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THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUS- TRALASIA & CHINA TELE. GRAPH CO., LTD.
(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND)
AN
HONGKONG STATION. CURRENCY CHARGES ON TELEGRAMS
ENDERS of TELEGRAMS are hereby Notified that from the isr JANUARY, 1925, until farther Notice, the Charges for Telogram will be collected at the Rata of, Dollars 0.38 to equal Franc 1.00.
X. E. F. AIREY,
Superintendent. Hongkong, 10th December. 1924. [1024
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INTIMATONS
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING 1925.
ENTRIES for the Forthcoming
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Racon SATURDAY, 10Tx JANUARY, 1925, at Sr., and must be sent to The SECRETARY, co LASTEAD & DAVIS, Alexandra Buildings, on or before This Dato.
Entry Forma are now Ready and can be had at the JoCKET CLUB STARLES, RACE COURAB, HomeRONG CLUB, OF LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
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NOTICE.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ONE Certificate for 600 Shares No
49001/49600 inclusive in this Company, atanding in the Name of the Late Grongs Expiration of One Month from the Date hereof
MONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION, EITHERINGTON, HAS Been LOST; and if at the
THEATRE ROYAL DECEMBER 23xD, ai 9.15 .M. SECOND TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON,
C.P.O. JIM CARTLIDGE.
CAPTAIN MATTY SMITH. FIFTEEN MINUTE ROUND CONTEST YOR LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION!) THE COLONY.
AND ABOUT FIVE OTHER NO CONTENTS.
BOOKING at MOUTRIES:-
FOR MEMBERS ONLY ON
GISTRAL PUBLIC ON
DECEMBER 19TH AND 20TH,
DECEMBER 2ND AND 23RD.
PRICES:
$5.00, $3.00 AND $1.0),
INTIMATIONS
FINE
PORTS
AND
SHERRIES.
Bottled and shipped by
A number of coolies were at work on About farty years ago Sir OLIVER LODGR and his assistants attempted to the hillside at Stubba' Road on Thurs dispel fog, at Liverpool, by means of day, when a boulder dislodged by the electrical discharges. There were many fearth around it being removed fell on to techuion difficulties, chiefly connected the met, one of whom was killed, while with the use of the very high electrical the others received injuries, ond being
seriously hurt pressures which were known to be essen tial for success. Dr. F. G. COTTRELL
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POLITICAL SITUATION
IN CHINA.
[HROUGH RECTEX'S 'AGENCY.]'
DIPLOMATS' NOTE.
CHINESE CABINET'S SPECIAL SITTING.
PEXING, December 19th. Puring a discussion on China's reply tho to the Diplomats" recent
note
A small Are broke out about 11.-19 on No. 268, Queen's applied himself to the same general pro- Thursday night at blem, but had in view the precipitation Road, occupied by Au Ya Ting, a dried of metal and acid fumes, blast furnacemeat merchant, The Hongkong Brigade were summoned, but the inmates had dust, and dust generally. There are now extinguished the flames with buckets, of
■ | about 200 plants in use all over the work water before the brigade arrived, though Cabinet yesterday resolved that it will express its appreciation of the recog- where the process works successfully, they were quickly on the scene.
nition accorded to the new. Government, Very high electrical pressures bave heen used,, and there seems to be no reason why. with patience and persevemure,
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the above Certificata not be forthcoming. Geo. G. SANDEMAN SONS higher pressures should not be fairly
Another Certificate for the said Shares will be
issued by the Company, and thereafter no other will be acknowledgeil.
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A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD.
OLD JAPAN PRINTS, IVORY NETZUKEES,
AND
GOLD LACQUER.
IT
MESAS, KOMOR & KOMOR ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
MR K. HAYASHI, of Tokyo, exhibits at
Mesas. KOMOR & KOMOR, AL ANDRA BUILDINGs, Des Voeur Road, A Unique Collection of JAPANESE PRINTS; price ranging from 50 cents to 3.000 Dollar Esh: also A Fine Collection of NETZUKEES and GOLD LACQUER, For ONE WEEK ONLY. The Exhibition will be Open from 9 .. to
комонкомов,
Art and Curio Experis,
6 P.X.
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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN,
Steamer
THE "PFALZ
haring arrived from BREMEN, HAMBURG mad Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Cargo is being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow-
where
Zalivary
be obtained. can be Goods
ramaining undelivered after the 20th instant, will be subject to Rent.
in. No Fire Insurance will be effected by un any cano whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyor, Messrs. Anderson & Lake, at 10 am, on the 19th December, 1924.
Na Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Gedown and all Claims must be presented within two weeks of the Steamer's arrival here, after which date they will not be recognised.
Consignees are requested to surrender their Bill of Lading to the Endersigned for
entersignature.
MELCHERS & CO., Aganta, NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD Bзs.
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THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
STEAMER FOR STRAITS, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS & LONDON.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED FOR BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF CONTINENTAL, AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
THE Steamship
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"SOUDAN"
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carrying Captain G. G. Ramell, Majesty's Malls, will be despatched from this Port on or boat WEDNESDAY, the 24x DECEMBER, 1924, at Noor, taking. Pas- sengers and Cargo for the above Ports.
Eik and Valuables and Tea for Italy, France and London (under arrangement) will be traa- shipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer pro- ceeding direct to Marselles and London.
Parcels will be received at this Office until 5 r.M., the Day before Sailing. The contente and value of all packages must be declared...
For further particulars, apply to-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 18th December, 1924.
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NORTH-BOUND STEAMERS,
2. During the North-East Monsoon there is always a possibility of North-bound Steamers Running Short
OF BUNKER COAL,
This is to Inform You that TAIT & CO., AMOY (A Well-protected Port with Good Anchorage) have Blocks of
GOOD JAPANESE BUNKER COALS AT REASONABLE PRICES. Wireless Meninge via Hongkong or Formosa are Be-travmutted by the GREAT NORTHERN THEGRATE CO., and Wire to "TAI" or *COALBUNKER" AMOY, will Roccive their Prompt Attention.
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In the small hours of Thursday morn-an give assurances regarding the ob-
ing a motor-ear which took the corner. at the junction of Queen's Road West and the Kennedy Town Praya, shot over
Vance of treaties and other inter national engagements. A reply is now
the Praya into the Harbour. The driver being drafted and will probably be for- managed to jump clear. and the car warded on Monday. turned a complete somersault and sank.. A Mr. Chan Wo Hing is said to be the
A WARNING TO PEAK RESIDENTS.
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TROOPS ON THE KOYE,
PEKING, December 19th. The Mukden office of the Peking-
CANTON NEWS,
are
ca-
the Kuomintang: leaders will confiscate the goods for the value they command, aecording to the Tran "Wae Po.
MR. SUN FO.
common. We have had brought to our notice some very successful work done recently at Woolwich Arsenal by a former G. Hongkong resident. Professor A. WARREN, one of the pioneer members of owner of the car,
A Children's Party, the second of its the staff of the local University. From 1920 onwards he has been making re-kind, was held at the Helena May In-Mukden Railway have been ordered ta was have two hundred ears ready to trans- searches connected with high pressure stitute yesterday afternoon, and electricity. The problem attacked was well attended. The children were enter- $3.25 this: It was known that metals, especttained to tea, and afterwards there were Part Fengtien troops southward, prob 3.40 ally castings, had Haws, but it was then games and dancing. The hall had been ably in connection with the Nanking
impossible to detect the flaw without tastefully decorated with balloons and sitimation.
other adornments which lent a Christmas spoiling the material Why cot take an touch in the happy gathering. 390X-ray photograph? It was all a matter
The -Straits Settlements Volunteer
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]* Apparently; Mr. 5.00 of electrical pressure.
THE TAX ON CIGARETTES. 5.20 WARREN has been remarkably successful, Force is losing its Commandant, Lieut.- for it is now possible to take an X-ray Col. F.. E: Spencer, next month. Col.
Canton cigarette stands. greatly har photograph which will reveal a Aaw three Spencer completes his term of service
with the Volunteers and goes home on assed by revenue stamp inspectors, who inches deep. In the matter of shells January 13th. I will be succeeded by are fining sellers and buyers 850 each alone, during the war. such a precess Major F. J. M. Postlethwaits, of the for handling anstamped cigarette pack- 3.10 would have saved many accidenta and a King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.nges, are being asked for a contribution 3.25 great deal of money, We do not pretend the first battalion of which regiment, was of 10,000 in lieu of further persecution .40 to understand the technical dificulties of stationed at Singapore at the outbreak and 80,000 a month for the privilege of dealers to comply with the stamp law. increasing the pressures required to pre. of war in 1914, leaving immediately for appointing inspectors to urge tobacco
the front. We do, however, accept
The Kuomintang Bolshevists cipitate fog.
It is reported that the police searched forcing the stamp law on the poor and the statement of Sir OlivER LODGE that | it will be done in time. His closing day on Thursday to discover the helpless small dealers, while the man words on the subject are of considerable whereabouts of a European Indy, who facturers-the British-American Tobacco interest for he reminded us that it was bad disappeared. ander alarming cir. Company, the Nanyang Brothers, and cumstancer" It appears that she engaged others-are unwilling to assist the retail- ¬ the fashion, nowadays, to
ear from the Eagle Motor Garage, ers to escape the Kuemintung taxes A Nature alone. Attempts are made to
No. . Canton Road, Kowloon, about few days ago, the members of the Work- encourage and supplement her. "We eight o'clock on Wedresday evening and ors Conference of the Kuomintang seized still supplicated the Higher Powers for proceded to Sheungshui Police Station 3DS cases of cigarettes when they were the production or limitation of rain where she asked the driver to wait for being landed in Canton pending pay- instead of setting to work and seeing her. After several hours the driver, ia- ment of stump duty. The Company, how- formed the police of the disappearance ever, has protested that the cigarettes what we could do ourselves."
of his fare. Now the lady has visited are not subject to the stamp duty antik · minded us that the greater part of the the garage to tell them she came down they are sold in retail lt is understood world suffers from drought. Clouds by train from Shengshui. appeared even in deserts, hut dispersed again without precipitation. Why not electrify them 1 It is true that pioneers must be prepared to put up with ridicule. They will no longer be discouraged by suggestions that their work reveals a tendency towards hlasphemy. For all NO MORE DROUGHTS. :
new knowledge benests humanity, and 1 is not so very long ago that any any one who helps, in however small a suggestion of interference with the way way to reclaim the desert is benefiting of Nature was regarded as blasphemy his fellows. If we live to see raia pro- Dear Sir,-The following letter has THE BANNERMEN TO BE EVITED- by pious persons. When, just a hundred duced by precipitation in Hongkong we been addressed to me as Hon. Secretary The Kuomintang Bolshevists in Can- years ago, the first railway was built, shall have one worry the less, for we of the Peak Residents' Association by ton have decided to evict the Bannermen former Manchu troops who have settled many people viewed the whole enterprise shall have no more anxiety about the Mr. G. Sewell, 431, The Peak, Hongkong, down in Canton since the Ching Dynasty, from their houses and lands. When the with shocked amazement. It was, in the level water supply. China should be not dated the sth instant:
Manchus first reached, Canton, they were given publie lands by the Imperial Family phrase of the day,"fying in the face the least grateful among the countries of Providence." It was very much the of the work if Sir Oliven Lobor and his
for their services, and they have re mained in the enjoyment of this privilege same idea that inade a much smaller assistants are able to demonstrate that
to this day. proportion of people genuinely believe there need be no more droughts. » that the attempts made by courageous pioneers to conquer the air were wicked. They said that disaster must follow-that if men were meant to fly, then wings would have been provided. A generation that has had proof that it is as sale to
There was a very successful carnival WANTED by Old-Established British
EXPERIENCED travel by aeroplane as on a railway at the Peak Hotel last night. There Company An
FANOT CHINESE
PIECE GOODS train does not accept those views. Mar- were about 250 present, mostly in faney First-Class References Essential, BROKER. Apply in Writing to Box 59, c/o Hongbong vels, such as broadcasting, have made us
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almost cease to wonder at any announce: Daily Fren.
ment made by recognised experts in scientific research. Yet some statements were made by Six OLIVER LODGE, a few Road, and robbed of $22
ton is refusing to recognize the order of weeks ago, before the Institute of Phy-
the Red Army Headquarters raising the sics, that remarkable and peculiarly
are
"You may possibly be aware that there embargo on the export of rice from Can- of interest to people in Hongkong: A perusal of his address must stimulate the
was a burglary at the above address ton, unless confirmation is forthcoming about two months ago and that the Peak from the Inspector-General of Customs Police were successful act only in tracing at Peking. The firm of On Kee, export most lethargic imagination and cause"
the theft but intrecovering some of the era, applied to the Customs authorities. to look forward with delight to the day
stolen property. In the present instance for an export permit and was refused fine grade rice. The Red Army me when, by closing an electrical circuit The East Surrey Regiment and the they recovered the property within four The firm intends to ship 8,000 picais of switching on the mysterious thing called units of the Royal Marine Light Infantry hours of its loss being reported. I feel weeks ago decided to grant a licere to
sure that you will agree with me that in now in port, went on a combined route both cases the action of the Police is syndicate to export rice against popu lar opposition upon the payment of a electricity-we shall be able to precipitate march through the City yesterday morn worthy of the highest commendation."
official
black fump sum as
gift or the fog and cause main to fall, At no day, accompanied by their caval and Whilst strongly endorsing the remarks money, being ignorant of pessible com
made by Mr. Sewell in the concluding fict with customs regulations. distant date, so it seems likely, we shall military bands
paragraph of his letter, my Committee
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY. welcome the fog on the Peak, which in
Mr. C. Ward, of the Peak Signal hope that you will convey to Inspector
Marks and all concerned their apprecia- Canton merchants whose property wa the past has caused residents such in Station, has reported to the Police the sign of the able and efficient manner in destroyed by fire on the occasion of the convenience. We shall welcome it be theft of a telescope, valued at $10, which which both of the cases referred to by Red massacre of merchante on October BERELY PRESS, BONGO cause we shall know that, in a few hours, is said to have been stolen at about it Mr Sewell have been handled. Yours 15th last may now rebuild upon payment
(Sgd.) E B. C. HORNELL it will be dispersed, leaving behind it a.m., on Thursday from a flower pap
"(Hon. Scerotary). rain running into the local reservoirs,
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It is annouréed that no Gymkhana will take place on the racecourse at Huppy Valley at the New Year:
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Not a few Chinese newspapers publish report that Tuan Chi Jui, Chief Executive of the Peking Government, POLICE ACTION COMMENDED.
will appoint Mr. Sun Fo, the multi- "Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, Hon Secretary millionaire san of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and of the Peak Club, has addressed the fo former Canton Major, as Civil Governor lowing letter to the Captain Superinten of Kwangtung, in return of the willing- ness of Dr. Sun to abolish the General dent of Police, Hongkong, under date Headquarters of the Red Army in Can- ''. toti December 11th:-
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"Yesterday afternoon at about. 3.15 a telephone message was received at my residence, 451, The Peak, asking that my grey suit of clothes should be sent down
THE WUCHOW RELIEF FUND. to the Hongkong Club. This was Bore
The Committee which is raising fund and the basket containing such suit was bandes by the house coolie to a Chinese for the relief of distress occasioned by the great fire at Wuchow on December who was standing in the porchway of 1st has recently received many large don
From Hongkong, the donations kong. the Hongkong Club. The latter mentionations from friends at Canton and Hong- ed my firm's name and said he would take include 840,000 from the Tung Wah Hospital and 2,250 heavy "cotton, coats the clothes to me. They were, however,
lu the fire, it may be recalled, taken by him to a pawn-shop where they and 70 cotton covers from Mr. Chau Sui rendering more than were destroyed, staff as my residence have been instructed 70,000 persons home
eless for a time, and were found by the Police to-day, The 1,160 homes and 540 shops and offices in future not to send any clothes down a number of them required relief. The..
Cantonese troops stationing at Wuchow bare contributed $10,000 to the relief "from the army funds,
A Chinese was set upon by seven men unless the owner personally telephones at about 7.15 pm. yesterday at the for them. junction of Pokfufum Road and Jubilee
"The foregoing facts are brought to your notice in the hope that it may assist in preventing other Peak residents from
Prior to the departars for Home of being similarly victimized. the Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood, a dinner was held in his honour at the Yes Woo Restaurant, West Point, by a number of his Chinoso friends last night.
where it was lying, at the flag station,
faithfully,
THE RICE EXPORT QUESTION.
the Chinese Maritime Customs in Can-
to the Department of Public Works of 810. for each cheng of land they formerly owned.
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