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THM HONGKONG DAILY PRES), `SATURDAY, MAKOH - 10TH, · 1928.

MARTELL'S

BRANDIES.

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TWO

STAR

THREE STAR

V.ES. O. P.

BOTTLED IN COGNAC AND GUARANTEED PURE GRAPE BRANDY

BY

MARTELL & COMPANY.

SÒLE AGENTS

ANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD

WINE & SPIRIT. MERCHANTS,

Tel. C. No. 135.

DRUGS

·8, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

HONGKONG.

PRESCRIPTIONS

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When the Doctor prescribes he expects the Druggist to fill the prescription with Pure Druga. The quality of our Drags, Medicines and Teilet Goods is not surpassed. Have the Doctor's Prescription" filled here, and the result will be Matisfactory.

THE PHARMACY,

THE RED BUILDING (OPPOSITE ICE House St.

YE OLDE PRINTERIE

LIMITED',

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(SUCCESSORS TO PRINTING DEPT, HONGKONG PRINTING PRESS) 19, WYNDHAM 91REËT.

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NEW DIRECTION FOR OUR

TRADE.

LORD SOUTHBOROUGH ON THE COMING COMMERCIAL REVIVAL,

Lord Southborough contributes to the Yorkshire Post Annual Trade Review the following interesting article on "A Now Direction for our Trade"

"The Government bad people of this country are proparing to enjoy the fruits ul five centuries of enterprise and effort by promoting and developing commerce with our Dominions, Colonies and Dependencies. The British Empire "Exhibition, to be held at "Weribity in 104, ja to be one of the great, instruments in this trade development,

"AS IN 423."

A PRECEDENT FOR TO-DAY'S CONFUSION.

An interesting comparison between the prosent position of the world and that of the world fifteen hundred years ago was made by Profesor Graham Wallas to the Association of University Women Teachers at Bedford, College, Regent's Park, London-

INTIMATIONS

PRIMO BEER

Fifteen hundred years age, said Pro- fasor Walles, aucient civilisation was visibly falling in ruins,, Alaric and just! neked Rome; Attila was a boy of seyem. teen, dreaming of still worse disasters. that he was to inflict upon the Western world, and the Vandals were pressing on towards the destruction of civilisation in crament on which the ancient world as North Africa All the structure of gov organised by Home had deponded, had

Roman law was to an end.

All habits, all loyalties, OBTAINABLE longer valid. all deals, all philosophies, all religions of the ancient world were passing away.

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It will come nuns too "8001). The torrible period of trade depression from which we are at last emerging taught British manufacturers a lesson by which they have plainly profited, The boot that preceded this depression had been most marked in quarters that should properly have been regarded with suspicion; there was a rush to buy on the part of those, whose entire weith and men may have asked themselves a5. conaistel of the money they were seniling that the if the mind of plan was strong and who had no hope of replacing is and wise enough to key the reconstruc- II, RUTTOAJI E AND SON,

At home, the last war savings and|tion of the world' under control, or whe. gratuities were dissipated; abroad; buyers they disaster must come, were spending borrowed money-largely British loans. It was the final gesture of mar who sees makrupey staring him. in the free, and the sequel was a complete crsaation of business. No one would buy for no ong kuy longer could pay.

Trade is now improving, but there i and must be for years little hope of better conditions generally in our old Europeah markets: to extend our canections i impoverished vonatries at this moment would, therefore, he wasted effort for we do not want customers who cannot pay We must find regular buyers, and only the British Empire enn · provide them, since the high tariffs of America will make future business with that country more! difficult and comparatively unremanera

tive.

Thought was going on at that time, and intense thought. Augustine, “in Hippo, was just finishing his treatise on The City of God." Cassinus, after training amongst the hermits in Egypt. had just founded the first monastery in the South of France. But they were thinking rather of another world that this, and their very concentration helped the world to accept accident and drift rather thinu rational purpose as the form of its future evolution, and we, knew, the IN disastrous results that persisted for a thousand years,

EVERYWHERE

Wine and Spirit Merchants,

COMPANIES (WINDING UP).

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

THE MATTER of ORDINANCE, 1911-1921.

and

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COMI-ANIES

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THE PENISULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG.

COLOMBO AND BOMBAY,

THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED FOR EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN AND CONTINENTAL PORTS

AND LONDON.

THE

THE Steamship

"LAHORE "

carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despat ohod from this port a Noox on TUESDAY, the 13th Manch, taking Cargo for the above Ports.

Silk and Valuable Carga for Italy, France and London (under afrangement) will be con vered by this Steamer proceeding to Bombay and there transhippeal to the on carrying Steamer for Marsailles and Loorlon,

Parcels will be received at the Office until 8 p.m. the day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages are required.

For further particulars apply to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

Agents.

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AND

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD.

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

CONSIGNMES 'per Company's Steamer "DEUCALION"

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be dis- sharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon,, whers i will lie at Consignee's risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 8th March.

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamar's Derival

All broken, shafel, and damaged goods so to be laft in the Godowns, where they will be

THE MATTER of the CHINA. SPECIE examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between

BANK LIMITED.

the hours of 10.45 Am. and Noom within the free

torage period

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 14th March, will be subject to rent.

In 1923, said the Professor, a problem IN he thought of aven more than equal magnitude is before us The material

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by world-the world that slowly and pain-.

an Order made by His. Honour Sir The British Empire Exhibition will give fully created itself upon the fragments Willam Rees Davies, Kt., Chief Justice, in the manufacturers in this country an opperat Roman dÿristen-is falling irrungibove matter, dated the 5th day of March, tunity of seving for themselves exactly No one knows what is government in 1923, way andered that the CHINA what raw materials cách Dominion enh produce, and what they would enst innded China; one knows what will be the SPEE BANI, LIMITED, be Wound up by this in this country. It will show bow, by government a year hence in Russia; Court under the provisions of the Companies the right investment of capital, Imperial

une knows what will be the government Ordinances of Hongkong, 1911-1921, and tast and that JOHN resources that are at present undeveloped Germany, in Italy, or in Spain, the Official Receiver be appointed Provisional

HENNESSEY SETU, of Exhibition will demonstrate exnetly what Atlantic, right across the great Eura- manufactures our prospective customers sinu continent, the old system has fallen in the Dominious require. So great arruins, and the danger we have to face industrial country as Yorkshire has, is greater and more intense than the daa. therefore, the keertest interest in its ger with which the world was confronted

at the fall of the ancient civilisation,

might be transformed into wealth, The Right across, from the Paciuc u the Liquidator of the Hongkong, afore

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woncentrated

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aid, Incorporated Accountant, be continued as Special Manager of the Company until the farther order of the Court anlgect to the approval of the Official Receiver.

NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE,

Step across to the

All Claims against the Steamer must be

presented to the undersigned on or before the 28th March, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Izgarance will be affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 8th March, 1923.

[$16

THE EAST ASIATIQ CO., LTD.,

COPENHAGEN,

"INDIEN"

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo Are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Co, Ltd, whence delivery may be

Stained

"

No Claims will be admitted after tho Goods

have left the Godowas, and all Goods" remaining undelivered after the 18th of March, 1923, will be subject to rent

the First Meeting of Creditors of the Company 1994 will be a year of movement for the In the first place, the social problem will be held at the Official Receiver's Office at

the Courts of Justice, Victoris, aforesaid, on the HE M/S. British peoples, Special arrangements is intimtely more complex. Where there 23rd day of MARCH, 1923, ALAM, and the are already being made to attract and were a few cultivators in the Clearings First Meeting of Contributories will be held at provide for an unprecedented number of the wounds ifteen hundred years ago, or the same place on the same day at 11.30 .. tourists from every Dominion and Colony a few hundred shepherds out 1J1

Duted this 5th day of March, 1923, Britain will call her spas home. Canadiau, plnius, now there are millions upon mil

.080. K. HALL BRUTTON & CO., Australian, South African will conte to lions of industrialised and

Solicitors to the Official Receiver. visit this Exhibition, to see thric own factory-workers.

[R00 "The very existence of display and the vast evidences of our the present population of the Eurasian Imperial supremacy in manufacture of every kind. The critical in every entry tinent depends upon organisationsund are already aware that the best follen to abstitute accident and drift and wi goods can only be woven in the British fusion for organisation means to reduce Empire, but the numbers who will see our the population to something like what it cloth, our steel, our dyes, our machinery was at the fall of the ancient world. It at the British Empire Exhibition will means multiplying by hundreds the hor awaken a demand for such excellence in rors which some of them had seen in the their own lands that a generation of photographs that Dr. Nansen recently. intensive propaganda and advertisement brought back from Russia. could not provoke. The best way to sell Prof. Wallas proceeded to urge the honest werchandise is to show it. Never necessity for not giving up the effort to has there been such an opportunity for produce the best thoughts in the present British merchants to show their goods as world-crisis; and said that while it was this Exhibition will give thein. Every true that we could not, by direct effort,! exhibitor known that & vester pulilïc than he could ever have hoped to reach will see certain indirect efforts by which we could secure great new thoughts, there were

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his goods under the most favourable make it more likely that such thoughts circunstances: that these visitors will be

BONGKONG CIGAR STORE

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Consignees

on

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godown, here they

be examined in the

presence of by Mesers. Goddard & Tough the 15th March, 1923, at 10 am. All Claims must reach us before the 1 th of March, or they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected... Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTĎ.,

Agents.

and you'll be

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£83

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in a receptive and enquiring mood: that would come into the world. He quoted HOUSE TO LET, Furnished at the Peak DAIRY FARM they will have money to spend. Any who Shelley, who said that poets were the asks for proof that the Dominions will be unacknowledged legislators of the world," hers has only to learn the extent to as seeing more of the significance of what which every overseas government, in the was going on in the world than ninety- nams of its people, has pledged its nine put of a hundred of those who were support. There is no room in this brief taking a dirt part in thing. The rel article to describe all the details of the participation of each Dominion Colony and Dependengy, but this summary of the arrangements that the larger British lands have already made may be taken ns proportionately illustrative of them all

CANADA?..

have

Apply

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD,

son that the introduction of machinery OFFICES in UNION BUILDING--Four and the transformation of human life at the end of the eighteenth century did not produce greater disturbance than it did was largely because there were wea who had poetis inspiration, and could see and communicate what had happened.

The Canadian Government indicated that they will require an be built) has been applied for and pro- area of 150.000 sq. ft. and some two visionally allotted, and buildings, are acres of land in addition. They will being planned to occupy a space of about eo-operate also in the organisation of the 22,000 sq.; FL Imperial Exhibits.

AUSTRALIA.

be erected. The Commonwealth Govern A building covering 150,000 sq. ft. will ment are prepared to spend £250,000 ca their participation. They will also co operate in the Imperial Exhibite

NEW ZEALAND.

TO LET.

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for Office.

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TO LET.

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The site of the British Empire Er hibition at Wembley Park should commend Britain, since it possess railway facilities itself to the whole business community of far in excess of any enjoyed by previous

"BERWICH LAW, No. 155, Peak, 5 exhibitions. Exhibits will be conveyed Roomed Bungalow with Tennis Court and direct to their place by special railway fines running into the main buildings, Garden, on Motor Road at Magarine Gap and visitors from the furthest Highlands

A minimum expenditure of £50,000 has of Scotland or the remotest corners of 454] been agreed to and the New Zealand England and Wales will be able to travel Government desire space reserved for without change to either of the two main Pavilion occupying 45,000 sq. ft. and line stations, the Great Central, Wembley

SOUTH AFRICA.

Apply

LINSTEAD & DAVIS

Alexandra Buildings,

TO LET,

Queen Bord Central

GANDE, P&CO. LTD

ale po tensione Government Hill, and the London and North Western, TWO OFFICE ROOMS, Top Floor, 6 also propose to erect a Restaurant and Wembley.

take their Londoners C Maori Musoum as a separate building in choice of New Zealand timber.

train, train, underground, omnibus or taxi. Trains from Baker

200] Street and Marylebone will take only nino The Government will make provison to minutes to reach the Exhibition. From the extent of £50,000 on the estimate for no fower than 120 stations in the London 1922-1923 for participation. It is proposed area the Exhibition may be reached in an to meet a building occupying about 25,000 average time of eighteen minutes, and

TO LET.

NFURNISHED, So. 144, TE PEAK near the Barker Road Tram Station-8 For particulars apply to

DENISON, RAM & GIBES. 9th February, 1923.

ft. The Government will co-operate when the opening date is reached and the Rooms for 3 Months, 250 Per Month, in the Imperial Exhibits, but reserve the special traffic arrangements have been

right to include

a Mineral Resources Exhibit in their own Pavilion.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

completed Wembley Park will be the most readily accesible point in all London, Apart from the display of merchandise on an unprecedented scals, the British Newfoundland has asked that a site of Empiro Exhibition will be a centro for the 8,000 sq. ft. should be reserved for her, ventilation of all matters" of national and and has indicated that her minimum Imperial importance. The first World expenditure will be £12,000.

INDIA.

The Indian" Government have asked for 100,000 sq. ft. to be reserved. A site has been provisionally allotted. An expendi- ture of £167,000 on participation has been decided upon.

BURKA.

Power Conference duder the presidency of the Earl of Derby will be held there in the Congrosa Hall and Education, Oversca settlement, Imperial Policy, Un- employment a hundred topics are all to be debated. The British people for the first time will be provided with, an Imperial Forum.

A site of approximately two and a half All the profite of the Exhibition will acres (on which a Burmese Village will be devoted to public objecta in Britain

(Continued at foot of next column.) and the Dominions,

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