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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY OUTÖREL

DOBBIE, MINNES & CLYDE,

NAUTICAL SPECIALTIES.

SHIPS' COMPASSES.

SOUNDING MACHINES.

CHRONOMETERS.

CLOCKS.

BAROMETERS.

TELESCOPES, Etc.

STEAM ENGINE

INDICATORS.

& SPARES.

PRESSURE & VACUUM GAUGES.

AGENTS:

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

TEL. 1741.

PAIN IN TEIR ACH,

Cila, Chaluru Bichuk;

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THE COLONIAL BUDGET. (Continued from page 7.)

The gravity portion of the scheme should give a supply of 11 million gallons a day throughout the driest recorded period, and the pumping reservoirs will wild, another

million gallous a day..

Every effort will be made to press an with this work, and it is hoped that, given favourable conditions, it will be possible to bring the first water to Hongkong in the spring of 1927.

T

INTIMATIONE

STE, 1999.

- NOTICE OF REMOVAL -

PRESS have been moved to L THE Offices of the HONGKONG DAILY CHATEK ROAD (3rd floor), to which Address .

Correspondence should be directed. Hongkong, 18th July, 1993

ALE of HAND-KNITTED WOOLLEN GOODS at HELENA MAY INSTITUTE on FRIDAY, the Szu OCTOBER-

10A.M. to 12.30 NOON,

3 r. to 5.M.

On behalf of the Hour FOR THE BLIND" at Kowloon.

SS, "SONGHOL."

It is impossible from available informa tion to give suy accurate estimate of cost for the complete scheme, but on the basis of the existing supplies, which have work. ed out at approximately one million dol Jars for each million gallons a day avail

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGELS. able, the price will be at least 317,000,000.

and invited up to the SIXTH Whatever the same may proves to be, I am m

TENDERS

DAY OF OCTOBER, 1823, for the sure that Honem rahla. Members will agree. that no price is too big to pay for the purchase of the above namel vessel with Engines and Boilers and various Amillary assurance of a really adequate water sup Machinery on board." ply for many years to come,

To return; now, to the financial situa tion as a whole! If the Estimates Revenge are not exceeded and if the Pub He Works Department are able to expend the full amount yoted, we may expect to the year 1941 with a defen of some 3 million dollars. Dar balances are ample to meet any possible call upon them, and the longer 1 live in this Colony the more firmly am I convinced of the wisdom of the policy of expending on works of development as large sums s adequately employed during the year.

Call be

It is, however, extremely ditieult in. present circumstances to estimate revenue with any approach to necuracy, since so large a portion of it is derived from two sources-Opium and Land Sales-and the those probabilities of revenue' from sourersalepend to a very great extent un circumstances outside our control

THE OPIUM REVENUE." In the case of opium, we have estimated That is the the revenue at 3,500,000. same figure as was taken for the esti

Permits to view may be obtained on applica- tion to the Undersigned.

Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit of 8530 winable after decision on the Tenders has been reached.

The Vessel was formerly known the 3.8. HONGKONG" and previously as the as. "ORIENTAL"

PARTICULARS.

Port of Register--Haiphong.

A Single Screw Steel Stesmer of I. H.P.65,000 fitted with internal Electric Lighting, Length overall between Perpendi

→ Rrendth

Depth....

Draft fully laden...

Grosa Tonnage

Nett Cargo

Cubic feet *** Where

BUILT { When

cular...410′3′′

...43*.

TA

Lav

...23

...3,085

127,850

Grownocta

500

.. 1898 By Whom ...Cainl & Co. Bunker Capacity...Main Bunker Tons 847

Spare Engines and Boilers made by...Cain & Co. ...140 First Cabin accommodation ...

618 Tween Deck accommodation.... The Ship is to be Sold with all Life-boats, Life-preservera and Lifebuopa, Deck Stores, Engine Room Stores, Commissary, Equipment, Glassware, Cabin Fittings, Mattresses,

mates of the current year, during which. Silverwallows, and Linen, as they now are

however, a very much larger sum will be received.

on board the vessel.

All Tenderers shall be deemed to have inspected the Ship && the Purchaser will take the Ship her Tackle Apparel and Furniture and with all faults in the Condition in which they

Whether our experience in 1924 will be the same is a matter of surmise. It depends not on economic but on political conditions external to this Colony. For lie at the time the Contract for Sale is entered

The Vendors shall not be honed to accept the highest or any Tender

Tenders will he received at the Office of the Codersign Prince's Huildings, Hongkong, up to the SIXT DAY OF CTOBER, 192,

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

icit rs for the Mortgages.

1357"

PUBLIC AUCTION.

a long time past it has been recognised into

Any Error Misstatements or Mi-description that the Colony must make up its mind) to lose eventually any income from opium, of Particulars shall not vitiate any Sale made and side by side with its efforts to reduce in purustee of any Tender receivel hareunder. consumption-efforts which, it must be or entitle the Parchaser to compensation.

The Vendors shall noti

tieconcerned to see to admitted, have not been attended with the Registration of the Ship but will at the cost. very great success--the Government of the Torchaser execute an Mortgages a Bill taken steps for the gradual substitution of Sale in favour of the Tuchamer. of other sources of revenue by broaden ing the basis of taxation and increasing taxation in various directions; as, for in stance by the introduction of a-tax on toluces and the imposition of new and higber stamp duties; with the results that during the last year or two the Colony's revenue has exceeded its immediate needs, aud; although Hongkong is prob ably as lightly taxed as any place in the world, we are today in a position in which we could face the loss of all revenue from opium without becoming in- volved in serious financial difficulties.

DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of The questions at once urise of when we re Sale by Public Auction to be 9th day ofl may expect revenue from this source to

held on TUESDAY, the cease and why we do not, since we can afford to do so, dispense with it at once. October, 1923, at 3 ...at the Offices of the Public Works Departments by Order of His hy closing down the opium department. ELLENCE THE GATTINOS. of one Lot of The answer to both these questions is CROWN LAND. at Pokfulam Road in the the same. It depends upon China. We Colony of Hongkong, for term of 75 could abolish our opium monopoly at once years, with the option of renewal at a Crown and prohibit the use of opium, but wo Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of Ri could not under present conditions stop MAESTY THE KING, for one farther term of oplum-smoking. Even now, although we 75 year, provide for the reanirements of opium- smokers by enabling them to purchase the Government manufactured drug, though, admittedly at a price which makes exces sive smoking impossible to any but. a rich man, and although we do our utmost hy maintaining a costly preventive forec for: and giving handsome rewards seizures, to prevent the introduction of opium from outside the Colony, énormous quantities of smuggled opium are con tinually being found here. If the legiti mate supply were withdrawn it is certain that illicit supplies would take its place. We might, perhaps, be able to deal effectually with opium from India and Persia, especially if the efforts of the League of Nations are directed to the! reduction of cultivation of the poppy in those countries, but we cannot so dent with the opium which is being produced in China in such enormous quantities that it can be sold here at a mere fraction of the price which we charged for Govern- ment opium.

Rural Bulking

| Boglitzy No.

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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Locality-

· Boundary WaaMPDENTS

Contents

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**Upnet Price.

and jo janany.

As per sie pla

1.000 120

11370

·PUBLIC AUCTION,

purchased,

PHE Undersigned hire received instructions

put up for Sale by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THURSDAY,

the 11th day of October, 1923, at 3 pm

at the AuctioN BOOMB of Men LAMMERT BROTHERS, At No. 3, DunDELL STREET.

The following Property:-

The rigorous methods of search which we already employ and the severe punish- ments which we inflict have not proved adequate to prevent smuggling even when the opium-smoker can satisfy his desires by legitimate purchase. If it became. n. estion of using smuggled opium or loing without opium altogether, I fear

A DWELLING House known a that there would be little doubt as to

No. 4, HILL ROAD, VICTORIA, the alternative which the majority of in the Colony of Hongkong and situate smokers would adopt, and to exclude an. article which is of such small bulk that upon the HEMAINING PORTION OF SECTION B OF MARINE LOT No 188 enough can be hidden on the person to, and the REMAININU PURTION OF SEC- supply the requirements of the mostTION OF MARINE LOT NO. 16. The inveterate amoker for weeks would re- arcs of the property 3,777 quare feet and quire methods of search and inquisition it is held for the term of 203 rear from to which no community could be expect June, 1861, subject to the Crown Rents of ed to submit,

$13.32 and 320 v

So long, therefore, as China continues

Particulars and Conditions of Sale can be fo grow opium in great quantities, I see obtained at the Auction Rooms or from the

no prospect of our being able to Undersigned.

abandon the Government monopoly, but

in the meantime we frame, our estimate

a aspirit of optimism, in the hope that 1381) nerhaps the coming year may see the end of the long-drawn-out struggles of China and that that great nation may be ble to devote to the eradication of its national vice some part of the energies and resources which have for so long been usted in viseless and fratricidal strife. (Continued on: piage (943.

HASTINGS & RASTIN GF, DENNYS & BOWLEY

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MARINE MOTOR;

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1 Cylinder to 6 Cylinders

4 B.H.P. to 50 BH.P

Prices and particulars from

SOLE AGENTS';

CODWELL & CO., LTD.,

Telephone C. 1030.

Machinery Dept.

EVERSHARP

Companion to

WAHL PEN

EVERSHARP is highly ornamental, to be sure, but your greatest pleasure in possessing one

is that it is always sharp and ready to use. Made in several sizes, styles and metals each with a renewalde eraser under its cap-Eversharp offers

wide range of selection.

For Sale at Leading Shops Everywhere

Wholesale Distributors for China: ..

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14. Canton Road, SHANGRAL

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Two of the maid

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