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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19rx, 1958.

SUBSCRIPTION LIST NOW

OPEN.

on the 14TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1923, The Subscription, List. Opened

sad will Close on or before FRIDAY, the 23RD DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1923.

HONGKONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING AND

N

SAVINGS SOCIETY. LTD.

Incorporated under ine Companies' Ordinances

CAPITAL

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

NOTICE

INTIMATION

To Connoisseurs

HE Undersigned RESUMES CHARGE WATSON'S

THE

from THIS DATE.

By Order of the Board,

CMONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. "Hongkong, 19th November, 1999.~~~~(1585-

BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

THE Undersigned RESUMES CHARGE

OU THIS DATE

By Order of the Board.

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

· Gonéral Manager. f1398

Rangkong, 19th November, 1928,

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

1911-1

$10.000.000 TE

·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 these $1.00 per share will be paid on application and the balance when called up on the game basis as the remaining capital. The remaining 831,000 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. U. DALMAHOY ALLAN, Alexandra Building, Medica! Practitioner. C. E. E. BEAVIS, Esq., 9, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Solicitor. H.A. CARTWRIGHT, Esq., 1a, Chater Road, Victoris, Managing Directos,

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, LTD.

CHAN SAU FUNG, Esq., 11, Mai Fong Street, Victoria, Aferchant. OKAÚ SÍU KI, Esq., 8, Queen's Road West, Victoria, Merchant. FREDERICK ELLIS, Esq., 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Stock Broker. Hos. Ma. E. H. KOTEWALL, Alexandra Buildings, Victoris, Merchant, LEUNG YAN PO, Esq., St. George's Building, Victoria, Compradore, of

Messrs. GIBS, LIVINGSTON & CO.

LI WING KWONG, Esq., 155, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant. LI YAU TSUN, Esq. 75, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant. THE BEVEREND FATHER L. ROBERT, PROCURE GENERALE DES MISSIONS

ETRANGERIS, Procureur General,

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

BANKERS.

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

AUDITORS.

MESHES, PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, Accountants, No. 5, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong.

SOLICITORS.

M73928. 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.

(b.) 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 at a Meeting of the Legislative Council in June, 1928.

The Promoters are in a portion to state that they have completed negotia tions for the sequisition from the Government of the platen 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.

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The Promoters have already received about 2,000 applications from persona 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:

(c) The Company is also empowered by ita 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.

No commission or promotion money is being paid by the Company. (.) The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incident to the forma tion and floating of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is 35.000. (9.) FERDELICE ELLIS will be the first Managing Director under a contract with the Company at a remuneration of 6 per cent. of the net profits of the Company. (.) 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 Directions is to be $1,000 per annum.

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

Company except to the extent of the shares taken by them in the Company." (5) Copies of the femorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can "be inspected at the office of Messrs. WILKINSON & Gatst, Solicitors for the

Company, at any time during business hours.

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

Prospectus and forms part of it.

(2) Application for shares should be made 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 fall and where the number of shares allotted is less than the number applied for a pro- portionate amount of the deposit will be returned.

(m) Prospectuses can be inspected at and Forms of Application obtained from the Company's Bankers, the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION and at and from the offices of the Company at No. 10, Ice House. Street, Victoria, Hongkong.

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

CO., LTD.

NOTICE

HE Undersigned. RESUMES CHARGE

from THIS DATE.

By Order of the Board,

"

C. MONTAQUE EDE,

General Manager. Hongkong, 19th November, 1993. (1587

S.S. TAITO MARU“; PIRACY NEAR.

“WHAMPOA of 14TH NOVEMBER, 19

TWO Bills of Lading (No. 1 covering 505

tons of Endo Unscreened Coal, No Corering 9,195 tons of Kassi Unacreened Coal) with Consignees Covers by the above raasal having been presumably puriained by piratas or some unauthorised persons, WE HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that all such Bills of Lading originally farmed in Keelung have been can celled and Owners of the Steamer are making their own arrangements with Receivers Anyone able to is any information with regard to the above Lost Bills of Lading kindly Agents, the communiente with OwneTE YAMASHITA KISEN KOGYO KAISHA, HONGKONG.

FINEST

OLD BROWN

BRANDY

is Unsurpassed as a

Liqueur.

Exquisitely Mellow, and of Fine Aroma;

Delightful

the

Palate.

to

(Blends Deliciously with

Watson's Dry Ginger Ale).

Nine cases of small-pox-all of thems Chinese were notilled during the 21 hours ended on the 10th inst

HE the Governor has approved the appointment of Mr. R. E. Lindsell as n member of the Subordinate Staff Board.

They were going to erect one station and the Marconi Company two stations in this country besides being responsible for stations in the Dominions. This meant that the Marconi Company would have had to find the capital without The many friends of Mr. A. E Wright, having any say in the management. No of the Public Works Department, will company could raise capital under such regret to learn that he is in hospital "conditions, and if they could tho Post Office would soon lose the money for them. In the meantime, the statement of the Fost Office experts of two years ago had been entirely falsified. During the last two years wireless had made. great strides, particularly with regard to the transmission of news The British Empire had apparently lost any chance now of getting wireless supremacy in the Pacife. It had lost its position in the Far East and in Europe, and the longer the delay the more difficult it was, he understood, to get favourable waro kong, was the soloist at the last concert lengths. They were all being divided up of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, and we were not in it. In Australia they

Tenders are invited by the Government for laying-out King's Park, Kowloon, for recreation purposes and for constructing

30-foot road.

Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith, late of Hong-

had the humiliating experience of gotting playing Beethoven's Concerto news by French and German wireless, finor, but no news by British wireless,""

in

Mr. Allan Cameron, Mrs. Backhouse,

We notice that, when addressing the Economic Conference on the subject little Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Byrne, Major, and Mrs. Loving, and Mr. and Mrs. Ellmann, more than a month ago, the Postmaster.

General (Sie L WORTHINGTON EVAYS) were passengers on the outgoing Empre$4

of Chinada: threw the responsibility for the delay on the Marconi Company. He said:

A Chinese, after falling off a tram-cary. walked on to the Sham-sui-po ferry; ap-. parently none the worse for his experi ence. On the other side, however, he collapsed and had to be taken to hospital.

A Chinese girl, 14 years of age, was The late Government, acting on the knocked down by a motor-car as she was advice of a committee constituted, increasing the Prayn near Gresson Street, 1019, submitted to the Dominions a com- prehensive scheme for the provision of on Friday and received injuries to the Imperial wireless stations, each of which left foot and heads would be owned and operated by the Dominion in which it was situated. This scheine, however, did not meet with the approval of the Dominions, and I can quite understand that, faced with the same financial difficulties that we are at home, they preferred to employ or license a private undertaking, and so avoid the necessity of incurring the considerable capital expenditure entailed in the crce tion of State-owned stations The means by which each Dominion would co-operate in the Imperial sebeme-I mean whether it should traploy a private company or ercct a station of its own-was, of course, a question entirely for each Dominion Government to settle and the Imperial

At an extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Hotel Company, Ltd., om Saturday, an extraordinary resolution changing the Company's came to The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.,"

was confirmed.

Hongkong, 19th November, 19:3. [1588A S. WATSON & Government accept the decisions they Malwa on November 16th were Capt. C

HUGO STINNES LINIEN. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE Steamabip

"HINDENBURG”

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company's godowns at Kow“ loon, where delivery can be obtained as sGON BE the goods are landed.

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice

steamer's arrival. has been given prior to steam for the Goods

No Claims will

have

left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- ing undelivered on Monday, the 28th insty will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and a

damaged Goods are to

be left in the Godowns, where they will be ex- amined on Monday, the 8th instat 10 am by our Surveyors, feasts. Goddard & Dongina.

All Claims

must reach Saturday, the 1st December, or they will not be recognized.

as before

No Fire Insurance will be affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the andersigned.

REUTER, BROCKELMANY & CO.,

My Agents.

$1589 Hongkong, 19th November, 1923.

NOTICE.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LED, AN

CO., LTD.,

Wine & Spirit Merchants

Phone 616.

Hongkong Office: 11, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, EC.

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 19ṛd, 1923.

THE IMPERIAL WIRELESS DEADLOCK.

have come to..

Amongst those who left by the P. & O.

S. King, L-Comdr. and Mrs. S. King- Hall, Licut. J. R..Metford, R.N., Comdr.. and Mrs. C. J. Crocker, Mr. W. H. §. Dent and Mr. C. E. H. Druitt (Canton).

"As regards Great Britain the Govern- ment have decided, in the first place, to provide themselves a station which will be owned and operated. by the Govern ment and, secondly, to license private companies to conduct services subject to an agreement with the Government as to the division of traffic between the com- panics and the Government stations. We. are pressing on with the Government Smith on Saturday for dumping the dead- A site body of a girl, 12 years of age, and for station as quickly as possible. near Hugby has been secured. The orders failing to notify a case of small-pox. An for & considerable portion of the plant Indian constable deposed to seeing the have already been placed, and I anti-

Maximum fines amounting to $250 were imposed upon a Chinese by Mr. N. L.

cipate that the station will be completed body dumped and finding that death was and ready for work before the end of Jue to small-pox.

not

this, he took off his coat and hat and laid them at the side of the road. His task completed, he turned round to pick up his clothing and found it had vanish- ed. Mr. Chaney is of opinion that it was stolen by some coolies, who watched the blazing machine from a distance. Her escaped injury except that his hands were slightly burnt.

BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS THE CASE OF LAPICQUE & CO,

The public examination of Mr. Paut Lapicque in connection with the bank- ruptcy of Messrs. P. A. Lapicque & Co. Mr. C. D. Melbourne (Registrar) at the took place on Saturday morning before Supreme Court.

at, a satisfactory division of the services

Mr. C Thorne, Commissioner of Chi with the Marconi Company. The Mar

nese Customs for Kowloon District, whose coni Company originally expressed a strong preference for a pooling arrange house at the Peak is undergoing, exten- ment RB between the Government station sive repairs, is going on four months' and the company's station. There ap- leave from the end of November and is not returning to Hongkong. Mr. R.-H. peared to me to be disadvantages in a pool under which responsibility for the R. Wade succeeds Mr. Thorne and comes services would be, to some extent, here from Peking. Mr. and Mra. Thorno divided, but as it was the basis which are leaving Hongkong in the Empress of "THE future of Imperial wireless com- the company themselves desired, negotia-Russia on November 29th for Victoria, munications is being held up owing, tions proceeded on that footing and by B.C., en route to California,

the end of July last we had reached such

Mr. H. W. Chaney, of the firm of apparently, to a most intense quartel'

a measure of agreement that only a few These are the words of Mr. Barce, Prime minor points were outstanding, and I had Messrs. Paimer and Turner, had an un- Minister of the Australian Common- hoped an agreement would have been pleasant experience whilst motor cycling pany have, however, since then, changed kiwan-Stanley Hill, his petrol-tank caught wealth, who, speaking at the Economic completed within a few days. The com on Friday night. Descending the Shau Conference last week, described the their minds, and they have intimated fire. He wheeled the blazing machine to- CERTIFICATE NO. A/120 for Nine situation as "very alarming." Hong: htts for reasons which I am not alto a sand-bank a few yards away, and man Shares, Nos. 99948/98965 standing in the kong has an interest in this matter, as ether able to appreciate, this arrange-aged to put out the Bames. Before doing.

ment is not now acceptable to them."" Society's Register in the Name of KWONG

Mr. Bucce told the Economic Conter SING LUNG of Yokohama has been declared the Hon. Mr. HOLYCAK forcefully remind-

STOLEN and it at the expiration ed the Government in a recent speech ence Inst week that there was only one LOST GT of One Month from the Date hereof the boxen the Legislative Council. It is more way of meeting this very alarming Document be not forthcoming the

position." "Since the British Govern- will be deemed Cancellaland of No Efect than ten years ago since the decision to wad NEW CERTIFICATE for the id establish an Imperial wireless chain was ment had decided to build a station," he Share will be issued by the Society.

retched and Hongkong was mentioned said, then Australia was entitled to PAUL LAUDER Acting General Manager as one of the Colonies in which a station say that licences shld be issued for

11564 Hongkong, 12th November, 1993.

was to be erected. We seem as far off the erection of other tations in Britain "getting. this station as ever we were, to be operated under the pooling arrange HONGKONG ENGINEERING, AND

Indeed, in the latest outline of the ment. Failing a settlement, an impartial CONSTRUCTION CO, LTD.

sebeme that we have seen Hoogkong is authority should be appointed to investi NOTICE OF MEETING.

not mentioned. Each successive Post-gate the situation. The Postmaster ΝΟΙ

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the master-General would seem to have had General, however, intimated that if the

FIRST

ORDINARY YEARLY a new policy, and nothing has resulted Marconi Company do not recognise the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS OF THE

to now but deadlock. The contention fairness of the Government offer," then HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CON

The Official Receiver (Mr. HA STRUCTION CO., LTD, will be held at THE of the Post Office two years ago was that the Government must consider the crec HONGKONG HOTEL, Päder Street, Hongkong, It was not possible to transmit wireless tion of further stations. The prospect of

M. T. G. Bennett, Mr. H. C. Mac. on WEDNESDAY. the 28TH DAY of EMBER, 1923, at 12.00 Noox, for the purpose thessages at a greater distance than the service in Britain being a Government Nisbet) conducted the examination, and of receiving the Report of the Board of Dir2,000 miles. Mc. Hcones, while Prime monopoly is one that will not appeal very namara, Mr. Paul Hodgson, Mr. E. E. A ectors and a Statement of Accounts for the Minister of Australia, contested that strongly to the British taxpayer, on the Webster, and others watched the pro-

the 30th period from 28th October, 1999. to

Mr. Lapicque stated that he carried on June

1923,

and of electing Directors and assertion very strongly, and subsequently argument of the present figures. A financeedings on behalf of creditors. Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company carried out his threat to demonstrate cial return which the Postmaster-General business, with a partner in France, under.

gave in the House of Commons inst June the style of Messrs. P. A. Lapicque & will be CLOSED from the 28ad to the 29th that it was possible to communicate disclosed on the working of the stations Co. He was the only partner in the Far direct between Great Britain and Aus at Leafield, Cairo, Northolt and Stone East. The principal offices of the Com- November, both days incinsive.

By Order of the Board,

tralia South Africa followed Australia's haven a dead loss of £50,000 for a period pany in the Far East were at Haiphong averaging for the four stations less than and Hongkong. A statement of bis S. COURTNEY COOK, lead in taking independent action, but, twelve months, and these figures, presura affaire, which he had fled, showed that

Secretary.

in the meantime, the British Post Officeably, did not include the full establish his liabilities in Hongkong amounted to Hongkong, 15th November, 1923. (1578

had changed its policy several times.ment charges or capital charges. Mr. 1877,065 and his assets to $37,509. In DOSALD, in the speech to the Empire Haiphong the liabilities were 817,290 The latest history of the matter was thus Press: Union to which we have alluded, piastres, and there was also owing to THEATRE

related recently by Mr. ROBEET DONALD, remarked that the station at Leafield employés and staff, 10,500 piastres. He Chairman of the Empire Press Union: seemed to be working admirably even attributed his bankruptcy to the depre- under Post Office management, not for ciation of French currency and also to Ja March last Mr. BosAg Law an Empire work, for which it was primarily heavy expenses incurred in connection nounced as his policy that private enter established, but for American news with the requisition of his firm's vessels prise would no longer be excluded from papers. The American correspondents by the French Government. The Com- taking part in Empire wireless, but that in Londen, he said, sent most of their pany had also incurred losses in connee- the Post Office would run a station news through Leafield, and he quotedtion with the failure of the Banque In- capable of communicating with all the letter from one of them which said:"So dustrielle de Chine.. He realized that Dominions by way of providing opposi- far as speed and accuracy are concerned the firm was insolvent last July, and be tion. Negotiations then began with the I have never had any cable service so applied to the Courts in Haiphong for only company that had applied for a good as that given to us by the Post liquidation. A Receiving Order had also licence the Marconi Company-but the Office from Leafield." This makes evi- been made against him at Hongkongj

scheme for Post Office seemed at once to have dent the possibilities of the service, and The firm was submitting d receded from the position of running a it may be hoped that the attention which arrangement to its creditors. competitive service, and suggested a the subject has received at the Economic The Hegistrar made an order, at the regional system, which for practical Conference will service to hasten a settle-request of the Official. Receiver, to dis- reasons would not work. Then they ment of the quarrel so that we may soon pense with the public examination of the proposed a pooling arrangement, and the get the service which the whole Empire partner in Paris deadlock arose. The Post Office was has been demanding for so many years The examination was then declared.

ROYAL

«MONDAY, JED DECEMBER, 1923, at: 9.15PM

PIANOFORTE RECITAL

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by

MY HARRY ORE Kindly Ascisted by:

Mr. L. SANGER (Soprano) Mrs. N. MATHIESON (Alto) Mss. M. BONENFANT (Piano),

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Booking et ANDERSONS.

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going to inanage the whole enterprise. part.

losed.