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ADVERTISEMENTS

OFFICIAL NOTICE.

OPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIPS

NAME

MONEY GEORGE THOMAS: EDKINS of Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong, HEREBY, GIVE NOTICE that in consequence of Change of Ownership, I hva upplivd to the Board of frade unless a tion 47 of the Marchant

respect of the pippies F

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

ALE Ofices of £ HONGKONG DAILY PRESS have been removed to Ia CHATER ROAD (and Boor), to which address Fall Correspondence abould be directed, HE AME

"Hongkong, 16th July, 1923, BERTA

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB HHE NEXT GYMKHANA will be held on the 10rm and 12TH NOVEMBER, Tonnage: 3,085.44 tons, heretofore owned by 1983, and not as previously, advertised.

4. LaPicque & Co., for the permission to

WAY FOONG shange her Name to

Pangs of

gross tonnage 6,584.15 tons, register

And to have her resistormy a

in the New Name at

the Port of Hongkong as owned by ma

1425)

Any objections to the proposed Change of JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.

must be sent to the Registar of Ship

ping at Hongkong within seven days from, the

appearance of this Advertisement,

Dated at Victoria, Hongkong, this day of Oktober, 1923

(Signed) G. TEDKINS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

PARTICULARS Public Action

ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of

to

be held on MONDAY, the 2nd day of October, 1923, a.3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His EXCRAANOTTE GOVERNOR, of on Lot of UROWN LAND on Pokfulam Road in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 25 yours with the option of renewal ata Crown Rent to be fized by the Burveyor of His ManaIT TEX Kins, for one further term of 78 you.

PARTICULARS-OF-THE-LOT.-

Boundary MonoREVELACE,

Hermie plas.

Abogi 21,000

Upset Price.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

ELLERMAN LINE.

FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND

CONTINENT.

THE Steamship

LUCITY OF KARACHI* having arrived. Consignees of Carga by her are informed that all Goods are being finded at their. risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whance delivery

obtained No Usims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after 22nd October, 1923, will be subject to rent,

of

All Claims against the Stammar must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before 29th October, 1923, or they will not be recognised

All brakes, anafed, and damaged :: Goode are to be left in the Godowns, where they wil be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, 10.45 and Noon. between the hours

ALL within the fros storage period of o ona week. No Fire Insurance has been effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by THE BANK

General Agents. Hongkong, 16th October, 192

T

NAVY LEAGUE BALL

SOTICE

LTD.,

(1438-

THE List of the Tadies' Committee can be

obtained from Mr. D. J. LEWIS, Tele phone: Peak No. 126,

LOYAL ORANGE LODGE, No. 802.

HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.

NOTICES.

INTIMATIONS

P.&O.BANKING CORPORATION

LIMITED.

(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND 180

with which is silliated

"THE ALLAHABAD BANK,LTD.

AUTHORIZED Cartital: SUBSCRIBED AND PAID UP KESIBYL"UND"

£5,000,000

**" - £2,594,160

2115,000

HEAD OFFICE 123, Leadenhall Street, London, EC1 WEST LONDON BRANCH: 14-18, Cockspar Street, London, &W, 1. EASTERN BRANCHES :- Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai..

The Corporation undertakes General Banking.

SUBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the above and Exchange Business of aresy description anil

the following places --- HONGKONG GENERAL CHARTER

COMMERCE

Hoxoxone & SHANGHAI

CORPORATION

OF

CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTEL BULIA & CHINA.“

MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA.

INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORA

NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY. YOKOHAMA SPECIR BANL HONGKONG CLUB.

Chequee should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earthquake Disaster Hongkong Relief Fund,

By Order,

D. E. BLAIR,

Secretary, HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE: kong, 10th September, 1923. [1207

NAVY LEAGUE BALL

Under the Patronage of

n addition to its Branchez has Agencies in ■ the principal Cities of the world,

AUTO, CHAMPKIN,

Manager.

11. Des Voeux Road Central Hongkong.

THE

AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. INCORPORATED.

Hub Ord

NEW YORK CITY. INTERNATIONAL

BANKING-SHIPPING TRAVEL

Eighty Offices are established in the Principa Cities of the World to provide Commercia Organisations and Privata Individual with a complets World Wide Banking. Shipping mad Travel Service.

COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT. ADMIRAL SIN ARTHUB LEVESON, KOD DEPOSIT AND CURRENT ACCOUNTS

(IN AIR OF WAR CHARITIES}

Will be held at

THE CITY HALL,

FRIDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1923,

at 2.30 PJ

TICKETS ($5 each). Obtainable from the LADIES' COMMITTEE, MOUTRIE'S, ANDERSON'S and THE ENGINEER'S INSTITUTE.

OFFERS WANTED.

(1399

OR STRONG ROOM DOORS recently in the old Hongkong Baak vaults.

as follow

to che in the

3 paira

Chabbe

Bankers

2

Armoured-plated Quality Strong Room Doors, Gates and

FOREIGN EXCHANGE. LETTERS OF CREDIT. TRAVELERS CHEQUES. LETTERS OF CREDIT.- STEAMSHIP PASSAGES, HOTEL RESERVATIONS. BAGGAGE INSURANORM CABLE AND POSTAL BEMITTANJEB. PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE

Every approved Banking Shipping and Travel Transaction.

P. J. VANHECKE,

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17TH, 1928,

INTIMATION

WHISKY

is aware that prices of foodstuffy how a constant tendency to rise.It is not

Mr. John Robertson has been appoin acting moretary of the A.D.C. dur

the complaint of a month in Hongkong; the absence of Mr. Y. A. Hannibat.

it is a chronic complaint. Fresh food-

staff gonerally in Hongkong now must

Admiral Anderson inst week, handed

There were 8 fresh cases of small-pox and 18 deaths from the itinense in the

Yesterday""

averaga in price well over a hundred per over command of the U.S. Asane Fleck cent what they were before the Great to Admiral Washington at Shanghai on War. Yet it cannot be said that China the Huron. was badly affected by the Great War. We must seek the explanation in causes { murely local-not to Hongkong entirely,

but taking in the country round about Colony last week.

showed" & "further cases, from which our market supplies are drawn fat, poultry, fish, fruit and THE OLD FAVOURITE. vegetables have all participated in the lying at her buoy in the harbour was ride, There are two reasons of ramped yesterday by a tug which was character purely local to Hongkong to towing a lighter, and it is believed con- account for this. One is the increase fiderable damage was done.

A CHOICE BLEND

very large

The German steamer Pfale, while

"With the opening of the Johore Cause

of population caused to extent by the influx from the dis turbed districts of the mainland, thus way to traffic and the re-establishment extending the local demand for food of the night mail also from Penang to stuffs, and the other is the consequential Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok is brought rents When rents, are high within sixty hours of Singapor Amands a higher rate of pay, and j

It is intended to hold a fancy dress the producer and the distributor of goods

rise

The Very Finest Old of all kinds pass the increased burden carnival and dance in aid of Dr.

-Scotch Whiskies

on to the broad shoulders of the general Barnardo's Homes and the Fresh Air body of consumers and the vicious eirete Fund as the Victoria Rreation Club on appears to be constantly extending. Out the 19th inst. It is to be hoped the affair side the Colony on the mainland, we will be well patronised. mean the continual warfare between

is now being bottled political factions, and the piracy and

at Leith, Scotland

By

A motor-car and a ricksha came into brigandage this inevitably breeds, doubt collision at the Junction of Garden less cause.

t scarcity of supply. In Road and Queen's Road on Monday after- addition, prices are affected by the noon. The ricksha was badly smashed taxation the Chinew authorities have up, though fortunately neither the puller deemed it ascessary to impose on the nor the occupant were injured. The

unhurt. export of cattle and poultry-it Wschow, for example-taxation" said to be rendez- ed icosary simply because of the

motor-car, wIRE

A Crown lot at Pokfulam, near Villa

Messrs. Macdonald & Muirheavy exactions which devied Mirumers, with an area of about 85,000

and Label to that effect is affixed to the back of each bottle.

SA.

Manager.

S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

Vestibule Linings aize 69x4 outside RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK,

of Frame. Lining deep ontside Single Ditto. Size 68′′ 3′′ of Frame Lining 1

By deep

1 Single Chubbs Strong Boom Door Standard Quality with Single Frame. Size of Door 6′ 5′′ x 3′′0′′. Particular can be obtained, or Doors can be seen and inspected by applying to TROLLOPE & COLLS (FAR EAST), LTD,

Gen Line Building,

Shanghai

1426)

WANTED.

MESSES. HEDGER & BUTLER, LTD., 163, Regent Street, London, Established A.D. 1667, Wine Merchants By Appointment to HM. The KxG and H.R.H. The Painat ov WALEN, wish to appoint An AGENT for the Sale of their Well-known WINES and SPIRITS in Hongkong, and where not represented in China. None but First-class Firms considered Flanie give Trade References in the United Kingdom if possible,

TO LET..

LODOWN KENNEDY TOWN,

Apply H. M. H. NEMAZKE,

Prince's Building.

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TO LET.

on Fifth Floor

FOLD their MONTHLY MEETINGS

Hthe UNION ONURCH HALL, Kennedy Road, the FIRST MONDAY in Each Month."

PRECEPTORE OFFICES in UNION BUILDING—016

The Imperial Grand Black Chapter of the British Commonwealth No. 801, EASTERN STAR, hold their Meetings at the same Hall the SECOND MONDAY of Each Month,

Anyone interested should apply abova Fall

the

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

COFAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. OPINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

CONSIGNEES per Company's Bistmer

AMERON MACHAONE

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be dia. charged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it Will Be Congnoo's risk sail, subject bo Wand conditions of stongs at Hotta What! The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 16th October

Optional cargo will be landed, unizes sotice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.

chaled, and damaged. brokan,

goods are to be left in the Godownk, where they will be examined on any Tondays and Fridays blckwresen the hours of 10,45

storage period.

No Ulat will be admitted after the Goods have left the stormer's Godown, and all Goods the 2nd October, remaining undelivered

will be sadject to

All Claime/agalet the Steamer must be promited to the undersigned on or before the 5th November, or they will not be recognised,

No Fire Insurenne will be emuntada

FIELD & SWIRE

Hongkong, 14th October, 1923, Cyr

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY UF CANTON, LTD.

BOWERN & CO., No 8, Munzur ROAD,

SHANGHAI

Members British Chamber of Commeros. (Shanghai). Mr. 1. W. BOWERN, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Incor porated by Royal Charter, London,

BIELERAT AGENTS AND SHITEROENAS. For the Purchase, Sals and Charter of Vowels of any Tonnage, Passenger and/or Cargo, New and/or Old,' with delivery China at Very Low Prices. Dev

SALVAON ÚPERATOra, Marine SurviŢOLI -AUCTIONEKES, COAL MERCHANTIN,

Machinery For Sale, New and Old in First

Condition

NOMEN AN IMPORTERS AND EXPORTIASE, SHAKE-BROKERI Members Shanghai Bhare-Brokers”, „A‚anceme ten)

GREEN'S PATENT ANUSHOES, BAMUEL WÄRR & Co., Lan." (Shafield), High-Car Steel Manufacturers (Tank Brand

Catalogues and Price-Lasta on applicationą

(Enquires: Walsumál

Garzi Andress1 Bowers, Shanghai.

CODES: Bentley's, Boone's, MBICH

For Edition and Ingwered.

CAPITAL (FULLY-PAID)

REIKTS FUND:

CAPITAL CONTRIBUTED BY THE

CHINZER GOVERNMENT

BEREAVE FUND

"HEAD" OFFICE &

Faris 9, Eue Boudreau.

LONDON OFFICE:

64 Old Broad Street, KO. 2

BANKERS:

Rombled 56,000,000

26,960,00

Kap. El

3,500,000 1,750,000

LONDON: Mesra, Glyn, Mills, Curris & Co. Sociate Generale pour Favoriser Developpement du Commerce at de l'Indar tria en France.

PARIS Societe Generals pour Favoriser le Developpement du Commerce et de l'Indus trie en France, B

Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas.

Lyons: Bociste Generale pour Favoriser le eros et de Hindus.

trie e

元

du

NEW YORK: The Irving Bank Columbia

Trust Company AN SAN FRANCISCO: The Crocker National Bank

of San Francisco,

BRANCHES IN ASTANA Changchan Hankow Manchouli Tientales Chaloo Harbin Newehwang Urumtchi Dairen Hongkong Peking Yokohama

Kashgar Shanghai

HONGKONG BRANCH: Internet allowed on Current Accounбe and Fixed Deposita. Terms on application. Local Bills discounted. *

Foreign Exchange on the Principal Cition of the World bought and sold

R. A. HODGERS, 637]

THEATRE

Manager."

ROYAL

ONE NIGHT ONLY

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29TH

GRAND VIOLIN RECITAL

JASCHA

Wine & Spirit Merchants.

ESTABLISHED 1841.

BIRTES. OWEN-At Shanghai, on October 11th, to

Mr. and Mrs. W. Owen, a daughter PITTENDRIGH. At Fernlea, Walton on

Thames, on October 14th, to Mr. and MW MCKENZIE PITIYNDRIGH, I'L Haughter, J

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MARRIAGE.

are

on the people to meet the demands square feet, was put up for auction on Monday at the upset price of $20,006. of the military marauders who are The lot was purchased by Mr. U. Shau roaming over the territory destroying and others for $40,000. A lot ab ing its productivity. Why the price of Shaskiwan, with an area of 8,640 square fish should have risen to the extent it

feet, with an upset price of $12,960, WAN has is much more dificult to understand sold to Mr. Li Wing Sun for 826,100, We doubt very much whether the great inflation of prices, has been reficeted in

The Tientsin Pukow Railway Adminis- the income of the men who do the fishing tration has arranged for the Blue Garoupa, for instance, is now 80 cents & Expires to be armed with machine. pound in the market, a price 150 per guns and to carry a powerful searchlight, cent, above that at which it was sold in capable of being turned in any direction 1914; and plaice is 45 cents a pound and having a two mile effective visibility, compared with the pre-war price of 14 The trains were put back again prace sents. Whether this is due to a growing tically on the old schedule on October scarcity of fish in the adjacent seas 16th, with a slight variation of times in

rivers we are unable to say, the interests of better service. but we suspect the main explanation

and

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ond (vide

We are that the Public Safety Depart- to be found in the growing extent of profitering by the dis- ment at Canton, at the request of the tributing agents who supply the markets Hongkong Police Authorities, has been and ultimately the consumers. It is disseminating information concerning the difficult to suggest any feasible remedy,new ordinance relating to unlawful except in the matter of fruit and veget, possession of arms and ammunition in bles, which, we believe, could be grown the Colony, but we did not know that the far more extensively than they are at pre penalty to which offenders are liable be- sent in Kowloon and the New Territory, sides ten years' imprisonment is HENRY-LAMINAt Shanghai, on Oct, though it must be admitted that the thousand strikes of the 'cat'

11th, WILLIAM HENRY, son of Mr report furnished to the Economie Re-Caston Daily News). The ordinance and Mrs. B. N. Hexny, of Glasgow,

but a thousand strokes That surely to RITA, eldest daughter of Mr. and sources Committen by Sir ROBERT. Ho given the Court power to impose ftogring The Mrs. J. EM. LEISEE, of Shanghai Toss of experiments made on his farm

libel on the Government. is. MENFALE-BELYEL--At Shanghai, on Oct. af Sheung Shui offered no encourage-

Flogging Ordinance prescribes twenty. 11th, ROBERT EDWARD MONEALE, to ment in this direction, especially for strokes as the maximum in the case EDITH BELTRA, of Shanghai,

regardly fruit growing, with the exception" of the papaya and the banana, But in YOUNG-On board es. lui Hong, on

October 16th, GEORGE YOUNG, 3rd other parts of the territory, especially in Engineer, ago. 34.

[1435, the immediate hinterland of Kowloon, experiments in fruit growing, perhaps on a smaller scale, have been attended with

MRS. B. L FROST. suggests that greater success which possibly some organised effort under

We regret to record the death of Mrs competent direction would achieve satis Frost, wife of Mr. B. L. Frost, of the factory results. As regarda vegetables Eastern Extension Telegraph Company- the nanuel horticultural shows held in Mrs. Frost had been ill about a fortnight, the Colony afford conclusive proof of The illness took a serious turn on Satur what excellent results are possible in the car, and on Sunday morning. Abe was

day, Colony. But the farmer everywhere is a conveyed from her home to the French conservative person, and it is notoriously Hospital, where she passed away carly the case with the Chinese farmer. One yesterday morning at the age of 53. Mrx would think, however, that if there are Frost had resided in the Colony about

DEATH

Hongkong Office: 14, Chater Road, London Office: 131, Fleet Street, EC

The Bady Press.

HONGKONG, OCTOBER 17TH, 1923.

FOOD PRICES IN THE COLONY.

of adultes and 19 in the ch of offenders whose age does not exceed 16.

OBITUARY.

A REFUET by the Bureau of Labour in among them men of enterprise the pre-seventeen years and was well known for the Philippines, based on figures from its sent prices of fruit and vegetables are her efforts on behalf of charitable causes, inspectors in the public markets in sufficiently high to tempt them to some one of her most recent efforts being on Manila, comments on a general rise in effort to develope within the territory behalf of the London Hospital. She was the prices of the principal foodatuks of the Colony a trude which should be a trained nurse and came to the Colony

of within the past couple of months, and very profitable at market prices much in 1908 to take up an appointment on the below the current rates. But the prof bursing staff of the Government Civil the Director of Labour naturally draws attention to the fact that these increases lem is: Where are we to look for the Hospital, and married three or four years will reflect on the cost of living of the men with sufficient enterprise to under later. Besides her husband she leaves to mourn her Toss a non twelve years of age." labouring class in particular." Increases take it

now at school at Weifa

And four step-chi

are in Hong kong one in Canton unit the other in Montain

on rice betweca August 14th und September 14th were 11 per cent on first clam, seven per cent on the second and twi par tant, on the third Other food Stuffs quoted at higher prices Include

Cable comm interrupted,

ication with Macao is

HEIFETZ, roof, pork, chicken, fish, native beans, The Penang Hill railway is to be opened

THE WORLD-RENOWNED VIOLINIST. and gardines

BOOKING OPENS AT MOUTHIES ox

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15TH

PRICES - Stalls Mad Circle....2018. Unreserved 84 and $9. 1421]

for passenger and parcel traffic next Sunday,

4.D.G

FORTHCOMING PRODUCTION OF

small tomatoes, onions, sugar paya Profiteera, he says, have taken advantage of the recent disaster It has been duided to hold i motor in Japan to raise the price of rio in gymkhana on the Hongkong Football view of the posible scarcity of the ocrea Club's ground on Saturday, November by reason of the temporary deviation på 3rd. imports from Saigant emiler official information as to what The principal item on the Agenda of was written by a Czecho-Slovakian play- Ju happened to the of foodstuffs the Hongkong Legislative Council to

We havo no DST

in Hongkong in the same period, but morrow is the second rewling of the overy careful housekeeper in the Colony annual budget bill

At a meeting of the Amateur Dramatio duce, about the middle of December, the Clab on Monday it was decided to pro Robot play RUIL" which has mada such a stir in London and New York wright, and is described as a fantastio melodrama

This play will be followed by another early in 1924.