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INSURANCE OFFICES.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transsc- tion of PUBLIO BUSINESS on TUESDAY, the T and WEDNESDAY, the 36TH INSTANT.

By Order,

LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

Secretaries,

FIRE INSURANCE À 180CIATION OF HONGKONG. -MARINY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION

OF HONGKONG AND CANTON. Hongkong, 24th December, 1923.

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EOR SALE,

NOMPLETELY or Separatoly FURNI.

CURE, ELECTRIC FITTINGS, ota, All in Very Good Condition. Delivery Prompt, January or February, Apply to P. A dou Daily Prom Offica

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STRUTHERS & BARKY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

From SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

THE

vi PORTS.

Steamship*

*WEST FARALON”

Dan Hongkong December airs,

"WEST CHOPAKA"

having arrived from the above-mentioned porta, Monday, 24th December, 1923. Consignees are hereby cntified that their cargo is being landed at their rink into the hazations and/or extra- hatardus Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gotown Co, Lad, Kow. 1000,

boa, and stored at Consignees' risk.

of

Cargo rast produce an the Superintendent

Cost signed by t

•Simports & Exports, Hongkong, before Bill

Orders i issued.

of Lading will be countersigned or Delivery

All broken, chafed and damaged cargo to be left in the Godown where it will be examined at 10 AM Saturday, 9th Dec- ember, 1923, and Tassday, January let, 1824, by Mesa ANDERSON & Asus, Marine

Serveyor.

All Claims must be presented within 10 days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be recognised after the "gooda have left the godowns, and cargo undelivered after Isi Jannary, 1924, will be anbject to rent.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be affected.

Consignees are requested to send in their BUL of Lading in exchange for Delivery, Orders immediately.

STRUTHERS & BARRY,

Agents,

INTIMATIONS

INTERPORT RUGBY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 1929.

HONGKONG F.C.. SHANGHAI RF,C.

At CLUB GROUND, Happy. VALLIT on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1924, Kick off 4 F.3

ADMISSION':

Covered stand, Members...

Non-Members

Open stand

J

Booking at MOUTRIES,

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51.00. 9.00.

. 30 ota.

Club Members from 24th-27thiast, inclusive Non Members on and after 28th inst

-NAYT

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v. SHANGHAI RF.C.

On THURSDAY, JANUARY 322, 1924, Kick off & P.M.

ADMISSION:

Covered stand, Non-Members 50 cls, Open stand

20 ota. 1760

KOMOR & KOMOR

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGÈ

LAMPS

and

LAMP SHADES

THE LATEST FATTING FROM PEKING.

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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificats 5/ns 7476 dated Hongkong 5th April, 1922, for Five Sharea of this Bank numbered 62976/62980 inclusive registered in the Name, Mrs. GLAFIRA. MARIA ECA DA SILVA ABELLA has been destroyed by Fire, and should this Certificate not be produced to the Bank before the 17th January, 1934, ■ New Certificate for the Shares will bo and, and the aforesaid Certificate No. 3/us 7408 will be thereafter treated by this Corpora

tion se Null and Ford...

...By Order of the Court of Director:,

A G. STEPHEN,

Chief Manager.

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NOTICE.

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UNIÓN INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

YERTIFICATE No. A 63 för Nine Shares, U.S.S.B. Emergency Fleet Corpn.44 per share paid up, numbered 98943/ Hongkong, 24th December, 1973. [1781

#7951 in this Society standing in the name of KWONG SING LUNG 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- cate will be deemed cancelled and of no effect, and a NEW Certificate for the Nine Shares will be issued in its stend by the Society.

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. 11696 Hongkong, 11th December, 1923.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

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

AND

CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer

LAOMEDON

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Hold's wharf, The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 24th December.

Optional Cargo will be

unlake notice

has been gives prior to an arrival

All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be xamined on any Tuesdays and Friday between the hours of 10.45 8.m. and noon within the free storage period.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods haro left the Steamer's Godown, and ali Goods remaining undelivered after the 19th Desember, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be pre- sented to the undersigned on or before the 12th January, or they will not be recognized

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Agents

Engkong, 23rd December, 1923.

CAFÉ WISEMAN.

HIRING DEPARTMENT.

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XMAS AND NEW YEAR PARTIES.

W

TE are making a Special Feature of This

Department

During the CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR Festivities,

OUTLERY, PLATE, CHINA, GLASS

LINEN,

And T

···May be Hired-All our Stock is entirely NEW and Customers may rely on all Goods sent out from This Department giving Entire Satisfaction.

CLANE, Crawford, LTD.)

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INTERPORT - RUGBY,

́N THURSDAY, JANUARY SED, 1824, on the Occasion of the visit of the BEANGYAL RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB DIN- NER will be held in the Hongkong Club at 8.00 PM Sat

Those wishing to atten, will please send their Names and those of the Guests they with to bring with them to the Undersigned by

THURSDAY. Noor on

inst, at latest. 27th

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Dinner Secretary, *

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⠀⠀ SHENTON, No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central.

LET.

FFICES in UNION BUILDING-Two

Booms on Fifth Floor.

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FROM MIDDLESBRO. ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITE.

The Steamship BENMAUDHUI."

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informa

ed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or exten hazardous Godowas of the Нолохона and Kewloon WRARY & GODOWN Compart, Lan, whance, andfer from the wharves, dalivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods.

AT

INTIMATION

WATSON'S.

ELEGANT AND USEFUL

PRESENTS.

FOR GENTLEMEN

upon

OBITUARY.

M. J. WELLS.

We regret to announce the death of

We live in an iconoclastic age but the world will never be able to afford to dispense with the festival of Christmas with the appeal it makes to the highest social instincts of wankind. There are Mr. M. J. Wells, Manager of the Hong- Schooors among us who say: Out kong Cigar Store, which took place sud- Merry Christmas! What is denly on Saturday at midnight at his Christmas-time to you;"but a time residence, No. 3, Leighton Hill Road, for paying billa without money a time Tho late Mr. Wells was 1 well known for finding yourself a year older and, not figure in Hongkong and patrons of the an hour richer; a time for balancing your Cigar Store will miss his genial counter- books and having every item in themance. He had not been well for somo through a round dozen of mouths tread months past past and during last Summer agalust you?" "If I could work my will," | he spent several months in British Colum said the ScnooGE of DICKENS' Conception; | bia recuperating after a slight' accident indignantly, every idiot, who goes about which he met with in Hongkong Ho with Alerry Christmas on his lips should returned to the Colony about three be boiled with his own pudding and months ago mach improved in health, buried with a stake of bally through his and on Saturday morning he was at busi-" heart. He should." But evea

theca as usual. "

Mr. Wells was a popular member of SCROOGES in the Far East, if they Search:

the Craigengower Cricket Club and the

Lave left the Godowns, sul Il Goods remaining A Very Fine Selection of the Latest Designs their hearts will be able, we believe, to Civil Service Club and was actively in-

undelivered after the 27th inst, will be subject to rent,

All Croma against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 10th

Jam, or they will not be recognized. All breken, chafed and damaged Goods nee to be left in the Godowas, where they will be. examined on the 27th inst, at 10 a.m.

in.

No Fire Insurance has been attested. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD

Agents. Hongkonx, 20th December, 1923.

01745

S.S. "ANDRE LEBON."

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

MESSAGEKIES MARITIMES.

NOTICE.

ONSIGNEES of Carge from MARSEIL LES, etc, also Cargo ar 8.5. SI KLANG from

above Breamer are hereby informed that their goods with the exception & Opizm, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risks into the Godowns of the Hong kong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.

correction COGNAC, etc.,

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignets efors NoGN, TO-DAY, requesting it to be landed hera

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned." Goods remaining unclaimed After the 37th instant, at Noon, vill be subject to rent and landing charges... --

All claims must be sent in to me en or before the 31st instant, or they will no de recognized.

All damaged packages will be examined on Thursday, the 27th instant, at-10 s,m., by Mesra. Goddard & Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

R. RODENFUSER,

Acting Agent Hongkong, 21st December, 1923

THE

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Every approved Banking Shipping and Travel Transction.

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Manager.

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of San Francisco.

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CIGAR HOLDERS

CIGARETTE HOLDERS

DUNHILL'S SMOKERS' COMPANIONS B. B. B. BELAR PIPES AND COM- PANIONS, ULTIMA THULE PIPES AND COMPANIONS, BRIAR AND AMBER PITES, Gold Mounted BRIAR

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GILLETTE

POUCHES,

&c.

AND AUTO-STROP RAZORS of Latest Designs.

SHAVING SETS, MIRRORS.

confess to a better year than some they

· have seen-in-the-past-ilecade, itchy=-227-3--- hap, be able to regard Christmas, like OLD Scnoodz's newphew, as, after all, "a good time; a kind, forgiving charit able time." No one, indeed, who thinks of all that Christinas has meant to man impervious to its festive influences. kind through the ages can be utterly

ale

'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the

year.

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For the children also there is surely as time in all the year like Christmas time to them with its decorated homes, the inevitable Christmas Tree and the certain

He

terested in the affairs of the Hongkong Boxing Association. He was a freemason and a member of the Royal Order of Buffaloes. He was 88 years of age. first came to the Colony fifteen years ago to join the staff of the Taikoo Dock, where he remained until he went to the Cigar Store two years ago.. ti

The funeral took place on Sunday after- noon, and was attended by a large nam ber of friends. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. J. Kirk Macona-' eliie. Among the many mourners present were Messrs. B. W., Bradbury, D. Kharas, P. T. Lamble, W. Elkridge. J. Russell D. Fritz, J. Clarke, E. J. Kerrison, T. Grimshaw and Dr. Kew.

There were may floral tributes.

coming of SANTA CLAUS in the dend of FAR EASTERN CABLE

night to fill-from-the-resources-of-bis treasure house the empty stockings aus- pended on Christmas Eve from the-bed- rail

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The children of to-day are the "men tradition is carried on, broadening with age its spirit-of-“goodwill-to-inen. "- There is a good deal of illusion no doubt in the atmosphere that prevails at this season of the year but the hallowed traditions of the day will always make HAIR BRUSHES, THERMOS FLASKS, of Christmas an occasion when the spirit

&c., &c.

A. S. WATSON

· CO., LTD.,

The Hongkong Dispensary.

BIRTHS. CAMERON --At Tientsia, on December 13th, the wife of Me. J. W. CAMERON, Asiatic Petroleum Co., Tangku, of a Jaughter.

-300, "

Frase-At Shanghai, on December 7th,

to Captain and Mrs. J. D. FRANEK, REMEDIOS-At Shanghai, on December 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. H. G. 308 REMEDIOS, a daughter.

Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Boal. London Office! 131, Fleet Street, KO,

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, DECEMBER SÖTÜ, 1937,

CHRISTMAS.

I HEARD the bells of Christaus Day

Their old, familiar carole play And wild and sweet- The words repeat

Of Peace on earth, goodwill to men! And thought how, as the day had come

The belfries of all Christendoan

Had rolled along

The unbroken sanit

Of peace on earth, good will to men.

NEWS.

· {THROUGH ELUTER'S AGEÑOY.]

SERIOUS FIRE IN KOBE HOTEL.

Kous, December zard. A fire broke out in the Oriental Hotel shortly after midnight, and destroyed half of the building. There was excite- went but practically no casualties.

LATER

The cause of the fire has not yet been ascertained. The damage is estimated Yen 300,000. Altogether, there were eighty-nine guests staying in the Hotel, but none were hurt.

FEDERATION OF ASIATIC PEOPLES.

of peace and goodfellowship is more active in the world than at any other time. Who will not hope, then, that something of its influence may be exerted on the solution of the grave problems

BOMBAY, Docember 23rd. that are still vexing mankind in Europe; The Indian national pact, which in to in America and, not least, in China? be discussed at the forthcoming National Congress states that communal, religious Here in Hongkong we have special reason and class differences must be dropped in to hope that it may help to promote an order that. Taliane, both within and out- amicable settlement of the dispute which side their own country, may attain enjoy- threatens at the moment the peace ofment of the same rights and privileges as other antions; further, India will parti- Canton and serious interruption of our cipate in the formation of a Faleration important trade relations with that city emancipation of Asia from European 4000- of Asiatic Peoples for the purpose of It may not be in our time, nor, in out omic exploitation and domination... children's time that guiversal peace shall lie like a shaft of light across the land, and like a laue of beams across the ca," and when all men's good shall be erich man's rule"; but that is still for all of us the great object to which the appeal of Christmas for ever beckons us, and is the spirit which prompts us all to wish one another-es ve do to all our readers today-A MERRY CHRISTMAS and AUPPER HOUSE HAPPY NEW YEAR.

There will be no issue of the Hongkong | Daily Press to-morrow morning, t

数

Fifteen cases of small-pox were notified Juring the 48 hours.ended on Sunday.

The total output of the Kailan Mining

Administration's mines for the week end- ing December 9th amounted to 108,300 tonx and the sales during the period, to 72,500 tons,

The Christmas morning service will be held at Union Church at 10.50' instead of at II o'clock. Naval ratings attend Union Church in large numbers and Christmas dinner in the Navy is the reason for fixing the earlier hour.

CHINESE INDUSTRIAL COMMIS SIONER AT GENEVA.

MONTREUX, December 3rd. The High Industrial Commissioner, Chang Ching and suite has arrived at Geneva.

JAFANESE CABINET MINISTER RESIGNS.

PASSES AMENDED BUDGET.

Toxxo, December 23rd Baron Dea has resigned, from the Cab inet, holding himself responsible for the failure of the Government's insurance Bill The resignation has not yet been accepted. Baron Deg insists on resigning and the Premier is #LOW searching for a sùc- cessor. The political parties believe Baron Den's resignation is likely to strengthen the unity of the Cabinet

The amended Reconstruction Budget has Tho been passed by the Upper House. extraordinary session closes on Monday, and the regular session opens on Tuesday. [BY COURTESY OF THE DAILY BULLETIN."']

GERMAN MISSIONARIES IN HONAN.

PEXING, December 23rd. The German Legation has addressed a Note to the Government asking that pro- tection be accorded German missionaries in Hanan.

SPEAKERSHIP.

For ages past the belfrica of Christen- Another lot of Crown land in the dom have rolled along this unbroken locality of Bowen Road was sold by "sopa, and prophet-bards for many genera public auction at Volunteer Headquarters tions past have foretold the coming of yesterday. Capt. Brown of the Hong. It is semi-officially stated that President the golden age when, in words written by kong Electric Company who purchased one of them more than a century ago, the lot had but slight opposition to his

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PEKING, December 23rd.

Teno. Kun has telegraphically invite Wang Chen-ping to come to Peking and

We Ching-lien and bis activities," The question of the Speakership is on the agenda of Monday's meeting of the Lower House, but it is not expected that n decision will be reached, largely owfig to the fact that there are many candidates for the office. PARLIAMENTARY GUARD AFFAIR.

* Peace shall over all its arcient splen bids. The upset price for the lot, which dours fing, and the whole world send has an area of 6,700 square feet, was back the song which

$2,510. The price rose, mainly by $100 now the angela sing" Yet who can forget that within ito, to $3,200 at which figure it was

knocked down to Capt. Brown the past decade there have been five yenra in succession when the bells of On the Fourth Sunday in Advent Christendom on Christmas Day rang out (December 23rd), at St. John's Cathe the message of peace and goodwill upon dral, the Bishop of Victoria admitted to a world in the deadly grip of wart Priest's Order the Rev. Reginald Dupre Renue, and to all men on earth good Shaw, M.C., B.A. of Conville and Caius will-in it not an illusive dream? College, Cambridge. The preacher was replacing them by

PEKING, December 23rd. The Neiwupu, yesterday evening, isaest a circalar telegram to the provinces sein ting forth the reason for its action in disbanding the parliamentary guards and

police,

protecting the members of parliament, on occasions assaulted them.

Half the pleasures of life te in our the low. P. Josking, Principal of St. The telegram to that the guarda illusions. Yet we fondly hope that a Andrew's Theological College, Canton." League of all the Nation will one day Mr. Shaw is on the staff of Holy Trinity while they had also intruded on the floor successfully inaugurate the golden age,College, Canton. Previously to coming of the House. and that we are, perhaps, nearer to it to China he was a master at Lincingly considered it necessary to turnlafa

College,

an explanation to the provinces,

than we have ever beca

In order to correct the false reports, tho