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inextricably bound up with the general

Mr. H. C. Sandford has been appointed

arrangements for celebrating the great Acting Agent of the Hongkong and national festival. Since the inauguration Shanghai Bank at Hankow. of the Republican regime indeed we have

heard more of the financial embarrase-

Vincent W. Dawson, third offer of

ments of the Government as China New the B.I. s.8. Takada, has been committed Year approached than we did under the for trial at the Supreme Court, Shanghai, Monarchy. Every year we are told that on a charge of shooting at a Chinese. unless the empty, Treasury vaults can policeman with a revolver with intent to be replenished by loans from somebody do grievous bodily harm.

or other for the China New Year settle. Mr. E. E. Deacon, who has been sub- ment, the Government will utterly, collapse and the result will be anarchy in China! It is but one of the many

ment

customs

manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Yokohama, has been appointed

manager of the Eoba branch of the Bank, succeeding Mr. J. McArthur, who is being transferred to Hongkong.

evidences of the strength of the attach

ancient in China to associated with lunar year reckonings.

According to recent reports from Peking A Chinese on his way from America, there were obligations totalling $60,000,000 who made the usual plea of ignorance, was to be met before China New Year, and Bned $100 by Mr. Lindsel, yesterday, only about four millions from the Customs for having in his possession a Winchester were in sight to meet these liabilities. The rife, a revolver, and 500 rounds of am- Ministry of Finance had been seeking munition. The arms and ammunition were loans from various sources, but the only confiscated. people ready to lend were native bankers

The collection for Queen Mary's Home

who demanded interest at something like | twenty per cent. We suppose the Govern for Training Disabled men, taken at the War Memorial service at St. John's ment has had to accept the best offers Cathedral on Sunday, January 30th,

it could get, as the latest reports are to the effect that the Government 13W

amounted to $641.15. On Church Mis- sionary Sunday the collection (for the its way to fide over its difficulties CM.S.) was 466.8. without financial chaos.” In the same

way China Year has added to the News has reached Japan of the death

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HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Hongkong, January 20th, 1991.

the HONGKONG BENEVOLENT

BOCIETY will be held in the CITY HAIL'ON FRIDAY, FEB. 11TH, at Nook.

KEA. CAVALIER, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, February 4th, 1921.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NHE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS AL be held in the Offices of Messrs. DODWELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, on THURSDAY, the 17TH FEBRUARY, 1921, at 11 am for the purposes of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with Statement of Accoună to 1st December 2H BOOKS of the Company 31st December, 1920. will be CLOSED from the 7th to 17th February, 1991, both dates inclusire.

DODWELL & CO., LTD,

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No Fire Luxurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

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to be left is the Godowns where they will be examined. Claims against the steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the they will not be recognized.

N ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company, will be held at the HoGLONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 19TH FEBRUARY, 1991, at 11.30, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with s Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st. December. 1920.

Billa of Lading will be countersigned by

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General Managers. Hongkong, February 6tk, 192".

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From CHIN WANG TAO."..

ONBIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd. at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained

No claims will be admitted after the

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED Er the 11th February to the Slat February (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered

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THE GREEY ISLAND CEMENT CO. LTD.

Goods have left the Clodowns, and all THE THIRTY-SECOND ORDINEY

Feb, will be subject to rent.

Goods remaining undelivered after the 12th ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE

BOLDERS in the Company, will be hald at All chime against the steamer must be the Office of the Company, St. George's Build presented to the Undersigned on or before ing, Chater Bond, Victoris Hongkong, on the 22nd Feb., or they will not be recognized. TUESDAY, the 220 day c! FEBRUARI, 1991, All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods st 11.00 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose are to be left in the Godowns, where they of Ireceiving a Statement of Accounts and the e Directors for the year ending 31st will be examined on the 12th Feb, ut 10 am. | Report of the

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

December, 1920 and declaring a Dividend.

Bill of Lading will be counterfigned by The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 12th February, 1981, until Tuesday, the 22nd Feb- ruary, 1921, both days inclusive."

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drawing public funds deposited in foreign

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·FEKING-HANKOW RAILWAY.

TIKE PEKING-HANKOW LINE of the Chiness Government Hailways invites sealed "proposals of BRIDGE CONTRAC TORS for Designing and Building a New steel Bridge about 2,800 meters in length are the Yellow River (Hwang Ho). Proposals will be received up to Noos of Jusz: 30xu, 1921, af the Office of Peking-Hankow Hailway, Feking Chins. Plant, rules and specifications can fe obtained from the following Offices:

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CO., LTD.,

ESTABLISHED 1841,

of meeting the obligations which are one. A big new warehouse has now been planned and the capital will be furnished recognised as due to be paid before the dawn of a

new year by the lunar by a group of British and American firms. reckoning. It appears that the Seventy. It is stated that orders have been sent two Guilds some time ago promised to to Europe for the internal steel structure raise a million dollars for the Govern. of the building. The exterior will be built

with iron sheets. ment, but owing to "poor business "only about three lakhs of this amount were The following interesting item &forthcoming. The Government insisted extracted from a news letter issued by at

is

"Latest advices on the full amount and the story is that Chinese news agency. bailiffs were sent to the various firms from Hsianfu indicate that, owing to the to demand it and ordered to remain until fine receipts from the cultivation of opin it was paid. In this way are Govern crops, General Shu-fan and General Lia Phone 6léments in China, and the public generally, Chen-han, Civil Governor, are in serious.

reminded that China New Year by the dispute. The two Anfu leaders will prob lunar reckoning is of far more importance ably come to blows unless they can divide. in the life of the nation than the begin the opium receipts equally between ning of a year by the Western calendar, them.”

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BIRTH. MARIAt Shanghai, on January 27th, to Mr. and Mrs. FRED. C. MAHER, a

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The Daily Press.

The year that has just closed is not one that Chinese business men can look hack upon with much pleasure or satis

ORGAN RECITAL,

tact that for fourth months the Cathedral

After a long interval Mr. Donman Fuller WEI YUX-On February 7th, Lady Werfaction Business in many of its most will resume his organ recitals and the [401 important branches has been stagnant, frst of a new series will be given in St. and the sudden heavy fall in exchango John's Cathedral on Monday next, at 5.30 Hozatong Orziók: 104) Das Vaux ED. Q has served to make matters worse. In Lorien. Orria 181, FLENÍ- STREET, EC these circumstances many business failure. P.m. The cessation has been due to the were expected with the approach of Organ has been undergoing very exten China New Year. Happily these fears do aive repairs and improvements. During not appear to have materialised to any that period pneumatic action has been great artent in South China. We have

put in throughout the instrument, with heard of none in Hongkong of any serious the exception of a small part of the Great importance, and we trust the Settlement and this has made possible the introduo- has been. generally, negotiated in China tion of six extra couplers which increase the possibilities of the organ beyond a with the same success." Hope spring degres which can be understood by those net versed in such matters. The in- provement in the touch also renders it possible to now play pieces before, im- possible and the range of effects now available is in marked contrast to the instrument so marked. The Tabs which

HONGKONG, FREEWART 8TH, 1921.

CHINA NEW YEAR.

Foreign Chinese Legations, Washington, As each Chins New Year comes round eternal in the human breast, as the poet and we see the high importance the says; and the dawn of a new year is Chinese, people attach to the festival, always an occasion when every human it is amusing to cast our thoughts back breast throbs with hopes of happy days, to just over nine years ago when the In business circles the hope is for limitations which were in such a large | Dynasty was overthrown and a Hespeedy revival of trade, a hope in which will be used at this recital for the first publican Government came into power to Governments must fully share. In the time completes a tonal scheme which it revolutionise the national life of China in case of the Government et Canton we has taken fourteen years of unremitting labour to carry out and the results of all its aspects. To mark the complete shall be expressing a wide-spread senti- this addition and of the pneumatic action separation from the past, the Repúblicament when we say that this hope will will entirely eclipse any of the rest long period Mr. Denman Fuller has been Government decreed the adoption of the stand a better chance of fulfilment number of improvements made during the Gregorian calendar, so as to bring if the powers that be at Cantor will organist of this Cathedral. Chinos masthod of calculating time into couple with it agreement with that which prevails without delay the necessary measures to throughout the wide world with but few suppress the piracy which is so rife at exceptions, such as among the Russians, the present time in the Canton Delta, The Jews and the Mohammedans. In to which a good deal of the stagnation of official circles in Chins the decrea is trade in this part of China is attributable. observed, notably in the capital and in Canton, the birthplace of the revolution

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HEREBY GIVEN that the

of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the Orry Hat, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 26TH day of FEBRUARY, 1921. at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Docember, 1990.

The REGISTER of SHARES of

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poration will be CLOSED from SATURDAY,

12th February to SATURDAY, 26th February,

1921 (both days inclusive), during which period

no transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Court of Director,

WAR MEMORIAL.

SUBSCRIPTION LIST.

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IOE the section by Public Sabeription, of building to be ran on Y.MOA, lines, to be called the WAR MEMORIAL INSTI-

resolution to take

Owing to the holiday to-day there will

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TUTE and to be managed for the joint use of and now the seat of the so-called Goverbe no issue of the Hongkong Daily Prest phrasing to bring out the beauties of the

the Navy, the Army and Civilians by Jointment which exists in opposition to the to-morrow, A. G. STEPHEN,

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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LTD.

NEE Director of the above Company have declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND on Deferred Bhares for the year 1920, at the rate | of 6/- per Bhira, vag

Dividends for Shareholders on the Colonial Register are free of Income Tax and will by: paid at the rate of 2/10 per dollar."

Dividend Warrants will be obtainable on and after BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26mm, 1921. st the Company's Offičan

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from February, 19th, to February 26th, both days includiva. Kui palj

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, In BOS PARA General Managers.

Hongkong, January 26th, 1721, [315

Board of Directora A portion of the sum

To a limited raised will be devoted to the erection of a Per- Government at Peking, manent Stone Memorial which will be put in extent the First of Fanntry is also hand at an ely date,'han

observed by large business establishments

Lists may be found at ---- Messes, Lana & Orawford.

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The first steamer to reach Tientsin this year was the Kailan Mining Administra in those tiro cities and, indeed, in all tion's steamer Kamping, which reached the Treaty ports of China; but it has the Bund at 10 am, on January 28th.

Of the pieces submitted by Leo Podolsky last evening at the Theatre Royal, two by Chopin, the Berceuse?? and Polonaise Fis-moll," stood out very" prominently and stamp, Podolsky - 25 nm understanding interpreter of the Master. Both are contrasts, one needing careful

intended to represent, the other, practically en octave study, de- manding superb technique. Podolsky wen eminently successful and makes piano playing seem to be easy of execution. Opening with an "Aria" by: Grieg, selections - from Bachmaninof, Cyril Scott, and Debussy, were given and listen-

picture it

Imeant for the officials and the few other The total output of the Kailan Mining ed to with rapt attention, F

who pay any regard to the Republice Administration's mines for the week decree, merely other holiday for those

who can afford to take it. In the social ending January 2nd, amounted to 15,867 and the general business life of the nation tous, and the sales during the period to the lunar year continues to be observed 75,939 tons. as religiously na ever,

the art of Vers Mirova as a danseuse. It is dificult to do adequate justice to In the sprightly Mazourks" the gave splendid rendition of the moods of young bride in the village dance. direct Kontrast was Rubinstein”: "Homance", and Gillet's "L'Africanne’-

The Grand Hotel at Yokohama bas and Franchetti's "Egyptian Dance." It As everybody knows, even the Chinese just paid a dividend of 5 yen per

per share needed no effort of the imagination, be Covernment is unable to disregard the for the half year ended December 31st and the pleasure which her snorts gave comprehend what was being portrayed China New Year by lunar reckoning in absorbing yen 25,000, placed yen 25,000 called forth warm and nostinted applause, connection with the time-honoured prac to reserve,

The number of the audience was not in and carried forward yen keeping with the standing of these two tice of financial settlements, which is so 10.904

l'exponents of classical intento and dancing,