Minister to China, arrived in Peking on
Mr. J. H. Kemp, C.B.E., Hon. Mr. D. W. at the Race Clab was a well-paid post, 1919 by the Statistical Secretary of the June 19th.
Tratman, Hon. Mr. E. Halifax, and however badly off you might have been in the past, you had the prospect of Customs has just been published by the i
O.B.E., Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, O.B.E., being able to save money and to remit The President of China, an Maritime Customs Administration," and
the 14th Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, Captain P. home funds for the maintenance of your extract from it the following very inst, received in audience. Mr. Kingsley Withers, E.N., H.M.B. Colombo, Fay.-Lt. family, who were not in immediate actual interesting and filuminating paragraph :—
of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Com, E. H. Stern, R.N.
ARMED MAN ARRESTED
STEAMER.
want. The most that can be said in ex- tenuation of your offence is that your past record is a good one, that you have behaved bravely in certain dangerous cir ON custrine, that you have served your country in the war, that you have made no attempt to deny the charges brought against you and that you have made full restitution. It is only your good record
The latest Rice report of Mess. W. G. TWO AUTOMATIC PISTOLS IN HIS and your war services that have influenced
Whatever disappointments she may Mr. W. H. Bell, of the Asiatic Petro have suffered politically, however, in the leum Co., Ltd., returned to the Colony sphere of trade. Chinn ház no reason to complain of her share of the blessings of From England on the Deraha, accom peace outside her borders that resulted panied by Mrs. Bell from the Armistice at November 1918 After a period of uncertainty and hesitation the insatiable food hunger, of Europe and the demand for raw materials Hale & Co., Ltd., Saigon, is that the made itself felt, imperiously in all her tendency is for's further declian, owing to markets. The value of her trade with the absence of any demand whatever., foreign countrica increased by 257 milling betaels as compared with 1918 and 337 million ne compared with 1913 For the Erst time since statistics wore available the value of down by motor-cor No. 282 near
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where, they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10,66 ani and Noen within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer Godown, and all undelivered, after the 24th s remaining Goods June will be subject to
o Feat. 2 Claims against the
must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 8th July, or they will not be recognised
No Fire Insaranow will be effected;
DEBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Fonglong, June 18th, 1920,
the Court in abstaining from inflicting a severa sentence upon you...n
POSSESSION.
A Chinuse, Berested on board the Su
of the case by two. AsORNO Lanning and Cooper.
The Judge was smisled, in the hearing Mears.
A blind female musician was knocked in, was found to be in nomussion of two the automatic pistol. He was charged at the
her exports at the moment of shipment All Taikos Club. She was remeyed to hos Magistracy, yesterday, and was fined $250.
Customs revenue rose from 38 million taēla
The present fiancial situation gives the
robbery London: Opinion..
but balanced that of her imports. Her pilal, suffering from abrasions all over His deferico was that he was ignorant of lie to the old adage that exchange is no 1086 - 12 1918 and 44 million in 1913 to 46 million, her body.
the regulations of the Colony.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.