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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY NOVEMBER · 2xD, 1928.

This Prospectus has been duly filed with the

Registrar of Companies

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

POLICE RECREATION CLUB.

HE Police Recreation Club Committee

regnes to announce that the CLUB OLD

WHIST DRIVES : are to be DISCON-

TINUED from THIS DATEN PERS

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(Signed) A. V. BAKER

Hon. Secretary.

ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUBJĮ.

NOTICE.

The Bubscription List will be Open on WEDNESDAY, the 14TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, MEMBERS are Reminded that the OPEN-

1923, and Close on or before FRIDAY, the 23MD DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1923.

HONGKONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING AND

SAVINGS SOCIETY. LTD.

Incorporated under sne Companies Ordinances 1911-1921.

CAPITAL

$10,000,000

DIVIDED INTO 1,000,000 SHARES OF $10 EACH.

Of the above Shares 169,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. "On thase $1.00 per share will be paid on application and the balance when called up on the same basis as the remaining capital The remaining 881,000 shares ranking equally with those already subscribed are now: offered for Public Subscription payable as to $1.00 per share on application. The balance due on each share, viz., $9.00, will be called up as and when required by instalments of $1.00 per share at intervals of not less than three months between each call.

Any of the shares now offered to the Public which may not be subscribed for "will be allotted in such manner as the Directors shall determine.

DIRECTORS:

Dr. J. C. DALMAHOY ALLAN, Alexandra Building, Medical Proclitioner, C. E. H. BEAVIS, Esq., 9, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Solicitor.

H. A. CARTWRIGHT, Esq, 14, Chater Boad, Victoria, Managing Director,

HONGKONG DAILY Pæzsa, LaD,

CHAN SAU FUNG, Esq., 11, Mai Fong Street, Victoria, Merchant.“ CHAU SIU KL, Esq., 8, Queen's Hond West, Victoria, Merchant, FREDERICK ELLIS, Esq., 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Stock Broker, How. Mz. B. H. KOTEWALL, Alexandra Buildings, Victoria, Merchant, LEUNG YAN PO, Eaq, dt. George's Building, Victoria, Compradore, of

Messrs, Graa, Livingston & Co.

LI WING KWONG, Eng., 183, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant. LI YAU TSUN, Esq, 75, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant,

THE REVEREND FATHER L. ROBERT, PROCURE GENERALE DER MISSION

Erzanezzm, Procureur General,

WONG PAK SON, Esq., 220, Queen's Boad Central, Victoria, Merchant.

BANKERS.

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

AUDITORS

KAWA KESLING," Accountants, No. 5, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong.

SOLICITORS.

Messza. WILKINSON & GRIST,

No. 9, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY: No. 10, ICE HOUSE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.

PROSPECTUS.

(a.) This Company has been formed principally for the purpose of building houses

in the Colony of Hongkong with a view to meeting the great demand for hous ing accommodation which exists in the Colony at the present time.

(.) In particular it is proposed to take advantage of the offer recently made by the Government for the grant of land for building purposes on the basis of the scheme explained by The Colonial Secretary as a Meeting of the Legislative Council in June, 1923.

The Promoters are in a position to state that they have completed negotia- tions for the acquisition from the Government of the plateaut below “Jardine's Look-out," which is capable of accommodating 150 to 200 semi-detached houses. The Promoters are also in treaty with the Government for numerous other sites in good localities.

The Promoters have already received about 2,000 applications from persons desiring to obtain the assistance of this Company in building homes for the applicants.

The Promoters will also entertain, and, if thought advisable, take up any other scheme or schemes which may be proposed by the Government for the acquisition of land for building and development.

(a) The Company is also empowered by its Memorandum of Association to under-

take business of all kinds connected with the development of building areas. (d.) The minimum subscription on which the Directors may proceed to allotment is

100,000 shares.

(4.) No commission or promotion money is being paid by the Company.

(f) The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incident to the forma

tion and Bosting of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is $5,000. (9.) FREDERICK ELLIS will be the first Managing Director under a contract with the Company at a remuneration of 5 per cent of the net profits of the Company. (5.) The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of a Director is to be the holding of 500 shares in the Company and that the remuneration of each of the Directiora is to be $1,000 per annum.

(1) None of the Director or Promoters are interested in the promotion of the

Company except to the extent of the shares taken by them in the Company. (J.) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can be inspected at the office of Messrs. WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitors for the Company, at any time during business hours.

(k) A copy of the Cropiny's Memorandum of Association is annexed to this

Prospectus and forms part of it.

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(L) Application for shares should be mide upon the Form accompanying the Prospectus and sent to the Company's Bankers together with a remittance of $1.00 per share, the amount of the deposit.

Where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned in full and where the number of shares allotted is less than the number applied for a pro- portionate amount of the deposit will be returned

A) Prospectuses can be

be inspected at sad Forms of Application obtained from the Company « Bankers, the Hoxaxons And Framgulat BaxKING CORPORATION and at and from the offices of the Company at No. 10, Ice House Strent, Victoria, Hongkong. // ___/

This Prospectus has been duly filed with the Registrar of Companies. Dated the 20th day of October, 1923.

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CRUMAH of the Basson and Labres" Dar will be held at the CuS HOUSE on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 305, commencing 613P.M. Ladios of the Colony a cordially invited to be present me t

D. I. RALPH,

Hon. Secretary.

Hongkong, let November, 1923.

NOTICE.

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BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE

WING to the Transfer of Mr. A. L.

OSZTER2, 0.3.L. to Peking. Mr. M. M.

FITZ HENRY the Manager, appointed to the SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE GERANCE de la Basque ESDUSTRIELLE DE CAISE ha undertaken (under direction of the FAS OFFICE) to assist the Provisional Liquidator in connection with the affairs of the Basque INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE

PORTA. R. LOWE,

Special Manager. Hongkong, ist November, 1923, [1515

DANCING.

PALACE HOTEL

THE POPULAR JAZZ BAND al

H.M.B. "DESPATCH”. Will Play at the shove Hotel on SATURDAY, the 3RD NOVEMBER.

DANCING-9,15`RK.

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JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE.

CATHEDRAL BALL.

TO-DAY (FRIDAY), 5.15 PM to 6.15 F.M. BRITISH CHAPLAIN IN YOKOHAMA (Ber. E. M. STRONG, X 4.) will speak of

INTIMATION

BROWN

do not know whether the naval and

Commander Beckwith, the Harbour military forces are included in the Master sitting yesterday: as Marin term Government officials"; liuot, Magistrate, suspended the certificate of

a very much larger sum in needed the coxswain of the steam lighter Tungs to mese pay in arrears. The military any for six months for failing. forces in all parts o

of the country cbserve the rule of the road. The came are bordering on a state of revolt because was proved by the master of the Harbour”- they cannot get with reasonable prompti Department launch No. About a tude the PAY

due to them. Little mere quarter of an hour before noon than a week ago the city of Ichang Wednesday he was proceeding towards narrowly escaped being looted by nol the polles pler, Kowloon, He saw defend - diery for this reason. An interesting ant, staying up ahead of him, going at

ort

BRANDY sidelight is thrown on the fighting in a high speed. Seeing that the defendant

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EXPERIENCES Hinstrated by 30 Lantern Slides. TIÓN FOE TEX CHURCHES IN TOKYO

AND YOLOHDIL.

ALL ARE INVITEN. E1512

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer

HELENDS

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Hold's Wharf, › Kowloon, where. it will lie at Consiguses risks and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holfe Wharf, The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after lat November. De

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to Steamer's arrival,

are to be left they will

genuine after dinner excellent Cognac bouquet and taste.

SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR

A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD..

& Spirit Merchants.

TELEPHONE" GIE"

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

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, NOYIMESE 2ND, 1999.

CHINESE OFFICIALS AND THEIR PAY.

to be less in the dodowns, wheel It must be left to Time to prove whether be examined on any Todays and Fridays the pew Government at Peking is sin- bezween the hours of 1045 km, and Noor within the free storage period

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 7th November, will be subject, to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 21st November, or they will not be recognised

No Fire Insurauss will be effoștad.

BUTTERFIELD ‣ & SWIRE,

Agants. Hongkong, 1st November, 1823. [1510

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD,

DIVIDEND NOTICE.

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was not going to give way the witnesss altered course to save his own boat. Th defendant's excuse was that he passede ahead of the Harbour, Department launel brause of a sailing boat. Commander Beckwith said going full speed across traffio irrespective of the rules of the rond was £ most dangerous, pruction

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that part of China by the statement that troops which were supposed to be attack. ing each other came to an understanding to co-operate in looting the city, but the Commander of the Government forces, coming to hear of the projected enter

persuade prise, managed to troops to remain in barracks, and later to open fire on the enemy troops with A Peking paper (Chinese owned bit whom they had arranged to co-operate printed in English) tells us that 10,000 in a general looting expedition through foreigners may be dismissed from. Govern the city. The military in China, how ment employ in connection with the ever, are usually able to find other means movement to reduce the expenses of sho of getting"

g what is owing to them by the Government. “It has been suggested, Government General WU PEI-ru, when the paper says," that all foreigners whose be found that funds had ceased to flow positions are not made secure by inters from Peking in an adequate stream to nation) agreements and who were ap- meet his military expenditures, seized pointed after the Third Year of the the revenues of the Peking-Hankow rail- Republic, be dismissed. The Peking Lily way. At the present time, in several offers should know that there are not the provinces, military factions are laying 10,000 foreguors in the service of the hands on the revenues of the Salt Chinese Government-not- a thousand Administration, regardless of the Governeren. What is contemplated was more ment's pleading that this imperils the clearly explained in our issue of pester, country's relations with the Foreigu day. It is proposed to get rid of 10,000 Powers to whom these revenues, or a superfluous oficials, but there are prob- large part of them, are mortgaged. Notably very few foreigners among the only is this being done in provinces con- trolled by Military factions hostile to the

The Roman Catholic Apostoliu Delegate Peking Government, but it is spreading in China has issued an appeal to the to the forces nominally under the Missions for the adoption of a Chinese Government's control. In Fukien pro type of Architecture, in Catholic, edifices vince, for example, the General Officer in China. He says it is mistake to commanding the troops who, by the ways import into China the Roman and Gothic is a protégé of General WU PEI-FE, the European, styles. In Europe these Loyang war lord says he has not restyles are a spontaneous outgrowth some ceived from the Peking Government for

thing live and logical; hore, they are. fully six months the funds needed for the artificial flowers, elements artistically payment of his troops, so that he has dead. The lines of Chinese architecture heen forced to seize the Salt revenues have an inspiration, a meaning, spirit to meet the military expenses of the entirely different from that of Roman or province. This disorganisation of the Gothic; nevertheless, they, too, have finances of the country is extending, and their graceful and noble character. The unless it is promptly checked anarchy tendency of their roofs to turn the waves and disaster must result. Plans are

upwards at the corners is said to derive being formulated by a Commission in

ita origin from the Tartar. fent,, the four Peking for the reorganisation of the

actualuleteation of the corners of which had an upward more country and we can but hope that the providence wil mise him up. In the ment. “An able artist is required; but

new Government will be found strong meantime let us render an account to enough to undertake this important task ourselves, realizing the fat that an and successfully inaugurate a reform which is the master key to most of the ills from which China is suffering.

·winute, Azmawiał

Amber marked down for dismissal.

An offcial from Kwangsi province has been despatched to Hongkong to obtain lowest quotations for minting machinery.

The total rainfall registered at the Botanic Gardens during the month of October was 12.84 inches, and of this total exactly 11 inches fell on the 30th day of the month.

cere in in its announced determination

There will be a Cinematograph Enter to inaugurate a policy of retrenchment and reform in China. Every new Govern- taiament at the Helena May Institute ment that China has had in the last to day (Friday, November 2nd), at 5 ten years has had similar pretensions, o'clock. Ticketa 50 cents each, a family but each succeeding Government has ticket for four people $1.50.-Anyt. only served to plunge the country deeper into the financini morass in which it is has been wallowing now for some years Once more wo are being told that there is to be a wholesale dis-portrait of denominations of one dollar, missal of superfluous officials some ten

50 cents and 20 cents. thousand of them in Peking alone ap-

Learning that President Tano is having coins struck with his portrait, Marshal Chang Tso Lin ordered the Mint in Mukden to strike silver coins with his

artistic-religious problem. exists. The pagodas with their Atrium, and choir, the towers, the Temple of Heaven at Peking, the ancestral halls, the commemorativa

arches, some funeral monumente, The famous stele, idolatrous alters with a dorsal or hanging of rich stuff, incense VIXcs and other wonderful vases, and the like, all offer a great wealth of architectonic and decorative details full of eharacteristics, from and with which might be formed the type of new church that would be perfectly Chris tian and perfectly Chinese

-BRIDE CHANGES INTO A BIG ROCK

EXTRAORDINARY SEQUEL TO WEDDING CEREMONY.

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The following is taken from the Peking Daily News

Mr. Mia Fehlin, a resident of Pering is a warden in the First Prison of the

Ministry of Justice. Bring of age, hie

mother desired him to take unto himself wife in order to continue on the lineage pear to have been tabulated for dismissal A disabled Japanese motor schooner of the Mizo family. A neighbour, Mr

Fu, was asked to act as the matchmaker. —-bat past experience of similar inten- was found drifting about ouside the Thereupon Mrs. Fu arranged a match be- tious only excites a wonder as to how harbour on Wednesday. A Revenue tween Mr. Mino and a daughter of Mr. long it will be before the vacancies thus Department launch towed her into port. Yu Jui-lin. The marriage contract was formally drawn up, presents were ex- parties, and Mrs. Fu, the match-maker, presented with ten dollars as her com

on the 21st December, 1923, and will being created are filled with the partisans of She had on board provisions for the changed between the two contracting

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND has been declared in respect of the Financial Year

parable the new rulers. If we may credit the on the 19th NOVEMBER 1923, as to SEVEN. TY-FIVE (76) CENTS per Share on the statements made in the Chinese Fress "OLD" Sharea and as to BEXTY (80) CENTS per Share on the “ NEW” Shares (1922 IzruË)

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company [will be CLOSED from the 12th to the 17th

November, 1923, both days inclusive. ⠀

For THE HONGKONG HOTEL

CO. LTD. WALTER J. HAWKER,

vip Secretary. Hongkong, 31st October, 1913.

Note:-

Volc

of the North during the Presidential cam

Ken's claims to the Presideney were led paign, the supporters of Marahind Tso

workers on the phosphate deposits of the Paracels whither she was proceeding when she was overtaken by a typhoon and dis- abled.

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Was

The wedding day was fixed for the 21st ult On

that day the Miso home was in a stato of bustle and excitement. Friends and

The post of "Police General of Kwang-relatives of the family gathered to offer their to expect a shower of favours in the tung Province, formerly held by General congratulations and to partake of the wed- form of official posts either for them Ngai Bong Ping,, but afterwarde abolish ding feaste. After 1 'clock, the bridal selves or their friends Every Membered has been recreated and General pedan-chair, with all the pomp of a wed Techen W, at present Commissioner of ding procession, arrived at the door

of Parliament

ament can probably make a Police at Canton is to take this larger When the matchmaker, Mrs. Fu, went

lengthy list of the friends whom he would responsibility. This post we read has to assist the bride out of the chair, she been re-created" because it is thought found in it only a picos of big rock. It wish to accommodate in this way. Among that central control of the police of Was thought at first, that the chair coolies the ten thousand officials who are to the province is more effective for main bring along the bride, à So the chair was made a serious blander and forgot to The above-mentioned Interim Divid- be summarily dismissed there are hun-taining pence and order, and handita can sent back to fetch her. Fearing that some end of 75 cents per share on the dreds who are said to be drawing large be more easily checked,'',

thing inight beamiss, Mrs. Mine and Mrs. "Old" shares icill be paid alin to

Fu nao went along to the bride's home. thate persone who all, in accordance anlaries without doing a day's work from

The evening at 5.18 p.m. the Rev. E. Arriving there, they found it to be empty. with the Sehente for Amalgamation one year's end to the other in the offices M. Strong, M.A., British Chaplain in Upon inquiry of the landlord, they learncel with The Shanghai Hotels, Limited, to which they are nominally appointed. Yokobama, will speak of Experionera." that the Yu family had moved away a few become Shareholders in this Com But we suppose the holders of sincures, twenty lantern slides will conclude at 6.15 there were 4 or 5 persons in the hoger The address, which will be illustrated by days before. When the bridal chair cose,

like the workers in Government offices. p.m. All are invited. There will be When they prepared the bridal chair and It is intended, by reason of the in Peking, usually have to wait a long collection for the Churches in Tokyo and sent it on its way, they left the house,

Renders difference nou made between the time for their pay. It is stated fat the Yokohama Hendey will remember that taking the few pieces of furniture with amount of Interim Dividend, to place Finance Department has been called were list besides dwellings, hoental, die the "Old" and the New shares on upon to find a sum of no less than tenperary and school. It was Mr. Strong the same fouling as to fultive Disid million dollars to meet the arrears of who at Yokohama, conducted the me morial service for the one hundred and pay duo to Government officials, “We thirty European desd.

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emed to know

Hes: Mind, suspecting

that Mrs Fu was in league with the girl's family, at once seized hold of her, and sund her at the Police Court, The matter bia pow being investigated. UVE