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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD, 1983.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

SUBSCRIPTION

LIST

CLOSES

THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF ULUB

TO-DAY.

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The. Aubscription List Opened on the 19TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1929,

and will Chose on or before FRIDAY, the 2310 DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1923.

:

ردادها گاها از

HONGKONG DEVELOPMENT BUILDING

SAVINGS SOCIETY," LTD.,

Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances 1911-1921.

CAPITAL

AND

$10,000,000

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

Of the abore Shares 169,000 hare already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. On those $1.00 per share will be paid on application and the balance when called up on the same fasis as the remaining capital. The remaining 831,000 shares ranking equally with those already subscribed are now affered for Public Subscription payable as to $1.00 per share on application The balance due on each share, viz., 99.00, will be called up as and when required by Instalments of $1.00 per share at intervals of not less than three months between

Any of the abares now offered to the Public which may not be subscribed for will be fatted in such manner, as the Directors shall determine.

DIRECTORS:

DR. J. C. DALMAHOY ALLAN, Alexandra Building, Medical Practitioner." C. E. H. BEAVIS, Esq.,.9, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Solicitor. H.A. CARTWRIGHT, Esq, la, Chater Road, Victoria, Hanaging Director,

HONGZONG DALILY Parus, LTD.

CHAN SAU FUNG, Esq., 11, Mai Fong Street, Victoria, Merchani. CHAU SIU KI, Esq., H. Queen's Hand West, Victoria, Merchant. FREDERICK ELLIS, Esq, 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Slock Broker. Hon. Mr. R. H. KOFEWALL, Alexandra Buildings, Victoria, Merchant. LEUNG TAN PO, Esq, 3t. George's Building, Victoria, Campradors, of

Messrs. Giss, Livanetron & Co.

LI WING KWONG, Esq, 158, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant. LI YAU TSUN, Esq, 75, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Merchant., THE RETKEENO FATRA L. ROBEET, FROCURE GENERALE DES MISSION

ETRANGERES, Procureur General.

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

RANKRES

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

AUDITORS:

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

SOLICITORS.

"Messus. WILKINSON & GRIST,

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

REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANT :

No. 10, ICE HOUSE STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.

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* PROSPECTUS.

(a) This Company has been formed principally for the purpose of building housen in the Colony of Hongkong willra 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 & 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 plateau below Jardine's Look-out," which is capable of accommodating 150 to 200 semi-detached houses. The Prometers are also in treaty with the Government for unmerous other sites. in good localities.

"

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 developinent.

(e.) The Company is also empowered by its Memorandum of Association to under take busness of all kind's 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.

(f) The Company will pay the preliminary expenses of and incident to the forma tion and Hosting of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business, and the estimated amount thereof is 35,000. (9.) FAIDARIOK 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. (h) The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of Director in 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.

None of the Directors or Promoters are interested in the promotion of the Company except to the extent of the shares taken by them in the Company. 1.) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company pa

be inspected at the office of Messrs. WILKINSON & Gas, Solicitors for the Company, at any time during business hours, ⠀

THE

INTIMATION

THE "JASPER CLARK" ORALLENGE TO Connoisseurs

CUF will be played for så FANKING on

SUNDAY, AND DECEMBER, 1993)

Conditions-38 holes, Medal Play from

scratch on Old Course. Competitors choose

their own Partners, and should send in their WATSON'S

Names for Ballet in the Crus! Way, stating

that they are playing in this Competition.

PERCY SMITH; SETH À FLEMING,

(Secretaries and Transurers.)

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THE 'HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY E

TÓ ANIMALS.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Tof the abors Bociety will be held by ind

permission in the Board Room of Mesars. JAEDENE, MATHESON & COMPANY (Jardino's Building, Top Flor), on THURSDAY, NOV- EMBER 25TH, at 6.30 P.M.

Rusinzas.

1.-Presentation of Report and Accounta for the year ending October State" 1923.

-Any other B.P.C.A business that may be brought before the Meeting.

3-Election of Officers and General Com- mittee for the ensuing year.

At the conclusion of this Meeting. An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL SEET: ING will be held to consider. Proposals to amand Nos. 4, 5 and 9 of the Society's Rules as follows HL

Hending sad Ride note, for "Officers" aabetitute "Personnel. After "Mem- ber" in the last line, insert "Dosat ing Members",

RULE 5-Healing, for "Constitution” subati. tate Management". Lane 2 after "Committed" mkl "of which the President, Vice-President, Hon. Be cretary and Hon. Treasurer shall be Membera en aficio.”

RULE 9. For the present Rule abstitute the`

following:-

"Any person may become a Main- ber of the Society by paying to the Hon. Treasurer an annual subscrip- tion of $4 (Two dollars), or a Donat ing Member by paying an annual abscription of $5 (rive dollars), or a Lite Member on payment of a sim of not less than jou (Fifty dollars). To every such person the Hon. Treasurer will inte a Card of Membership."

[1600

NOTICE.

INNKEEPERS ORDINANCE. 1912, SECT. 1

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

NOTION MORA SCOFF Matisler

FINEST

OLD BROWN

BRANDY

Is Unsurpassed as a

Liqueur.

Exquisitely Mellow, and of Fine Aroma;

to the Delightful

Palate.

(Blends Deliciously with

Watson's Dry Ginger Ale).

A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

Wine & Spirit Merchants

Phone 616.

her Indebtedness ($345.55), duo to the Exxo EDWARD HOTEL, — on or before, the East. EXOCHEDDIN 2009) thaný vak, Boxes, Chitk- ing, and Effects, loft by her ment Elor. Sougkung Chiles: 14, Chater Road. will be Sold by Public Auction.

London Offos: 11, Flors Street, EC.

1606]

1608]

J. WITCHELIE

Hanzgef

TO LET:

Well Furnishéả FLAT où SHAMEEN,

CANTON.

Apply to THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM S

CO. (S.C.), LTD.

SHAMKIN, CANTON."

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEIS.

OCEAN- STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

AND

ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer “THESEUS ”

be

are barsby notified that the Dargo will be die charged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, we it will be at Contignen's rink and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holfs Whart The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and sherd November,

Optional carge will be landed, unless notion has been given prior to steamer's activă,

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where examined on any Tuesdayı and Fridaya between the hogre of 10.45 am and 37

Am and Neon within the free norage period.

No Ulaims will be admitted after the Goods have left the stommar's Godown, and all Goods rosairing

sing andelivered after the 9th November, will be subject to rent,

Al Clams against the Bloomer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 19th December, or they will not beygoognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Ägenta. Hongkong, 2nd November, 1922. [1607

NOTICE.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANION, LTD.

CERTIFICATE NO. A/120 for Nine

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The Bady Press.

HONGKONG, NOTESER 9310, 1993.

EMPIRE MAIL SERVICES, THROUGHOUT the Far East great antis- Faction has been expressed over the improvement in the mail service from Europe during the past twelve months. So far as Hongkong and Shanghai are concerned we are back again to pre-war conditions, with the important exception. of the Siberian route, by which we used to get our letters from London in seven-

The engagement is announced of Lieut. Lancelot King, R.N.. elder kon of J. E King, D.Litt, late Handmaster of Clifton College, of Chillon Pollen, Bridgwater," and Doreen Hamilton, daughter of E Hamilton Holmes, H.; Consul-General, Yokobania, and Mrs. Holmes

mails rapidly within the next generation from certain portions of the Empire to the central parts of the world would be by a combination of air, sen, and land; and the Committee have proposed a system whereby a week would go inved in the carriage of mails, and irst-class passengers between London, on the one hand, and Melbourne and Sydney, on the A young Russian stowaway on the other band. Four day's would he saved | Empresi, of Ravin was brought before by airship Trom England to Egypt; two Mr. J.-R. Wood at the Magistracy-yestor». days on the Indian Ocean by speeding day. An hour after the liner had left- up a little the steamships on that ocean, Shanghai lie was discovered by a stoward and one day by saving a certain amount boy in the steerage air passage. „Hid of time which at present is lost at

story was that he was destitute as the Fremantle before the train starts, aud perhaps a little on the trans-Continental result of bad times after fighting for his country, and that he had stowed away journey,

with the object of trying to get to The British Government have accept America. His Worship passed sentence ed that portion of the report which refers to airships, and "Sir HALFORD of one day's hard labour, but ordered the MACKINDER aaid he understood that, and to be kept in the House of Deten- subject to endorsal and perhaps to negotion-the, sentence of imprisonment being tiations in the Imperial Economic Co-only-nominal-so-that steps could be

taken to find employment for him. fercace, the endeavour will be mule to. supply that service at, no distant date. "Shipping companies on the Indian Ocean," he said, "have already shown FAR EASTERN CABLE what they can do in hastening up their steamers, and the Committee hope it will be considered that we have done a more practical thing in trying to save a week in that way than by suggesting to you what was originally put to us-namely, that you should pay a subsidy sufficient to give you a service of steamers com- parable with the service of steamers which you find on the North Atlantic." It will be seen that this scheme,

if it eventuates, would mean

NEWS.

[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,} ANOTHER FOREIGN · MISSIONARY CAPTURED.

SHANGHAI, November 2nd.

It is reported from Changsha that an American missionary nained Schmalzried

Is been captured by bandits on the Kweichow border..

saving of six days in the transit, PROTEST" BY AMERICAN CHARGE of Far Eastern mails-the four days

by airship from England to Egypt,

"D'AFFAIRES,

PEKING, November 22nd.

captured by brigands on the 13th inst on the Kweichow-Hunan border, belonged to Tragjen.

and the two days aurons the Indian Ocean Dr. E. W. Schmalzried. who wa to Colombo by an accelerated steamship service. We have no information of what happened to this proposal in the Imperial Economic Conference, but we may safely conclude, we think, that it was favourably The American Chargé d'Affaires has entertained. However, this is an inaddressed a Note to the Waichinopu.pro- provement in the service for which, even testing against the failure of the author- under the most favourable circumstances,

ities

to.

protect missionaries in

the

we may have to wait a considerable time, and possibly before it is inaugurated the interior, and asking the Government to mail service via Siberin will be recommunicate with the Provincial author established. The

not then have vice via Suez will ities requesting fant every possible mes, 24-

same interest for Hongkong" and the Treaty ports of China as it has to-day.

Fifteen further cases of small-pox were notified in the Colony on Wednesday.

Mr. Li Yuan-hung, ex-President of. | Chins, and three retainers are staying at

Beppu, Japan.

The Rev. J. H. Johnston, B.A., arrived yesterday by the sa. Siberia Maru. Ho will taken up pastorial duties in connec tion with the new Union Church in Kow- loon

sure be taken to secure Dr. Schmalzried's relense, and also to protect other mission, aries at Tuugjent !

EARTHQUAKE IN SHANSI, 1,500 CASUALTIES.

SHANGHAI, November 22nd. The vernacular press reports an earth- quake at Kolan, Shansi, on the 13th inst. causing the collapse of buildings and · 1,500 casualties.

OBITUARY.

SUL PELHAM WARREN,

LONDON, November 2nd. The "Jaspar Clark " Challenge Cup is

The death is announced of Sir Pelham

in

the to be played for at Fanling on Sunday, Warren, who had long a career December 2nd. Conditions of the com- Consular Service in Caina. petition are given in our advertisement

columns.

A correspondent writing from Hong- kong to Bangkok says: “The racing bere. is poor and the course and horses rotten. Bangkok racing has nothing to learn from Hoogkong."

[BY COURTESY OF THE DAILY BULLETIN."}

LAWLESSNESS AT HARBIN.

PEKING, November 21st.

In reply to enquiries regarding the report published in the Russian paper Shanghai Life on the 16th inst., the Minis try of Justice, today, informed Reuter's correspondent that it was true that the Harbin Court had requestal sanction for the application of capital punishment to the worst Rumian" offenders; explaining Silk shipped per as. Prident Jeffer that it was very dificult for the authori sow, which sailed from Hongkong at 10 ties in the special administrative aren am, on October 25th, arrived in New (Chinese Eastern Railway zone) to control York at 1a.m. on November 19th, having the most lawless of the Russian elemente.

teen or eighteen days. When we may expect a restoration of that service it is impossible at present to say though statements have appeared in newspapers in Peking and Manchuria lately which encourage the belief that we may not have long to wait for this quick service. Before the war broke out the Russians were doubling long tracks of the railway

There will be a Lantern Lecture given in Siberia in order to provide more rapid transit, and there were prospects of mails at the Helens May Instituto to-day, Nov. reaching Hongkong from London in some 23rd, at 8 o'clock, by R. W. Barney, Esq. thing like twelve days. Even this pros- ALO. The subject is to be "Sca-shore pect is improved upon by the specula Life. All are welcome.. tions regarding an" air mail service across the continents of Europe and Asia

For the present we must be content to rely on the steamship services via Suez, via Canada, and via the United States, and it is satisfactory to record that they been 24 calendar days and 15 hours in While imprisonment for life was the worst have all been much improved in the past twelve months. It seems that we may look forward to even more rapid tran

transit.

penalty that could be inflicted by the

A Chinese married woman living in Court, it added the opinion that no other

Taking these circumstances and views sit of mails via Suez than we have at Wellington Street jumped into the harmedy would be successful, the present time. Since the last Imperial bour from the ss. Langshun at the Steam- Conference, when the need for more rapid boat Co.'s wharf at 11 o'clock on Wednes into consideration, the Ministry, of Justion communications between the various parts dayg night. She was prevented from gave the authority desired, but as regards of the Empire was most strongly urged, committing suicide by a boatman who got Germans, Poles, and other non-treaty

Shares, Nos. 93918/89358 standing in the Society's Register in the Name of KWONG SING LUNG of Yokohama has been declared LOST or STOLEN, and if at the expiration of One Month from the Date hereof the above Document be not forthcoming the Sama will be deemed Canvelled and of No Effect: especially by the Dominions of Australia her out of the water and had her taken jects, this anthority was not given, and the

CERTIFICATE, for the mid and New Zealand, which are the most to hospital treatment. Her grievance NEW Shares will be issued by the Somety,

remotely situated from the metropolis of was that her husband would not allow her PAUL LAUDER,

the Empire, much consideration has been to return to her native village. Acting General Manager. Hongkong, 19th November, 1923. · [1304 given to the subject, particularly by the Imperial Shipping Committee. In the

A party of 400 Americans were expectin course of an address to the recent ed at Yokohama on the" 20th of this Imperial Conference on the work of the month, including scientists, businessmen, TESSES: SPARKLETS, LIMITED, & Imperial Shipping Commitice, its Chair and educationalists They were coming through drought, the rains have ruine where the number of shares allotted is less than the number applied for a pro- AV UPPER EDMONTON, LONDON, Manu mao, Sir HALFORD MACKINDER, made for the purpose of investigating the 'the autumn crops and inundatel the

(4) A copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is manered to this

Prospectus and forms part of it.

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 full and

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 BRANGHAI Banking Corporation and at and from the offices of the Company at No. 10, Ice House Street, Victoria, Hongkong.SE

This Prospectas has been duly fled with the Registrar of Companies, Datel to 20h day of October, 1923.

NOTICE.

facturers of Syphon, Bulbs, Highly Concentrat

od Syrup, Sparkloids, etc., HEREBY GIVE very interesting reference to a proposal NOTICE that they have appointed Masazs. in whose benefits the Far East may hope restoration work of Tokyo and Yoko MUSTARD & CO., 22, Mussam Road, Shang. hai, as their Sole Agents for Clans and Hong to share. Sir HALFORD said the Imperial hama The Metropolitan Police Bureau hong All Enquiries respecting their Products Shipping Committes had come to the are concerned over the prospect of the for the said Territory should be addressed to their Agents, Stocks being carried by them at conclusion that the only way in which it dealers in Yokohama prösteering by this

visit and issed a stern warning. could be hoped to carry, passépgara 'and [1699 the Principal Centrei.

death sentiace cannot be applied,

FAILURE OF SHENSI OROFS. Faxing, November 21st. The Tuahun of Shenai reports that following the failure of the spring crops.

houses, thus throwing the people of the pri vince into dire distress.

The Tuchus appeals to the Government to generously at the bageless and destitute people.