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LADIES RECREATION CLUB.

THE LADIES TENNIS SINGLES

CHAMPIONSHIP CHALLENGE CUP will be played for during January and February. Any lady may enter who is a member of any Tennis Club in the Colony-

Names of intending competitors must be sent in to the Secretary of the LADIES RECREATION CL through the Becretaties of their respec- tire Clube not later than DICEMNER STIL, 1920, accompanied by their entrance fees of each.

DOROTHY DIGBY, Hua. Besratury.

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MIN RIVER CONSERVANCY.

• NOTIFICATIOs No. 9. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

NTENDEES are invited for VERTICAL

BOILER about fou feet in diameter and nine feet in height, either new or used, together with the usual steam and water mountings suitable for use on a Prieatman Dredger, Tenders will be

e only on boilers in good working | Tenders stating dimensions with other part- sulars of the boilers and mountings, term, time of delivery, ets will be received: to 91 DECEN-

up axa, by the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Mix RIVER CONSERVANCY.

The Conservancy does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any Tender.

P. R. WALSHAM,

Han. Seer. Lary and Treasurer To the Mix HIVER CONSERVANCY.

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CAFE.

TESSRS. WISEMAN, LTD., beg to notify M DANCING will be permitted

daring and after Dinner up till 10 o'clock EVERY TUESDAY and THURSDAY MAI farther notice. This privilege will be com plimentary, to customers having dinner or light refreshments.

D. M. GOODALL,

Manager.

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

Letters are lying at this Office for

Boxes P, Q, AD, AP, AW, BF,

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE.

ROYA

TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT - TO-NIGHT EDGAR WARWICK

presents the WARWICK ~ COMEDY COMPANY.

io

Hubert Henry Davies's Witty Comedy

"DOORMATS"

Miss JOA MATE, MT. N. THORPE-MAINE,

Mr. TOM FENWICK, Miss LAVA FLOWERDI.

TO-MORROW (FRIDAY), Dec. 10th:--

H. V. Esmond's Charming Comedy **WHEN WE WERE TWENTY- ONE"

SATURDAY, Dec 11th:-

The Roaring Farcical-Comedy "ELIZA COMES TO STAY

MONDAY, Deo. 13th-

Hubert Henry Davies's Clever Play **CAPTAIN DREW"

TUESDAY, Dec. 14th:-

Oscar Wilde's Satirical Masterpiece "A WOMAN OF NO

IMPORTANCE.”

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15th-

The Phenomenal Success that is Drawing all Lonilen to the Garrick Theatre "BROWN SUGAR" BOOK WELL IN ADVANCE

Plaza at MOUTRIE’9. -

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THE BONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT TO BANQUE INDUSTRIE the

AND AGENCY CO, LTD.".

LOST.

THE DE TEMPORARY BONDS of the Credit National 1919, which have been subscribed through na, that same must be EXCHANGED in onz Paris Ofice for Definite Bonds before March 1921.

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 1603 ESRB Numbered 48401/46499 atanding in the Register in the name of LUE TUE BAM (deceased) late of Hongkong having been LOST NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unlows the said Certificate be produced the Office of the Company, 5, Queen's Road Cestral, Victoria, Hongkong, on or before the 5th day of January, 1921, a new Certificate for the said Bhares will be issued and the old Certi Scate will thereafter be held by the Company as wall and voil.

HOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE, -Secretary. Hongkong, December 3rd, 1920.

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MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS

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TWO LARGE ROOMS to let for Office

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ba, 1920, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purposes of receiving a statement

LONDON: accounts the report of the General Managers for the your ended 30th

And

Congniting Commis 1920, and electing

e and Auditors: Deck The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 17t DECEMBER, 1920, until THURSDAY, the 23ab DECEMBER, 1920, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers.

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THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHAEF

& GODOWN CO, LTD.

FFLICATION has been made to the Directors of this Company to isque to FRED ELLIS of Ice House Street, Victoria Hongkong & Duplicate Certificate or Certifi cates of the undermentioned 300 (Three hundred) Shares in the Company, or other Certificate or Certificates in lien thereof, upon the statement that under circumstances amounting to larceny or false pretences, the original Certificates have been loaf possession of

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ANGHIN

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Net Tonnage

Built in 1903.

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MACKINKON MACkeszin & Co.. Calcutta Tenders, which mitst be in sterling, will be opened at Calcutta on MONDAY the 31ar JANUARY, 1991, and must be valid for 14 days after that date.

MACKINNON, MAUKENZIE & CO. -16, Strand Road,

CALCUTTA

HONGKONG: DAILY PRES8, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 1900,

INTIMATION

A. S. WATSON

Co., Ltd.

HIGH-CLASS PERFUMERY.

second-hand vessels." This is borne aus

The Indian watchman, who, scoidentally, shot himself inside the Chartered Bank buildings on Monday while playing with his revólver, has succumbed to hil injuries.

JEWEL

SNATCHING IN HONGKONG.

EXEMPLARY SENTENCES.

Two cases of jewellery-snatching in the street were dealt with by Mr. N. L. Smith at the Magistracy, yesterday. In the Arst

He now

A sensational return from the dead is reported from Witham, Essex. A potty officer named Reginald Clifs, who w officially reported as Eilled on the Tigris, & Chinese was charged with snatch three years ago, returned from China, and, ing a gold neck chain and pendant, valued walking into the Constitutional Club, came at $30 from a Chinese woman who was pleaded guilty. bur Inspector Blackman face to face with his father, who had given walking in Sai Street West.

said that when the defendant was brought him up a lost.

he stubbornly In order to minimize the number of to the Police Station secidents in Tokyo, the City Electric denied complicity in the theft. Not until Bureau is distributing thousands of air he had been entirely stripped did the culars calling on people to hear the chain fall to the ground, and it was noi sound of the warning be." "A circular is clear in which garment the article had A sentence of three months' imprison- Over $50,000 such being went to every home through the school been secreted.

ment and eight strokes of the birch was children of the city.

imposed. hand bills have been printed.

programme of construction; it is assigned as the cause of the 'decline of shipbuilding in America, and also in Great Britain. Costs of tonnage have risen so rapidly, and are still rising," anys" the Bulletin which are bate quoted above, that the directors of lines and other shipowners are giving grave consideration to the outcome of a continuance of the upward movement At the present time the costs of construc tion alone have risen to more than 250 per cent, over pre-war levels, and although certain increases in rates, etc., have partially kept pace with rising costs, the margin, to which minst also be added the additional repairing coste, etc., tends to wideo, and already has reached a difference sufficient to canse Sir FaDERICK Lewis to state, at a meeting of the directors of the We have received fresh stocks of Anchor Line, that should the need arise for additional tonnage the lines with which he the latest FRENCH PERFUMES is unaccted will resort to the purchase of

writer in The Metal World points out from Coty, Dubarry, Chiris, and by a recent report on conditions in the

fich Scottish shipbuilding industry which states that China at the present time is practi include their choicest examples. orders are being received, and there is little for the first six months of the present year immediate hope of any improvement in amounted to 112,342 picula, or, say, 6,657

total exports for all 1919. Single bottles, Cases of 2 bottles, this direction. In fact, several firms have tons which is only 46 tone less than the already cut their losses by paying a heavy Caskets of 2 and 3 bottles.

monetary penalty in order to cancel orders export was undoubtedly due to the drop in Series of Eau de Cologne and placed some time ago. If this be the sole the silver exchange in the second quarter, reason for the halt which is being called as stocks were held up pending some im in Shipbuilding, in Great Britain and the provenient. The stocks of tin, according Lavender Water.

United States, and to some extent in to the latest advices from Hongkong, do Japan, we wonder what the prospects are not amount to more than 2,000 tons, as for shipbuilding in Hongkong and China, compared with 6,000 tons at the beginning

of the year. in An official repors published sometime ago revealed that during the war ships were built more cheaply, and it may be said no lees efficiently, in Hongkong than in any other part of the world in which the British Government placed orders. Our enterprising Dock Companies are doubtless making the most of that "unsolicited testi-

·monial!!

Another Chinese was charged with

other high-class perfumers-which that prices, remain so high that no frisk cally bars of tin. The esports from China taking a gold ear pick from the hair of

Roger & Gallets Perfume caskets of 2 and 3 bottles.

Coffrets of Perfume Soap

and Powder,

At very reasonable prices.

A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

a Chinese woman in Fat Hing Street. He pleaded guilty and, as there was previous conviction against the man, he was awarded a sentence of three months

The heavy unprisonment.

OPIUM FROM SHANGHAI. IGNORANCE OF LOCAL REGI-

LATIONS PLEADED. "-

At the Magistracy, yesterday, before- Mr G. N. Orie. Sergeant Murphy, charged a Shanghai Chinese woman with The water retura for the Colony on being in unlawful possession of 2.55 taels. December 1st, received yesterday, shows of prepared opium. She was going on 1.987.98 millions of gallons in the reservoirs

The husband told the Magistrate he had only been in Hongkong two days and pleaded ignorance of local regulations with regard to opium. The opium was for his. personal use.

of the island on that date compared with board the steamer Fatshan when she was. 1,722.80 millions of-gallons on the same searched and the opium found on her The consumption during person. The woman said the drug be date last year, the month of November is given as 2.0 longed to her husband, It will be noticed that there is no refez. gallons per head' per day, which is five once in all this to the possibility of over gallons per bend more than in the month building. The world has been building at of November last year. At Kowloon the a great pace since the Armistice, but with water in storage on December 1st was Russia isolated and Germany and Austria 380.50 millions of gallons, compared with still unable to trade in the markets of the 39.41 millions on the corresponding" dase world to anything like the extent to which last year, and the consumption in Novem- & they traded before the war, over-buildingber was 15.6 galloons per head per day as

is a factor which must very soon affect compared with 13.7 last year. the situation, if it is not doing so already Lloyd's Register of Shipbuilding Returns The following extract is from the Japan for the quarter ended September soth, show Advertiser:-Nearly twice as many Ger that during the last 18 months, since mans are in Japan to-day as were hers the close of the March quarter of 1919 before the war, say Japanese importer

The Magistrate imposed a fine of $200- and ordered the opium to be confiscated.

BUYING A CONCUBINE.

A CHARGE OF FRAUD. Before Mr. G.-N: Orme, at the Magis- tracy, yesterday. a Chinese woman was- charged "For that she, with another

tonnage under construction in the United who fear that many Japanese producte will

pretences

She plead- "the sum of $30. Kingdom has increased from 2,524,845 to be driven from the market onco German person not in custody, did obinin by fals the present record total of 3,731,098, industry recovers its former prosperity.

Inspector Caygill, who had charge-of sa increase of over 63 per cent. During German toys, chemicals and dyes valueded not guilty. MARRIAGES. LONGFORD GEARYAt Wandsworth, Octo. the same period the tonnage under son at more than ten million yen have already

ber 29th, Lieut.-Com. T. A. E. Loxo-struction in the United States has fallen been imported, they are quoted as saying the case, said the defendant represented FORD, EN., son of Joseph H. Long- from 4,185,553 to a total of 1,772,193, or by the Famala. German residents in this her sister to be an unmarried woman and ford, late H.M. Consul at Nagasaki, tos8 per cent. We can very well doubt country are steadily increasing in number, arranged for her sale to a man with whome NORAR GERALDINE, daughter of J. A whether rising costs entirely account for most of them being employed in factories he was to live as his concubine. After Geary...

this decline in shipbuilding in the United as engineers. Nearly 100 applications two days she disappeared, and the de- TRAFFORD SUTTON.-At the Magistracy,

Cape Town, October 2nd 1990, States. Adequate supply is a more likely have been received from German engineers fendant was arrested on the present A remand was ordered until December WILLIAM PHILIP CHARLES TRAFFORD, explanation. If we have now, as the pro and other experts for position, in this charge.

11th. M.A. late of the University phets tell us, to face a world-wide trade country. kong, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. de Traford,

MANNERS depression of great magnitude it is not MARY Surrow, third daughter of Mrs. Richard surprising that a balt is being called in Sutton, Johannesburg, and great grand daughter of Sir Richard Vincent shipbuilding Batton, 2nd Bart., of Norwood Park,

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Karz-In Switzerland, October 20th, Louis KATZ, formerly of Singapore, aged 57. HONGKONG OFFICE: 10, Da Vœux BD. O Laspor OFFICE + 131, FI SINI, ELO

The Baily Press.

HONOXO, DECEMBER 9TH, 1920,

WRECK OF STEAMER IN HAINAN BAY,

ROAD CONSTRUCTION'. AT CANTON

No cases of communicable diseases were END OF THE OLD WATERWITCH." reported in the Colony on Tuesday

The F.M.8. Supply Bill for 1921 provides for a sum of $101,123,086. Railways, clading additions to capital, are allotted 825,075,123.

the

Canton Times A representative of bas been informed by Mr. Fo Sun, chief

News was received in Hongkong, yes, director and Mr. W.S. Lun, chist interday, of the loss of the 8.5. Namwan, engineer of the Canton Municipality that. owned by the Kwong Hip Loong, of Kow, there are now 16 miles of the city roads loon. The vessel flew the Portuguese open to traffic, while some 30 miles are Bag and was commanded by: Captain still under construction. The roads are Conceicao. She was formerly the Water. either 70, 80, 100, or 150 feet wide, all witch, one of HM-Surveying ships. depending upon the importance of the

thoroughfare. On November 27th the Namwan left

Along the side-walks of the roads of Hothow for Hongkong with a small cargo but 70 feet, trees will be planted, and “ and a few hundred head of cattle and pigs.

Mr. J. E. Quintrell, acting Inspector of Shipwrights, Construction Department, Portsmouth, has been appointed Inspector of Shipwrights, Hongkong

to

Beserva

Terms of sale and full particulars may be

Notices have been ebat toile prin- She encountered, fog that evening and electric cars will be permitted to run ascertained on application to, and permite for inspection will be sued by Measts BOUTADA DECLINE IN SHIPBUILDING

cipal clubs throughout the FME relative anchored in Hainan Bay but proceeded on them; they will be for the rickshaş and

other trackless vehicles only. & Co., Singapore: Mesars. BULLOCH BENTEZES

the proposed formation of a Boottish next day in rough weather. A gale from No trees will be planted on the side- CLAP, Bargoon; Messa MACKINSON WB read in the Bulletin of the Depot Kilted Platoon in each of the five com- the north-cast drove her out of her course walks along streets of 80 feet wide, but

ient of Oversons Trado that the position MACKENZIZ & Co, Hongkong; and the und

porches may be built over them. These sided Tenders should be lodged with Mears in the shipbuilding industry has recently panies of the new Malay States Volunteer and she struck a sandbank. For two fours efforts were made to save the vessel,

streets will admit of a tramway. con causing some concern to steamship owners, and that a continuance of present. It is stated that mail communication but her condition became so dangerous Trees will be planted in the middle ot conditions would give some ground for Fladivostock and Soviet Bussis by that she had to be abandoned. In the the streets 100 feet wide and over the anticipating a decline in the demand for railway has been re-established. How long, ship's boats the captain and crew succeed-side-walks of these roads porches may

sbutting on the road. construction of tonnage. That decline has wonder, will it be before the intered in reaching land and walked back be erected by the owners of residence already commenced, not only on the Clyde ionnt mail service via Biboris will be to Hollow. The Namway soon sank and There will be a motor-road from the Station to notices have been circulated in Far Canton-Kowloon Railway hat in all shipbuilding centres of the

Eastern ports warning mariners of the pos- Sha-ho, with two branches one running world, including Japan. For example, it bas just been announced in the Japan Tuesday's mail from England brought

to Yin-tong. On the sides and in the middle of this road, trees will be planted. papers that the plan of the Nippen Tuson Christmas mail. Threatened with the dissible danger to other shipping from the to the White Cloud Mountain, the other Kaisha for the construction of 500,000 tons location of communications by a coal presence of the wreck. of new hips has been abandoned for the miners' strike, people at home with friends time being, with the exception of some in the East, took time by the forelock" 180,000 toos already bailt, bought, ur and posted their Christmas mail early. ordered under the programme TheSince Formoen has been occupied by Buspension, it is said, is due to the Japan a grest impetus has been given to continued depression in the shipping world

the fishing industry, and an important

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AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER

H.-Ftswick, Eng: Farwick, Lag

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AUCTIONS.

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AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if within THIRTY DAYS from the date beroof

MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,

re-established 1

The captain, and grow of the NamwaR reached Hongkong, yesterday, on the Indo- China stearner Loksang.

MOTOR RICKSHA ANNOUNCED,

INCIDENTAL TO EXCHANGE.

The unsettlement of foreign exchange has bred a considerable contempt for foreign currency in the minds of certain Americans The American Father of one.

and to the fact that most of the Gormotential and actual demand for vessels Ens Invention of a new motor ricksha by Yank who had stayed in France to "clean. ships surrendered to Japan will be entrusted to the company, which will developed. Motor boats are used for catch Captain Sakichi Nishiki announced things up" had established a generous ing bonito and funny, which are found in Captain Saikich, formerly of an Artillery line of credit for him. Friend son began render unnecessary the corresponding

sequence the father received a cablegram. great abundance. There are some 380,000 Regiment, was discharged by the Meijl to hit things up rather hard, and in con- number of new ships no claim or representation in respect of such THURSDAYS -- "Original Certificates is made to the Directors

deal with ruch appli- VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE But the very high cost of shipbuilding Japanese vesels engaged in the fahing India Rubber Company because of the reading Your son's account already then will then proceed to des

at the present time is an important factor industry in Far Eastern waters. About amount of time he was devoting to study overdrawn one hundred thousand To "If you mean dollars, send him home; been autorted by the in this universal decline. It has been 1,400,000 people are employed and the ing his invention. Since then he is which he cabled back to the bankers: mentioned in connection with the curtail value of the products obtained, amounts to inent of the Nippon Yusen Keisha's 120,000,000 yen annually.

cation for a duplicate or other new Certificate

or Certificates, wor

By Order of the Board of

Directors, W. B..BROWN, Becretary,

Bougkong, November 9th, 1820,

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EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD

TURNITURES.

efforts of his wife.

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it you mean those funny little things, let him have all he wants;