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A CHRISTMAS

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TB sccordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1918,

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HN D.SO., The popular JAZZ QUARTET

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COS STEAMER "SARDINIA."

AERIVED HONGKONG ON 21ST DEC., 1922. FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORTSAID ADEN, COLUMBO & STRAITS. CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above- Hamed vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowleen, where each consignment will be-sted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.

landed here unless"

Optional goods been given to the contrary

instractions have

will be before arrival of the steamer. Goods not cleared within 6 days, including

date of arrival will be subject to rent.

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whatever.

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Til the prece un SAFTROAK, December THE Police Recreation Club XMAS DRAW

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE. THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR begins on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1993. There will be a small number of seats available, and new boys applying for admission should attend for examination on FRIDAY DECEMBER 29th, nt 9 ...

In the case of beginners in English (who should have done 3 years' Chinese) preference. will be given to the sons and relatives of Old Boys..

The School Prospectus for 1993 may be obtained on application to the Clerk."

BERTRAM TANNER

Head Master.

1935) HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION. 2ND TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, AT9.15 P.M. at the

THEATRE ROYAL.

MAIN EVENT;

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THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND ON BUARES YOR

THE YEAR ENDING 30TH JUXE, 1922.

T. DIVIDEND OF 1% (Three and a half TEE Board having declared & FINAL per cent.), free of Income Tax, for the year ending 30th Jime, 1992, holders of Bearer Shares and holders of Dividend Warrants received from London on account of Registered Shares will be paid their dividends on present- ing No. 21 Coupon of the Bearer Shares, atud Dividend Wants of Registered Shares, to either of the following Banks at Shanghai or

Tientsin:

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China

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The Russo-Asiatic Bank."

The Banque Balgo Four "Etranger.

The payments will be made in either Dollars or Tacks as the holder may wish, at the buying rate of exchange of the day.

P.C. YOUNG,

Acting General Manager, KALLAS MINING ADMINISTRATION.

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Damaged packages must be left in the 13 ROUNDS CONTEST FOR THE MIDDLEWEIGHTHAT piece or parcel of ground situate

Godowal for examination by the Consignees, and

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CAKPIONSHIP OF THE COLOST AND THE "HONGKONG DAILY FEESS" BELT:

& DocGLAS, at 10. on Mondays and A. B. Duncan, Thursday.

All Chime must be presented within ten days Steamer's arrival here, after which date of the they cannot be recognised.

No Chima will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown. · ·

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

Agents.

Hongkong, 21st December, 1022,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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*BENLOMOND."

The Steamship

NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform

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whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 27th inst, will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be prosented to the Undersigned on or before the

Jan ur they will not be recognised.

10th

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are

to

examined on the 27th inst., at 10.

No Fire Insurance has been alectal

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also

at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as SECTION

now

C. F. O. CALLAGANA of INLAND LOT No. 2166 together with

H.M.S. Titania.

Basuages erections or buildings thereon known as No. 13, Wing Street nad

Hing Secondly ALL THAT strip of land at the rear of the said Section A of Inland Lot No 2166 being a scavenging lane. All of which

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believes the difficulties esa be aurmount Sir Ronald Macleay, the now British ed. ** No tax or levy was aver pro- Minister to China, and Lady· Maclony, posed,” he adds," without the 'same | have" had to postpone their departure sort of gloomy prophecy. Time has from London for Peking until Decembar fulsified them all. Time will not wipe out, and, and will sail on the loren. the debt, and if statesmen shirk it others

Sir Frederick Lugar (a former must undertake an unpopular duty.” Mr.

Governor of Hongkong) has recently H. WELLS, who stood;, we believe) as a Labour candidate in the general election, given at the London School of Economics would prefer the levy to be on "inflated course of three lectures on "Economic fortunes rather than on capital and Administrative Problems of the

British Tropics." a distinction with very little difference. Jous ReaxIN lays it down, in one of his essays on political economy that no rian can become excessively rich except the China Station, has begun, a start through the unjust taxation of "other men's labour, and this obviously is the and the Caroline, the former having been

gospel which inspires the Capital levy proposal, or at any rate, assures, for it a welcome by the socialists.

The scrapping of the earlier "C", clas of light cruiser, several of which are on

being about to be made with the Cordelia --

| placed on, the" disposal list and the latter,

abous to be placed, thereon.

Now "that it has been formulated Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culmesi one of the principal planks in Seymour, Bart. an officer very well the programme of the Labour Party known on the China Station, has been a party which is acquiring a grow selected for the appointment of Com ing influence in British politics-the maader in Chief of the North America pation is likely to be having this and West Indies Station, which pow panacen for its illa constantly recom-links up in the Pacific with the Chian mended But it requires very little Station. He will take over the appoint study to satisfy anyone that a levy on ment at the beginning of 1923. capital would work incalculable disaster.

The first copy of the medal struck by Viscount Gazy has exposed the fallacy

the London School of Tropical Medicine in a few simple sentences. "It seems obvious," he said, that if a man has to commemorate the services of Sir Patrick Manson, for long "the medical £50,000 invested in works, and you are adviser to the Colonial Office, has just going to take from him, say, £3,000 of

been minted and presented to bis widow. his capital, he is going to bare less work It is the intention of the school to pre ing capital and if he thought of ex tending his works he is not going to be sent the medal annually to students of able to do so. If he had barely enough distinction in clinical work. The medal capital to keep the works going, the works bears the portrait of Sir Patrick Manson. are going to shrink rather than to be M E Y Moh, proprietor of a extended. "There is going to be less employ number of cotton mills in Shanghai and ment, and how he is to raise £3,000 at the Honan, and a member of the Chinese same moment that "everybody else is Advisory Board to the Shanghai Munt" trying to raise £3,000 I cannot see." cipal Council, has given $100,000 for the establishment of a girls' middle school in Taking the ente of the man with a

the Chinese City, Mr. Moh, who is a fortune of £30,000, which Mr. H. G. Freturned student, has just returned from Honolulu where he acted as Chinese defo- WELLS would probably regard as an

inflated fortune," Lord Gesy very gate to the Pan-Pacific Union's "Comnier-

very cial Conference," pertinently said "The point is not whether it is unjust to get the £3,000 from him, but how you are going to get It when you are asking large sums from other persons at the same time. He cannot do it by writing a cheque on his bankers He will have to sell more of his shares, and to sell shares there must be somebody ready to buy them. If every body is going to have a capital levy on him at the same time, how is he going to get the money, and how is the Govern. ment going to get it?" That is the answer to the argument. A levy on capital such as the Labour Party advo cates is manifestly not practical, and, if ever the time comes when Labour rules, THE LATE MAJOR DONALD and enforces a policy of this kind, it

The marriage of Mr. D. W. Tratman is perfectly elear that it must result in to Miss R. E. Malory-Farmer will take a shrinkage of industry and consc- place at St. John's Cathedral on Friday,

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HONGKONG Ormos: 104, Da Yeux Bp., O. LONDON OC: 131, FIT STREET, E.C.

The Daily Press.

the 12th January, at 3 p.m. Invitations quently in great, aggravation of the are not being issued, but friends will be problem of unemployment. Yet the pro- welcome at the Church and afterwards at posal is advanced by the Labour Party the Hongkong Hotel.

as a means of solving the unemployment problem. Obviously the only way in which that problem can be solved is by improving the trade of the country, and that cannot possibly be assisted by a levy on capital. There was an interesting correspondence in The Times on this subject early in November. One of the contributors to the discussion put the case against the levy in these striking "In recent appeals for fresh capital, in order to expand production, a moderate risk has been valued at

HONGLONG, DECAwEEN 22ND, 1922.

THE CAPITAL LEVY PROPOSAL.

terms:

that level for a long period of years,

We observe that in the election cam. paiga at Home Mr. Harold Begbie sug gested that voters of tho" Sparkbrook Division, especially the women voters. should ask Mr. Amery" whether he will make it his duty to see that immediate justice is done to Commander Haslewood, without whose self-sacrificing support of Mrs. Haslewood a system" utterly abhor- rent to English nature would still bo flourishing under the British Flag." The reference is to the mui fai question in Hongkong. Because Commander H. L. Hasiewood. R.N., refused to prevent his wife from publishing the "facts, pressure was put upon him to resign his appoint- ment at Hongkong.

MACDONALD.

THE FUNERAL.

By the latest mail we "learn that the late Major Donald Macdonald under- went an operation at The Princess Chris tian's Nursing Home at Windsor, (which is about twenty minutes motor drive · · from Virginia Water, where he resided). The operation was a complete success, but unfortunately his heart failed some hours. later and he passed away at 7.30 on Sun day evening, November 5th,

He was buried in the churchyard nå Virginia Water on November 8th. Besides his only son Lieut. H. O. Masionald, R.N., and Mr. Duncan Clark (an old friend and recently a near neighbour), as chief mourners, there were present the following old Hongkong friends: Mr. H., F. Carmichael, Mr. P. H. Holyoak, Mr. G. C. Moxon, Mr. Evan Armiston Mr. A. Ritchie, Mr. R. P. Thursfield, Mr. A. E. Griffin, Mr. H, J. Gedge, Mr. Frank Graham, Mr. A. C. Hay, Dr. (West Kent Regt.). Nicholson and Captain A. Balburnis

stationed at Bermuda,

FROM UNITED KINGDOM, GENOA, PORT SAID & COLOMEO..

SINCE the electors of the United Kingdom "GLENBEG "

were being preached to by Labour prospective rate of interest varying from THE MV.

candidates regarding the advisability of 71 per cent to 10 per cent, and a greater having arrived from the above ports, Con Through Bills of Lading issued for Batavia, the foods are being landed at their risk a levy on Capital, a referendum has been from 12 per cent. The near approach rignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed meeting the war debts of the nation by risk at a promised rate of profit varying

The deceased, gentleman left a wife and Pontian Gulf, Continental, American

Into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous taken in Switzerland on a similar proof a levy will raise these rates by as two children Lieut. H. C. Macdonald. be left in the Godowns where they will be 】 THE Bteamphin “SICILIA,” Captain! Wharf and Godown Company: very a large sum of money for social reforms double them and maintain them at or nearmander K. Pope, R.N., H.M.S. Constance Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon ject, intended in this case to raiseloast 50 por cent, and its imposition will B.N., and Mrs. K. Pope, wife of Com-

Limited, whence, and/or

bob cared by the 23rd Dec., 1972, The proposal was defeated. In England Under these circumstances, what can be 1995, st NOOK, on or about BATURDAY 530 pm) Carat po

the leading advocate of the levy was Mr. the prospect of any expansion of industry CORRESPONDENCE taking Pawngersund Eargo,

chaled and damaged packages J. B. OLYNES. In a statement made by such as could appreciably reduce unem for the above Porte,

brokovo, chai Bilk and Valuables and Tea for Italy, France are to be left in the Godowns where they will

the country examined in the presence of Consignees by him on the subject he says And London (under arrangement) will be tran Messrs. Goddard & Douglas on 23rd Dec, is at present staggering under a debt of

ployment, shipped at Bomber into the Mail Steamer pro 1991, at 10 42. Claims against the steamer upwards of £6,000,000,000, the interest on, ceeding direct to Marseilles and London.

including those for cargo short delivered

onthe special form provided, which exceeds 235 and must also be of arrival otherwise they will not recogni No

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO, LAD

Agents. Hongkong, Wih December, 1922.

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NOLICE TO CONSIGNEES..

ELLERMAN LINE.

FROM HAMBURG, BREMEN AND ROTTERDAM.

HK Steamship

"CITY OF YORK" having arrived, Consignece of Cargo by her are, informed that all Goods are being landed at their zisk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardona Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence delivery may be obtained

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- ing undelivered after 27th December, 1923, will

be abject to rent the Steamer must be pre-

All Claims against the ated to the

to the Undersigned on or before ard January, 1923, or they will not be recognised. Goods All broken, chafed and damaged

K

to be left in the Godowns, where they will

camined

on any Tuerdays or Fridays

jcety's Mails will be despatched from this Port de be subject to rent.

be

Dot

milligas a year.

No economics, however drastic, which Tonight's Final Dress Behearsal of The

"Parsale will be received at, this Office minst be prevented mitted within 29 beny be put forward by the Government Tempest will be strictly private and only

Noon, the day before sailing. The contents and valne of all packages are required. For further particulars apply to---

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE

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Agents.

CORONET.

2.80, 5.159.15.-

THE THREE

MUSKETEERS.

between the hours of 10.45 and Nook, KOWLOON THEATRE,

within the free storage period of one week.

No Fire Insurance as been effected.

Bill of Lading will be counteraigned by

THE BANK LINE, LTD.,

General Agents.

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Hongkong,

21st December, 1922

MAN AND

HIS WOMAN,

Insurance will he affected by us in could touch anything but the fringe of those who have received special cards of any case whatever

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by this problem. What the Labour Party Invitation will be admitted.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., suggests is that the country must realize

Agunta

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All times, but especially

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On Wednesday night a burglar entered contractor's flat at No. 1, Poking Road, Kowloon, and got away with 38,500 which was hidden in one of the beds.

Inoubus with which it is burdened, just as a private debtor would be required to do. Its view is that the country, should call upon ita citizens to contribute | The total amount of insurance involved towards meeting the huge national in the fire at Wongaha (Canton) reported indebtedness resulting from the war, as in yesterday's issue is given in the it called upon its sons to sacrifice life Chinese papers as $130,000, of which and limb in its service. The relief, Mr. $80,000 is shared by foreign firms. OLYNES Bays, would be felt at once:

?

*** Tamtion · could be reduced and the With regard to the Ju An piracy, we puble-oredit both at-home and abroad are given to understand that the police improved enormously He recognises at Canton are pursuing their task of that any scheme adopted would have to tracking down the pirates with diligence. bo, administered carefully in order to Good progress has been reported within cause the least posible inconvenience and the last few days, and it is hoped that damage to trade, but the Tabour Party some arrests will be made shortly

SOLDIERS AND THE PEAK TRAM,

[TO THE EDITOR OF "THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS.']

BI,--With reference to the latter signed by "Famist" in yesterday's issue of your paper, while his "mean"' appears logiti- mato yet his, concluding remarks about the military crowding him out of his city and his tram are offensive. If he will take a short trip to Stanley and acquaint himself with the history thereof he may realize to whom he owes his city and his tram. If he knows the 2.20 tram is empty, his remedy for being crowded out is obvious-Youra, eta,

BANA DE MORTUIS.

Hongkong, December 20th, 1922. [But the point is that time is of im- portance to the business tuan, and he can lose afford to wait than can the soldiers. who are going to play football. Our correspondent may also be reminded that there would be no Peak tram for soldiers if civilians did not pay very much higher farer than ard charged to the men of the Services. For that reason along the busi news man is entitled to the considerationi for which Fascist pleaded.-ED]

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