NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL -- STEAM NAVIGATION UOS STEAMER
KHIYA."
Arrived Hongxogo on 1st July, 1923. FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORTSAID,
ADEN, COLOMEO & STRAITS, YONSIONERS of Oage by the above-named vassel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed at TEXIR R18 in the Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godown at Kowloon, where each Connigament will be sorted out Mark by Mark
d
can be obtained sa the Gööde, wee
Goods will be landed hers unless
instructions have been given to the contrary,
hour before arrival of the Steamer,
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY RD, 1985
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
N EXTRA GYMKHANA MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) st HAPPY VALLEY, on SATURDAY, JULY 7TH, commencing 3.30 P..
Charge for Admission to the Publia Enclosure, will be 31.
Salillers and Sailers in Tnitorm-Half Price. Members are
are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members Enclosure.
Each Member has the reight of introducing | non-members to the Members Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Messrs.
& DAVIS $5 each LINSTEAD FRIDAY, JULY 6th.
to
The Stowanis invite the Ladies of Hong- kong to be present
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Goode nos cleared within 8 days, including THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND dabe of arrival will be subject to rent
No Fire Insurance will be effected by un
in any case whatever.
Damaged packages must be left is the
MINING COMPANY, LTD.
",
Godewar for examination by the Consignees, 6% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURES
and the Company's surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & DOUGLAS at 10 am on Mondays and Thursdays.
All claims must be presented within ten days
s of the Steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognized.
No alkims will be admitted after the
have left the Godown.
gooda
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
Agente.
Hongkong, 1st July, 1823. "
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CHINA MINING & METAL CO., LTD.
NOTICE OF HEMOVAL
and after the 18.JULY, 1993, the Registofel
Company will be located: c/o JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, PRINCE'S BUILD- ING, HONGKONG,
CHINA MINING & METAL CO., LTD.
Hongkong, 30th June, 1923,
NOTICE
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EL Friends of the American Community. are cordially invited to s THE DAY SANT the HONGKONG HOTEL GRILL, DR JULY 4th, between the hours of 4 rm, and €.30 P.M.
NOTICE..
11016
N OFFICAL RECEPTION will be held at the AMERICAN CONSULATE GENKMAL on WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, from 19 .. to 1.31 in celebration of the NATIONAL HOLIDAY of the United States,
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE. CO., LTD.
Noriicato No. 8773 for 200 Shares
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
numbered 77161 to 77200, 47201 to 47250, 110032 to 110078, 191988 to 122037 84161 to 84175; Certificate No. 8774 for 200 Shares
Bosc1 to 30600, 37101 to 37200 No. 8775 for 50 Shares numbered 69051 to 70000 all registered in the Name of Br. LAM CHOR TIN have been LOST or
DESTROYED and should these Certificates not be produced to the Company before the 7TH DAY of JULY, 1923, New Certificates for the said Shares will be issued and the Old Certi- ficates will thereafter be held by the Company
Null and VoiL
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, 7th June, 1923. Hongkong,
1930
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO. LTD.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Six A Dollars per Share for the Six Months Sending 20TH JUNE, 1933, will be payable on TUESDAY, JULY 247, on: which date Dividend Warrants be obtained on áð plication at the Company's Odice.
may,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compary will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the th, fo MONDAY, the 3RD JULY (both days in clusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
PAY
(KAILAN BONDS).
INTIMATION
TOILET SOAP BARGAIN
Yardley's Oatmeal Soup... 50 cts, per box
Coal, Tar Soap.. 50 Carbole
Colgate's Floating Bath
Soap
50
Vinolia L. & Soap
50
per Tab
per box
OF
Bengkung. Tientsin and
Hongkong
only. At
Carbolic Soap... 50
Coal Tar Soap... 50
Medical Soap...1.20
Terebene Soup. 1.20
1.75 Zambuk Soap. Cimolite Soap 1.00
Colgate's Sulphur Soap...
Zenobia Assorted Soap 5.00.
Savon Pate Amandes......
AYMENT of the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST due on 1st July, 1923,' will be made on presentation of Coupon No. 92 at any of the undermentioned Banks, viz.
HONGLONG AND SHANGHA
Banking CoaPORATION, CHARTERED Bank of India
AUSTRANA AND CHINA. RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CRISE.
At Tientain,
Shanghai
BANQUE BELDE *Porn Tientsin and
L'ETRANGER.
Shanghai only.
The Interest, fens Income Tax at 49, 6d, in the £, will be
ON £20 DEBENTUERS:
NEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).
THE CHINA CONSORTIUM,
CHINA'S FLOATING DEBT TO TE
EXAMINED
LONDON, July 1st,
moking of opium in the Colony, With In recent Landon papers under the FAR EASTERN CABLE this object in view the Government "pro- | heading "The Bankruptcy Act, 1014) | posed to gradually increase the selling Receiving Onleri" appears the following Price of the drug to a prohibitive figure.nouncement, “Grant," ~ A.W., Jately The result of this policy has been to make riding at 01, Lexbam-gardens, a member the smuggling of oplam into the Colony of Thatched House Club. St. James's. an attractive and highly profitable enter London, S.W., but whose present residence- prise. Government, during the nine years the Petitioning creditors are unable to
ascertain, retired civil servant.” existence of the Monopoly, has raised the selling price from 80 to 814,50, and the authorised import of opium has been substantially reduced, but everybody knows that in spite of the fact that a larg staff of revenue officers is employed in the work of preventing smuggling, the amount of pin nuggled into the Colony in the space of a year must be considerable, and had some excellent big gamis shot It was decided to instruct the group
the course of the Budget debate lasting, which embraced deer, wilt pig, presentatives to examinin consultation year the Officer Administering the seladang. (biouf mineage, as the French with the Ministers of their respective Government said: "It is well known term him), and finally elephant. No
Governments the existing floating dent that ouium ma be, freely purchased in wonder after this he returned regretfully China at a price match below the Hong kong price, and the wider these two prices are apart, the greater is the Incentive to the smugglers until a point is reached where preventive measures, with their attendait abuses, bring great harm to the trade and popularity of the
With reference to the criticism of their port. It must be remembered that in
Messrs. G. C. Bonehill, Ltd., Birming object, the Consortium refute the popular a place such as this. where thousands of persons pass daily to añil from Canton, ham, recently wrote to a London paper supposition that they will endeavour to " nothing short of rigorous personal searchaying that in November last they wrote harvest undue profits, reaped from loans the Postauster General directing his attention to the instavenience and expense forced upon China under the protectiori arise from the "prohibition of of their Governments, but, on the cons remains utterly paralysed it is impossible despatch by parcels past of fire-ans to ary, they declare that it has been by collec to expect that this policy can be effectively various places abroad, and ask for sistently refraining from lending that removal or modification of this restric-their principal success has been achieved,
In the May issue of Mirkwood, Mr. T. Powell, recounty, his experiences of a
A report issued by the China Con- Fortnight in Indo-China." His, subsortium states that a aveting of the marine was being refitted at Hongkong council was held recently in Paris and was and securing a fortnight's leave, he made attended by representatives of the British, for Haiphong and Envaï, He was very French. American, and Japanese groups. fortunate in the company he fell in with
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ran be finally effective." "Obviously, 25 cts, Tab. 2.75 per box 1 doz. the only solution is restriction of pro- duetion, but while government in Chica Bimmels Colore Soap
1.50 per box
A
IL
sd.
| J. & J.'s Baby Soap ...... 1.85
Gerand's Eucalyptus Soap
Per Coupon Gross) Less Tax at 4/8 in the e
12. 0.
2.8.9/5
Net amount payable 9. 3. 3/h
Piver's Soap assorted...........
Ostine Soup....
.10 cis. Tab. 1.00
3.00
1.00
per doz.
per box
Net amount payable
£3, 0. 0. 13. 6.
£26. 6.
Antezema Soup
100
* Per Coupon (Gross)
£15, 0. 0. 76.
R. & G.'a-Heliotrope Soup, 5.00"
Savon Fleur
-Ox 2100 DzaZNTURES :
Per Coupon (Gross) Less Tax at 4/8 in the £
Or £500 DEBENTUKES
· Leas Tai ut 4/6 in the £ 3
Net amount payable £11, 12.6,
Payment will be made in Taels at the Demand Buying Rate of exchange of the day the Coupon is presented.
By Order,
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THE KAILAN `MINING ADMINISTRATION,
(@gd.) W. 8. NATHAN,
General Manager.
PUBLIO AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instructions
to sell by Public Auction,
on
MONDAY, the 15th JULY, 1923, commencing at 100 v.m.,
at their Sales Room, DUDDELL STREET.
boura
+
ONE SET OF MINT MACHINERY. This lot comprises a complete set of Mint Machinery, capable of producing 100,000 (one hundred thousand) pieces 10-cent (twenty cent) coins or 200,000 (two hundred thousand pieces 10-cent (ten cent; coins per working day of 10 (Further particulars and inspection orde's
be may
obtained from Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd, or the Undersigned.).
Terma-20% of purchase money to be paid on fall of hammer. Balance to be paid within two weeks of day of sale.
LAMMERT BROTHERS,
953]
JJ:
Auctioneers.
PARTICULARS
By Order of the Board of Director, VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY
L. S. GREENHILL
Acting Secretary.
Hongkong, 25th June, 1923
1955
ADIES GENTLEMEN Suffering Lfrom any kind of Disease, however complicated and long-standing the case may be, are requcated to write present condition of
Situate
No. 18, WING HING STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,
Bald by Order of the Mortgagea
By PUBLIO AUOTION,
IN ONE LOT On TUESDAY,
By
the disease. Full particulars of treatment, The 17TH DAY of July, 1993, at 8 o'took
ivica, eto, free under cover. "Bar Works, Beadon square (H.P.), Calcutts (India),
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
FROM NEW YORK
GAELIC PRINCE
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MALAMMERT BROTHERS ATHER OFFICE, DODDELL STREET,,
*
D'Amour
Ambre Rose... 6.00
Assorted Best... 9.75
Round.. 2.25
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
Hongkong Dispersary.
TELEPHONE CINTRAL 16.
&
Hongkong Office: 101, De Vour Rd., O. London Office: 133, Fleet Street, BO
The Daily Press.
Hoxanoso, JULY 3DD, 1923.
carried out. Opium appears
to Hongkong, being shipmates on the trip of China, including all loans unsecured on with dileek cargo of pigs. He confesses of which the security seems likely to prove he was a novice a big game, but indequate in the near future with n sportsman who could not get some notice slow to formulating a comprehensive ment, not to say delirious excitement, in scheme for debt consolidation by the the foothills of the mountains of Anneni
Consortium*. would indeed be hard to please."
which
grown in Chian at the present time on tion, so as to provide for parcels contain-
Post
Ofer that
very extensive scale, and if it is bringing firearms being delivered by parcels in acouraging the utilisation of native ing no revenue to the Central Government Post against production of Governmental savings before having recourse to fortugu of China-it cannot be denied that it is permit (if necessary). They state they capital, and arresting the profligate ex- proving a highly profitable source of are now pleased to have received panditure which was heading the country income to the officials in the opium-grownication from the Secretary of the
"parcels reataining straight for bankruptcy ing provinces, where there is no secret about the taxation of the drug. In the arms sent to China will be delivered on FINANCIAL PENETRATION OF CHINA production by the importer of a permit.
DENIED. circumstances the proposal to fix a
The Consortium claim to have cuded the maximal Umit for the amount of prepared from the Chinese Gaverument, and that opium to be placed on sule, and to revise amendment to this effect will be made financial penetration of China, and they the maximal limit periodically with the the next edition of the Post Office, assert that they are the chief barrier bend
aim of further reducing it, appears to he not a practical policy in a place like Hong- kong. The object in view would be better served by an international agreement upon a uniform selling price, but there must always be a doubt es to whether any pledge in the matter given by China would be effectively enforced,
Sir William and Lady Brunyale left yesterday for the North by the P. & O. steamer Khira,
We understand that the statement published by an evening contemporary that the now Kowloon Hotel has been taken over by Mrs. Ogilvie is, to the say the least, premature.
Capt. Ross of the ss. Tur Tiny To reported to the Harbour Offies on Satur day that during the voyage of the vessel to Hongkong the ship's carpenter fell
overboard and was drowned.
Guide. It is presumed the relaxation of the former regulation applies to some China and a policy of interest. !! ·
They also declare that China to-day pre other countries as well as China.
sents by far the largest undeveloped seld Bishop Brent, ·formerly of the for commercial expansion, and believe Philippini, but Bishop of Westra.
that undesirable results would follow the New York, made statement at the recent arssiou of the Opium Comunission removal of the restraint exercised by the x Geneva, in regard to the situation in Consortium's co-operative action. the Philippine Islands, When the Emphasis is laid on the point that the American occupied the Philippines in Consortium's settled policy is to refrain 160 there were he said, nearly 7000 from interference with China's integral Chinese in the islands out of a total
population of 7,500,000. The American politics, their role being limited to a Government decided at once to reduce the endeavour to assist the Chinn Author: importation and consumption of opium ities, if requested, in re-establishing the These measures, have had earllent results economic and financial equilibrium. as shown by the importation figures.
The report denies that the project of a From 1000 to 1103'a total of 986,882lb. of opium was imported into the Philippines loun, secured on the Land Tax, has bren to a total value of $1,103,112 (£280,000), or is under consideration. From 1915-1921 the importation reached a THE QUESTION OF FURTHER LOANS. total of only 9,214lb., with a value of
TO CHINA, $25,200 (25,000), although during the last twenty years the population has increased
The present upheaval in China pre-
by nearly 2,000,000. The Dutch delegate eludes any immediate hope of giving expressed the opinion that the immenso practical effect to the proposals for uit. quantity of opium seized in the Philippines administrative loan, but conditions make it probable that much of the
The Victoria Recreation Club's next Night Swimming Fete will be held en Friday next, July 8th, wet or fine. The smugged opium actually arrived at its 1.80 rapidly that the groups must
destination. Some stir was created as be prepared for action when China r the sitting when Sir John Campbell attains stich a degree of peace and representing India, drew attention to
A NEW OPIUM SYSTEM FOR Brunswick Studio Band will be in
HONGKONG?
attendance.Apvt.
FULL reports are now to hand of the The Late Sir Charles James Tarring figures in the report showing that while security as would afford a reasonab discussion which took place at the meeting of Arkwright road, Hampstead, formerly India in 1920 exported 8,000 kilos, of raw prospect for stable government; but in of the Oping Commission of the League professor of Law in the Imperial opium to Formosa, 88,000 kilos roached dustrial, including railway loans, aru in of Nations at Geneva in May. A para- University of Japan, later Judge of the Formosa from the United States. Bishop a different category, and provided ade. Kruph in the report of particular interest British Consular Court at Constantiuple, to this Colony reads:
and Chief Justice of Grenada who died The English proposal regarding the Far recently at the age of 77 leit estate worth East was that the interested Powers shall £1,595. agree to fix a uniforma maximum limit for the amount of prepared opium to be
The April number of La Géographie,} placed on sale for consumption, and the official journal of the Société de revise the maximal limit periodically, with
the aim of further reducing it. The Géographie, Paris gives an interesting British delegate declared his country's account of General Sir George Pereira's willingness to adopt such a system for Hongkong, and the Dutch delegate, Miurnoy to Lhasa. The journey co- VAS WETT said, Roland in soudy to moucal in January, 1991 and lasted for acerpt the British suggestion."
close on two year, during which, time over
Brent brought a reply to a later session, quate security can be obtained, there when he admitted the figures, but said that since the Jones Miller Act came into seems no reason why the further develo
ment of railway communication, în China, force last year narcotics were no longer allowed to go through.
should await a solution of the adminis.. trative problem.
ITALY AND CHINA
MUSSOLINI'S VIEWS.
The report emphasises the fact that the reorganisation of China's finances must come from China herself. Some measure of supervision will be necessary, but there THE Property consists of First ALL THAT piece or parcel of ground situate
will be the minimum of control required at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and
The Diplomatic Correspondent of the to provide adequate security, without registered in the Land Office as SECTION A of INLAND LOT No. 3188 together with We do not know whether the Colonia 7,000 miles was traversed by the General Daily Telegraph last month wrote that which it would be impossible to issue a
thereo the mesatingos erection OF
Government was consulted before the and his party. Although brief, this Signor Mussolini inclines to the American foreign loan. now known as No.18,
and Commission was informed of Great record of General Foreira's long trek view on the subject of the Chinese bandits, The Consortium's policy is to assist in Secondly ALL THAT strip of land at the rea of the said Section A of Inland Lot No. 9168 Britain's willingness to adopt such gives the render a very good idea of what that the Powers would do well to assert building up the general credit of China, having arrived from the above Put being a scavenging lane. All of which pre system for Hongkong. The pledge is the trip involved, and some of the most themselves by military action, il rosson such secure foundations that all oute Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed
beld for the residue of
the term of
against the authors of the outrages upon that their goods are being landed at their miss are
75 years from the 15th day of certainly in conflict with the pronounce exciting incidents on the way.
their nationals. rented by the Crown Lease thereof together ments of the Hongkong Government on
THE Steamship
risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and
All broken, chapore
and expense. ***
Pring
For wer Stee
th the valuable machinery now situate in the subject, and in conflict also with the It is stated in the Americas papers the at Consignees or upon the said premises muy at No.
Gordon Street a
Note which Sir MALE DELEVINGNE international polios chiefs convention in
and damaged goods
are to be left in the godowns whe
where ther will be
e exsuined
Particulars and Conditions of sale may be (representing the British Home Office) New York learned a new method of
on Tuesday, 3rd July, at bined fro
after
All claims must be presented within fifteen
of the steamer's arrival. here, DAYS which date they cannot be recognized.
No claims will be abmitted after the goods. have left the Clodowns, and all Goods undelivered after the 4th July wal be jeat to r
ront. Consignees of
are hereby notified Cargo that they must produce an Import permit gned by the Superintendent of Imports & Esporte, Hongkong, before. Bills of Ending
en be countersigned.
No Fire Tasurances been effected.
Bill of Lading well he countersigned by
FURNESS (PAR EAST) LTD.. St. George's Building.
Hongkong, th June, 1923.
*MARITI. HASTINGS & HASTINGS
-Bolicitors, B. Dos Toruz Road Central,
fand M6879. LAMMERT BROTHERS
· Auctioneers 20
HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS SHARE AND REAL ESTATE CO.
SHARE AND LAND BOXES,
No. 8, Der Van Road, 2nd Floor
Telephone No. 0.4308.
CHINA,
side intervention may be gradually eliminated, and then the entire control of loan service sau expenditure "would, The Foreign Affairs Committee of the gradually pass into the hands of China presented to the Commission concerning ret communication from Wang Gu Sejm has passed a motion demanding that herself. the legitimate requirements of opium in Pang, Chief Inspector of Kiangsu, China.the Polish Government should take vigor-
Danzig. Hongkong" to explain the Government's The system consists of movements of the ous steps to assert Poin rights in THE SEPARATIST MOVEMENT IN
oyebrows, eyes, mouth and handa, which { "na proposal to increase imports. The Note form a code that enables to detectives According to Mr. Samuel Gompers,
PEKING, July 1 stated that the geographical position of
to communicate during the examination European Labour unions must droge
The separatist movement in Parliament “Ismg"" dogines, which have no proper the colony made it virtually impossible to of a prisoner, in the midst of a mob, or place in the trade union movement, if appears to be strengthening, and it is provent smuggling from the mainland, at other times when secret polico com they wish to co-operate with American group of members of Parliament departed reported that Chu Fu Cheng and a and that if Government supplies were munication may be valuable. It was Labour.
for Tientsin on Thursday en route for the quarters of the Hupel Guild, for Shanghai, where they propose to establish the casembly and registration of membera
now
restricted extensive smuggling would suggested, after Mr. Wang had explained According to a message from Allah sult. Experience has proved this. It his system of signals, that the code he bad, the best type of Indian holding the has liten, of course, the him of the used be translated into English and King'e Commision is the most reluctant of Parliament. Government since it instituted the foreign languages and sent to all polio the rank and file of a cavalry regiment to accept transfor to Indianised, unite and Opium Monopoly in 1914 to reduce the departments of the world for use in hare actually signed a round-robin peti have issued & manifesto calling on their
tioning against Indianimation.. supplies and to finally put an end to the handling certain situations.
The members who are still at Tientsin-
colleagues to join them.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.