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accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912,

IN ORANGE BANKS. will be

1st

CLOSED for the transaction of. PUBLIC' "BUSINESS on SATURDAY, the

JANUARY, 1991.

Hongkong, December 28th, 19:20.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29TH, 1810,

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IT IN NOTIMED for information of OLAN that LICENCES for Private Chairs Private

of PRIVATE CHAIRS and BICKSHAS

Bickshaa and Drivers are due for RENEWAL

P. P. J. WODEHOUSE, Captain Superintendent of Police. Hongkong, Decomber 14th, 1920.

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DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF HỌNG. ∞ JANUARY 1st, 1921.

KONG & SOUTH CHINA, EC..

FORTY-FIFTH

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JOHN JOHNSTONE.

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T. W. HILL,

Hon. Secretary,

HOSOKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY,

c/o BRADLEY &«Co., LTD.

TO LET

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of March.

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THE ÜHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

Payment of Final Dividend on Share for the year ending 30th Jane, 1900.

declared

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION TINAL DIVIDEND of 90%, Twenty

COMPANY, LIMITED....

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THE Steamship.

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* LATBANGTM Having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of cargo by her are hereby informed that all are being landed at their risk into the Bordous and/or extra hazañions Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

The Linital, whence, and/or from the Goods not cleared by the 1st Jany will

delivery may be obtained.

be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages are be left in the Godowns where they will be semined. Cisima Ageings the steamer must be 10 days of arrival, otherwies within

they not be recognized.

No Fire Insuranos will be affected by us in

any case whatever.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD.

General Managiri.

Hongkong, December 26th, 1990.

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AND

OHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamér

"REESUS "

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged Into Holt's Whart, Kowicon, where it will be at Consignee's risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Go down on and after 25th December.

Optional cargo will be landed, unless moticeTM

has been given prior to steamer's

arrival.

All broken, shafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 1045 am and Noen within the free storage period

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 31st December will be subject to rant.

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All Claim against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 15th Jan, 1923, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

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1968

possible hitherto. The Chinese Postal Administration went to considerable trouble last year to obtain an estimate of the population, recourse being had to the assistance of the provincial officials, which in most cases was will- ingly accorded, and the reauit gave a total of 197,679,914, but this total did not include one hsien` and Mongolia in the Peking district; three haien in the Manchuria district; and the province of Tibet. The estimate corresponds fairly closely to the official estimates given in the Directory and Chronicle for the current year. It may be said, then, that

the total area of Chinese territory, which

is estimated at 4,278,352 square miles, has a population of about 440,000,000 persons. We have received fresh stocks of How Mr. BLAND gets his estimate of the birth-cata in Ching we do not know. It the latest FRENCH PERFUMES, at best, a wild guess, from Coty, Dubarry, Chiris, and

other high-class perfumers which

include their choicest examples:

Roger & Gallets Perfume caskets of 2 and 3 bottles.

Coffrets of Perfume Soap

and Powder.

But accepting his calculations as to the rate of inercase in the population of

Chisa, must we necessarily accept the deduction that emigration is the only possible alternative to these periodical famine? Anyone who has travelled over China must agree with the China Fear Book when it says that China, sa a whole, is far from being over-populated and only

The South Manchuria Railway donated a million yen to the famine funds, and subscription fund is bei opened at Dairea

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week and-- ing December 11th amounted to 90,058 tons. and the sales, during the period, tó 82.919

tony.

Scotsmen are reminded by an adver tisement in another column that the list of subscriptions to the Scottish National War Memorial closes in Hongkong om- December 31st..

The attention of Master Masons T directed to the announcement among our to-day's advertisementa | respecting the- annual meeting of the District Grand

Lodge of Hongkongnud South China.

It is stated in the vernacular press of Canton that in the last few weeks some two million dollars' worth of snuggle salt, unlicensed salt transportation junks, and property used in connection with the smuggling trade were captured by the Salt Preventive Service

A. Tientsin paper states that a fairly reported from the famine refugee camp at age number of cases of smallpox, ane Nankai near Tientsin. Efforts are being made to segregate the suspects and this is entailing much extra labour on the small. body of welist workers.

It is stated from Cupechagen that experiments on the Danish National Rail- ways with Ching, American, and African The or are proving unsatisfactory. inferior quality of the coal involves in some cases as much as two hour delay in a hundred miles, and trains have had so be stopped while the fires were cleared.

A Chinese woman, living in Water Street, West Point, has reported to the police that on the evening of December. 27th, five men, one armed with a revolver and the others with daggers, entered her house, bound ber and the other inmates of the house and ransacked the premises The robbers go away with a quantity of eleching and

jewellery- Chins's second national University is to The project be established at Nanking has been approved by the Board of Educa tion and the Cabinet. It is of interest to those who have visited, or live, in Nan sing to know that Mr. Chang Boo-ching, owner of the former Nanyang Exhibition Ground, is thinking of giving this large state to the new University

TROM FEBRUART, for one or two yours. Fully Single bottles, Casey of 2 bottles, FR

Caskets of 2 and 3 bottles...

Series of Eau de Cologne and in the most highly-favoured districts does the density of population approximate that Lavender Water.

of some European countries. China, indeed, is nothing liko na densely populated as India. In some parts of Chinese territory the population is very sparse In Mongolia, for example, it. indeed. works out at two persons to the square mile, and in Chinese Turkestan to only four to the square mile. Population is densest along the fertile valleys of the Yellow River and the Yangtze, and it is described as "most scattered" along the border provinces of Bansu, Szechuan, Yunnan and Kingsi, whore geographical conditions as well as tribal fends have helped to thin the population. It will thus be seen that there is yet, plenty of room China before the population need

According to Chinese news agency necessarily.“

✔over flow beyond her own report the Kwangi Party, under M2- borders in any greater stream than it does Yung-hsien, before leaving Canton last October, borrored more than a million at the present time, Mr. BLAND says that deliste. from different native banks and." is as'a matter of nober Fict, the benevolent local firms, giving miscellaneous taxes as The interest promised was ex- activities of our missionary societies to security.

ceedingly high, the monthly rate running reduce the death rate, by the prevention of from 10 to 15 per cent., or an annual infanticide and the checking of disease, interest of from 120 to 180 per cent actually serve in the end to aggravats the The Canton Tints says. There are pressure of population upon its food angely some $300,000 worth at the new Provinsial and to increase the severity of the inevitBank of Kwangtung notes on the market.

They are being accepted at par value, ably resultant catastrophe." He does not the notes may be redeemed at the printer go so far as to advise that the Chinese of the Bank or at any one of the ten should be left alone by the missionaries, but agencies in different parts of the city.

payment of Government dues. The Bank. is daily receiving about $90,000 from dife terent sources.

WANTED.

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF YELLÓW RIVER: BRIDGE FOR

PEKING-HANKOW RAILWAY

B

LINE of the THE PEKING-HANKOW

Chinese Government Railways invites sealed proposals "of BRIDGE CONTRAC

New TORS for Designing and Building steel Bridge about 2,800 meters in length arom the Yellow Hiver (Bang-Hoh Proposals will be received up to Noor of Jr, 3079, 1911, at the Office of Peking Hankow Railway, Peking, Chine Plans, rules and specifications can be obtained from the following

Peking

Peking-Hankow Bailway, Amativ ean, British, Belgian Frenah, Italian and Japeness Legations.

Forsiga Chinese Legations, Washingtos, London, Brussels, Paris, Rome and Tokyo.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL panied with £6,

THE Completion of the BALL BOOM CENSION has increased, the Dance Floor capacity to 8,000 Square Feet.

DINNER DANCES

will be held at the above Hotel on the

following dates WEDNESDAY, Diċema 29m, 1910.

NEW YEAR'S EYE,"

DECKER 31xr, 1920. And NEW YEAR'S DAY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1921.

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SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT

AND AGENCY CO., LTD AMAN

ADMINISTRATION..

LOST

DU?

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No, 1603

standing in the Register is the name of LUB YUE ƐÀM (deceased) iste of Hongkong haring been LOST NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Cast unless the said Certificate be produced at the Office of the Company, &, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on or before the 5th day of January, 1821, a new Certificate for Beata will thereafter be held by the Company as

HOWEBAY & NORTHCOTE,

Becretary. Hongkong, December 3rd, 1920.

At very reasonable prices.

A. S. WATSON

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TILEPHONY "16,

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are now

IRELAND-On December 25th, 1920, at 28, be avers that what is needed for the nr. The notes are also legal tender for the-

Anstink

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Harszcze Orrick 104, Das Verz BD. Loader OffIER 1 181, Fazer Bream, EL

Road Kowloon, GEORGE IRELAND; Works Manager, The China vention, or, at least, the mitigation of Light and Power. Co, (1918) Ltd- these scourges, is organised educational aged 46 years spe

1975 NORTHCOTE On December that propaganda, directed first against poly- The Bhanghat Race Club's Lottery Iddesleigh." Bowen Road, Emily gamy and the marriage of minors and the machines were put to a new use, last week, Baaton, the dearly loved wife of unfit, and next, towards such a limitation when they were found a convenient means MOWBRAY STAFFOED NORTHCOTE.

of giving effeos to the decision at the last of the birth rate ne shall approximate to the ratepayers meeting to close the licensed standard in civilized countries. No doubt, tones of Shanghai within five years by all this is desirable, but there are other annual drawings. The houses on the roll were all numbered the numbers put into means of preventing these natural one of the drums and drawn under the calamities which can be more readily supervision of Mr. B. Fersenden, Judge

Skinner applied. One of the most obvious is to the Turner, and representatives of

Municipal Council and the Police.. network cover the country with of railways. Though 20,000.000 people been brought to the verge of starvation by the present famine, do not hear that food enough is not to be-oblained in China to meet their wants if only they could be quickly ratched. Mears of rapid transportation form one of the most obvious way of mitigating

The Daily Press

-- Horaxona, Decamnet 2015; 1920.-

CHINA'S BIRTH-RÄTE AND THE FAMINE.

We do not know whether many

.

have

Leader-Rumor has it that the

The following is taken from the falayan

principala: of some of the biggest business houses and rubber companies in the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements are preparing to form a combine with a capital variously emimated a from $25,000,000 to is to acquire all the existing stocks of 850,000,000. It is said that the intention rubber and fasuo credip notes that will pasa into ordinary currency against the ultimate sale of these stocks at a price that it will

the mid Bhares will be issued and the bill Cert authorities on Chine would be prepared these calamities: Enlightened Chinese be possible for Malays to dictate to its

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A. G. DA ROCHA AUCTIONEER. SURVEYOR AND

GENERAL BROKE."?

Hola, D'Aguilar Street, Telephone No: 2902 WEEKLY AUCTIONS.

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to entirely endorse Mr. J. O. P. BLAND'S dictum as to the causes of famine in Chins which we reproduce in another column from the London Observer. Mr. BLAD expresses the opinion that so long as China maintains a birth-rate which 13 "estimated at 65 per thousand, or over, the only possible alternative to these periodical visitations would be

recognise that the great calamities of food and famine which periodically cause a mach distress and loss of life in China are largely preventsble, and they are beginning to take the measures which should, in time, greatly mitigate, it they do not entirely prevent these frightful calamities Another consideration we may suggest is that

own favour when expected, demand for the commodity is revived.

The Chinese Delegation to the League of Nations announced the marriage on November 8th at the Chinesa Legation, in new Chinese Minister to Great Britain and Brussels, of Mr. V. Wellington Koo, the first representative of China, all the Assembly of the League of Natons, rath

Chinese Javanese lady, Hosylai,

young

emigration, and this would have to be before the end of the present century daughter of Octiongina, merkant ite

itly highly probable that China will Java, and largely interaced-in on such a scale as would speedily over have taken high rank in the world as London, as also has her sister, and was run and overfill the habitable globe. an Industrial and manufacturing country known as the Countess, Hoey, Angol Usul Given suficiency of food and elbow-room,

trade. The lady has lived: 20

the plaintiff in a divorce sation in the Law he says, the population of China, main-ther than the agricultural country she is old Stoker. She has quite recently been aber Her population will tend more and Courts against her husband.The decree taining its present birth-rate, would

more to concentrate in large cities. It cannot was issued on October 25th last. double itself by natural increase in be said that the limit of food produc- In the person of Mr. W. D. Kealt about twenty years. In other words, by tion has yet been reached in China, and an attorney of the Standard Oil Company the end of the present century, it would if the growth of her population out of New York, a very popular member of amount to 2,500 millions, that is to say strips her capacity to feed the people Colony this morning by the Pacific Mail the American community is leaving the more than the present population of the from her own soil, it would not neces- liner Colombia. Mr. Kraft has spent globe, and far more than its soil can

many years in the service of the Cons sarily compel the "pepple to emigrate; support.

pany in the Far East, several of them The first observation on this which it it would mean that just as England has

in Hongkong, and he is now retiring occurs to us to make is that the done she could draw upon the food Socially as well as in business. Mr- anreliability of Chinese statistics in which other countries, like the great Kraft will be greatly missed. His favou the past has made all such calen agricultural territories of Russia and rite recreation has been golf, and a week.

Canada, would probably still be able to end seldom passed, which did not see? lations as-Mr. BLAND pinces upon them supply, if need be, in ever-growing Mr. Kraft enjoying himself on the Fro- very untrustworthy. Taking, for instance, abundance. But it has yet to be provedling links. He leaves behind him the population statistics we find that that under a proper administration of great many friends who wish him well her territories China would not still, for Mr. Kraft is deeply sensible of the ties reputable authorities have differed widely many decades, be able to grow all the he is severing and does not leave the in their estimates, the difference showing food her growing population would Colony without many pangs of regret

require — MISBLAND'S striking article. 2,000 POUNDS, VERY SUPERIOR QUALITY & range of over one hundred millions. raises, however, an interesting subject for BANDMAN COMEDY COMPANY. ABSORTED CHOCOLATES.

In those times we are beginning to get general speculation and one which may more reliable, estimates on which future he strongly recommended for earnest study especially by the Chinese statesmen ay be able to bass more he undertake the duty and respon trustworthy conclusions than has been sibility of shaping the nation's destinies.

A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONERE, SURVEYOR", AND GENERAL BROKER.

Ho. Xa, D'Águilar Street, Telephone M16, 2982.

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