NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
1.
$.5. "AMBOISE "
COMPAGINE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
NOTION.`
CONSIGNEFS of Cargo from MARSEIL.
LES, dc, in connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods with the arreption of Opiam, Treasure and Valuabies are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hanghang and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd Kowloon, thence Delivery may be sbtained immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless Intimation
nation is received from the Consignees before 5.00 pm. To-day, requesting it to be
landed here.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods ramaizing anak med after Friday, the 18th instant, at Noon, will be subject to Rent and Landing Charger.
All Ólsims must be sent in to me on or before Monday, the
the 21st instant, or they will notbe recognized.
All damaged Packages will be examinal Friday, the 18th instant, at 10.00am Mears Goddard & Douglas,
No Fire Insurance has been effected. ·
B. BODENFUSER, Agent Hongkong, 11th December, 1915.
[2963
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. OF COPENHAGEN.
MS. "MALATA."
on'
by
having arrived. Consignees of cargo are hereby informed that all goods are being landed and placed at their risk into the hazar dons and/or extra bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. where delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns and all goods remaining nudelivered after the 19th of December, 1923,
4 pm will be subject to Rent,
All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined by Messrs. Anderson and Ashe on the 18th of December, 1925, at 10 sm.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bill of Lading will be conater.igned by JOHN MANNERS & CO, LTD.,
Agent Hangkang, December, 13th 1925,
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, QUBAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
AND
ONBIGNEES per
"THESUS' Steamer
are heraby notified that the Carge will be dis charged into Holt's Wharf, Kowicon, where it will be Consignees' risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf
ready for Delivery The Carge wil be from Godown on and after 11th December.
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Notice
r's arrival, has been given prior Steamer
to All broken, chafed and damaged
Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on (ny Tasadays and Fridays Letween the hours of 10,45 am, and Noor within the
Storage period,
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRENS,
LLOYD TRIESTINO NÄV. CO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
The Steamship "Y
***VIMINALE.”
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VENICE, BRINDISI, TRIESTE, PORT SAID. MASSOWAH, ADEN, \"
COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform od that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godawns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Dodown Co., Ltd, Kewicon, whenes and/or from the what
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless Delivery may be obtained Notice to the contrary be given before the 9th instant
No Chime will be admitted after the Goods bare left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 15th inst, will be rabjadi
to Beat.
All Claims aga at the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 25th iost, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed and damaged Gooda are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 15th inst., at 10a.m., by our curvayorn Meses, Gonnard & Dovezas.
No Fim Insurance has been affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
DOD WELL & CO., LTD.
Agents. Hongrong, 9th December, 1925. 12950
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'8 STEAMER, “MACEDONIA,”
INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG AND CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHARDHOLDERS.
HE THIRD ORDINARY ANNUAL
TARIGHING OF SHAREHOLDERS IN
• Furpose
the above Company will be held at the Com pany Tews Ornica, 3. Lawar Albert Road, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, 7 DAY OF DECEMBER, 1925, at Noon, for the of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1945. will be CLOSED from 14mm, to the byrx The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
inclusive. DECEMBER, 1925, both days
By Order at the Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
11th December, 1993.
Hongkong)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 1925
INTIMATION
"With mirth and laughter let old.
*** wrinkles oOMS;
And let my liver rather hent with wins, Then my heart cool with mortifying
STORNS
Why should a man whose blood is
warm within,
Sit like his grandkirs ent in alabaster! Sleep when he wakea?" And creep
foto the jaundice
By being peevish ? "
Merchant of Venice. Act 1, Sc. 7.
Fine Acting Secretary.
NOTICE.
2564
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ms.
NMUNFORD is No Longer Connected with this Company, and CEASED To Sign as BECRETARY from 1ST DECEMBER, 1995. KOWLOON TONG AND NEW TERRI- TORIES DEVELOPMENT Co., LTD,
D. D. SHANK 0957)
General Manager.
in
SHERRIES
Grown, Bottled and Shipped by
GEO.
authority, that the result of this researchi Dr. D. R. Gawler left by the P. Ì Đ...... work to date is that a class of cocaine 1,5: Veren on Saturday for Singapore, has whence he sails for Fremantle to spend substitutes, called "borochines" been discovered, which, they say, “seems a short holiday in Western Australia.... destined entirely to replace cocaine as Dr. Gawler expects to be away from surface anestheticn'as well xa for injec- Hongkong two months.
tion." The importance of this discovery Bies in the conclusion that these borocaine
Mr. RE.Worthington-Evans and Miss Rosemary Worthingtoh-Evans, the
seems to pave the way for legislation calirely prohibiting the importation of son and daughter of Sir Laming cocaine and so minimising cocaine addic-Worthington-Evans, Secretary for War
were passengers on the P. & 0; tion."
Macedonia. They are on a tour round the world..
Unfortunately, general experience shows that prohibition everywhere leads to the development of a profitable smuggling. trade. We see it in the United States in the case of alcoholic liquors, and wo see it in China in the case of narcotic
In the Government Gazette is published an Order in Council applying, Part 2 of the Fugitive Offenders Act of 1881 to the Commonwealth of Australia; Papua ;
G. SANDEMAN SONS drugs Morphia has been imported into Norfolk Island New Quinca, Nauru,
& Co.
Xeres de la Frontera.
and Oporto.
Mr. Alan Arthur Lancelot Tuson has
China in casks of Epsom Salts, and New Zealand; Western Samoa; Fiji. embedded in blocks of Soda, or as tannie Gilbert and Ellice Island; and British Acid ar naphthalin; and heroin as Solomon Islands aspirin or under.some other disguise only to be penetrated by chemical analysis. been appointed, subject to the approval The Chinese Government has been urged of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to establish a monopoly of narcotic drugs, DUTY PAID. not by manufacturing, but by purchasing For Casa Par Bok yearly in one large bulk the total amount ..$35.00 $3.00 required for medical purposes in Chinn
37.00
3.10 placing it in a Government storehouse 39.00 3.25 and selling only to registered and author-
ised persons;
but when we sea from 3.40
the Customs reports the extent to which 3.75
the smuggling of narcotic drugs is now carried on in China we may well doubt
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER Light Dry
* COMPANY (1918), LIMITED. U
Solera... THE SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY Very Fale Dry
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS 1 the shore Company will be held at the Offices Pale Dry Nutty
ST. GEORGE's BUILDING, of the Company, S Chater Hoad, Vistor a, Honkong, on MON Fine Old Brown ... DAY, the 2187 DECEMBER, 1925, 11.90 'CLOCK in the FOR COM, for the purpose of reiving the
a Statement of
Aocate Goneral
Managers for the Year Report of ended 30th SEPTEMBER, 1995, and electing s Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKE of the Company
from
THURSDAY will be CLOSED
40.00
.44.00
to act, temporarily as Senior District Oficer and Magistrate for the Territory of Weihaiwei, and Mr. S. L. Burdett, act 14 M.C., has been appointed to Junior District Officer and Magistrate.
It has been officially notified at Weibdiwei that Mr. Hiram Parkes Wilkinson having retired, Mr. Gilbert, Walter King, O.B... barrister-at-law, Registrar of His Britannic Majesty's
her and Fine PORTS the ability of the Chinese authorities to Supreme Court for China, has been ap
Austria Etnotone on tim Dec., 1925. FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, GIBBAL
MARSEILLES, MALTA, TAE.
PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRAITS. ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the shore named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at x x in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godown at Kowloon, where each Consigument 10th DECEMBER, 1925, until MONDAY, the will be sorted out Mark by bark and Delivery 21st DECEMBER, 1025, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Cɔ... can be obtained as the Goods are inaded.
General Managers. "Optional Goods will be landed here unless
[2053 Hongkong, 5th December, 1925. Instructions have been given to the en-
Sir hours before arrival of the Steamer." Goods not within 8 days, including
cleared date of Arrival will be rabject to Rent
No Fire Insurance will be affected by in any case whatever.
Packagos must be left in the Damaged Godowna for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Surveyors, Moura. GODDARD at 10 x on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Fres Storage Period
All Claime against the Steamer must be pro- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 31st December, 1925, or they will not be recognized
:
ל-
BOOK-KEEPER WANTED.
AN Experienced BOOK-KEEPER; Chi- nese or Portuguese. Security Bond Necessary Apply-Box 2982, c/o Hongkong Daily Press.
(2039
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods TH CHEURO Crow,
have left the Godown.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Agents. Hongkong, 11th December, 1925.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. “OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.' `-.
LXD
Fige to admitted after the Goods JHINA MUTUAL STHAM NAVIGATION
Eave left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 17th December, will be subject to Rent
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 31st December, or they will not recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 11th December, 1995,
12962
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
Faq
LEITH, MIDDLESBRO, LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamship "BENLEDI.*. YONSIGNERS of Cargo are hereby inform ed that all-Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extre hazardous Godowns of the HONGXOTS AED KOTLOOK WHARP AND GODOWN Oorant, LTD., whence, and/or from the wharves Delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goode have left the Godowas, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 14th instant will be sabject to Rent
Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before 28th instant or they will not be recognised
All broken, chaled and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
ramined the 14th instant at 10 am.......
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
BIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO, LTD.
Hangkang, 7th December,
[2956
Agents.
er, 1925,
THE BRITISH MALAYA TRUSTEE AND „EXECUTOR COMPANY, LIMITED.
INCORPORATED IN BINGAPORE),
THE Company is prepared to act sa THE
EXECUTOR, ADMINISTRATOR or TEUSTEE and as ATTORNEY OF AGENT for Persons having. Interests in MALAVA or desiring to squire Interests there.
Booklets and any further Information may
CO., LTD.
CONSIGNERS Pez
Company's Steamer "ANTENOR are hereby notified that the Cargo will be lischarged into Helt Wharf, Kowloon, where
will list Consignees' risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Bolt's
What
The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Godown on and after 10th December..
Optional Cargo will be landed, anisar Notice has been given prior to Steamer arrival.
All braken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, whors they will be examined on any Tuesday and Fridays hours of 10.45 M. and Nos, between the within the Free Storage period.
No Clans will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods undelivered after the 16th December,
be subject to Rent All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 30th December, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
"BUTTERFIELD & SWEE, Hongkong, 10th December, 1925, [2961
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TARIES at GHARTERED BANK-CHAMBERS
· SINGAPORE'
Hongkong Hotel on Thursday Evening Last, A Diskow Bise. Finder will be Bait ably, Howarded on Returning Same to Tax Tas MAGER, Hongkong Hotel.
TO BE LET OR SOLD.
EMAULLY FURNISHED BUNGALOW; in
For further Particulars, Apply to
DEACONS
1. Des Voeux Road, Central
TOLET.
F2949
or About MARCH, 1926, WHOLE FLAT or SPACIOUS ›SUITH CA OFFICES in the Frison- BUILDING "SE
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TO LET.
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COMMODIOUS PREMISES on GROUND
FLOOR, DE VORUZ BOAD GİSİTRİL Would make Admirable Showroom, For fall
particulars, apply the
THE MANAGER, HONGXONG AND CETA GAT CO.
1
Invalid `..... Douro... Old Tawny Estrella... Very Old Tawny Oldest & Finest
...$38.00- 40.00 44.00- 46.00 ... 58.00 61.00
make a monopoly effective.
pointed to act as Judge of the High Court of Weihaiwei until further notice.
The Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps held a general field day in the Fanling and Sheung Shui districts yes-
In the article in the Daily Mail in $3.25
which Dr. Dixox and Sir WILLIAM Port 3.40
announce the pew discovery, the effects 3.75 of addiction to morphine and cocaine are 3.90 contrasted. The injection of morphine terday." All companies of the Corps 5.00 salts, they state, lulls the "brain and left Kowloon at an early hour in the 5.20 destroys judgment and self-control; the morning and on arriving at their des...
subject reposes, unconscious of the wor tination a varied" programme of held operations, manœuvres and general-train- ries and realities of life, in a state of
ing practices were carried out over a stapid inguor and of unjustifiable senserge area. The companies returned to of superiority. On the other hand, the Kowloon late in the afternoon.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Wine and Spirit Merchants..
snung or injection of cocaine stimulates into activity the brain of a particular type
Notice is given in Government Gazette)
of individual; lassitude, depression, and of the intention of the Government to irritability give immediate place to resume a number of properties in Survey energy, brightness, and vivacity. The District No. IV. (Kowloon), these being required for, & public purpose and refrac cocaine habit is perhaps the most
private negotiations for the purchase tory of all drug addictions, because the thereof having, in the opinion of the victim is convinced, in his mental clation, Governor, failed. The properties will be BIRTH. OLIVER-At the Peak Hospital, OD
that he is in every way the superior of resumed by the Crown on the expiration December 11th, to the wife of Mr. R. those who are attempting his reform. of four months after which such com- E. H. OLIVER; a daughter (2065Mental, moral, and physical degeneration pensation in respect of such resumption occurs more surely and more rapidly a will be paid as may be awarded in the the cocainist than in the victim to de-manner provided by the Crown Landa. pressant drugs of addiction."
Resumption Ordinance, 1900.
Hongkong Ofice: 14, Chster Road,
London Office 131, Fleet Street, #C. "
The Baily Press.
THE DRUG HABIT,
in
Dw growing addiction of people Darcotic drugs has been note of late years in most countries of the world, and especially in China. We have it on the authority of Dr. W. H. GRAHAM APELAND, ODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILD. Secretary of the International Anti-Opium
INGS (Bassment). ́·
9032
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FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &c.
Comprehensive and Complete Raport
of the
NEWS OF THE FAR EAST.
Is given in the HONGKONGWEEKLY PRESE
with which is incorporated
THE CHINA – OVERLAND
THADE BEPORT.""
Babearlption, paid in advice$18 Annum for delivery in Hongkong: including Portage to any part of the worldTM $16,
Association at Peking, that" Since the almost complete suppression of opiuni
cultivation in China in 1917, morphia, heroin and cocaine have catered yearly iu increasing quantities. Formerly, they
For China, then, there is some con-
There was a crowded house at the solation at all events to be found in the Theatre Royal on Saturday to witness. fact that the popular preference among the second performance of Iolanthe ?! drag addicts is for the depressant drugs by the Hongkong Philharmonic Society. So far as it is possible to judge from the On the first night one or two of the prin- seizures of narcotic drugs made by the cipals obviously suffered from stage Customs in China, cocaine is relatively in fright" for a "while, but on Saturday very small demand by the Chinese, com there was no sign of this, and the top notch of success was reached. Another pared with morphia and heroin.
performance of the opera is to be given to-night. There is no performance on Tuesday. A matinée 'is announced "for Wednesday at 4.30 and evening perfor mances on the 17th, 18th and 19th.
The Shanghai A.D.C has produced The Young Person in Pink"
Lady Chater returned to the Colony on Saturday on the M.M. a. Amborze.
The last Faumati ferry now leaves at 36 am. and from Hongkong at 2.40 am.
Tales of fooding, says the Straits Times of December 1st, are coming from all parts of Malaya. Eusta Lumpur
seems to have more water in its strecte. than Venice, and Ipoh is or has been in similar plight. Also we have tales of woe from various rubber estates whose
It is officially notified that the King's were used as "cures for opium, and as Exequatur empowering Dr. Wilhelm such have replaced one evil with an Wagner to act as German Consul at managers gnash their teeth each time they infinitely greater and more destructive Hongkong has received His Majesty's
The drug habit has established
signature.
read the glowing market report because water, water everywhere, prevents them getting the output to which they are
It is notified in the Government Gazette entitled. A cable from Kuala Lumpur that the names of the Baptists, York & described the padang as a lake and men- Co., Ltd., and the Co-operative Trading
tioned that the Chartered Bank and the
Association, Ltd., have been struck off the gister.
Government offices were unapproachable
ona.. itself at over 'China
na north of the Great River and is insiduously spreading itself in the South. Morphis, not opium, is the growing menace of North China." We have it also on excellent authority that in Europe the cocaine habit, which was rare a dozen years ago, spread
At the Marine Court on Saturday, rapidly during the early days of the war. before Lieut -Comdr. G. F. Hole, B.N., four boatmasters were ined 83, with the Its users became numerous in Paris, and alternative of three days hard labour, on which he represents the Hongkung the cult of cocains snuffing spread quickly for lying inshore.
to London. In Germany cocaine souffing,
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it is stated, is entirely post war, and
States.
by cara The electric power house wan flooded so that there was no lighting.,
Today is the tenth anniversary of the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak's appointment as a member of the Legislative Council,
General Chamber of Commeren. Mr.
A Chinese woman was knocked down Holyoak was elected to represent the
seems to be confined entirely to the by car, said to be. H.E. the Governor's, Chamber on the death of the Hou. Mr. while crossing the roadway at the innc. E. A Hewett, C.M.G., at a specially large cities, especially Berlin, where sup- tign of Queen's Road East and Arsenal convened meeting of the Chamber on plies can be obtained in certain bars. It Street. She was taken to the Government December 10th, 1916, and was appointed by H.E. the Governor (Bir Henry May) is very prevalent also in the United Civil Hospital,
on December 14th, 1925. He has sat con- Mr.-G. N. Orme, Director of Educatinuously since then, except for leave During 1945, in consequence, of the The spread of the habit has led to tion, for some days past has been in the absence from the Colony of the Hon. Sir research work in England, and we are Government Civil Hospital, suffering Faul Chater, C.M.G., and the Hon, Sir told on the authority of Dr. W. E. Dixos, from malarial fever. It is understood Henry Pollock's appointment ne Acting Attorney-General, Mr. Holyoak acted for eminent pharmacologist, and, Bir that on recovery Mr. Orme will proeded several months as senior anonicis WILLIAM POPE a chemist of the highest to England on sick leave,
metaber on both Counci
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