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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE Following is the Provisional List of TB apos hich EXTRA MELTINGS

will be held This Season→

3

300-47

APRIL 1st MAY. 3 JUNE, 2 OCTOBER and ERIT NOVEM BER.

By ONE.

0. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

FLOWER SHOW

ם *

VOLUNTEER PARADE GROUND.

THURSDAY, 11TH MARCH,

3 P.M. TO 7 PM

-[3293

HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.,

NOTICE OF MEETING. „ "OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Tha FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of the HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CON- STRUCTION COMPANY, LIMITED, will

be held in the Offices of Messrs. Toxes & Co, St. George's Building Road, Bongtorg, on WEDNESDAY, the 248 DAT OF MARCH, 1928, at 11.00 AMX., for the purpose of I receiving the Beport of the Beard of Directors and Statement of As counts for the Year ended on the 31st Deczy BRE 1925, and of

Directors and alecting Auditors.

of the

|

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10r8, 1926

INTIMATIONS

THE "HONGKONG ELECTRIC › CO.,

N°

LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the_Company's Offices, P. & 0. BUILDING,

“INTIMATIONS.

"INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.

REMINDER.'"'

**

N EXTRAORDINARYGENERAL MEETING be held in the on FRIDAY, 12г¤ MARCH, 1926, ai 11 | INSTITUTE o2 WEDNESDAY, 10TH

INSTANT AM for the purpose of presenting the at 6 r. Report of the Directors together with a

A Good Attendance is Requested. (3290 Statement of Accounts to Sat December, 1923, and electing Directors and Auditor,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pray will be CLOSED from 1st MARCE to 12TH MARCH, 1926, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board of Directors;

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD...

Agents. Hongkong, 33rd February, 1926.

18251

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LIMITED.

THE THIRTY SEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SELARE- HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Sr. Gronox's BUILDING, Chaler Road, Victoria, Hong- kong, on WEDNESDAY, 17re MARCÒ, 1926, at 11 o'clock in the FORRNOON, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year cading S1st December, 1923, and declaring a Dividend.

The TRANSPER BOOKS of the Com pang will be CLOSED from WEDNES. DAY. 8D MARCH, 1926, antil WVED. NESDAY, 17TH MARCH, 1926, both days inclusive.

The TRANSFER BOOKS

Company will be CLOSED From the 18x To the 241113228] MARCH, both days indusive

By Order of the Beard,

S. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary, Hongkong, 9th March, 1926. (5296

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

4

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY Situate at HUNG HOM in the Dependency of Koricon and Colony of Earstone and Registered at the Lawn OrricE 14 HUNG HOM INLAND LOT No. 176 (Bite of No. 103, WORD STEET). Together with the Message or Tenement and other Brections and Buildings thereon in Course of Constraction;

AND

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD' FROPERTY

ہیں

Simate at YAUMATI in the Dependency of Kowloor and Colony of HosexoNG and Registered at the LaxD ÖFFICH A4 KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 235 (Site of No. 572, CARTON BOLD), Together with the Message or Tenement and other Erections and Buildings thereon in' Course of Construction.

IN TWO LOTS

BY

MR. E. V. M, E. DE SOUSA Auctioneer, THE CHINA AUCTION ROOMS, No. 4, DUDDELL STREET, HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, Tmx 24: DAY OF HABUE, 1926, AT 3 O'CLOCK FM.

G.

?

*

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received Intre-

tions to Sell by

ON

A

PUBLIC AUCTION

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURDAY, Fax 9ra, 10TH AND ilin ĮMARCH; 1926,

HM. NAVAL YARD, HoweLONG,

«KOWLOON NAVAL DEPOT, COMMERCING EACH DAY AT 9.90, 4.3 WITH AN ÎNTRETAL FROM 12 NOON to-1.30. AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES,

&c..

OLD

Indis

Comprising:-

dia,

By Order of the Board of Director, Canvas Tun Olders, Old Paint

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED..

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TGENERAL MEETING OF BEARE THE FIETY-SEVENTH ORDINARY HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on FRIDAY, the 26TH MARCH, 1926, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the sport of the General Mana gers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended the 31st DECEMBER 1995.

The SHARE REGISTER and TRANS. FEE BOOKS will be CLOSED From the dra to the 26 MARCH; 1926, both dayı inclusive.

Money Cheats, Sewing Machines, Metal Branch Pipes. Life Boat, Gigs, Balsa Rafte Bosta Saill, Electrical and Wireless Telegra phy Fittings, Glycerine, Electric Cable, Cook- ing Stores, Ships Fittings and Firehearth Gear, Iron Mattresses, Water Closets and Fans, Life Belts, Carpete, Bugs, Mats, Table

Counterpanes. Con Covers, Blankets. White Tiles, Leather and Matallis

Old Cordage, Canras Rage. Old

Old Woollen and Linen Bags, Metal Pro Drums, Old Cork, New Canvas Cuttings, Old Iron and Steel, Old

Brass,

Copper, Lead and Zine, Copper and Brass Tuber, Coal Sacks. Brown Jean, Wood and Iron Blocks, Ips, Lanterns and Gear, Gauges, Old Sted Tabes, Old Steel Wire Rope, Dirty Mineral Oil Olive Oil and Oil Fuel, Úhnin Cible and Scar, Dril-

Hammer, Davits, Pinnace, Cutter and Dynamo Clom, Los Drums and Tanks, Old Bunting. Engines, Chairs, Compares, Binnsoles, Loga

INTIMATION

FINEST

AMERICAN

CHOCOLATES

FROM

H. D. FOSS & Co."

in the China Sea. Henceforth, through the medium of the G.P.O.'s new service, he will be able to reach his ships in any part of the world..

It has been announced that messages for ships at long distance are sent out twice daily immediately after the broad- casting of the British news bulletin, and "they can be received by all ships ütted with continuous wave receiving appara tus.

Presumably the urgent instructions which a shipowner, sends through this medium to one of his own, ships, becomes known to every ship fitted with the con-

STU

The American destroyer Truston, which" went ashore on the Woosung breakwater" recently has been reffosted by the Sting- hai Tag and Lighter Co. At one time" har position acemed so dangerous that the crew were all taken off..

In connection with the celebration on Wednesday, March 17th, of Patrick's Duy, the committee of the St. Patrick's

Club, Garden Road, bave arranged an excellent concert to be given there that evening.

A cable from Earl Haig to the Secre tary of the Malayan Poppy Fund sys

The British Malayan Poppy Day Fund collection of over £10,000 is truly magni- ficent and testifies to the splendid loyalty and generosity of the contributors and organisers. Please convey to all my most grateful thanks,"

OF THE FINEST QUALITY tingus wave-receiving apparatus, and thus apparently it would not be safe to send by this medium any instructions that "secret and confidential." Another disadvantage. at present is that no ship is equipped with wireless powerful enough

A Chinese who was arrested during a raid on a hut in Kowloon Taui, carried to transmit a reply to a message from

out by police officers from Shamshuipe far distant seas, and it thus remains Station on Sunday, was charged at the uncertain whether the mesange has been Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with being received. Thus it is stated of the mesin possession of a revolver and three. sage above referred to as having been rounds of ammunition without a permit. sent to Fort Arthur, that the engineers On the application of the prosecution he did not know definitely whether the was remanded until Saturday. message to Port Arthur had arrived, but Mr. J. H. Teendale, a well-known they had little doubt on the point, be lawyer of Shanghai, who has been a re cause during the next morning the Dutchsident of the port for the past 27. years. and bind taken a conspicuous part in the East Indies, wirelessed that Rugby signals administration of the Settlement left for

FRESH SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED.

NEW STYLES

AND

NEW FLAVOURS.

were being received with frequency constant and key action excellent" Port Arthur, however, is still a long way from the Dutch East Indies and it does hap pen that atmospherics at times make long distance transmission impossible.

At

ling and Grinding Machines, Lathes, Steam In Elegant Boxes which present the messages sent out at night

are repeated at noon, and it is stated that the G.P.O. will be very disappointed

Fire Engine Engines and Boat Boilers, make a Charming Present if so per cent. of the traffic is not effective

Rigging Chain, Wire and Fibre Brushes, Glass Tribes, Table Fans, Baths, Anvils, Forges, Vices, Miscellaneona Tools, Ironmongery, Pro- tective Mattresses, Filters, Air Compressors. Seine, Nate, &c, &o.

Lots KATE INSPECTED OF

Era MARCH, 1926.

MONDAY,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Also Sale of OLD and SURPLUS VICUAL

General Managers,

LING STORES at KOWLOON HONGKONG FIT INSURANCE CO., LTD. Hongkong, 5th March, 1996. [3275

NOTICE.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

CERTIFICAME No. 3451 for 25 Bares.

£4 Per Share Paid Up, Numbered 48751/48775 in this Society standing in the Joint Names of HARRY OLABBORN PEARCE and JOHN HERMANN TEESDALE, both of Shanghai, Has Been Declared LOST. and if at the Expiration of One Mouth from" the Date hereof the above Document be not forthcoming the said Certificata will be deemed "CAN- | CELLED and of No Effect, and A NEW For further Partienlars and Conditions of Certificate for the 25 Shares will be Issued Bale, Apply to-

in its stead by the Society.

*O

Mesnas, GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & CO.,

Mortgages's Solicitors,

са то

St. George's Building, Chater Road,

Mx. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,

Anotioneer, Fo. 4, Duddell Street. Dated the 10th day of March, 1926.

(3297

10 LET From APRIL 7TH. for 6 Months, TAIWO." Fully Furnished Fix-roomed HOUSE on BABEZA ROAD Withia Five Minutes Wall of Tram Station. Staff of Experience and Long Service to the Adverti ser, will be left in the Honed Apply- HOLTOAK, c/o HOLTOAK, MASSEY & Co., LID.

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T

NOTICE.

TO OWNERS OF DOGS.

THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY WARNED that Owing to the Occurrence of Cases of RABIES AI DOGS Found Straying Or Wandering About between the HOURS or MID-NIGHT AND 5 AM Will Be-SHOT,

ED: C. WOLFS,

(Capt. Bapt. of Polico.

March 3rd,

1926.

[3271

ANNUAL NAVAL CONTRACTS.

SEALED TENDERS un Invited for the

following CONTRACTS, vie:---

1

PAUL LAUDER,

-General Manager. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1926. [9233

D°

FOR SALE.

OUBLE ENDED FERRY STEAMERS SOUTHERN STAL" and "NOR- THERN STAR"

For particulare Apply to

33671

"STAR" FERRY CO., LTD,

KOWLOON.

SARAWAK GOVERNMENT.

WANTED IMMEDIATELY-ASSIS. CONTROLLER, Govern ment Opium Monopoly, Salary: $400 Per: Month, Free Fornished Quarters, 3-Year. Agreement with Prospect of Permanent Em- ployment 2600, and Provident Fund. Experience of Biring to Maximum Chinese and Penpaal References Essential Preferably Unmarried.

Apply Bor No. 3988,

c/o Hongkong Daily Press Office.

18:288

WHOUSE with Tennis Court. Clients

ANTED-PRAK, MIDLEVEL, KOWLOONI

CARNARVON

TO LET ROOMED FLAT

BUILDINGS, KOWLOOK,

Apply to RUMPHEETS ESTATE & FINANCE CO... LED.

Alexandra Building.

ON FRIDAY, 1271 MARCH,

Comprising

Table Linen, Implements, Serge, Fhaznel, &c. Remnants, Blankets, Sundry Articles of Mess and Table Gear, (including Electro Plated Ware), Clothing, Condemned Provisions for Poultry Feeding, etc.

Terms of Sale:-As detailed in Cata- logue.

LAMMERT BROTHERS,

By Appointment Auctioneers to the Admiralty.

[3214

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP "CO., LÆ”),

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

AND

YONSIGNEES par Company's Stakmer HAIHADI

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be dis- aharged into Holt's, Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consigneer risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf, The Carge will be ready for Delivery from Godown on and after 8th March

Optional Cargo will be ianded, unler Notice

been

to Steamer's nezirali given prior "All broken, shafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be axamined on

on any Tuesdays and Fridays between. the hours of 10.45 am, and Noom within the Free Storage period

will

No Claims be admitted after the Gooda have left the Steamar's Gedown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 15th March, will

be

subject to Beat

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 29th March, or they will not be recognised

No Fire Insurance will be affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWEE,

Agente. Hongkong, 6th March, 1926. (8289

A. S. WATSON

& CO., LTD.

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

[50

after the first dispatch and 95 per cent. after the repetition. The service is yet in the experimental stage. That it bas become possible at all to have practical instant communication with, ships at any

point on the high sers, however remote, is certainly a marvellous scientiśc achieve

ment.

Quarantine restrictions have been in posed against Amey on account of small- pox.

Traffic regulations are announced in connection with the Investiture at Gov. ernment House on Saturday next.

BIRTHS. BRACE.At Tientsin, on February 22nd,

Lieut. V. R. Wright-Neville and Lieut to Mr. and Mrs. Lawis BRACE, daughter.

G. M. B. Webb, both of the 8/2nd Punjab TUBON.At Weihaiwei, on

22nd, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Regiment, have left the local Command TURON, a 800.

for India on courses.

February

MARRIAGE. Ror-Mapy.-At Shanghai, on February 27th, ZINA MODY, to Lotis FEANT BOTH

DEATH. D'ALMEIDA-At Shanghai, on March 4th, ANTONIO JOSE D'ALMZIDO, aged 70

years.

Hongkong Office: 1, Chater Road. Landon Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, MARCH 10TH, 1926,

+

England last week and is not returning to the Far East. The departure of "Honest John" is much regretted by wide circle of friends both Chinese and 'foreign.

was given at the Theatre Royal last night. The concluding performance of "I".

by the Hongkong A.D.C., before a very On the the final drop of the curtain, the appreciative and enthusiastic Rudience. applause was unstinted and continuous. producer, Lieut. Commander G. F. Hole, high place in the A.D.C. records and the The production of "If" must, take a

R.N., may well be proud of his achievs.

ment.

The 1st Batt, the East Surrey Regiment was inspected by HE the General Officer Commanding (Major-General C.

C.

Luard, C.B., C.M.G.) at the Murray

Parade ground yesterday morning. The pealance; while the Band with their Battalion presented a very efficient ap-

silvered drums, etc., added brilliance and enjoyment to the spectacle which was witnessed by a large crowd of spectators, European and Chinese.

The two doubled ended ferry steamers, Southern Star and Northern Star, which Ferry Company being for sale, have been advertised by the "Star"

having been superceded by larger steamer, are, it is interesting to note.. twenty-six years old. Since they were during the big typhoons of 1006 and built in 1900, these ferries were in service 193

At present the Northern Star is still in regalar service, the Southern Star being the spare boat. *

The Dicceran Boys' College opened the A Chinese woman; was taken to the Government Civil Hospital on Monday mati on Monday with more than 300

tem in their new buildings near, Yau from her home after taking an overdose scholars in the register and an attend- of opium in an attempt to committee of 230. This is certainly a most suicide.

At the Central Magistracy yester day a stail salesman was fined $25 for cruelty to chickens. Sergt. P. Condon gave evidence as to finding, two crates overcrowded with chickens, some of them Dearly trampled to death.

A case in which two Chiness were charged at the Central Magistracy yesterday with having stolen a pair of binoculars, the property

of another Chinese at the Race Course on Wednes day was adjourned until to-day.

auspicious commencement of the fresh chapter in the schools history and pro- mises well for the continued success of the institution. A description of the present up-to-date school premises which have been built upon a large and con- Daily Press.... venient site has already been given in the

The merger between the N.Y.K., and One of the T.K.K. companies, has now actually taken place. The former com- pany takes over the secondary T.K.K. which operates five San Francisco and four South American line steamers. Bookings by these steamers will be in SHIPPING AND WIRELESS.

the hands of the N.Y.K. as from March 15th. This merger does not effect what VERILY, we live in an age when "wonders

is known as the No. 1 T.K.K. Com- pany," which will still have its offices nover cease. We read in the latest Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the in Tokyo. That company operates 11 Home papers that very shortly the ship- Central Magistracy yesterday, a Chinese Hongkong office of the T.K.K. is expected steamers, including one tanker. The owner in London will be able through was fined 823. for failing to satisfactorily to close shortly.

explain possession of the medium of a new wireless service medicinal roots. He was also fined $100 NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Apropos the discussion at the inst to be inaugurated by the General Post for attempting to bribe the constable who meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board

Arrested him. OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD

on the need for more frequent bacteriolo Office, speak to his ships in any part

gical examination of water supplied for CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION of the world."Radio telegrams to the court proceedings at the Central Magis. quots the following paragraph from the A Chinese expectorated during the potable purpcess, it may be useful, to ends of the Earth" is a headline given tracy yesterday morning, and was fined latest issue of the Shanghai Municipal to the announcement of the new service in whose Court the incident occurred, re- During January, 1926, samples of Shang- $5 for spitting in Court. Mr. Lindsell,Gazette:-"Bacteriological Examination.

CO, LTD.

NONSIGNEES par Company's Steamer "SARPEDON

rice.

a quantity-of-

will Pay $200 to $400 Rental for Suitable Place, FLATS Wanted in Good Localities, are hereby notified that the Cargo will be dis in one of the great Londen dailies marked that the man made a "horrid hai Waterworks Water were examin HOUSES and Building Lots for Disposal charged into Holt's, What, Kowloon, where it Actually the first message of the kind

mess of the place. SMALL INVESTORS,

on twenty occasions. In each case 120 Fat 48304

will be a Consignees risk and subject to

c.c of water were taken for examination. Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt' was sent on January 30th to a ship at

At Wanchai on Monday a number of In one case glucose fermenting organimnis Whazi, The Cargo will !be ready. for Delivery

Indian and Chinese were involved in a were found, in number 10 per litre. No trom Godawn on and, after 8 March.

Port Arthur-10,000 miles away. Wire-fight, and as a result a Chinese was sent lactose-fermenting organisms were found. Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Notice less from the shore to ships and from to the Government Civil Hospital with These reculte show very satisfactory has been given prior to Beamer à arrival

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are ships to the shore is, of course, Do new started when an Indian watchman re

an injury to his head. The trouble standard of bacterial purity.” to be left in the Godowns, where they will be thing. But, until January 30th, there was monstrated with a small boy for throwing

In honour of Mr. T. Z. Koo, the re Tours of 1045 4. and Boca within the sxamined on sny Tucadays and Fridays between

limit

to its effective range. Shore

presentative of China to the Opium Con ference at Geneva, and secretary to the Free

Storage Na Claims will be,

period

admitted after the Goods stations can keep in touch with chips In connection with the visit of The National YM.C.A. in China, and the have left the Steamer's Godown, and all floods within a radius of 200 miles; the inland during next week, the plan of seats is in the Colony to-morrow (Thursday) Quainte" Company to the Star Theatre Rev. R. O. Hall, M.A., M.C., who arrives remaining undelivered after the 15th March, station at Devices, working on the con- now open at Moutries. On Friday, in connection with work here under Will be ambject to Hent,

All Chim against the tomar must be tinuous wave system, tan exchange mes be played, followed by No, No Nan of the Chinese Y.M.C.A., & social has The Sport of Kings will the auspices of the Student Departament GDOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILD. presented to the Undersigned on or before the Sager, with ships that employ the same nette on Baturday and Sunday, March been arranged by the University Chris

March, as they will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance will be affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Hongkong, 8th March, 1923.

A

Supply of Timber, and Timber Materials. Upholstery Work

3220]

Dry Cleaning Work.

10 LIT

(Basement).

Apply

SECRETARY, A. 8. WATSON & Dot Lam,

-2089

Repairing Clocks, Watches, and Stop

Watchon.

Supply and Hapair of Bamboo Sunblinds, Supply of Oxygen Gas --

Supply of Acetylene Gam

The CONTRACTS Commence on 18 APRIL, 1920, and Expire on the aler MARCH, 1927.

Forms of Tender may be obtained on Ap

Station to The NAVAL STORE OFFICER,

NAYAL Yaan, by whom Tenders will be Hoccured Until Noon on WEDNESDAY, 1721 MARCH, 1996, 199

The Rights Reserved of Rejecting All or any Tender and of heating way Portion of a Tender:

[3281

NO

fa285

March-19th,

(20th and 2185.

tian Association for Sunday, Mr. Koo, system as long as they are not more than

a previously announced, lectures in the 1,500 miles away and the station Siam rice is scarce at Canton owing to religious and non-political subject under Our Chinese correspondent says that as Great Hall of the University on a non- Leafield, near Oxford, has a radius of deficient import, and the interference of the auspices of the above mentioned double that distance. Yet, it is pointed the boycott pickets native, rice of equal society. On Monday and Tuesday even- Sudan grade is now selling at more than $12,50 ings next he will conduct religious meet, 3,000 miles is of little use to a shipowner more rice to be exported from that ing Mr. Koo, preaches at Bt. Andrew' out, even the ability to speak across a pieul, and is likely to go higher ings in St. John's Hall, Bonham Road..

unless the authorities in Kwangsi permit The Rev. R. O. Hall, who is accompany. 1828 who tas urgent instructions for a captain province..

Church, Kowloon, on Bunday night.

LETFrom April 1st, 1926, Zor BirFURNISHED FLAT 20 LET Months, Well Furnished, FLAT, For Rooms, Central District, All Modara Conven. Large Booter and Usual Quarters. Bilinen AZIE BUILDINGS, KOWLOOK, "Tour lemoes including Elerator Apply Box 190. Available Now Vacant until August. Apply 185 c/o Hongkong Daily Press, 168-Box No. 609,