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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HUBERT JOHN CORBON (DECEASED).

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEŃ that all

Persons Inving Claims against the Estate of the above-named Deceased, who hid at Hueso on August 18th, 1923, are hereby required to send particulurs of such Claim to the Undersigned on or before OCTOBER 10th, 1923. after which Date the Assets will be distributed having regard only to Claims of which Notice shall have then been given. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ull Persous indebted to the sunl Estate ure uired to make Immediate Fayment to the Undersigned,

W. A. ALEXANDER,

Registrar

H.B.M. Consulate-Gearral,

Canton, September 6th, 194

INTIMATIONS

THE

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

THE Offices of the "HONGKONG DAILY

PRESS bave been removed to 14, CHATER ROAD (3rd floor), to which Address all Correspondence should be directed.

Hongkong, 16th July, 1990.

NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mr.

WONG IK CHUNG is been duly authorised by the Board of Directors of the HAY HING KNITTING CO., LTD., to act as Manager of the Company during the absince

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH. 1923,

INTIMATIONS

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty centa (60 cents) per Share has been declared for the Half-year ending 30th June,

1993,

Such Interim Dividend will be payable on and after TUESDAY, the 18th SEPTEMBER, at the offices at the Company, where Share holders are requested to apply for Warruits,

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th September, 1923, until the 1811: (both days inclusive), de la September, 1023

period no

Fot Me WONG KAM FUK," the Manngor Transfer of Shares can be rector,

thereof.

[1.29

1963}

KOWLOON URICKET CLUB.

** AT - HOME"

SATURDAY, 15ru SEPTEMBER 1923..

CRICKET Anel TENNIS 'PRIZES for the Past Season will be prezental by Ms. B. E. LINDSELL,

sul Recipients are specially asked to attend, A BAND WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE

AR AMERICAN TENNIS TOURNA MENT (Geats and Misel Donbew) will Le hell in the AFTERNOON, commencing at 2.30 precisely and the attention of Intending_Com- petitors is drawn to Entry List in Chun Horse which CLUSES on WEDNESDAY, 19ru |

P. HEATHCOTE,

Hon. Secretary, Kowlou, 8th September, 1923.

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

(1900

THE THIRD YEARLY DRAWING THE

TWENTY DEBENTURES.of the HONGKONG CLum (1920-$500 ruch) was Tel in the CLUB HOUSE on SATURDAY, the ST SEPTEMBER, 1923, when the fallow ing Debenture wer dmwit for redemptions

#15

14

313

336

144

#18

104

170

238

454

6-8

124

281

48 -756 403

ANS

199

Nor

KAM HING KNITTING CO., LTD.

Per WONG KAY FUK,

Maanger.

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO. LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

By Order of the Board of

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong, 29th August, 1923, [1926

D

G

R

PUBLIC AUCTION,

designed have received instructions

PUBLIC AUCTION.

to sell by

numbered 35303 to $331 Certificate No: 311 THE for 25 Shares numbered 390851 to 99873; azıų Certificate No. 4820 for 9 Shares numbered

to

2410 all

registeral in the Name of GEORGE HOYES have been LOST or

PADR

TROYED and whankl thess Certificates not be produced to the Company before the 15ru DAY or SEPTEMBER. 1923, New Certificates for the said Shares, will be issued and the old Certificates will thereafter be held by the Company as Wall and Fold,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General MangYIN. Hongkong, 15th August, 1993. [1173

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. MATRICULATION SENTOR LOCAL AND JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS

NOTICE: HEREBY GIVEN that the MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19th, 19ed. Forms, of entry and copies of Regulations Syllabus can be btained on application to the Registrar. Each Fatry form, duly filial in. unst reach the gistrar together it the patatury Ives or before the 15th SEPTEMBER as follows

Matriculation, un Senior Tees Examina

Tion

S.K. Corrency. Junier Local Examina-

above Examinations will begin

tion

SHE. Carrency. Candidates offering more than seven_sub- jects in the Matriculation and Senior Local Examinations, and more than eight in the Junior Local Examination, will enargel an exitional fee of $1. for each subject sp offered. The following Scholarships at Prizes, fur ther partieniars

can be cltained from of which can the Registrar, will be awarded on the result

Examination: Matriculation

and will be Payable at the HONGKONAN SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION OR SATU DAY. the TH SEPTEMBER. 1993, in change fur surrender of same.

By Order

A. H. ABBAS.

Secretary. [1291

Hongkong, &th September, 1923.

RUGGER.

A MEETING will be held in the Host-

KONG

CRICKET CLUB PAVILION, on

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1923, at $.15 2. All Persons interested in Rugby

Football are requested to be present

[1270

THE SANDAKAN LIGHT & POWER

CO. (1999). LTD.

THE

THE FIRST ORDINARY GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS MEETING of will be held at the Ofen of the Company, ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD. Victorin Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 18TH SEPTEM. BER, 1993, at 11 O'CLOCK in the FORENOON. for the Parpe uf receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the Year enslet 30th April, 1923, athl

leeting & Consulting Committee and Awlitor

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Tuesday, the 11th September, 1923, until Tuesday, the 19th Sep tember, 1943, both days inclusiva.

SHEWAN, TOMES & ÇO..

General Managers. Hongkong, 8th September, 1923, [1281

PROVINCIA DE MACAU,

DIRECÇÃO DOS SERVIÇOS DE FAZENIJA.

3:

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the TPUBLIC BALY Ne Property knows an SUN-FA-IN, either in One Lot or in Lots, will take place, in the Macau EXCHEQUER DEPARTMENT, on the Sru OF OCTOBER NEXT, at 3 P.3.

The Up Price for the Property in $73.000.00. being as follows:

Lot No. 1

*** ***

...$42,754.20. 25.131.00. 11.796.40. ... 10.717.30.

-$75,000.00.

The Sule Conditions and Photographs of the Lots may beseen in the Consulates for Portugal: in Shanghai, Hongkong sul Canton,

Exchequer Department of the Province of Macau, 8th August, 1923.

12951

ANTONIO MEIRELES E VASCONCELOS,

Chief of the Exchequer Department,

HONGKONG

VOLUNTEER DEFENCE" CORPS.

PROMENADE

CONCERT.

SATURDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER,

*

9.13 P.X.

「

of the

(1) - Two

(2)

King

Elwant VII Scholarshipm. 19Ě

the value of £40 per nanum open to British subjects oals.

One

President of China Scholarship of

the value

Chinese 400 per annua: open to

subjects only.

(3) One Hourkong Government Scholar-

ship of the value of £1,000

to

to Candidates from all Hongkong

For Boys.

Schools for t

On

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY,

the 11th, 19th and 18th, September, 1923, at H.M. NAVAL YARD, Hongkong: and at Kowtoos NAVAL DEPOT," commencing cath-day at 9.30 an within an interval from 12 Noox to 130 P.. OLD and SURPLUS

Comp STORES,

&C...

الا

Life Boats, Dingies, Whalers. Electrical and Wirclear Telegraphy Fittings Electric Cable. Cooking StoreN,

Fittings, Iron Feds, Mattresses and

Jackets and Belts Life Rafts, Life

Rug

Mints, Table

Covers, Blankets. Curtains, Canvas. Endia and Metallic Hoses, Old Cordage. Rabler Canvas Bags, Old India Rubber, Old Leather. Old Woollen and Linen Rags, Old Asbestos, Co Cork, Oll Iron and Steel. Old Bruss, Lead and Gun Metal. Copper and Brass Tubes, Conl Sacks, Wood, Iron and Ga

Old

INTIMATION

E

WHISKY

The Old Favourite.

Old

A Fine Blend

of

Scotch

in the Far East were small, when every Owing to the inclemency of the wea foreign resident and his financial stand-ther, the open-air concert, arranged to ing were known to everybody else, and take place on Saturday night at the he was freely allowed credit by the trader Kowloon Cricket Club in aid of the -whether for beer, wines, tobacco, | Japanese Relief Fund, was postponed in- clothing or anything else to whatever definitely. extent the trailer deemed to be prudent. Necessity, presumably, was the mother of the invention of the whit. It came into

on

The vernacular Press of Canton reports

Sir William Brunyate, Vice-Chancellor of the Hongkong University, and Lay use in days when money was not.chtain Brungate, who have been on a holiday to able in the East in such a convenient Japan, returned to the Colony on the form as dollaç notes and subsidiary coin, | President", Pâncola, “which arrived and there was, therefore, much to recom. | Friday lust, mend the aystem" in many ways for general adoption. No doubt, the system has been, at times, greatly alnused, but there has been no general demand for its abolition in Hongkong. fa Shanghai, we understand, they have largely grown out of the "ola custon Tradesmen there have come to require à substantial dement of the extent of three million

delats, posit from persons who obtain goods on credit, and pay their hills monthly. It is

that a court martial has sentenced to Director of the Provincial Bank of dhath T. T. Cheng, former Managing

Kwangtung and Commissioner of Finance who and lava found guilty of embezzle-

4

Our Canton contemporary states that -a departure from ola cuatona" lought | air attempt was made by about 100- about, not by grandmotherly legislation. indits inst Tuesday afternoon at but at the discrétion of the traders them- o'clock to hemb the Canton-Kowloon Rail selves. They have apparently learnt lig

way in the vicinity of Namkong. bitter experience that "the larger com-

Bizb

Whiskies unity of to-day is not so free of fortunately soms of General Li-Fook

is now being bottled

at Leith, Scotland

By

-

Metal Blocks, Lamps, Ganges, Stud Tubes; Messrs. Macdonald & Muir standing every month represented by the Old Steel Wire Hop, Mineral Oil. Cable, Drilling, Slotting and Grinding Machines, Lathes, Pincace and CutterEngines. Tables, Compasses, Clocks, Iron Drums, Fold up Lavatories. Oal Packing Casse. Packing Boards, Old Casks, and a large quantity of Fire Bar Iron, etc.

Lots may be inspected on Monday, the •

10th September. 1923,

AlsoSALE ofOld and Surplas Victualling Stores at Kowloon on FRIDAY, 14th September. Comprising:

and a Label to that

effect is affixed to the

back of each bottle.

Unserviceable Provisions. Rabbit. Raisins. A. S. WATSON

Clothing and Mess Gear.

Terms of Sale-As detailed in Catalogue..

. HUGHES & HOUGH, By Appointment Auctioneers to the

Admiralty. Hongkong, August, 1923.

(1917

anos 8.S. COMMISYAIRE FIERRE LECOCQ.

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DESŤ MESSAGERIES MÄRITIMES.

(4) One Honekong Government Scholar

slip

of the value of $1,000 per anum, to Candidates from all Hongkung open School for Girl

(5) Four Montargis French Prizes, two of

$30 and two of 323. - Bound copies

of Esandvation Papers, set at as: Examinations can be obtained from the Registrar, Price $1.00, per set.

JOHN T. HOLMAN,

Acting Registrar. Hongkong, 6th, September, 1923.

[1278

RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE. "GOUVERNEMENT GÉNÉRAL DE

L'INDO-CHINE

APPEL D'OFFRES (LOCATION)

E GOUVERNEMENT GENERAL de LINDO-CHINE française recevra des offres de l'humeuble qu'il possède à Shameen- Canton (ancien Bateau des Fostes), com prenant;

1-Un vaste bâtiment à étage situé sur le à l'intersection de Ia rivière de Canton at du canal qui sépare la Concession française de la cité chinoise, composé na rez de chaussée de sept pieces bout mas de 15 acres strassid de et à étage de sept pieces, d'un office et d'an Cabinet a toilette

8.-des dépendences composées; au rez-de- chaussée do 2 cuisines et de 3 petites chambres; au premier étage de 3 chambres de boy;

Les offres de location seront reçues au Sonsalat de France à Canton jusqu'au 20 Septembre à 5 henres de l'après-midi.

Canton, le 9 Août 1923. LE CONSUL DE FRANCE,

G. GOUBULT.

1106]

REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, GOUVERNEMENT GÉNÉRAL DE PINDO-CHINE FRANÇAISE

APPEL D'OFFRES.

** (ACHAT):

E GOUVERNEMENT GÉNÉRAL de INDOCHINE FRANÇAISE C des offres d'achat de l'immeuble qu'il poseedo

Saneca - Canton

(anden

uureau den Postes), comprenant:

1-un yuste latiment à étage situé sur le quai, à l'intersection de la rivire de Canton et du canal qui Sépart la concession française do la cité chinoise comrore an rez-de-chaussée de sept plices dont ce de 15 matres sur 7 mètres sept puis, d'us office et doun

calinge

de

toiletto:

2. des dépendances composées au rez-de- chaussée de 2 cuisines et de 3 petites chambres, au a promier stage de 3 chambres də bayi,

terrals sur lequel sont édifiés, cel hatiment of era dépendances, d'une superficie de 881 mètres carrés environ, inscrit sous le No.6

16 du plan cadastral, le dit terrain ditenin 1

3

NOTICE

MONSIGNEES of Cargo from ANTWERP

CONMIDDLESBROUCH, in connectin

with above Steamer are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Trea. sure and Valuables are being landed and stored

CO..

LTD.,

Wine & Spirit Merchants.

ter,

ESTABLISHED 1841.

BINTH.

(129)

at their risks into the Codorus of the Hong-WATTOS-HL-At Shanghai, on Sept.

ag-Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., kong- Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on dnless intimation is received from the Consignees before Nook, TO-DAY, requesting it to be landed here:

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after the 11th September, 1933, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All claims must be sent in to ms on or not be recognized. before the 16th September, 1923, or they will

Tuesday, the 11th September, 1923, at 10 | All damaged packages will be examined on am, by Mesara, Goddard & Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

R. RODENTUSER;-

Acting Agent Hongkong, 5th September, 1923.

[1207

"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COS STEAMER

“KARMALA,"

ARRIVED HONGKONG ON SIH SEPTEMBER, 1923. FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORTSAID ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-

+

»

Hongkong. Office: 1, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, EC

The Daily Press.

Lum's soldiers learned of their attempt and dispersed them after 'a' akirmish lasting ten minutes.

Leang Wa Po, compradore and part owner of the steamship Foan.On was charged at the Magistracy, on Saturday, before Mr. J: R. Wood, with having in his unlawful possession and in the alter- native, with importing 1.140 1y of opium. from Kwang Chow Wan. Mr G. K. Fall Brutton appeared to defend and the~?

was remanded for one-week, the- defendant, being allowed bail of $25,000.

ex

AUGUSTS RECORD RAINFALL.

honest persons as was the smaller con. munity of some years ago, so their motto is, *' cash in advance," Wo do not know how this system would work in Hong kong in the case of habitual patrons of the hotels. HE The Goverson argued that the existence of the whit system made for the higher cost of liquors sold in hotels.

It is of course, reasonable supposition that the hotel-keeper does not bear the losses incurred through persons failing to pay their chits, nor does he hene the loss of interest on the money out-

ehits he has taken. That risk is covered in the selling price of liquors. Every tradesman who gives credit to his cus tumers incurs the same risks, of course, and covers the risk no doubt in a similar way, but on the other hand we have not heard that the existence of this clause in the Liquors Ordinance during the past five years has operated tu reduce the price of drinks, nor, we understand, has August, The next highest was 30.06 inches. in 1911. The greatest fall in one day, the introduction of the deposit system in

7.4ss fiches, was exceeded in 1902, 1904-nnst - the stores at Shanghai resulted in any 1911. The greatest fall in one hour, 1.38% appreciable reduction in "the pricesses, has been exceeded on several ocça- charged to the consumer, though it mani- fostly ought to do so. So far as the Hongkong Hotel is concerned, we had it in the debate on Thursday on the author ity of the Hon. Mr. HoLYOAK, who is a Director of the Hotel, that the Hotel has not suffered at all in its revenue from the existence of the enactment, and that the practice of the hotel is to "posi-the mouth was $1.2, the highest being 92.0, The average mean temperature during

lossus 011 chits

IN HONGKONG.

The meteorological Observations made nu the Royal Observatory during the month of show a total rainfall, 31.31 inches. This, it is stated, in the greatest on record for

sinns

The rainfall för August at the Botanical Gardeus was 33.18 inches on 20 day at the Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellett, it was.

25.08 inches un 20 days, and at the Polico -Station,

Tuipo, it was 42,08 inches on 14° days.

་་

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE RAISING OF THE SUBMARINEL

[TO THE EDITOR OF “THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

SIR-1 consider that Interested.

DINSDALE-On the sth September, to Mr.tively and absolutely refuse to give ere-

and, Mrs. F. A. Dissbate, a daugh- dit for more than 25 to any junior of the 4th, and the lowest 75.7, on the 16th.

MARRIAGE.

any accredited firm in this place. This There was 159.3 hours of sunshine and the is ordinary prudence such as we should average humidity was 84. Ord. VICTOR HARVEY WILLIS WATOs, expect of the management of any hotel. youngest son of the late Capt." and Although when the Bill was introduced Mrs. WATTON, of Hongkong, to five years ago the Colonial Secretary NINA HILL step-daughter of Mr. and produced from a hotel at North Point is MS. FRANK VID

bagful of chits, totalling in face value.) sonic three thousand dollars, we under stand that the Hongkong lutei Cu's were inconsideral:le, and we suppose that must have been· the ene with the King Edward Hotel and the other hotels who objected to Guvern. made an extremely good and practical meat interference with the internal man- suggestion in his letter on the subject of agement of their business. The speakers the raising of "Lu." I have watched who opposed the repeal of the clause did from the Praya the efforts of the Naval not advanec a single bit of proof that it men to do the job and it appears to m bad served any good public purpose, and that they achieve the minimum of result THE "chit system' is one of the vener

it atands therefore on the statute book with the maximum of effort, neglecting ated "olo customs" of the Far East, and of the Colony as a piece of grandmotherly entirely the simple means that Naturs the discussion which took place at the legislation which in its operation is more provides. Why is full use never made of

vexatious than useful. We can only hope the practical man's experience? I Legislative Council on Thursday on a motion to repeal a clause in the Liquors able should be concentrated by our police to take over the job. Yours faithfully,

that the attention which it is highly desir-gest that "Interested" should be asked Ordinance of, 1017 which made the ten-

HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 10m, 1953.

GRANDMOTHERLY LEGIS- LATION.

dering and Receptance of chits for liquor force on the detection and prevention of supplied in hotels a criminal offence, has serious crime will not be dissipated or Leen read by the, "general public with the possibly more attractive business of

BUKT

PRACTICAL MAN.

named vessel am hereby informed mu intereat. They derive no little getting prosecutions under the Liquor FAR EASTERN CABLE that their Goods are being landed, and listent from the fact that, although Ordinances for the criminal offence of Hoodoo & What do kong and H. The Govenson gave to the Official paying and accepting chits. Howloon Wharf" and Godown Company's

Godown at Kowloon, where each consignment Members of the Counsif freedom to vote will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery according to their own personal opinious. can be obtained "as the Goods are landed.

1 goods

The Kowloon Cricket Club"At Home" will be landed here unless the voting showed a remarkable an instructions have been given to the contrary animity of opinion on the part of the is advertised for Saturday, September

before arrival of the steamer.

ir

Goods not cleared within 8 days, including Official Members in agreement with the 19th, date of arrival will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any one haterer.

Damaged packages must be left in the Godowas for casmination by the Consignons, and the Company's Surveyors, Moars. GODDARD & Dovalis, at 10 AM, on Mondaya... and Thursdays

All Oltims must be presented within ten days they cannot be admitted after the Goods of the Steamer's arrival here, after which date

"have left the Godawn.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Hongkong, 8th September, 1923,

Agents,

[1208

personal views expressed in the course

of the debate by Iis. Excellenes. We lind

A promenade concert under the aus

on the one, hand a united vote by the pices of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Unofficial Members of the Commeil in Corps is autounced for Saturday, Sept. favour of the repeal of the legislative

15th.

" enactment, and on the other side were

It was apparently sta

NEWS.

THROUGH RECTEX'S AGENCY.")

FATHER MELOTTO BRUTALLY:

DONE TO DEA

* PZATE. "BANDIT CHIEF SHOOTS HIM IN THE STOMACH

HANKOW, September 7th

Father Melotto: died, yesterday.'

It is understood that the bandit chief:

the Official Members unanimously voting Observatory yesterday in Lat. 90 N release was effected.

A typhoon was announced by the Liu shot him in the stomach before bis.

the Liquors Ordinance of 1917 remains against its repeal. Thus the cinuse. in

Long. 123 E in force, and it is the intention of the Lionary. authorities, apparently, to rigorously enforce the law,

Most of the residents in Sai Ho Street,

It is perfectly true that it is, or has Canton, got up on Wednesday morning

A CURE FOR DENGUE,

An announcement regarding the preven tion and cure of dengue fever may shortly

par le Gouvernement Général de l'Indochine en HONGKONG WEEKLY been, a peculiarity of the East; that a man / and: found that their front doors, wore be expected as experiment, are. in pro-a

ortu d'on lail emphyteotique qui proudră fiu ·

le 23 Juin 1088

Les offres d'achat, aaront reçues au Consulat de France i Canton jusqu'au Septembre 1923 à 5 konres de l'après-midi. BRZEGUEND A MAN HELE CONSUL DE FEANCE,

Craton, le 8 Août 1923."

*roceeds of Sals of Tickets will be siluetei to Japanese Relief Fund,"

PRESS.

CONTAINING ALL THE WEEKS-"

LOCAL HEWB; DR

The Paper to send Home:

could go into a hotel and order drinks for stolen, says the Canton Jaily News. The himself and his friends and sign a chit for thieves were very skilful in their work the amount, to be collected from his of Although, doors were, taken down and the end. of the month. It in reliv of carried away, yet none of the residents the times when the foreign communities nor the police there were aroused. qca

gress at the Calcutta School of Tropicat Medicine which are likely to yield a very satisfactory result, The dengue epidemic has been particularly sovers this year in business owing to the absence of members Calcutta, causing much dislocation of

of thevasfr of the oflicos, sietu, ba, 63),