NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND). HONGKONG STATION. CURRENCY CHARGES ON TELEGRAMS.
ENDERS of TELEGRAMS ARE HERE- BY NOTIFIED that From the Int JANUARY, 1948, until Further Notice. The CHARGES for TELEGRAMS will be Col- lected at the Fate of Dollar 0,35 to equal Frano 1.00.
EA. LEGGATT,
Superintendent. Hongrong, 19th December, 1995,
VEREENIGDE
(2981
NEDERLANDSCHE
SCHEEPYAART-MAATSCHAPPIJ." (UNITED NETHERLANDS NAVIGATION CO.) HOLLAND-OOST AZIE LIJN (HOLLAND EAST ASIA LINE). NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, GENOA AND BREMEN..
THE Steamship
-OLDEKERK (9)'
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignsen af Cargo by her are notified that all Goods are being saded at their rink into the bazardous and/or extra-bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, whence, and/or from the
Delivery may be obtained.
wharves,
Goods not cleared by the 21th December, 1925, will be subject to Rent
broken, All
chafed and damaged Packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 3rd December, 1995, at 10 am, by Messra Goddard and Douglas.
Claims against the Steamer must be present ed in writing within ten days after rival of they will rot. be Steamer, otherwise
recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by the Undersigned in any case whatever.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
General Agents.
[2990 Hougtong, December 17th, 1925,
"
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
Fox LEITH, MIDDLESBRO”, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
THE Steamship
BENVRACKIE."
Consigade of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence, and/or from the wharves, Delivery may be obtained
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 26th December will be Bubject to Bent,
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 9th January, 1926, or they will not be recognised All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
NOTICE of Attorney Piven and executed TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by ML JAN ATE GHING to JAN SEE HONG and dated the 8 paY OF OCTDEZE, 1925, Has Been CANCELLED.
Dated this 7th day of December, 1995. G. R. HAYWOOD, Solicitor for Mr. JAK SE CHIND. [2078
NOTICE.
MRS. DIANA WATTS is Arriving in President Fun Furen and will lecture at the
THEATRE ROYAL THAT SAME EVENING, DECEMBER 2197, AT 9.13,
MOO ON MONDAY NET by the
"THE PRINCIPLES OF GREEK BALANCETM
AND ON
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
AT. 5.15
"THE SCIENCE AND ART OF
PERFECT MOVEMENT."
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NOTICE. 14
THE HONGKONG AND CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE FOURTH ORDINARY ANNUAL
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS the above Company will be held at the Com- pany's Torx Orrick, 3. Lowe Albart Road. Hongkong, on TUESDAY, 297 DAY OF DECEMBER, 1925, at Noox, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to Slat JULY, 1925.
The TRANSFER ROOKS of the Company
will be CLOSED from 1 to the Tu DECEMBER, 1995, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 11th December, 1995.
SATURDAY
DECEMBER 19TH, 1925.
INTIMATION
With mirth and laughter let old
wrinkles come;
And let my liver rather heat, with wine, Then my heart cool with mortifying,
groane, Why should s
warm within, Sit like his grandire cat in alabaster ? Sleep when be wakes?
And creep
man whose blood is
into the jaundies
By being peevish ?”
Merchant of Vanica. del 1, s. 1.
The Admiralty has appointed Lieut. F. M. O'Connor to Litania,
So much is common ground in the dis cussion which has been proceeding ever since Mr. MACKINNON'S appeal was pub- Mr. and Mrs. H. E: Goldsmith left by lished. Moreover, it is not denied that the Empresa of Caunde, yesterday for submarines are of very doubtful utility Manila to spend a short holiday it
in peace, while their use in warfare Baguio.. means a reversion to stark barbarism
Sir Robert and Lady Ho. Tung left unrelieved by the slightest glint or London on November 14th for Mentone,
The late Mr. Clive Kingcome, "of Greenway gardens, Hampstead, N.W..
glamour of the romance of warfare. In where they proposed to stay about threw some quarters there is talk of bringing weeks before returning to Hongkong. the subject formally before the League of Nations, But already, as if prompted by a common impulse, the proposal has been coldly received cutside the British Commonwealth of Nations. There may
formerly of Manila, Philippine Islands, loft estate in England valued at £23,34 (net 5,312). .
The typhoon was reported to the American Consulate by the Manila Ol
Fine SHERRIES be a few exceptions to this somewhat [2964
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THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1918) LIMITED.
THE SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Offices xo, of the Company, ST. GEORO
GEORGE'S BUILDING, Chater Road. Victoria,
1925, at 11.30 DAY, the 21ST DECEMB MON O'CLOCK in the Foxxxoox. fur the purpose of Statement rt Accounts and the of the General Manages for the
for the Year ended 30th EPTEMBER, 1925, and electing & Consulting Committee and Auditors.
Mrs. WATTS makes her Lectares particularly interesting by illustrating them in Her Own Person and Ends the Second Lecture by giv ing An Archaic Greek Dance. All Profits to go to the M.C.L. Funds. Benking at Montrie's.
NOTICE.
[2979
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MB.
NTFORD No Longer Connected with this Company, and CEASED To Sign as SECRETARY from 1ST DECEMBER, 1925,
KOWLOON TONG AND NEW TERRI
TORIES DEVELOPMENT Co., Lai,
E. D. SHANK,"
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General Manager.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED 10 THURSDAY, the 10th Dec, 1925, natil MONDAY, the 21st DECEMBER, 1925, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers.
[2953 Hongkong, 5th December, 1995.
"GLEN LINE LIMITED."
NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS.
Keres de la Frontera and Oporto.
:
Light Dry
Solera
DITY PAID. Per Case.
Per Bo'.
$35.00 37.00 38.00.
Very Pale Dry Pale Dry Nutty ... 40.00
Fine Old Brown
44.00
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It is announced in a London paper V. G. Smyth and Miss Joyes Creagh that the marriage arranged between Mr. Osborne will take place at Hongkong early in March, 1996.
News has reached Japan of the death Unitarian missionary, in his Bord year of Dr. Clay MacCauley, the veteran Dr. MacCauley resided in Japan. for
A clever number of years and was Japanese scholar.
sweeping, generalisation, but if so we have failed to discover them. We believe servatory yesterday morning as being in the League will be completely impotent or about 133deg. Long. E., 11deg. Long. in this matter because it is clearly against N., Stationary. the interests of every non-British country to forswear the submarines. The general argament is that by the abolition of under-water craft the British Navy would be automatically strengthened at sen, and its commanding position established at a point at which it would be unchalleng- able by the rest of the world. Judging Continental by newspaper $3.00 nations, including our whilom friends and
3.10
Allies in the war, and including also the 3.25 United States, are quite positive in their 3.40 refusal to accept any such arrangement. 3.75 In spite of the past great history of the British Navy, and its noble traditions in the sacred cause of human liberty, they do not trust us to exercise this power unchecked If the last war revealed the $3.25
horrors of the submaring it also showed 3.40
the terrors of the blackade, and the 3.75
vision of themselves blockaded by the 3.90 British fleet--the Germans discovered 5.00 what that meant-checks
any hamani- 5.20 tarian impulse which would make an end
of the submarine.
FROM UNITED KINGDOM VI PORTS. and Fine PORTS THE
HE Steamship
"CARNARVONSHIRE"
Invalid...
having arrived from the above ⚫ports, Douro
Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby
informed that all Goods are being landed Old Tawny
their risk into the hazardous, and/or
...$38.00
40.00
44.00
LI
be obtained.
whence and/or from the wharves, Delivery may Very Old Tawny
46.00 58.00 61.00
HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.trs hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong Estrells...
THEATRE BOYAT. DECEMBER 23ap, 1945, ar 9.15 T.. THIRD TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON,
MAIN EVENT:
C.P.Ö. JIM CARTLIDGE STCKER MORRIS.
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FIFTEEN 2 MINUTE BOUND CATCHWEIGHT CONTEST,
AND ABOUT FIVE OTHER COSTEITH,,--
BOOKING at MOUTRIE'S
For MEMBERS Only on the 19TH and 2187
DECEMBER.
GENERAL PUBLIC on the 22 and
3RD DECEMBER
PRICES $7.00, $3.00 and $1,00 NOTE-MEMBERS of the HONGKONG eztitled to One BOXING ASSOCIATION are Ringside Sent each for $5.00 en production of their Mamership Cards.
Members are ra-
be left in the Godowns, where they will bequested to sign their Names when taking examined on the 25th December, at 10a.m.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Billa of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON CO., LTD.,
Agent
Hongierg, 18th December, 1925,
(2982
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION 00., LTD. CONSIGNERS por Company's Steamer
will be
Cargo
{!
ars henly notified that the will be dis charged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of story for Deliver Wharf. The Cargo from Godown on and after 19th December.
Notice Optional Cargo will be landed, unless
Steamer's arrival. has been given prior to
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined on any
Tuesdays and Fridaya b between the hours of 10:45 AM, and Noor 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 25th December, will be rubject to Eant.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 11th January, 1926, or they will not be re- cognised.
No Fire Insurance will ke effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agente.. Hongkong, 19th December, 1995.
[2983
THE BRITISH MALAYA TRUSTEE AND „EXECUTOR COMPANY, LIMITED.
(INOGRPORATED IN SINGAPORE).
Tickets at the Reduced Rate.
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WATER COLOUR EXHIBITION
AT
MESSRS. KOMOR & KOMOR.
PEN on the tw, for TEN DAYS OPE
Only. Pictures by the Most Celebrated Artists. Inspection invited.
KOMOR & KOMOR, Alexandra Building.
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TO LET,
and Kewicon Wheat and Godown Co., Ltd.,
Goods not cleared by the 21st Deg., 1995, Oldest & Finest at Noon, will
will be subject to Rent
An broken, chafed and damaged Packages.
are to be left in the Godowns where they will
be examined in the presence of Consignees by
Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, on 13th Dec, 1925,
at 10 am. Claims against the Steamer A. including those for Cargo shors delivered must be presented on the Special Form provided, and must also be submitted within 30 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever..
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Agents. Hongkong, 14th December, 1995, [2970
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It is along these lines that discussion about submarines and sea power has,
The marriage will take place in London this month, between George Alston Buyers, C.A.. of Shanghai, and Rachel Vernon, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Duncan Collie, of 10, Bonaccord. Crescent, Aberdeen.
Surg. Comdr. H. D. Drennan, D.3.0.. M.B., B.A... has been appointed to Far mouth (on completing), and to Hawkins. and as Fleet Medical Owcer (from date of joining), and W. L. Hawkins, to Yar math, for passage home.
Captain E. V. Isaacson, promoted in January last, after being Maintenance Commander at the Nore, assumed com- mand last month of the cruiser Farmouth. at Portsmouth, in readiness for her voy- nge to Hongkong this month with reliefs.
Owing to illness, Sir Gershom Stewars, K.B.E, the new President of the China Association, was unable to attend the annual dinner of that body on November 18th. Mr. L N. Leefe, the chairman of the Association, presided, and read a merge from the President.
S. WATSON been proceeding. Whether anything ever Atherley, formerly manager of "Getz
CO., LTD. Wine and Spirit Merchants.
£50.
Hongkong Office: 14, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Baily Press.
HONGLONG, DICEMBER 19TH, 1925.
SUBMARINES AND SEA POWER,
Ir is not surprising-it is what might be expected that the proposal, to abolish submarines has engaged world-wide atten- tion in recent weeks. The news na cabled
The trial of Mr. James Edward. comes of 31. MACKINSON's proposal re. Eres. (of the Orient), Ltd., who appears on tivo indictments, covering charges of mains to be seen; and we may say embezzlement and conversion of the com
pany's funds to his own acount, has been
to take place next Wednesday. Two Chinese dealers received such wounds during an altercation with a num- ber of coolies at No. 3 wharf, Kowloon- Godowns, on Thursday, that they had to be removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital for treatment The police restored order and arrested one of the alleged assail- arts.
once that for our part we are extremely sceptical To begin with, there is no such thing as gratitude among nations. The Government and public of Grent Britain, although acutely conscious of the zacrifices made in the war have already received proof of the fact in the attitude of the late allies "reguriling debt repsy- On the departure on December 11th, of Judge Sir Skinner Turner, British Britain is staggering under I
delegate to the Extraterritoriality Com-- lond of taxation in order to meet her mission, Mr. G. W. King, Registrar and obligations, but not one of her creditors Police Magistrate, assumed charge of Judge Peter H.M. Supreme "Court. has begun to pay" what they owe her, Grain, Assistant Judge of the Court, is It is self-interest all the time. The sub-retarding to Shanghai in the Mał trz jeet is only mentioned in passing as a from sick leave.
ments.
case in peint. The thought that Britain Mr. John Bell-Irving, of Milkbank,
as an Island Power would be advantaged
or About MARCH, 1926, WHOLETO BE SOLD ∞ TO BE LET-T-diplomatist, or a naval expert. He can- dangerous to the merchantman, and may quarrel ensued between him and his four
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Chater Road.
TO LET.
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SECRETARY, A. 8. WATSON & Co., Lærd
2032
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EXECUTOR, ADMINISTRATOR or TRUSTEE and as ATTORNEY or AGENT for Persons having Intercats in MALATA OF
desiring to acquire Interests there,
·Booklets and any further Information may
be, obtained on Application to the BEORETICES IN UNION BUILDING
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be muddle-hended thinking, resulting in action inimical to British interests. What
Three mails Iron Home are due in
by the disappearance of the submarine Lockerie, Dumfries, seventh Laird of is sufficient for other and nominally Whitehill, late of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe. friendly nations to turn down the iden son & Co., formerly of the Hongkong This may appear frankly cynical, but no Legislative Council," who died on July useful purpose can be served in blinking 30th, aged 79, left, in addition to con- was published in our columns at the the facts. Of course, there is a certain siderable real estate and settled pro- time; and in the interval it has been measure of support for the outside view, perty unsettled personal estate valued and it can be briefly indicated. In the for probate at £289,932, of which the par- very fully discussed in England and Great War the submarine achieved com.soral estate in Great Britain amounts to OST-In the Ladies' Cloak Room of the abroad. Mr. MACKINNON, the Chair. paratively little against surface warships | £08,250.
Hongkong Hotel on Thursday Evening
or against troopships under convoy, and
The master of a marriage boat-a bout. Inat, & DIAMOND RING. Finder will be Saiman of Lloyd's, is in a special scase it is the naval opinion that the means of ably Rewarded on Betarning Same to THE
(154 Maxacze, Hongkong Hotal.
eminently qualified to raise the whole defence now enjoyed by other warships used for performing marriages among are mach. greater than they were at the boat people was removed to the Kwong But there is no Wah Hospital on Thursday after immer. question. He is not a politician, or a close of the late war.
doubt that the submarine was extremely I zion in the water. It appears that a. are said to have not he accused of any ulterior motive be so again, aspecially in the early stages adopted sons, who
water. He was eventually rescued by the within the "phere of Government, or off a war, before defensive measures of caused his sudden precipitation into the
all kinds can be fully mohilised. 10. LET EUROPEAN FLAT at No. 341, having an axe to grind as a fighting man.
The possibility in any protracted dis police. The sens have been taken into
custody.. T
Nathan Road, Kowloon, with all Modera
cussion of the question is that there may Conveniences. Apply to Mesra ATAMALLY But like everyone. posscused of a gener & Co., 3 and 5. D'Aguilar Stre L, Hongkong.ous. capacity for human sympathy, when
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is above all things necessary, is a deter during the week-end. Ono tia Biberia is the submarine M.I was lost in the English mination to face the salient lacts, as we due to-day by the s.. Chinkiang and SALES ASSISTANT. O established Bri- Channel his heart was touched by the have stated them, fairly and squarely letters will probably be ready for de
House in Singapore invites Applica
The sentimentalists and peace-at-any-livery between four and five o'clock this tions from British Subjects of Europena hirta dreadful fate of a brave crew, and the price fraternity at home, who are numerio afternoon. Tomorrow there should ar for Fost of Fiald Man Good Opening for grief that their deaths occasioned to their ally insignificant but extremely vocal, rive another mail from Home by the same
possessing Good Health, Manera Young Maa
abolition of the submarine by Great day by the ss. Takla is also due with and Energy. Knowledge of Malay and Dutch, relatives and friends. Mr. MACKINNON are, we and, inclined to champion the route on the aa Taishing and the same decided Assets. Copies of all Testimonials Required. Apply-Box No 148, c/o Hongkong made this an opportunity to appeal to Britain pour encourager les autres, Thus Home. and Europe mail (letters and.
we have them beginning to toy with the papers, London, November 19th), Daily Press.
the conscience of the world to establish idea of submitting the question to the Negapatam. This vessel is hardly likely a Truce of God in the employment of League of Nations. They appear to for to arrive until late to-morrow, afternoun, get what happened at the Washington and possibly not until Monday morning, submarines. The Chairman of Lloyd's Conference. The abolRion was put for owing to the strength of the monsoon. Enows better than most people how desir-ward there by England, and opposed by France, and cold-shouldered by America, able it is to have an international agree. so it had to be left alone. Even the draft ment on the subject. During the war the treaty which forbids submarine wat on greatest sufferers by far from this merchant ships has never been ratified. That in itself is significant. In this mat- ter we are glad to see that the Press sinister and unchivalrous weapon,
in England while, generally in agreement Lord Lee of Fareham calls it in a letter with the Chairman of Lloyd's on humani
At St. Stephen's Girls' College. this tarian grounds, is keeping public opinion to the Timer, were the ships and crews
at a sane level. We feel we are right in evening a concert is being given by the of the Mercantile Marine. The ruthless saying that British public opinion would girls of, the college and the pupils of gladly welcome the abolition of the sub- Fairlea School in aid of the Cathedral campaign inaugurated by the Germans in marine, but not at the expense of weaken Organ Fund and the Mission to Seamen.
At St. Patrick's Club, Garden Road, defiance of the rules of warfare and the fog the British Navy in any respect or
in any direction whatsoever. That is a two days' bazaar will be opened on dictates of humanity nearly succeeded in absolutely certain and assured, and behalf of the Sisters of the Precious the ruin of the cause in which the Allies patriotic Britons at home and abrand can Blood, deb bilg
Finally, at the Theatre Roys there will be the concluding problem of submarines and the question Iolantha" by the Philharmonic Society. performance of were engaged, and consequently in the be well content to leave the whole
of ses power at that ruin of civilisation.
To the Publisher
**HONGKONG WEEKLY
PRESS"!
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