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RYOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The
ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS of the abore Company will be held at the Horexone HOTEL, Hongkong, on MONDAY, 8r1 JUNE, 1925, at 11, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with
of Accounts for the year ended 30th Statement
1993
11
AT TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 3RD JUNE, to TUESDAY, ST¤ Junx, 1925, both days inclusiTS.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, Hongkong. 29th May, 1925.
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HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION,
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JUNE 19, 1923, at 9.15 m. FIFTH TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON.
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"The Pharies" of the 4th: Subinarine Quito recently there was an advance of supply practically the whole of the local five cents per pound in the price of demand. It is towards the extension of Flotilla gave another successful pastor¬ chickens in this market. Enquiry into similar enterprises that the Government mance of their anjoyable, entertainment "Barnacles" in two. watches), by the the cause showed that a large percentage might protably devote some attention.
D.SO, RN at the Royal Naval Ganteen of the supplies came from the West River Any action on their part tending towards kind permission of Capt. B. H., T., Raikea district where local warfare had diminish this end would deserve, and receive, the Theatre on Saturday evening. This per an Friday evening, was ed stocks and piracy had substantially support of the whole community. Initiative foratance, as ipcreased transport charges. A consider must be shown however, If we are to be given in aid of Naval Charities, and was able proportion of our ment supply was content with the expression of pious well attendað, drawn from the same neighbourhood and, hopes we shall probably be in the same of course, the unfortunate Hongkong position ten years henes. as
LABEL" consumer was penalised again. These in- to-lay.
FINEST
stances might be multiplied almost "inde- finitely and they are certain to continue until we are in a position to provide for
own needs.
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The University A.D.C.'s production
TYT are of Masefield's The Faithful" will
In
take place in the Theatre Royal in November next. Professor John Smith,
Mr. J. H. Taggart wit for Shanghai on the President will personally direct the play which ought to be a splendid per- the President on on Saturday.
formance. The players, says-the-Univers It is learned that Miss A. M. Upedelity Pain Magazine, have already been
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION GENERAL PUBLIC, 1275 13 JUNE. SCOTCH WHISKYTost the New Territories should supply of Fairten" School has had to go into sele cell anesteals will beats been
CO., LTD.
FORTY-FOURTH ORDINARY
TGENERAL MEETING of the Com.. pany will be held at the Offices of the General Messrs. JARDINI, MAXIMON &
Managers, Co. LTD. Pedder Street, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 10TH JUNE, 1995, ** 11 o'clock in the Morning, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditori.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From the 3D to 24TH Janx, 1925, both days inclusive..
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD. General Managers.
Hongkong, 19th May. 1925.
ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.
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on TUESDAY, the 9TH JUNE at 5.30 P.M., for the purpose of discussing the Arrange- ments in connection with the Celebration of the GOLDEN JUBILEE of the College.
All Past Pupils are cordially invited to be present.
HEO, AIMAR,
Director.
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PUBLIC AUCTION. ➜Y Order of the Mortgages, of VALUABLE the Colony of YAUMATI, KOWLOON in Hongkong, and known as The Eamsining Portion of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1359, together with No. 38, Portland Street, erected thereen to be Sold by AUCTION on THUESDAY, JUNE 11ts. 1925, at 12.00 NOON, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Dee Vomr Boad Central, Victoria, Hongkong, by Messrs.. HOES & BOUGH, LIMITED, Auctioneers.
BLEASEHOLD PROPERTY situate st
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
"MEMNON"
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be die- charged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's
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As supplied to the Houses "of Lords and Commons.
Wharf. The Dargo will be ready for Delivery A.
from Godown on and after 4th Jane
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Optional Cargo will be landed, salese Notice has been given prior to Steamer's arrival.
broken. chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined
Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.15 M. and Noor within the
period
on any
from Sms will be admitted after the Goods
No
have left the Steamer's Godawa, and all Goode BUILD-remaining undelivered after the 10th June,
will be subject to Rent
A. 8. WATSON & CO, LTD.
TO LET.
OFFICE A UNION BUILDING--TWO
ROOMS on FOURTH FLOOR,
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LTD.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 24th Jane, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents Hongkong, 3rd June, 1925,
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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
** SICILIA " Captain R. HARRISON, D.S.D., B.X.X, carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this Port on or about WEDNESDAY, the 10TH JUNE. 1925, at Noom, taking Pis sengers and Cargo for the above Porta.
will be
Sik, Valuables and Tes for Italy, France and London (under arrangem transhipped at Bombay into
Stoner proceeding direct to Marseilles and London.
Parcels will be received at this Office until 5, the day before Sailing. The contents and vains of all packages must be declared.
For further Particulars, Apply to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & 00.,
Agents, Hongkong, 5th June, 1925. 12278
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**WELLINGTON” "ANTI-SCREEN PLATE,
An isochromatis Plate, giving a Fine Render- ing of Tone and Colour Values without the ase of Light Filler. On account of ita High Speed, the Plate is quite suitable for Hand-Camera Work, and is Uns of the Beat All-round Plates obtainable, as it is capable of dealing efficiently with practically soy subject that may present itself.
SOLE MANUFACTURES ****
WELLINGTON & WARD, LTD.
ELSTREE, ENGLAND."
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ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC DEALERS.
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FROM NEW YORK VIA MANILA.
(ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer HYSON
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be dis- sharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie
st: Consignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Holt's Whart. The Cargo
will be
for Delivery from Godown on and after 5th June.
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Notice
Arrival # baa boon given prior to Steamer
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 and Noos 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 11th Jane, will be subject to Rent,
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 25th June, or they will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance will be affected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenta,
(2271 Hongkong, 4th June, 1925.
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Tenders are being invited for construc- tion of a road from Causeway Bay to North Point
hospital. the Hongkeng market is no new iden,
H.E. the Governor has appointed Mr. but, as far as we are aware, apart from the Government's experimental farm and R. A. D. Format to act as a Police
Magistrate. one or two others, nud "the enterprise of Sir ROBERT Ho Tesa near Fanling, Ro thing, much more has been done than to point out to Village Elders, as H.E. THE GOVERNOR did at Kam Tin the other day, ajor W. P. Hattersley-Smith, D.S.O., how remunerative. market gardening | R.A., has been granted two months leave might be made. If we are going to be on privato affairs, content with this, progress will neces sarily be slow.
H. E. the Governor has appointed Mr. T. Dallin to act as Auditer during the The Chinese agricolturalists are hide-absence on leave of Mr. H. R. Phelips. bound conservatives. The great majority H.E. the Governor has appointed M of them hold but little land. They are W. L Patterden to be a member of the divided into Village Communities and Licensing Board during the abmace from we suspect that the farmer of Kam Tin the Colony of Sir Paul Chater. would still regard the farmer of Sheung The return of notifiable diseases in the Shui, for example, as something of a Colony for the grth hours ended on June foreigner. Moreover, padi is their irst 5th shows I case of enteric fever and 2 of
cerebrospinal fever, all Chinese. consideration. They cultivate the land. to meet their own needs and those of their families, and although it is true that the farmers in the New Territories sell their good quality, rice to the exporters sail on the cruiser Brindisi for Japan. and purchase cheaper varieties for their
The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Arthur Cecil Tinsor, engineer of own consumption, there would unques-the Hongkong Hotel Garage to Miss tionably be difficulty in persuading them Violet Nora File, of No. 11, Cameron
Road, Kowloon. to grow vegetables and other products entirely for the market and to rely for their own maintenance upon that which they could buy with the proceeds of the
male.
All the land is cultivated so that, there is no passibility of any great extension of such farms as those at Fanling to LENZENA Shanghai, on June 3rd, to which reference has been made. The ex- Mr. and Mrs. C. A. LENZEN, a 800,propriation of small bolders in order to QA, jre READER HARRIS-At Shanghai, on June create more estates of this kind is, to 2nd. to Mr. and Mrs. M. READER our mind, an impossibility. It would be HARRIS, a daughter. SRAW.-At Shanghai, on June 3rd, to unworthy of British justice and contrary, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. B. SHAW, we feel sure, to British obligations under daughter.
the New Territories lease. - MARRIAGE. PARKINSON-SHEARER-At Shanghai, on The problem then is two-fold. Ad
June 2nd. HAROLD EDGAR, Bon of CHARLES JOHN PARKINSON, of Blackmitting that the present owners of "the heath, England, to GRACE SHEAREE, oil cannot be disturbed, is it possible, third daughter of Mrs. ARCHIBALD first, to persuade them to grow produce SHEAREH, of Renfrew, Scotland.
for the Hongkong market rather than padi for themselves, and, secondly, so to
DEATHS TOOLE-At Shanghai, on June 3rd, Uss, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. J. O'TouLE, aged 11 months.
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manage the system of small holdings that
LEAHX-A 82 Union-grove, Aberdeen, this produce may be collected regularly on May 2nd, WILLIAM KEITH LEASE, and economically from throughout the M.A.. aged 68 years. SMITH-At Park Gate, Reigate, on April whole Territory! We have admitted the difficulty of the task, but we do not think it is by any means a hopeless oue and it is one which we feel should be taken in hand without delay.
29th, NATHANIEL FERDINAND SMITH, formerly of Yokohama, in his 87th
year.
Hongkong Offes; la, Chater Road London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, JUNE 8, 1928.
THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THEIR POSSIBILITIES AS HONG- KONG'S MARKET GARDEN.
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The first step might be to develop a series of village centres to which the surplus production of the small holder
The Prince of Piedmont is leaving Italy on June 15th on a six months' tour of instruction in the Far East. He will
as the examinations are oveN.
the
Professor C.. A. Middleton: Smith in the Hongkong xicersity, China Mugatine writes:-It seems a great pity that, there is no wiring hath in the University grounds. There should be so diffienlty nvilahs give plenty in the summer. This with regard to water supply as improvement has often been suggested and it deserves the practical sympathy at anyone anxious to improve the phys que of the undergraduates.
A Chief Petty Officer, who gave his name as Bombard, of the U.S.S.. Helena, ring at Taikoo Docks,, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital on Friday night suffering from stab wounds on the left wrist. According to police reports of Saturday, the man stated that he had been stabbed by a person whom he was unable to identify in a street at Yaumati Eventually, however, the police traced the incident to a bouse in Woosung Street, Yaumati, the door of which had been forced open. The identity of the Chief Petty Officer's assailant, however, still re- mains a mystery.
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Captain HF Stoneham, East Surrey Regiment, latterly serving with the 4th Battalion King's Rifles Uganda, has taken his retired pay. He was commis- vacancy has been filled by the promotion stoned in the regiment in April, 1005. The of Lieutenant H. R. Drake-Brockman, of the 1st Battalion at Hongkong Captain Drake-Brockman, who is a member of a well-known South of England family which has given many to the Army and Navy, was commissioned in the East, Sur- rey Regiment in May, 1815, served with his battalion and with the "Royal Air H.E. the Governor has appointed Mr. Force (1974-15 Star British War Medal T. H. King to act as Captain Superirand Vietory Medal). tendent of Police and Chief Officer, Fixe
Police reports state that a 2-30 on Brigade, during the absence on leave of Saturday morning three armed robbers. Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.1.E.
entered No. 35, Wyndham Street, but when an alarm was raised by the in- A Chinese was removed to the Governmates, the marauders took to the roof in ment Civil Hospital on Friday suffering an effort to escape. A number of can from injuries received through being stables were very quickly on the scene knocked down by a motor truck, alleged from the Central Felice Station and gave to belong to the Hongkong Hotel.
chase neross the roof A Wei-Hai-wei man, who came on the scene after hearing Mr. M. F. Key, (Sceretary of the Hong- the police, whistles sounded, secured one kong General Chamber of Commerce) who of the men as he was endeavouring to was injured. in a recent motor-accident escape, after shooting him in the log. on the Castle Peak Road is now with a revol suciently recovered to receive visitors.
Sailing on May 13th from Queher by the C.P.R. &.&. Empress of Scotland were the following passengers for London from Hongkong:Sir Paul Chater, and Messrs. F. B. Deacon, J. Scott Harston and H. P. White..
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BLAZE IN QUEEN'S ROAD." FIRE BRIGADE AVERTS A CONFLAGRATION.
An outbreak of fire which fortunately a bamboo was almost immediately got under con- A "Chinese working on scaffolding at a house in Kowloon City, trol, occurred at Queen's Road East at was killed on Friday by falling 40 feet about 4.30 p.m. yesterday. following the collapse. of the scaffolding. The terrified inhabitants rushed ont The His body was taken to the Kowloon and gave the alarm, and the Central Fire Mortuary.
Brigade were soon on the scene. fre broke out on the second floor of No. "Our Cabaret Company concluded a 20. a tenement dwelling, and when the successful short season at the Star Thea-brigade arrived the flamea were begi- tre, Kowloon, last night. Both on Saturning to envelop the roofs of the two day and last night, this clever and yer adjacent houses. satile company, met with a fine reception from good audiences.
To-night and to-morrow, evening at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, the "Pantaloon tits" company of entertainers from H.MS Durban will give performances, the pro ceeds from which are to be sent to Walter J. Baracoat, a stoker, who, as the reault of an accident, was recently invalided out of the Navy.
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The roof of No. 20 was burnt away and the second floor toppled over. The fire- men, however, had the blaze well in band and extinguished the Bames well under an hour's time. Much of the furniture in the houses was spoiled by water, but Nos. 29 and 18 escaped with very little damage,
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In the house which suffered most, under a heap of débris on one of the floors same forty to fifty tina of celluloid were found." This undoubtedly aided the might be sent, and from which it might mati, averted a tre by removing from spreading of the fire.
The roofs, the floors and the staircases be collected and transported by train or the staircase a towel soaked in kerosene of the houses were made of wood, 343 which had been set alight and placed motor-lorry to Hongkong. We are fully were hy some person. The incident of it was fortunate that the fire brigude aware that the land is held by the two carred about 1-15 on Saturday morning, arrived promptly, and worked indefatig · but fortunately no damage, was done ably and successfully, otherwise a cou- races of Puntis and Hakkas, but we have The police are carrying out an investiga flagration of the whole street wouldā.
probably have occurred.
The walls of the buildings were blacken- great deal of respect for the sound tian...
The common sense of the Village Elders and;
ed and up to a lite bour last night & On we feel confident that practical co Gerald Hubert Thompson, E.N., eldest wondering crowd thronged the pavements"
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Thompson, and and, gazed on the scene with awe ALTHOUGH it is only a week ago that we operation between the District Officers Kathleen Mary, younger daughter of Ma: the whole little damage was done, and
not a single person was injured: discussed in this column the possibilities and the Village Communities on these jor-General F. H. Kelly, O.B., C.M.G. (who was in command of the troups in of agricultural development in the New lines would soon lead the Chinese farm-South Chins at the outbreak of the Great ers generally to recognise on which side War), and Mrs. Kelly, was arranged to Territories, no excuse is needed for re
take place early in June. tuming to the subject. The constantly their bread was buttered. Once the recurring troubles in the neighbouring system was in working order, in however provinces, followed as they always are by modest a way, its advantages would be the disorganisation of transport services come quickly apparent, and it would not and an inevitable rise in the price of be long before the New Territories would commodities, makes the question one of be raising fowls, breeding pigs and grow vital importance to the Colony. If Hong-ing vegetables upon a scale which would kong could be made, if not self-support-have an appreciable effect in stabilising ing, at any rate independent of the prices here."
The inhabitants of Lamma Island supplies now drawn from," up country," & very practical atop would have been devoto a great deal of attention to taken towards the solution of many of supplying as with eggs and poultry and TO LET.--Lazze, Airy and Commodious the labour troubles which now have their meat. The pine-apple crops of the New OFFICE BOOMS in Parxez's Burnina: origin in the steady upward trend of the Territories and notably of the Tsun Wan Apply to-SECRETARY, PRICE'S BUILD-
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S.S. BATAAN.” SAILS FOR MANILA AFTER SUCCESSFUL TRIALS,
From St. John's Cathedral Note:- Wo have long felt the need of a good
The small steamer Bataan recently library in the Colony for religious and theological subjects. It may be possible. to meet this need by baving a library at launched by Messrs W. 8. Bailey & Co., the Cathedral. But we should require Ltd., for Teodoro Yangco of Manila sail funds and possibly subscription fees. If ed for that port on Thursday after under any readers are interested will they please going her official trials. The Batana is a ferry boat for service between Manila and write to the Chaplain and give him their steel twin screw passenger and cargo suggestions1
the province of Bataan at the Northern side of Manila Bay
A notification by the Shanghai Muni- ipal Council dated June 3rd states that The Vessel is 141 foot long built ander state of emergency having heen declar Lloyd's survey and fitted with an oil ed by proclamation on June 1st, Colonel fired boiler and two sets of high speed W.FL.Gordon, C.M.G., D.S.0, Com-triple expansion engines having inde mandant, Shanghai Volunteer Corps, is pendent pumps.
command the Defence The official trials were highly satisfac Forces of the Foreign Settlement from tory, an average speed of over 135 kupte appointed to that date sind for so long as the. State being easily obtained against the cons
tract speed of 12 kpots only, of Emergency exists,
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