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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PEAK CHURCH.
Till be continued daring SEPTEMBER, THE SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES at 6.30 r.x. FreachersSeptember 7th; Bev. C. B. B: 14th, Bev, T. B. POWELL; lat, Bet, Dr. J. P. Machix: 28th, Bet. B. 3. NOATHCOST
INTIMATONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TE, 1924
INTIMATIONS
SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.,LTD.
· SILVER LOAN 1924.
Lason or DEBITULLI FOR. SHANGHAI TAMLS
1,250,000.
TIKE SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUN-
NOTICE.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty
A cents (50 cents) per Share on the gl
Shares (Fully Paid) and Three contx (3 cents) per Share on the New Shares ($1.00 Paid) has
INTIMATIONS
DEWAR'S
[1:22 CIL bereby lavites Applications far been declared for the Half Year ending 30th THE SPIRIT OF
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
"EMBERS "who intend keeping Ponies in ME
Training for the Forthcoming ANNUAL RACE MEETING are requested to intimate to the MANAGzn of the Stables the Number of Stalls they require at a warly state as
(1995 possible.
A
LOST..
Pair of SPECTACLES. Kindly Ratura-Atky, Eastern Extension.
(1.226
WANTED,
WASTENOGRAPHER
ANTED.-Competent British LADY
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Apply For No. 1229, c/o Hongkong Daily Prin Ufice,
FOR SALE.
No. 7, STEWART TERNACE, 270, PŘÁK.
FIVE Boomed
HOUSE Fally For- nished Good Drying Room. Modern Baitation. Garden, Detached Servanta" Quarter Possession Early April, 1925.
1224]
Apply
F.A. MACKINTOSH,
MACKINTONI & Co. Ltd., Alexandra Building.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMER
"KASHMIR"
ARRIVED HONGKONG ON STH BITKza, 1924 FACK ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA, PORTSAID, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
CONSIGNE of hereby informed
NONSIGNEES of Cargo by the abere
that their Goods are being landed and placed AT. THEIR ask in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowas at Kowloon, where each Consigament will be sorted out Mark by Mack and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless Instructions have been given to the con- trary Six
bours
s before Arrival of the Steamer, Goods not cleared within 8 days, including date of arrival will be subject to Reat.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by nș în any case whatever. ·
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Consignos, and the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & Douglas, st 10 Ax. on Mondays and Thursdays.
All Claims must be presented within Ten days
of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods hare left the Godown.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 4th September, 1924.
1297
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
AND
Debentures in the SILVER Loan or 1994,
RATE OF INTEREST-6 per cent per annum. Payable on June 30th and December 91st in Each Year. PRICE OF ISSUE-Shai. Tin. 97† par cent. REDEMPTION on Decemasa 31st, 1954, at par, under the operation of a Sinking Fund. The Debentures may, however, bo Redeemed
part by the Council in whole or in on 31st, 1904, or on any Subsequent DECEMBER Date, subject to the Council giring Six Calendar fonths Notice in the Municipal Gazette and Public Press of Shanghai. In the event of Partial Balemption of the Loan, the Numbers of Debentures to be Bodeemed will be decided by Drawing.
SCRIP will be issued in Denominations of Bhai Th 5,000. Slimi. Tis. 1,000, Sha Tis. 500 and Shal. The 100 to it the convenience of Applicants. APPLICATION FORMS can be obtained from the Local Orrica of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COLPORATION Or from the TELASURES. and COMPTROLLER, SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, Administra tion Building, Shanghai, to whom all Eas
F1053 quiries should be addressed.
北
A.
E.
1}
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received instructions
at KOWLOON Naval Darot, OLD AND SURPLUS VICTUALLING STORES
To Sell by Public Anction
00
FRIDAY, 5ru SEPTEMBER, 1924, Commencing at 9.30 m. with an Interval from 12 Noox to 1:30 PM Comprising: Table Linen, Implements, Berge, Flannel, Remnants, Sundry Articles of Meas and Table Clear and Clothing (including Electro Plated Gear). Condemned Provisions for Foultry Feeding, &c.
&
Terms of Sale:-As detailed in Catalogus.
HUGHES & HOUGH, LTD., By Appointment Auctioneers to the
Admiralty. Hongkong, 28th July, 1924, (1157
OFFICES TO LET.
June, 1924
The
Bach Interim Dividend will be payable on and after TUESDAY, the 3an SITEXAS, at the Offices of the Company, where Shareholders OF SHARES of the Coin- pany will be CLOSED from the 13 817- TEKER, 1924, until the 23 SEPER, 1924 both days inclusive), during which period ne Transfer of Shares can be
registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.
(1220 Hongkong 3 September, 1924."
IST for Warrantia,
41
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
ΝΟΤΙΟΕ.
OENERAL
NEXTRAORDINARY ORNAM in the Boant Room of Messrs. JARDIN, MATHESON & Co., LTD. a FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5T, 1924, 5.30 r., for the purpose of confirming the Resolutions passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 14th August.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hongkong, August 26th, 1924,
HONGKONG CLUB..
NOTICE.
[1184
THE FOURTH YEARLY DRAWING of 20 DESENTURES (1920 Issue-$500 sch) of the HONGKONG CLUB, Payable on TUESDAY, the 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1924, will be held in the CLos House at 11 O'CLOCK A.M., on MONDAY, the Bru SEPTEMBER, 1994 Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing.
By Order,
T. A. ROBERTSON, LT-COL., Secretary. Hongkong, 28th August, 1994. [1191
HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST CO., LTD.
N
TOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN that the FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of HONG- KONG REALTY AND TRUST COMPANY,
held
at
INSPIRATION.
Inspiration is the source of all things worth while the charm of literature, the glory of art, the appeal of music and the wonder of science. Inspiration Huds expression in many ways but never more happily than in the inspired blending of
DEWAR'S.
Dewar's "White Label" and
LIMITED. wil be The HONGKONGA
HOTEL, Pedder Street Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, THE 10TH DAY OF SEITENBER
TFT-OFFICES on Ter FLoor, No. 1994, at 12 O'CLOCK Noos, for the purpose of
14, PEDDER STREET.
For particulars, apply-
1196)
FROPERTY OFFICE,, Jardine. Maturson & Co., Ltd.
S.S. ANDRE LEBON."
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOT ÖE.
CONSIGNEES of ex 98 LETT-
YONSIGNEES of Cargo Emm MARSEIL
receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the Fifteen Months ended I the 30th June, 1994; confrming the appointment of
Directors and the and re-electing.
The TRANSFER
of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 3rd of September, 1924, until WIENFADAT, the 10th day of September, 1924, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PERCY EL SUCKLING, Acting Secretary
11201 Hongkong, 8th August, 1924.
"
ENANT DE LA TOUR from COGNAC in DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
connection with above Steamer ari kereby in- formed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Tressure and Valuables are being land-
LIMITED.
"Victoria Vat.”
As supplied to the Houses of Lords and Commons.
By Royal Appointment to His Majesty The King.
SOLE AGENTS:
S. WATSON &
CO., LTD.,
1.
Wine and Spirit Merchants.
Established 1847–
BIRTH:
Taxi-cabs mado their Erst appearance for hire in Kowloon yesterday.
period of Afteen years. As the Lord Chancellor admitted, there is a touch of Socialism" about the scheme in that It will be seen from an announcement the assistance of the State is invoked. ¦ in to-day's advertisements that the Sun- It is obvious that only by heavy State day evening services at the Peak Church are being continued during the present subsidies can this mass production of
month. dwellinga be made possible. "And if there
is to be a touch of Socialism" in the matter of providing the money, there seems to he also some need of that
"touch" in the control of wages the workmen employed on the buildings are to receive, as well as over the price of building materials, for an undertaking on such a scale will inevitably tend to force up bath. Mr. WHEATLEY has spoken of an arrangement He has made with the brickmakers that they will charge nothing more than they charged in January, but it was mentioned in the course of the debate that whereas bricks" in "January
It is announced that the selection
committee for the Interport Cricket Matches to be played during Armistice R. Hancock, T. E week is: Mesars. Pearce, A. E. Wood and Lieut.-Col. T. A.', Robertion.
The master of the s.8. Sardinia reports that during the voyage from Shanghai a man died on hoard from acute cardine failure. The master of the sis. Achilles fron Miike reports that there was a death' on board from apoplexy.
The Manila Observatory yesterday after- noon reported a typhoon in aboub. 130 degrees Long. El 24 degrees Lat. N.,
of this year were costing 58s a thousand moving W.N.W The Observatory also they are now costing from 8S$. Bd. to gave warning of dépression over the 17. a thousand. But, the Government northern part of the China Sea. is determined to go on with the scheme. its Socialistic character is emphasised in another Bill which bas been introduced, and we see that Sir PATRICK "HASTINGS, the Attorney-General, în a recent speech to his constituents, anticipated that the Government would appeal to the country on the Housing Bill if it fails to pass. le and the object of the Bill is to fix or regulate prices in the building trade, to institute investigation into prices and to give the Minister of Health power to take possession of the lands and build. ings in which the business of producing or of supplying the articles is carried on and to retain possession thereof for such period as the Minister considers neccs sary. The Attorney-General also said it might surprise many people to find that in the Bill to compensation would he 56. paid, but one of the London papers has | remarked upon this latter statement that the Bill as it was introduced in June did contain a clause which stated that com-
A Chinese, who refused to pay his tram: fare after travelling on the footboard of a tram-car from Talkoo Dockyard to Shan- kiwan, was yesterday fined $15 with the alternative of two weeks' hard labour by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Magis tracy.
The master of a cargo boat was yes- terday fined 85 at the Marine Court for mooring his host outside five others along→ · side the s.8. Helikon, thus causing an obstruction. Another cargo boat owner was fined a similar amount for anchoring within the prohibited cable area.
Regret and sorrow is widespread over all dimmunities throughout Malaya at the news of the tragically sudden death of the Hon. Mr. Lee Choor, Guan, one of the most influential and esteemed members of... the Straits Chinese community in Singa- pore, who has passed away at the age of
oldconfidence trick" in still heing worked. A Chinese woman was becosted by two men in Shanghai Street on Tuesday evening. She accepted from pensation for any direct loss or damage one of the men what appeared to be a would be payable to any person to whom parcel containing 800 in notes, promis the order made by the Minister of Healthing to change the notes for them.
security the woman handed over her applied, and the writer added: "Sir jewellery valued at $36 to the men. On Patrick Hastings seems therefore to be renching a money changer's shop she going beyond the book, unless the Govern- found that the parcel contained waste ment have decided on a new policy with paper.
ed sad, stored at their risk into the Godown of TICKETS will be issued for BOUND Landon Office: 131, Fleet Street, EC. general election is based on its probable have a recollection of seeing Mr. Rudyard
the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltal, Kowloon, whence delivery may be | cbtained immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless Intimation is received from the Cersignses
TRIPS during the Months of JULY to SEPTEMBER, from HONGKONG to FOOCHO
and Beturn, Calling (Pageda Anchorage) at SWATOW and AKOY on both the Upward and Downward Voyage, by the Company's New,
Well-appointed Steamer
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION before NOON, TO-DAY, requesting it to be HAI-NING" at the Boduced Rate of $80,
CO., LTD.
NONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer ... “HELENUS
are hereby notified that the Carge will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignes risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf.
The Gargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 4th September.
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Notice has both given prior to Steamer's arrival,
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are where they will be
to be left in the Goesday and Fridays
ermined between the hours of 10.43 and Nook, within the free storage period.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 10th September, will be subject to Bast.
All Claims against the Steamer must be prosented to the Undersigned on or before the 24th September, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
(1228 Hongkong, 4th September, 1924,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, ELLERMAN LINE.
FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
HE Steamship
THE
*CITY OF GLASGOW having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the awarding and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of Holt's What whence delivery may be matted after the Goods
No Claims will be have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after 8th September, 1924, will be subject to Bent
obtained,
All Claims against the Steamer mast” be ented to the Undersigned on or before
recognizedber, 1924, or they will not be
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on ay Tuesdays or Fridays, between the hours of 10:45 am, and Noon within the free storage period of one week.
No Fire Insurance Eau been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned
THE BANK LINE, LID,
General Agente, Hongkong, September 2nd, 1924. (1218)
Landed here,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after the 6th instant, at Noon, will be subject to Rent and Landing Charges,
All Claims must be sent in to me on or before
instant 10th
or they will not The recognized.
All damaged Packages will be examined an Baturday, the 6th instant, at 10 am by Mesars, Goddani & Douglas,
No Fire Insurance has been. effected
R. RODENFUSER,
Agent. Hongkong, 1st September, 1924. [1215
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. AND DHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION
V
·CO. LTD,
FROM NEW YORK VIA MANLIA.
CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
TREGS" are hereby notified that the Cargo
will be dis- charged 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 from Godown on and after 2nd September.
Optional Cargo
will be
his been given phor to any unless 1
to
Notice
arrival, All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 AM, and Noon within the free storage period,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 8th September, will be subject to Bent
presented to the Undersigned on or before the All Claims against the Steamer must be 22nd September, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Agenta.
[1217 Hongkong, 2nd September, 1924.
H
ON SALE.
"ONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS.
the MEETINGS of the for the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Bastion 1923.
Revised by the Members.
PRICE
100
85.
DAILY PRE ÖFVICE.
for the Round Voyage, including Meals while
the Steamer is in Port,
These Special Tickets will be available for Baturn ONLY by this Steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by her follow. Duration of Stay ing Sailing from Foochow at Foochow 481 hours.
The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days and the Leave Eons1056 from the Com. Steamer
Whart pany's
5 p.m., Amiring at Daylight on her Beturn (Weather permitting).
The Company's Steam Launch will convey
AICHOLÁCI passengers from PASCHA
* .. Foochow Orrr, if required.
For further Particulars and Dates of Bailing, Apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers, DOUGLAS STEAMshit Óo., Ltd. Hongkong, 17th June, 1924.
(908
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A Great Picture at Ordinary Prices.
HUMORESQUE
as pathetic as " "The Miracle Man".
as humourous ty "Potash and Perlmutter
with Special Musical Setting To-day, at 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.15."
The Daily Press.
DA SILVA-At Macao, on September 3rd, the idea of forcing combined opposition The following appears in Sketch of July
the wife of Julio A. E DA SILVA (Pancrazio), a daughter. (Lisbon and by the Coaservative and Liberal Parties." 30th: Mrs. Stanley Baldwin's reception Shanghai papers, please ropy). [1228 This Bill is to chine for second reading for Overseas visitors and others brought after the Recess, and the talk of an early a varied number of people to her house Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Road.
in Eaton Square. In the dining-room, I
defeat Speaking on the earlier Bill, Kipling deep in talk with Sir Robert Ho making financial provision for the scheme, Tung-one of the ablest men of the day, Mr. WHEATLEY said he had been asked Fm told-who makes such a picturesque why he had not introduced a Socialist figure in his Chinese garb. At this party measure. His reply was: "He was not it consisted of a blue rbocade costce worn with a sort of skirt of pale-grey, slit up in a position to do it, as the country was
on the right side, where it showed a not ready for Socialism. Mr. WHEATLEY
glimpse of turquoise-blue. Lady Ho fias not much respect for private cater-Tung, however, prefers European dress; prise What is private enterprise," he while Miss Ho Tung, who is more vivaci- ous than most Celestials, wears Chinese
HoweXONG, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1924
THE HOUSING PROBLEM
AT HOME.
H
い
Tar Housing Problem of the Colony has asked, but an effort to make money out dress, and at Mrs. Baldwin's had a been having a rest from public discussion of one's neighbours / Has it not been specially pretty gown of deep-blue bro- lately, but everybody-including the one of the accepted dogmas of private Baldwin helped his wife to do the hon- 'cade fastened with jade buttons, Mr. Government, we imagine-must be well enterprise that he who could make money aura, and Misa Betty Baldwin was also aware that we have not yet heard the
present. A great attraction was provided most rapidly was the member of the in- by the magnificent achievements of the last of the problem. Possibly, it condi-
dustrial community to be most admired Baldwin cook, who had made a wonder. tions were more settled at Canton than
ful little house of marzipan, appropriately It is obvious that in his Housing Bills labelled Rose Cottage, for the place of they unhappily are, we might begin to Mr. WHEATLEY has gone as far along the honour on the ten-table. It had an open see some prospect of reasonable rentais
front door, climbing roses, and a fat road to State Socialism as he dare at chimney-pot of true cottage style." in Hongkong without the necessity of
tempt. It is significant of the state of baving recourse to Rent Restriction
public opinion on this matter of Housing Ordinance; but the Colony is called upon that the Government secured a majority every few months to give shelter to
of 95 on the third reading of the Housing thousands of refugees from the much
(Financial Provisions) Bill disturbed city of Caston and vicibity, and there is a competition for dwelling apparently the other Bill, which is to come up for second reading after the Recess, places that forces the rents of new pro- which is regarded as "the most vital perty to levels that appear amazing. By Bill that the Government has yet intro- landlords it is argued that the cost of duced." Though it will be difficult for building is so high nowadays that high
rentals are inevitable, if owners are not
A Committee appointed by the Muni- cipal Commission of Singapore to inquira into the practical possibilities of the formation of a Municipal orchestra for the town of Singapore have unanimously But it is agreed:(a) That the Commissionera should provide mental recreation in the form of open air music for the public of Singapore; (b) That in order to mako this music' accessible to all classes and communities in the Town, the Commis sioners should consider the erection of public parks under the Town Planning bandstands in open spaces set aside for Scheme. The Committee recommend that in order to obtain the necessary high standard of music associated with a Municipal enterprise of this kind a full professional band be engaged, either ------ (i) A band of imported Glossese or Fill-
subsidised by the Municipal Commission- pino performers, or (ii) A Police band ers. Of these they consider No.. (ii), to they strongly recommend that the Com be the most capable of development, and missioners approach the Police authori ties with a view to combining forces to form & baud, The Committee have gonn into the question of the cost of the pro- vision and upkeep of bands of 30, 27 and
most people to recognise that any Hous- ing. Bill can be of greater importance than the one already passed by the House of Commons which we gather commits the country to an expenditure on Housing in
the next fifteen years calculated at some-
to lose money. This is a universal story Sometime ago the Minister of, Health at Home was proclaiming in connection with his great housing schemes for the work ing classes, the intention to provide houses at pre-war rentals. A fuller study of the problem has obliged him to modify the promise, which now takes the form of rentals about 40 per cent, above pre- war levels. In both Houses of Parlia to the Colony yesterday by the P. & 24 performers under a fully qualified Eare.
ment recently there have been interest-
thing like Twelve Hundred Millions Sterling.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. O. Bird returned
Kashmir,
ing debates on a Bill to make financial The Hon. Mr. E. B. Hose, C.M.G., provision for a schand to supply 2,500,000 Colonial Secretary of Singapore, has gone bouses for the working classes within a home on eight months' leave.
pean bandmaster, and is decided that, in order to allow for sickness, to bazo the expenditure on the employment of 30 musicians. The estimate the cost (in- cluding $5,000 for purchase of inst «ments) at $49,900 per annum
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