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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

PARTICULARS

or

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE.

WEEN

HONGKONG DAILY FRES8, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20гm, -1923.

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, THE HONGKONG AND CANTON ICE

Situate at

VICTORIA, HONGKONG,

-- and known as

Nos, 75 AND 77, HOLLYWOOD ROAD..

To Be Sold

PUBLIC AUCTION,

IN ONE LUT

ότι

MONDAY,

11

the 29th day of Janviar, 1993, at 3 r.

by Mesa LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,

at their Sales Room, Duddell Stroot

PARTICULARS

No. 75 and 77, Hollywood Road, Victoria, Hongkong. This property is situated on the Picco or Partel of Ground registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 624.

There is a frontage on Hollywood Ronil of

90 foot 6 inches and on, one sille the premises

abut on Aberdeen Street. The premises cover

an arm of 8,850 square feat or thereabouts.

MANUFACTURING CO., LTD,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL

TMERVING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Com- Town Office, Lower Albert Road, pany'

o THURSDAY. 35th day of JANITARY 1923, NOOŃ for the purpose of presenting the Hapert of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1092.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from 11th to 25th January, 1023, both days inclusivę.

Order,

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO.,.1 LTD...

General Managers, (Sgd) J. D. THOMSON,

Acting Boerotary.

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INTIMATIONS

G.

FL

FOR SALE BY TENDER.

ON VIEW AT HM NAVAE YARD, WEI-HAIWEI FROM 16TH JANUARY, 1923.

(1) Single Screw STEAM TUG “HESPER." Fitted as a Fire Float Salvage and Water Tank Vessel. Length 115 feet, Displacement 400 tons, L.H.P. 300.

(2) IRON COALING LIGHTER No. 045. Length 125 feet, Capacity 300 tons (two holds). Fitted with Capstan, Derrick and Winch

Forms of

of Tender giving fall description of the above Craft may be cbrained on application to the NAVAL STORE OFFICER, H.M. NAVAL YAID, Hongkong.

Latest date for receipt of Tenders at Weihai Wai, Noon, 10th February, 1923.

(Signed) E. J. ADAMSON,

Naval Store Officer,

Hongkong, 8th January, 1993,

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The premises are hold for the term of $99 THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, years commencing from the 7th day of April,

1652, crested therein by a Crown Lease dated

the 37th day of February, 1852. The Crows

per annum.

LIMITED.

H.M. NAVAL YARD,

WET-HAI-WE.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

WE the Members of the Underwentioned Association, desire to express our Thanks to the Members of the BUILDING CON-

COMMERCIAL ÁSSOCIATION

ION for their Increment of

Better Treatment.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Bons payable in respect of the premises is 376.90 NOTICES ORDINARY

GENERAL Company will be held at the Offices of Mesara. JARDINE. MATIFESON & Co., Lin, on FRIDAY, 26th JANUARY, 1983, at 11.45 D'CLOCK AM, of receiving the Report of the for the pether with & Statement of Accounts

31st December, 1520

For further particulare and conditions of MEETING. of SHAREHOLDERS in this TRACTORS WARE is the Hon SECRETARY |

malo apply to

Mess, HASTINGS & HASTINGS

DENNYS & BOWLEY,

Solicitors, &c.

No. 8, De Four Road Central

* or to

"Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 19th January, 1993.

DANCING.

PALACE HOTEL,

KOWLOON.

(251

Directora for the year

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from Wednesday, 17th January, to Friday, 26th January, both days

which inclusive, during period no transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,

Secretary

to the General Managers. Hongkong, sth January, 1923.

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DY kind permission of Capt. C. S. BENNING. THE HONGKONG" LAYD. RECLAMA-

BRN. D.S.O., The popular

JAZZ QUARTET

of

HMS. Tania

will play at the above Hotel on SATURDAY, 20th, Dancing 9 r.,

(248

HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. THE BURNS ANNIVERSARY DINNER

are reminded that the Bookings

M for the Burg AnnivERSARY DINNER

Closs on MONDAY, 22ND INST.

TION CO., LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLD ERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. LTD on FRIDAY, 26th JANUARY, 1923, at 12 O'CLOCK Nous for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending

31st December, 1982.

The REGISTER

We are also indebted to the YOE CHINESE ATTAIRE, The Hon. DICTOR OF PUBLIC Wauxs, and Messrs. H. W. Brad and W. L. LEASE for their valuable assistance in bringing both parties to terme.

BUILDING CARPENTERS

ASSOCIATION. 136, Queen's Road East.

[331 Hongkong, January 18th, 1923.

PARTICULARS of

· ALUABLE; ĮLEASEHOLD, PROPERTY Situste "No, 13, WING HING STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,

To be Sold by Order of the Mortgages

By

PUBLIC AUCTION, IN ONE LOT On TUESDAY, The 30TH DAY of JAN., 1993, at 3 O'CLOCK F.M.

BY HOG STR of SHARES of the Comtat

January to Friday, 26th January, both days Shares can be registered."

MOSSTE. LAMMERT BROTHERS

AT THEIR OFFICE, DUDDELL STRENI,

»

t.

THE Froperty consists of First Alle THAT piece or parcel of ground situate Victoria in the Oclony of Hongkons, and registered in the Land Office an SECTION

of INLAND LOT No. 2166

thereon

It is therefore desired that those who wish inclusive, during which period no transfer of the messages erections or blather with!

to be present should send in their names to the Undersigned on or before that date in order that arrangements may be facilitated.

D. K. BLAIR,

Hon. Secretary

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HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION: TOURNAMENT. SATURDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 1923, at the

THEATRE ROYAL, AT 9.15 P.M.

MAIN EVENT:

15 ROUNDS CONTEST FOR THE WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONT AND THE SCOTT-HARSTON BELT: Stoker P. O. MORGAN, A. B."DIXON,

HMS. Hawkins,

1% H.M.B. Cicala,

BOOKING at MOUTRIES:

Members-January 24th.

General Public-from January 25th.

USUAL' PRICES.

Coons OPEN 8 13: NEXTTOURNAMENT--Race-Saturday, March 3rd, at. the THEATRE ROYAL

•

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NATIONAL LOANS. UBSCRIBERS to the National Loans of the Third Year of the Republic (1914) and the Eleventh Year of the Republic (1992) ABE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Drawings for the redemption of the above Loans will be held this year as follows

1st December, 1923: 6th Drawing of the Third Year Loan (82,750,000); redemption begins 31st December.

19:3: 1st Drawing of the Eleventh Year Loan (31,000,000); redemption begins 31st May. 10th November, 1923: 2nd Drawing of the Eleventh Year Loan ($1,000,000); redemp tion begins 30th November.

Sixth Redemption Instalment As the ($4,688,740), on the Fourth Year Loat,

due is the fipal no Drawing will take place; but redamption of the remaining uadrawa Bonds will commence on 12th April.

one

The service of the above three Loans in con- ducted independently, and formes no part, of the National Connclidated Loan Service:

F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs. Inspectorate Geners! of Customs, Peking, 6th Jaunary, 1923

1241

HOUSES FOR SALE AT THE PEAK“

NEAR MOTOB BOAD.

12

FOR SALE, either parately, with early OR SALE, either together (suitable for possession, Nos. 2 and 3 STEWART TRIBLCE,

Apply to H. É. POLLOOK.

Prince's Building..

PUBLISHED TO-DAY

[1956

HONGKONG WEEKLY

By Order of the Board of Directors,

MOWERAY S. NORTHCOTE, Secretary.

Hongkong, 8th January, 1993

[voj

now known sa No. 13, Wing Hing Street and Besondly ALL THAT strip of land at the reas of the said Section A of Inland Lot No 3166 being & scavenging lane. All of which

prom ses held for the residue of the term of 75 years from the 18tir day of May, 1918, created by the

"INTIMATION-

JOHN DEWAR

& SONS, LTD.

PERTH, SCOTLAND.

The correspondent might by an American officer fately returned transaction." from Southern China. We are told also, bave learnt that Portugal, in” a..... that according to him there is building Treaty with China has engaged "naver at Kowloon, ou the mainland just across to alienate" Macao and its dependencies. from the City of Victoria, Hongkong, a without agreement with China," so that tremendous commercial center waiting even if there were the alightest prospect - only the completion of the Canton-Hankow of Portugal ever agreeing to a sale of Railway line to unke it the foremost part the territory to Germany, there is not of the Orient. And the successful conclu the remotest prospect of China sver.. sion of negotiations for a series of loans conseating to such an agreement. totalling millions of dollars to be furnish.

ed the present Chinese administration by

An...auction of valuable ichsehold pr

a syndicate of British banks means, he believes, the first more towards the comperty is advertised to take place at the andes rooms of Messrs. Ehmmert Bros, on pletion of the Canton-Hankow Railway

The propertyny. /

"

By Royal Appointment it the visitor's inquiries had been abutting on Aberdeen Street.

to His Majesty The King.

'WHITE LABEL"

FINEST

SCOTCH WHISKY

OF GREAT AGE.

* AWARDED 50 COLD PRIZE MEDALS.

AND

AGENTS:

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT C boom by now and is on A. S. WATSON

AND AGENCY CO, LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NOTHERTY FEETH ORDINARY GEN. ERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATDEBON & CO., LTD., ou FRIDAY, 25th JANUARY, 1923, at 12.15 O'CLA CR PAM for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a State- meut of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1999.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- will be CLOSED from Wednesday, 17th January, to Friday, 20th January, both days incisive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

"By Order of the Board of Directors,

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,

Secretary. Hongkong, 11th January, 1923.

valuable machinery situate in or upon the mid premises and at No. 1 Gordon Street.

Particulars and Conditions of sale may be obtained from *

1387}

Mer HASTINGS & HASTINGS,

Solicitors,

8, Des Voeux Road Central

and Mess7, LAMMERT BROTHERS;

Auctioneers

לי

..TO LET.

WO OFFICE ROOMS, Top Floor, 6,

Queen's Road Centrais

Apply GANDE, PRICE & CO. LTD.

200]

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THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED TOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN that the N° FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY

MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, No. 10, DES Vaux ROAD CENTRAL, at 3.30 PM, SATURDAY, the BRD FEBRUARY, 1929, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Director pgether with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,

1929

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company" will be CLOSED from Monday, 22nd January, to Saturday, 3rd February, 1923 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Under of the Board of Directors,

"KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 12th January, 1923.

THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE

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ONE HUNDRED and THIRD ORDINARY MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, 44, Das Vaux ROAD, en TUESDAY, 13th FEBRUARY, 1923, at 12 o'clock Noor, for the purpose of Beport of the Directors, together receiving a with a Statement of Accounts, declaring Dividend and elecking Directors and Auditors.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from Monday, 29th January, to Tuesday, 13th February, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors, JOHN ARNOLD,

Secretary. Hongkong, 13th January, 1923.

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THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB ANNUAL BACE MEETING, 1923, FEBRUARY 1810, MARCH 1, 2ND & 3D

LY for the forthcoming Races cloen on SATURDAY, 27th inst, at 3 p.m., and must be sent to the JOCKEY CLUB, ROOM 34, Chater Road, on or before this date.

PRESS. CONTAINING ALL THE WEEKS LOCAL NEWB.

The Paper to und Home,

Entry Forma are now ready and can be had at the JOCKET CLUB STABLES, JOCKEY CLUB Boom (Hongkong Club Anner, Chater Road), Baor Course, HONGKONG CLUB and Labrad DAVIE, Alexandra Buildings

157

TO LET.

CO.

LTD..

"Wine & Spirit Merchants..

ESTABLISHED 81 YEARS.

BIRTE.

SYME THOMSON January 18th, at 53, The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. F.

(252 SYM THOMSON, a son. HosazonG OFFICE: 104, Das Vœux RD.,

FURNISHED from April nert, No. 144, 320, Orice: 131, Frar Sax, EO

Barker Road, Peale, Eight Rooms. Also Farnished Six-roomed House st Deep Water Bay near the Golf Links,

1991

M

Apply to DENISON, EAM & GLEBS.'

TO LET.

FFICES in UNION BUILDING-Four

Road on Fifth Foo

UNION

Apply INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

TO LET."

1169

170)

Apply LINSTEAD. & DAVIS, Alexandra Buildings.

--TO LET.

ぜひ

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, JANUART' 20TH, 1923.

"AS OTHERS SEE US,"

1

It is really wonderful what some Monday, January 20th. visitors can believe-and retail ao gospel.is Nos. 17 and 19, Hollywood Road,

It is auprecedented to have three large directed by somebody with a little know. ledge and experience even of American Empresa liners in port at one time, but official statistics-he would know that the this sight is now afforded in the barbour. railway is not needed to make Hong- The Empress of Canada and the Empress kong the foremost port in the Orient.". of Asia are tied up at buvys and the Em- It has long enjoyed not only that dis-press of Rusin, which arrived last night tinction but the greater rank of being, if is alongside the Kowloon wharves,

the largest shipping port of not actually

The steamship tle, which has for me. the world, reckoned by the toanage pása-

time been the 'property of the China Mail ing through it. at least the second largest Steamship Co., "has been sold to a Chinese The British loans to which reference 9 ayndicate known as the Mei Lee Co. for made in the paragraph we have quoted, ne

the sum of $178,000. The syndicate in

run her for passengers" and every dweller in Canton and Hongkong tend to is well aware, had no reference whatever freight, and her first two trips will b

between Hongkong and Singapore, after to the completion of the Canton-Hankow which the will be run on the regular trans railway, and consequently the whole Pacific service. atracture of urniise built upon this! "belle" by the American visitor tumbles to the ground. As the full text of the loan agreements was published in the English-printed .Canton paper which he says has now ceased to function because of its criticism of the lonn (a statement entirely, without foundation), there was no excuse for any conscientious inquirer giving currency to the cock-and-bull story

The Shanghai Racing Calendar for with which readers in Manila have heen 1923, shows that provision has been made Nut so very long the opinion was for 34 days' racing. regaled. Very likely expressed in Canter: by many persona ago, remarks the N. Daily News, not favourable to the CHE regime that racing enthusiasts "had" perforce to con

font themselves with the Spring and. either the coal and mineral deposits of Autumn meetings and two or three off. the province were the quid pro quo of days" but now they are more adequately the loan, or that Whampoa was to be catered for, and the, limit has. probably surrendered to the British as security"; been reached. The season opens with the but a supposition of this kind would strike any person acquainted with affaire as being utterly ridiculous. These loan negotiations had no official support what

A case is H.M. Suprezie Court at ever from the British authorities-quite Shanghai before Sir Skinner Turner. the contrary in-fact; and if the idea that Chief Judge, and a jury, in which James "the surrender of the port of Whampoa or W. Frazer sued the Shanghai Mer- cury, Ltd., for $8,000 damages for at least an agreement not to make any alleged wrongful diamimal resulted in a move toward improving Whampoa was unanimous verdict for paintiff on the back of the matter, still existed among ground that " defendante were not justi the Cantonese and caused much apprefied in summarily dismissing him." The hënsion "-most people on the spot must Jury awarded damages, in the sum of $4,500. Judgment was accordingly en-. plead ignorance of it. The hostility to tored for this amount with costs, his Lord. the loan by the Cantonese opposed to ship remarking that the verdict was a.

very fair one. CHEN had to reference in fact to any such considerations. Great Britain dues A distressing accident occurred on the not covet Whampoa, and Hongkong has golf links at Happy Valley yesterday.

Mis Jessie Rodger, whilst no apprehensions regarding its develop morning.

coming up the course from the fourth ment as a rival port

any more than

tee was struck on the right eye by a ball it fears that the development of the port driven by a gentleman player from the She was taken, by lady of Manila or Mache will adversely affect seventh tea ita future prosperity. The growth of friends in a motorcar to. Dr. Harston's consulting rooms, where it was ascertain. Hongkong is natural, not forced, and the ed that the cheek bone was fractured and fact that a tremendous port is in the the right eye injured, but to what extent making at Kowloon is due to no it was not possible to give an opinion.. "planning" to attract trade, but rather Miss Rodger was subsequently taken to

be French hospital. to the necessity for accommodating the trade and population naturally flowing to "the largest senyurt and commercial centre of the Oriert."

A highway robbery has been raportad from the Lai Chi Kok district. At a late. hour on Thursday night' a pedestrian was accosted by three armed men close to the junction of the Taipo and Lai Chi Kok Road. The fectpads seized the man and dragged him off the roadway for a dia' tance of about 50 yards. They stole from his person a long coat, his hat and 85-45 in cash,

J

China New Year meeting at Kiangwan, beginning on February 17th, and ther after the programme follows the unat lines,

Alexander Warwick, described as an electrician, with no fixed abode, was charged before his Honour Judge Grain at H.M. Police Court at Shanghai, with the larceny of $134 from a Chiness o

Det Sgt. Douglas said that plainant. in possession of the money, he replied when defendant was asked why he was that the money had been given him in

The man who gave" it: Hongkong. Defendant did not know the address of him wanted him to buy some pistols.! this man in Hongkong. In answer to hia. Honour defendant absolutely desied the charge. He was cautioned.

TIROM 1st June-Eight and Four Room that have come to hand by the latest Victoria is not likely to be relegated to Presession, a six-chambered revolver. Mr.

Ir is always interesting and often very amusing to read the impressione of

The picture the visitor gives of Kow- Hongkong formed by the transient. visitor, specially the American visitor loon is that "mile upon mile of land is who guesses and calculates upon political being levelled and reclaimed, railway and commercial aspects. No doubt a spurs are being run in all directions, huge Ftha, from 1st April, 1923,

URNISHED, for One Year or Eighteen large number of the visitors who have warehouses are being erected and docks been looking over the Colony during are in process of construction" and that "BERWICK LAW. "No.155, Peak, 5-roomed the past day or two will be accepted in at the rate they are at present working Bungalow with Tennis Court and Garden

their home towns as trustworthy author-within five years a 'Greater Hongkong' Motor Road at Magazine Gap.

ities on subjets relating to every port will emerge the largest seaport and com-

Mr. R. E. A. Webster appeared at the " at which the Laconia calls on her world mercial centre in the Orient, with Kowloos tour. These thoughts are prompted by as its principal factor and Victoria only Magistracy, yesterday, on behalf of a two very lengthy articles we have just side iso." True, great development Chinese" who was charged before Mr. R. observed in a batch of Manila papers work is going on in Kowloon, but E. Lindsell with unlawfully having in his Webster said the defendant's plea would mail. One concerns the planning of the position of a side issue within be extenuating circumstances and in view. of this he would ask for a remand to pre Greater Hongkong in relation to the next fire, or the next fifty years. Chimese ambitions to have a rival port la regard to Macao we read that pare his case. In reply to the Magia trute, the police-informed his Worship Whampoa"; and the other relates to exclusive details of a most important that they regarded the defendant as a story that "Gormany is bidding for step in the German trade campaign to only a smuggler," Bail, of $250 was Macna" and mentions the letting of obtain commercial supremacy, in the Far allowed and the case was remanded to contract for big harbour improvementa East through an unofficial alliance with the 22nd inst. The man wae arrested on: Macao as something which has never been Portugal, whereby Macao, is to be made 4 junk which plies between here and

HOUSES.

Apply P. O. Box 259

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THE CORONET.

GEORGE ARLISS

DISRAELI

published in the local newspapers,

Heungshan.

Shanghai newspapers announce with "duo very probably to the censorship of a port of call for German vesele and a considerable amount of trade thus divert

mach regret the death of another of the the Colonial Authorities, who are mosted from Hongkong, have come to the leading men of the older school in China, jealous of the supremacy of Hongkong."

Times (Manila) through one of its corre one, moreover, who was well-known to As a matter of fast the information was pendents who has been making a study almost every one who has been out here given in the Hongkong Daily Prem of commercial activities in the Orient a few yours and who was genuinely res- KOWLOON THEATRE: months ago, when the contract, whe signed. The corroependent confesses at the end of pected by All-Captain Williah Henry That. As much as anyone, perhaps, In the case of the article on Honga long article that the Portuguese author Captain Lunt was responsible for the Long, we read that "interesting and ities in Macao ridicule the assertion that building up of the leading Chinese ship- exclusive detailer of Group Britain's Germany is looking forward to the time ping company on the court, the China Merchaite Steam Navigation Company. latest movies in her commercial campaign when Mueno can be purchased, and point The fact that this concore, with all the to capture for herself the major portion out that Portugal "would never give up difficulties it is constantly encountering, of the trade of South and Cetitral China willingly the revenues of Macao, even if maintains such a high standard of effi- and to side-track Canton that is in pro- Germany in her present impoverished ciency is attributed largely to the in- finence of Captain Lunt as Marine Superintendent. cams of construction" have been furnished condition should dream of such

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

THE IDLE CLASS.

FLOWER OF THE NORTH