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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

PEAK CLUB

NOTICE.

MEMBERS and SUBSCRIBERS are

that

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13ri, 1923.

KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY,

HANNU ŠESTION,

NOTICE.

INTIMATIONS

PUBLIO AUCTION.

of

■FANCY DRESS | THE Traina leaving KoWLOON at 253 F.M FALL held on THUNDAY, MT Brut Crex 8, 3.50 1x4, on.SUN PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF JANUARY, 1994, at 9.15 par

DAYS and PUBLIC HOLIDAYS are hereby The Hongkong Hetal Band will be in Cancelled.

II. P. WINSLOW. ationdiance.

Further particulars will be notified later.

Manager. EBC HORNELL, -- *Kowloon, 11th Decembar, 1983. 1705

Hon. Secretary,

3707)

MON

"ONIES up to $175,000, are available for Investment on First Class Mortgage, Security subject to a Trustee Valuation.

Apply to

17081

Messrs. DEACON, HARSTON

SHENTON, 1. Des Voeux Road Central

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. PAYEENT OF FINAL DIVIDED ON SHARED POR TER THAN ENDING SOTH JUNE, 1923.

THE Board having declared FINAL

DIVIDEND 84% (Eight and s half per cent), free of Income Tax, for the Year ending 307 JUNE 1923, Holders of Borer Shares and Heliers of Dividend Warante received from London on account, of Registered Bhares, will be paid their Dividends en presenting No. 23 Coupon of the Bearer Shares, and Dividend Warrants en Registered of the following Banks at Shares, to either Shanghai or Tientsin-

Της Ξανακ

COLPORATION.

SHANGHAI BANKING"

NOTICE.

J. P. VASONIA, who has been garrying on business as Merchant and Commis sfon Agent at Hongkong and Canton, bogs to announce that he will henceforth carry on the same business under the Style of J. P. VASUNIA & COMPANY at 88, Wynikam Street and at Shameen Canton.

Hongkong, 12th December, 1923. [1706

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

Co., (1918), Lam.

HE FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS Will be held at the Offices of the Company, Sr. GroRGE'S BUILDING, Chator Road, Victoria, Hongkong. on THURSDAY, 1953, at 11 the 90TH DECEMBER O'CLOCK in the FORENOON, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ended 30th September, 1993; and electing & Consulting Committee and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be closed from Friday, the THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA 7th December, 1823. until Thursday, the

& CHINA

30th December, 1923, both daya inclusive. Tuz Ru880-AMATIC, BANK.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 30th November, 1923.

THE BAYOU BELGE POUR L'EYES

The Payments will be made in either Dollars or Taels, as the Holder may wish at the buying rate of Exchange of the Day.

R. C. YOUNG,

General Manager, KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

[1708

WANTED by old established Dutch

Manufacturers of Margarine A REPRESENTATIVE for the Sale of Mar- garine in Hongkong. Daly Gentleman having an established connection with Margarine Buyers Required. Write Box 443 Wyss, 30 King Street, Convent Garden, London, W.C., England.

PEAK TRAMWAYS, CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

COUPONS.

and after 16TH DECEMBER, 1923, Books of Conpona 'will not be Soki oni. the Cam, but will bà obtainable only at the Company's Office ALEXANDRA BUILDING Dex Vax Road Central

PUNCH TICKETS. ·

11

NOTICE

[1663

UNION INSURANCE" SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. CERTIFICATE No. A/68 for Nine Shares,

24 per share paid up, numbered 98943/ 98951 in this Society standing in the name of KWONG SING LONG of Yokohama has been declared LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month from the Date hereof the above document be not forthcoming the said Certif ente will be deemed cancelled and of no effect, and a NEW Certificata for the Nine Shares will be issued in its stead by the Society.

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. Kongkong, 11th December, 1923.

₤1606

OFFICIAL NOTICE.

PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME

ון

be held on MONDAY, the 17th day of Ddcamber, 1933, at 3. pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, Order of His EXCHILA NOTTE GOVERNOR of 000 Lot of CROWN LAND above Bowen Road in the

INTIMATION

To Connoisseurs

Colony of Hongkong, far tart of 70 year WATSON'S

with the option of renewal ata Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Manatt „tur Kino, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS

of Hals,

Beglary No.

Locality.

Bondary, Monetes

OF THE LOT.

tant, feket

Axana) Bentuk,

About

As permalo plan.

3,400 $13,5

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS

PTIOULABy Fable. Auction

kold on

to. be day of MONDAY, the 17th December, 1993, at 1 132, at the Offices of the Pabile Works Department by Order of His ExCALLING THE GOVERNOR, of one Lot of OKOWN LAND at Mount Cameron in the Colony of Hongkong, for term of 75 years, with the eption of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of Bus KAJESTY TEE, KING, for. One farther term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LUTS.

Locality

Registry Nu.

Mount Cameron

Leandery Monsemnante.

❤.

Abent

་་

Apsual Rental

Uppal Price

As per quis plan, 21,100 12

(1704

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.

FROM NEW YORK.

THE Steamship

COLORADO". taying arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are

of DOUGLAS ICW. BARTON,

• LATRATZ & Co, General Managers informed that all Goods are being landed at their

DOUGLAS STEAKSHOP CO., LT Owners of Panch Tickets are Warned that THE these will not be Valid after 15TH DECHRORBY THE NOTICE tast

ol EMBER 192nd will not be accepted on

Car after that Date.

Punch Tickets may, however, be returned | respect of the Shin "Red Act, 1894, in hare left the Godowns and sil Gooda remain.”

to the Company's Office when a Coupes of the same Class, or the Cash equivalent of Coupon of the same Class, will be given in Axchange for each used. Ricle.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Monday, 11th December, 1993. [1702

HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC

SOCIETY.

GRAND CONCERT by the

SOCIETY'S CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA.

THEATRE KOYAL

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 1923,

st 9.15 P.M.

Booking Now Open-

PRICES 16901

ANDERSON MUSIC CO.

FINEST

OLD BROWN

BRANDY

Is Unsurpassed as a

Liqueur.

Exquisitely Mellow, and of Fine Aroma; Delightful to

Palate.

the

(Blends Deliciously with

Watson's Dry Ginger Ale).

A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

Wine & Spirit Merchants.

Phone 618.

BIRTH.

reservation is, in our opinion, highly, Mr. Bertram Giles, Consul-General în desimble. Nono know better than the FLBM's service in China, is a passenger Chinese who make it their business to to Hongkong by the M.M. str. Andre protest against it that the European | Zehou which left Marseilles on November coumanity, in" cherishing this desire, is tuth. Mr. Giles, it is understood, is pro- not inspired by racial animosities. Though ceeding to Canton to take charge of the it may be described as "racial distine Consulate General at that port. tion it is entirely without any purpose The Peking Club rently narrowly that can be regarded as sinister. There escaped destruction-by firo. An ontbreak, are residential areas in England where believed to have been saved by the fusing the ground, landlord probibits shops of of elvetrio wires, was discovered in the any kind. He inserts that provision in nick of time, and the use of chemical ex- his leases solely in order to preserve the tinguishers pending the arrival of the fire [ amenities of the district as a residential brigade, saved the building from destruc.

Grea. Primarily, for much the same tion.

reason do European residents desire a

Allotment letters in boanection with the residential reservation here, district

&.0.

Cos Steam Navigation where the social amenities in which they 3,500,000 5 per cent. Debentures at 98

In

P.

·From

have been reared at home are preserved. This was evidently the intention of the were sent out last month. Applications xisting stock and shareholders Government in the earlier days of the Colony

It created what were called ved allotments of about 40 per cent. "European reservations both on the the amount applied for, and the lower part of the hillside on the island. Keneral public approximately 15 per cent, and at Kowloon, but it was then deemed The opening quotation was discount, sufficient to define the European reserva rising to par later, but finishing at tious as areas in which only houses of discount, e European design were to be built.

The report of the British and Chinese those early days such houses "possessed Corporation to June 30th shows, after no attractions for the Chinese," and writing of £1,055 from the value of in- these areas thus became Europentvestments: proft £30,743, and balzice for- rescrvations" practically in the fall senso ward £20,312, a total fat credit of profit of the term. But with the growth of the and of £31,050. The directors: propose to " Colony the prédilictions of the Chinese

place to general reserve £10,000, to declans have changed under the pressure of

ʼn dividend of 15 pc. and to carry for- congestion in the low-lying parts of the ward £29,208. No fresh businty, has been city, and what could once he recognised entered into with the Chinese Government as European reservations.", cannot now during the year. be so distinguished, except perhaps in the sense of a strict interpretation of the provision in the land covenant to which we have alluded. By the enormous vise in rents in these districts resulting from Government aying that he would no the mad competition for house property longer take charge of the loan services, it the Government could not"devise means to accommodate swanus of wealthy refugees from the disturbed districts of to stop such action as Dr. Sua contem- the mainland of China, moderate-balaried plates. It is estimated that the Customs Europeans have not only in many cases

receipts would be reduced by three or been driven from houses in which ther four million dollars a year, if the Canton. had long resided, but are finding it Customs House should fall into Dr. Sun's

hands. 'difficult to live upon their income. They

A Chinese paper published in Peking says it is learned that Sir Francis Aglen has addressed a letter to the Chinese

look to the Government to at least, A gang of armed robbers broke into a

such exploitation hy Chinese denier's shop at No. 25, Con secure them from setting apart districts in which they may naught Road Central, on Tuesday night count upon some security of tenure at and bound and gagged the inmates. They a rental unaffected by these periodical ransacked the shop and appropriated a influxes of multitudes of-refugees from China, and at the same time be enabled to live amongst people of their own

Tre

>the hazardons and/or extra-hazardous in Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence delivery conaoquence. Change of Ownership may be obtained, have applied to the Ecard of Trade, under Sec- No Claime will be admitted after the Goods tion 47 of the Merchant:

REPOSE

gross toning undelivered after 14th December, 1923, age about 3,300 tons, register tonnage about it be subject to rent.

heretofory Owced by U. 8. Navy for the All Claims against the Steamer must be pre-Coan At 08, St. Saviour's Road, Wguese, and others, desiring such reserva 1,000, her Chango her Name to permission to

Croydon, on November 5th, JEAN, to "HAL

HAIsented to the Undersigned on or before 21st NING and to have her registered in the

wife of Rev. J. A. B. Cooz, English New Name at the Port of HONGKONG 18

* Presbyterian Mission, Singapore, aged owned by Tay DOUGLAS STEANSHIP CO. LTD.

4 years. Any objections to the proposed Change of Name must be sent to the Begistrar of Saip ping at Hongkong within Seven Days from the appearance of this Airartisement.

G. W BARTON. Hongkong, 8th December, 1923.

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KOWLOON DOCK AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB

Will produce the Musical Play "THE RAJAH OF BAJAHFORE"

on

DECEMBER 14TH & 15TH.

$3, $2, $1.

In aid of THE MINISTERING CHILDREN'S

LEAGUE

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THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

HOTELS, LTD.

Na PROFOSED ISSUE 27 PAR OF DREINTURES PAYABLE TO BEARER FOR THE TOTAL SUM OF $4,000,000.00.

ERE JANUARY, 1921-8lat Dzozмber, 1933.

TOTICE IS HERESY GIVEN that the

Nove named Company intens shortly Sling and issuing a Prospectus inriting Subscriptions st

at Par for Debenture Issue of total mum of $5,000,000.00.

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WANTED.

December, 1999, at they will not be recognised.

All broken, chafed and, damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, between the hours of 10.45 m, and Noon, within the free storage period of one week. No Fire Insurance has been entested. Bill of Lading will be counterdgned by

THE BANK LINE, LTD,

General Agents Hengkong, 10th December, 1924 [1892

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE.

Fox NEW YORK,

Steamship

THE

Hoagkong Olor: là, Cholor Bori London Office: 181, Fleet Street, E.C.

The Daily Press

HONGKONG, DECEMBER 13TH, 1973.

RESIDENTIAL RESERVA-

TIONS

"LUCERIC"

Most Europeans in the Colony are well having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are aware that there is a small section of the informed that all Goods are being landed Chinese public opposed to the creation at their risk into the Blousons of residential reservations for Europeans extra-hazardous Gedowns of Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, Ltd, whose in the Colony, so that the outburst it delivery may be obtained.

The attention of our readers is invited to the announcement, ou another page, of the St. Vincent de Paul Society's Grand Charity Draw. There remain but a few. more days, in which to secure tickets, and the announcement reminds us that it is not safe to postpone buying theses natil the evening of the Fete (18th December) as in 1920 and 1921 the last ticket was

before the opening of the fate. The al fresco fete on Sunday will be under Over patronage of HE the Governor. 12,000 toys and other articles have been specially imported from Europe and America, and a splendid display is pro mised in the various stalls. There will, of course, be the usual side-shows, and tea and refreshment rooms, The Band of the East Surrey Regiment will play both in the afternoon and evening,

of about $450. On leaving the pre- mises, the gang was seen to make off to wards the Star Ferry and disappeared in the lane between St. George's Building The Housing Commission," while and York Building. Despite the fact recommending that the Kowloon foothills, that several constables were on duty in the vicinity the robbers zande good their together with the bills behind, shoukl herscape," marked out as a European Reservation for occupation by British subjects, added that it was in-favour of reservations all round for any races, Chinese, Porti

tions and preferring to live amongst their own people." It is perhaps too often forgotten in some quarters that but for the enterprise of men of the British race the island of Hongkong would have remained as barren and worthiess as many of the other islands which exist in the immediate vicinity. In the early days, the British pioneers were able to live in what was to all intents and purposes a British residential area. In these changed times we regard

An interesting lesture on Typhoons it as the bounden duty of the Govern

of the Far East was given by MT. F. ment to do for the low-salaried Euro- Claxton, FR.A.S; the Director of the pean (in Kowloon and elsewhere) what Royal Observatory, at the Union Church it has long since done for taipans at the Hall, on Tuesday night. He dealt at manifestations of nature's forces, outlined Peak, and thus ensure that, in a British length with the origin of these impressive Colony, mon, -women and children of the the old conventional theory of the origin British race shall be able to live under of tropical typhoons and explained how conditions as near as may be to those it should be modified and supplemented iu the light of modern investigations. He mentioned that typhoons travelling westwards to Hongkong moved more if they passed through the Balingtang or Basher channels than if they passed over Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield left for San Luzon, Mr. Claxton concluded by giving Francisco yesterday by the President Taft:

+

some interesting details of the typhoon of August 18th which swept "Hongkong A vote of thanks to the lecturer was earried with applause on the motion of The small pox cases notified to the the Rev. J. Kirk Machochic, Medical Offer of Health on Tuesday totalled 19, all Chinese.

No Olaims will be admitted after the Goods the Chinese General Chaniher of Com they would live under at home. have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining serce meeting against the recommenda REQUIRED from 1st January 1 24. neuvered after 16th December, 1929, will be

on Lowest Level, Hongkong, Fui abject to rent. shed BEDROOM with Bath Room. No All Claims against the Steamer must be Board or Attendance required.

resented to the Undersigned on or before Box No 1682,

2nd December, 1923,

or they will not be c/o Honglorng Daily Pren.

recognized

All brakes, chated and damaged Goods are to be left in the Clodowns, where they will be examined on 15th December, 1923, at 10a.m.

No Fire Larurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

THE BANK LINE LTD, General Agenta. Hongkong, 10th December, 1923 (1693

THE EAST ASIATIC · CO, LTD. COPENHAGEN.

TO LET

The Debentures in question will bear in.OFFICES in URION BUILDING T

terest at Bevan per cont. per annum payable The whole of the issue will be

half

yearly underwritten.

The Debentures are to be secured by a specific Mortgage to Trustees of part of the landed properties owned by the Company in

and Shanghai Hongkong

purpose of this Debenture Larue is to

the Company to extinguish the existing

both in

finder

recont

Amalgamation with The SHIRGH HOTELS, Lixizan, and those in

by the Company curred

itself The financis! requirements of the C many both in Shang hai and Hongkong will tan be covered by one mortgage whereby a food sount of interest

payable

ible at regular intervals instead of hitherto stacious rates and

stacious rates and at irregular

on Fifth Floor,

ByteApply UNION INSURANCE SOULSTY OF CANTON, LTD,

TO HE LET OR SOLD.

EDHILL WEST, No. 1, PLAKTATION

APP

∙1623]

Months from April 15th 1934, or To Be Sold.

"KL. BRIDGER,

“LANE, CRAWFOzo, Lro.

FOR SALE, AT PEAK.

∙HE MS

“ANNAM

tion made by the Housing Commission that the foothills at Kowloon should be reserved by the Government for occupa tion by British residents can excite little or no surprise. We are told in the report of the proceedings that the Feak-which, with the exception of part of the little island of Cheung Chau, is the only area in the Colony at present Mr. A. de V. Leigh, M.B.E., M.Ag has reserved for European residence has no been appointed Secretary of the London attractions for the Chinese; but residents Chamber of Commerce in succession to on the Peak would not like to rely the late Mr. Charles E. Musgrave.. implicitly on any assurances of the kind. There was a time when the lowest.

Y.W.C.A.

VISIT OF A PROMINENT LADY WORKER.

Misa Mary Dingman, who for several years has been connected with the World's Committee of the Young Sir George § Gibb has joined the Women's Christian Association, London, part of the Hill district had no attrac Board of the China and Japan Telephone ne Industrial Secretary, arrived in Mortgages of the Company of the Company R Boar, To Be Les Furnished for Eight having arrivel, Consignees of Cargo are strent was on that necqust virtually a chairman sa sucession to the late Siratiss Dingman has already spent six tions for Chinese, and even Wyndham and Electric Co, and has been elected Hongkong yesterday, route from Ans-

tralia to Shanghai, down hereby informed that all Goods are being European residential reservation; but Heary Babington Smith

months in China studying industrial con- hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of now we see houses built for and occupied

ditions, and is returning on the joint in- the Hongko

and Kowloon Wharf and

vitation of the National Christian Coun Major-General Sir Neill Malcolm, eil and the National Committee of the where delivery can be by Chinese extending half way up to the Godown Co. obtained as soon as the goods are landed hillside-un near to the contour line of the K.C.B., D.S.O, G.OC., Military Forces Young Women's Christian Associatios,

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods Peak reservation, in fact, as they

• left the Godowns, and all Goode

can in the Straits Settlements, was a pas for a period of two yours. In connection B House Furnitures Plants in Pots, ote. 1922, will be mubject to rent of Goods the European residential reservation who Macedonia which left London on Nov:

undelivered after the 19th of December, possibly get. Had the Peak not been a senger for Singapore by the P&O with her work she has spent some time All broken, chaled and damaged to be left in the Godown, where they will be can doubt but that the mad struggle by 9th. examined by Mesare.

Goddard and Douglas on wealthy Chinese during the past few years the 19th December, 1923, at 10 am.

Mr. DTS McWhirter, B.Sc, Claims against the

to acquire houses in the Colony would AH

Vestel must be presented to the undersigned, before the 22nd have resulted in half the houses in the MRCVS, who arrived by the Blue December, 1826, or they wil Ept be recognized. Peak district being now in Chinese Funnel liner l'afrodis for Hongkong, has Occupation? Surely there can be very:

come out to take up an appointment with little doubt about it An extension of the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage (1701) the principle of European residential Company,

Stimes!

~This Aptler is not to be regarded as “da Invitation to the Public to subscribs for Debentures and applications there- for will be received by the Company's Bankers only as and when the said Prospectus has been duly filed with the Registrar of Companida and on the footing of such Prospectus and on, Eha Forms to be issued therewith

For and on behalf of

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

· HOTELS, LTD.,

WALTER J. HAWKKE,"

Secretary Hongkong, Ath December, 1923.

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NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

REOides of the "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS" have been removed to 14 CHATER ROAD fard Boor), to which Address all Correspondence should be directed.

Hongkong, 15th July 1922,

have

remain

No-Fire Insurance will be lifected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JOHN HANY ERA & CŨ LID

Hongkong, 12th December, 1913,

are

3.

America, Japan, and Australia, und

in various European countries as well as

comes therefore with a wide knowledge of conditions, and methods of applying Christian principles in industrial :: or- ganization.NET

Last night Miss Dingmin addressed a gathering at the Chinese Young Women's Association in Caine Road on the subject of The Church and the Frustrial Situation in various countries. “ lecture was much enjoyed,

Tha