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HE Public hereby Reminded that Trivets Jinriaksker Chair, and their Drivers are due for RELICENSING, on JANUARY 18, 1994.
-E D. O. WOLFE Captain Saperintendent of Police [1776 Hongkong, 28th December, 1923.
NOTICE.
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■ For Friends, will render J. MAUNDER'S Chmistкas Cantata “BETH LE- www.at 5 PM, on SUNDAY NIIT, DEC- EMBER 30T£.
A Earty Levitation is offended to all
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accordance with Ordinance No. 8 of 1912,
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ADMISSION:
·Covered stand, Merabers
Non-Member Open stand
$1.00.
9.00.
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Booking at HOUTRIES,
Clab Members from 24th-27th last. inclusive"
We English House, Must be Wall Non-Members on and after 29th inst
Education and of Goods Address Spear Chinese and English fuently, and would be Required to bares Guarantee of $5,000, Good Salary padd
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD.
" AND
NAVY
SHANGHAI B.F.C..
On THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1924, Kick off 4 P.M.
*ADMISSION:
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20 ctas 1760
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION | HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING.
CO., LTD.
CONSIGNEYSON
1ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees' risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf The Cargo will be ready for delivery
and after 28th December. கnபி
CORPORATION..
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
N Certificate 7496 dated Hongkong
5th April, 1922, for Five Sharm of this Bank numbered 64070/82990 inclusive registered in the Name, M. 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.
INTIMATIONS..
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HIRING DEPARTMENT.
NEW YEAR PARTIES. W Department
are making a Special Feature of This During the NEW YEAR Festivities, '
OUTLERY, PLATE, CHINA, GLASS
and TABLE LINEN, WEA May be HiredAll our Stock is entirely NEW and Customers may rely on all Gooda sant out from This Department giring Entire Satifaction.
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AMERICAN EXPRESS CO.. INCORPORATED.
HMAN OFFICE: NEW YORK CITY.
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from Godown of will be landed, unless notice 1924, a New Certificate for the Shares will be PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE
Optional cargo
has been given prior te Steamer's arrival.
All broken, chafod, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Torsdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45, and Nood, within the free storage period.
issued, and the aforesaid Certificate No. 5/us 198 will be thereafter treated by this Corpora tion as Null and Foid.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods 176] have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 4th January,
will be subject to rent
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 18th January, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents. Hongkong, 28th December, 1993 [1771
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
CONSIGNEES par Company's Steamer
LYCAON
notified that the Cargo will be die are hereby ebarged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees risk and abject to and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 27th December.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notion has been given prior to steamer's arrival.
All brakes, chafed, and damaged goods sza to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined say Tuesday and Fridays between the hours of 10,65 A, and Noor within the im storage period.
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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the atonmar'a Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 4th January,
El be ambject to rent.
-All Claims against the Stamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the isth Jannary, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIBE,
Agents. Hongkong, 27th December, 1923,
HUGO STINNES LINIES.
-NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE & texanship
By Order of the Court of Directars,
A. G. STEPHEN,
Chief Manager.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF JANTON, LIMITED.
ERTIFICATE NO. A/68 for Nine Shares,
per
share paid up, sumbered 98943/ 88351 in this Society standing in the name KWONG SING UNS Yokohama has been declared TOS, and if at the expiration of One Month f the Dale hereof the above document bet forthcoming the said Certifi cate will beamed cancelled and of no effect, and
Certificate for the Nine Shares will be in its stend by the Society.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager. Hongkong 11th December, 1923.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.--.
FROM AMSTERDAM, BOTTERDAM, HAMBURG AND BREMEN.
♫ "HE· Steamship
THE
"OLDEKERK"
Every approved Banking Shipping ad Travel Traction
P. J. VANHEDKE, '
Manager.
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AND
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We invite connoisseurs" to give our "D"&"E" brands of both a trial."We do not ask them to buy blindly but
to visit our extensive Wino
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ipal Cition of Bills discounted.
Foreign Exchange on the Principal the World bought and sold
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saving arrived from the above ports, Consigness
notified that Cargo by her are Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or artra-harandons Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godow Company, Lamited, hence, and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained
Goods not cleared by the 2nd January, 1924, BOWERN & CO.,
will be subject to rent [1767
"EMIL KIRDORF" having arrived. Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong & Kowloom Whart &Godown Company's gedowns at Box-
where delivery can be obtained as soon
landed.
Bux
1994, will be
the goods will be landed, unless notice
Optional cargo has been given prior to steamer's arrival.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods, kavs left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- itered on Thursday, the 3rd January, andeliterad
be subject to rent mode All broken, ohs.ed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be ax amined on Thursday, the 3rd January, 1994, 120 by Cour Surreyun, Masers Goddard *Donglan
All Claima
before Batorday
rday, the 18th January, 1924, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the andersigned.
must reach
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & 00”,”--
Agante. Hongkong, 8th December, 1923. (1768
UT-BITS interests and anses readers
All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined the 2nd January, 1924, at
No 8, MUCH BOAD, SHANGHAL
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of
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The Daily Press.
Hongkong, DECEMBER 29TH, 1923..
RESIGNATION OF THE
JAPANESE CABINET,
THE Japanese Government which has just resigned has had a very brief life. It will be remembered that Count TAMAMOTO formed his Cabinet while the Capital of the country was being con- sumed by flames following upon the devastating earthquake of September 1st Business arising out of this un- paralled disaster has practically mono-
them liable for losses caused by earth- General Yang Ting-pui, late Acting quake. The Government took the view Garrison Commissioner at Canton, has that this was a matter for the Gourts to committed suicide by jumping into the decide, but, feeling that in the general river. Flis body has not yet been recover- interests of the country it was impossible In recognition of his services to the to leave the matter there, it made an Constitutional cause, the Generalissimo appeal to the insurance companies to has ordered that a memorial service ba make an ex-gančia payment. as a con- held in his honour. sequence of this Government pressure."
The King's speech proroguing Parlia the companies agreed to make a pay ment of ten per cent, of the value of the ment ou November 18th contained the "policies, but asked the Government for following pasange:"I deplore the dis- financial assistance to enable their to do aster which has recently befallen Japan. so, and the Government recognising that The heartfelt sympathy of My country any payment at all was impossible with-in with the Japanese Government and former Allies and close out this assistance agreed to make the people, our lon. There appears to have been con- friends, who aro bearing this national siderable opposition to the Government's tragedy with characteristic fortitude and
heroism." scheme, and the authority of the Govern-
ment to subsidise the domestic fire Colin Marshall, of Shanghai, who won insurance" companies" has been chal the Peace Memorial Scholarship in open lenged. That there should exist differ competition for boys of British parentage ences of opinion on such great questions throughout China, is going Home by the as these is not surprising. The astonish P. and O. Laiser-i-Hind, to Forestry and ing thing would be if it were solely the Horticulture at the University of Oxford, criticism of these measures that led the where Mr. Marshall's father, the late Mr. Government to resign. A day of two ago W. W. Marshall, MA, BCI, FR.S.L, we published an announcement of the harrister of the Inner Temple, took his resignation of Mr. Drs, Minister for degrees. Mrs. Marshäll is accompanying Agriculture and Commerce, who has her son, and will remain in England for taken a prominent part in the formula- a few months before returning to Shang- tion of the Government's programme of hai. The scholarship, which is one of the reconstruction. It has been quickly fol- largest in the world-being even more lowed by the aunouncement of the fall pecunarily valuable than of the whole Ministry; but though the Rhodes Scholarship-ią, the anonymous position of the Cabinet was described in gift of I Shanghai resident. It is one of the Japan papers a fortnight ago as two scholarships,, from the same gener
we faney it might easily have ous donor, and provides approximately Critical," weathered the storm in connection with £150 on each scholarship,
the famous
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
His Excellency and Lady Stubbs will give two small dances at Government House on Friday. January 25th, and
Friday, February 1st, respectively..
the reconstruction an insurance ques- tions had it not been for the dastardly attempt made by a crazy youth to assassinate His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince. The scuse of respon- sibility in Ministers in Japan, where any thing that concerns the personal safety or repute of the Imperial Family is very real and acute. We believe that the
On Christmas Day His Excellency and history of Japan has no previous recoal of an attempt to murder a member of Lady Stubbs entertained a large party the Imperial Family. In the minds of to dinner. Amongst the guests were H.E the Japanese people, the enormity of the Admiral Sir Arthur and Lady Loveson, crime would reflect upon the Ministry, Commander and Mrs. Thursfield,, Flag- and especially upon the Home Minister Lieut. Peuchoy, R.N., H.E. Dr. and Mrs. who, having control of the police, is most de Feitas, HH. Sir William and Lady directly responsible for the protection of Rees-Davies, Hon.. Mr. Messer, Hon Mr. the sacrosanct person of the Prince Creasy, Hou, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen, Sar Regent The fact that Viscount Goro,William pad Lady Branyate, Mr. and who was Home Minister, is widely sus Mrs. Holt Gale, Siz Eric and Lady Stuart pected of Socialistic sympathies, from the Taylor, Capt. and Mrs., Dickons, Capt. mere fact that be invited M. Jofre, the and Mrs. Brodie, Comdr. and Mrs. Wat- Russian Envoy to Japan and entertained son, Comdr. and Mrs. Watkins, Mr. and him while there, doubtless aggravates the Mrs. Boyd, Miss Calvert, Mr. and Mrs. ministerial responsibility in the minds of Redmond, Miss Addis, Miss Beatrice possibly quite a large section of the Wilson. Mr. W. G. Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Japanese public. We shall doubtless Dyer Ball, Captain Hey, Midshipman learn that the attempted assassination Roberts, RN,, Midshipman Lindsay had more to do with the resignation of Watson, H.N. the Ministry than the other dificulties we have enumerated in connection with the devastation caused by the earth quake, but it remains to be seen whether the resignation will be accepted. A change of Government at the present time can lead to little, if any, change of policy,
Maunder's Christmas Cantata Beth lehem is announced to be given at Union Church to-morrow evening.
On Boxing night His Excellency, tended by Capt. R. Neville, A.D.C., was present at the dinner given by Hon. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Stephen, at their house in St. Juhu's Place, for the staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Lady Stubbs was unable to attend, owing to a alight call.
On Tuesday, January 1st, His Exec lenty will be present at the Battle Memorial Parade of the Bombay Grena diers at Kowloon at 10a.m. On the
The annual meeting of the District afternoon of the same day His Excellency Grand Lodge of Hongkong, and South and Lady Stubbs will visit the Kowloon
January 9th at 9.15 p.m.
10 AM, by Moss. Goddard & Douglas. sented in writing within 10 days after arrival | the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Insor | nolised the attention of the Cabinet ever China (EC.) has been postponed, untii Cricket Club on the occasion of the Clüb'a:
Claims, against the Steamer most be pre
of steamer, otherwise they will not recognized.
be
No Fire Insurance will be affected by the anderigued in any case whatever.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
- JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJH,
General 'Agonta.. Hongkong, 24th December, 1993. (1765)
RICK MERS LINIE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM HAMBURG AND ANTWERP. THE Steamship
"ODIN" having arrived from the above ports, Con signeesof Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being lauded at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong sad Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co Ltd Kowloon, and
at Consigates" risk and expenses." Goods_will be carried o
gives to the contrary
Today All broken, cbafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they. by Messrs Anderson & Asha. lays of the steamer's arrival here, after whic
recognised.
All claims must be presented within fifteen
No claims
To be resold word where be English language is spoken. late they cannot be related after the Thirteen ahillings per annum ensures the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods regalar arrival to your door every week:
undelivered after the 2nd proximo, Bers is familisely known as the Green! Un remaining Remittances should be sent to GEORGE NEWS will be subject to rent
Consignees of asrgo are
are hereby notified that
TE
porated by Royal Charter, Londra.
Catalogues and Price-Lasts on application
(Enquires. Waloomed
Annual Children's "Sports.
TERCENTENARY OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES:
ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CLUB LUSITANO.
STRAMAHIT, ÄGENTA AND SHOK since, and its early resignation had been
On Wednesday, ad, His Excellency, For the Purchase, Sinis mail Charter of Voucle Predicted recently owing to the opposi
The Garrison Command Ordera an- with a party from Government Hanse of any Tonnage, Passenger and/or Cargo, Notion offered to some of the Government's and/or Old, with delivery China at Very Low reconstruction proposals. At the time founts that the pistol range at Scandal will be present at the Interport Rugby Prices
Count YAMAMOTO was chosen to succeed Point will be open to British Civilians Football Match. SALVAGE OPERATORS, MARINE SUEZVETOI
the late Admiral KATO as Premiera for pistol practice on Monday next be- AUCTIONENÉS, Coal Merchants, FREAT BROKena, Metal MERCHANTS, writer in the Times remarked that the tween 5 and 6 pm, and if attendance Haabinery For Sale, New and Old in First choiue showed how little the real rulers itusifies it. a regular time for practice Class Condition":
of Japan concerned themselves with will be announced. IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS, SHARK-BROKERS
talembers Shanghai Bhare-Brokers Ano Parliamentary Parties or the objurgations
The Chinese Ministry at Peking has tion).
of the Press. They seeined to be satis Jak Sola An1uze" ros. UsinA 2015
GREEN'S PATENT ANCHORS.
fed that authority remained with the raised a loan of $600,000 from four local SAMUEL WARKEN & Co., Lt. (Bhefield) inbred traditions of the Elder States bankers, "exclusively to build a reserve
To commemorate the torcentenary of High Class Steel Manufacturers (Tank men; and, above all, with the Throne. fund for copper notes. The loan is re- Brand).
But it is plainly being shown that payable in 1994, the repayment of the St. Francis de Sales, the patron of the position of this school of states loun, in instalments of $100,000 a month Catholic writers and journalists, an epter- men cannot continue indefinitely an is guaranteed out of the Salt surplus tainment was held in the Club Lusitano, last evening, ander the patronage of the changed. The Japanese people are coming from the Banque l'Inde Chine. no longer inarticulate, or powerless. Interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per Right Rev. Dr. D. Pozzoni, Bishop of Tavin and Vicar Apostolie of Hongkong- - The Opposition in the Dies insisted on month is payable on the town.
There was a large audience, including a reduction of no less than: 140,000,000
Bishop Pozzoni and many, prominent members of the Catholic Community and the entertainment was thoroughly enjoy- ed. The principal contributors to the programme were: The Nightmare"* band under the conductorship of the Rev. Father A. Riganti, Miss, C. Hyndman, Mre. E M. Quark, Mr. E G. d'Aquino, Banton Road, of 180,000,000 yen for this purpose, which persence of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen and C. Olive contributed two monologues, and represents ten per cent of the estimated the other directors for the local staff of csers. W. G. Fitzgibbon, A., A. Almeida, total liabilitics of the Japanese insurance the British-American Tobacco Co. to J. P. Braga and Madame 1. T. Carreira companies on property destroyed by the entertain them to dinner in the Carlton delivered appropriate addresses. The earthquake. The companies took the Calé, and a company consisting of 170 accompanists were Mrx, V. Gongalves and
Madame G., Albuquerque e Castro. stand that their contracts did not make perions sat down to dinner.
CABLE ADDREs: Bowien, Shanghal
CODES: Bentley's, Boott's, ABC
6th Edition and Invaroved.
PREPAID WANTED
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ven in the budget the Government ubSir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Chairman of mitted for reconstruction work after the the British-American Tobacco Company, ADVERTISEMENTS earthquake. Making a virtue of accessity is visiting Shanghai. He is accompanied the Government nccepted the reduction by two of the London Directors, Mr. J. Letters se lying at this Olion for
in order that there should be no delay B. Gilliam and Mr. K. Stanley Smith, in proceeding with the work of restora Sir Hugo, who was appointed Chairman tion. Later the Government
announced of the B.A.T. on the recent retiremont BOARD RESIDENCE, Bingle and its proposal to assist the insurance com- of Mr. J. B. Duke, is making a tour of by the Superintendent of Imports & Exports cellent Cuisine from $4 Per Day inclusive. 1, Hongkong,
before Bills centersigned, of Lading can be
No Fire Insurance
Insurance has been effected, Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
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