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Entries will CLOSE at 19 O'CLOCK NOON on TUESDAY, 16+# NOVEM. H&B, 1927.

INTIMATIONS.

AWARDED

50

(5512 GOLD AND

PRINCE'S BUILDING & LAND

COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NEXTRAORDINARY GET

ERAL MEETING of PRINCE'S BUILDING AND LAND COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, PRINCE'S BUILD- ING. Victoris, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on MONDAY, 1 TWENTY- FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER, at 41

... for the purpose i

of considering and, If thought . prasing the following Besolution as an Extraordinary Resolut- tion, that is to say:—

That the Campany be wound up "voluntarily, and that Mr. Jos

SITE and Mr. Str

HANYDEN Bras, jointly and sever ally, of the Firm of Messrs. PERCY "SMITH, SITH AND FLIXING be and "thay are hereby appointed the

"Liquidators for the purpose of "such winding-up.",

At such Merting the Liquidators' yan-uneration will be fixed.

AND NOTICE IS HERESY ALSO GIVEN (as authorised by Article 70 of the Articles of Association) that shoul! the above Resolution be passed by the sequisite majority, it will be submitte for confirmation Special Resolution 10 A SECOND EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING and that such Meeting will be held at the Same Place At 4.15 7.x., on THURSDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY or DECEMBER, 1927, for the purpose of considering and, thought fit, confirming the above men. tioned Resolution aia Special Resolution accordingly

Dated 7th November, 1927.

By Order of the Boaru,

S. K. MOOSA,

Secretary,

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 1927.

Mr. H. W. Ray, of the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., returned from Shanghai on the a.s. President

ally producing and selling more! The Hoo, Sir Shou-son and Lady than we were two years ago. Iron | Chaw returned to the Colony by and stcel are depressed possibly as the President Grant on Monday. much as, or more than, any industry in the counrty." The world demand -which probably, had there been no war, would have taken up the world production to-day by natural increase-bus lagged · be The Directors of the China Light hind. The war, however, led to and Power Co. (1918). Ltd., have productive increases above and decided to postpone the Enal call beyond all precedent and it requires of 83 per share on the new shares PRIZE time for the demand to catch up.

MEDALS!

<!

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Gérant,

until April 2nd, 1928.

The general strike and trouble. in the coal-felds last year chocked

Lieut. Hunt, R.A.F., stationed at Kai Tack Aerodrome, has re the placing of contracts for steel and iron. The woollen trade has ported to the Police that $210 was stolen from an unlocked drawer at been hit partly by competition from his quarters during his absence. abroad, partly from change of fashion

to the Polier In that trade they are. It has been reported to suggesting a conference of all those that the accountant in a shop at

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DEWAR'S eognised in the trade-masters and 1321, Second Strent, first floor,

WHITE

LABEL

men.

absconded.

pointed to the vicarage of Christ Church, Lower Birling-patruns,

OBITUARY.

'ADMIRAL SIR FRANCIS POWELL.

· It

ARMISTÏCE DAY.

LEST WE FORGET.

P

(Contributed,)

Mr. H. J. Brett, HM, Commer- cial Counsellor, who, since his re-

turn from a commercial tour"of in- spection up the Yangtizę, has been confined to hospital, has now left

Admiral Sir Francis Powell, who for a short holiday at Wojbaiwei.

died on October 5th at the age of The Rev. H. J. Howden, lately, was a well-known officer of the November afternoon. Tucker ant was growing dust on A Church Missionary Society mise Victorian Navy, and did excellent in his room waiting to sign letters aionary in Western China, fina been service ashore in the Ashanti and

while the typewriters rattled Brain wars, and at Hong Kong noisily in the general office, s ho dockyard during the operations waited. he re-read the English mair against the Boxers. In January, he had received that morning. One 1800, Captain Powell was appoint | letter was a long and cheerful one ed Conumodore in charge of the from a man who had been in his naval establishments - dockyard, victualling yard, and naval hos pital at Hong Kong, the head

on the eve of the Armistice-and quarters of the China Squadron,

to lose two legs as the result." and held the appointment unti

To Tucker, as he read the letter, April, 2002. Sir Edward Seymour the rattling of the typewriters was in command on the station. It suddenly sounded sinister. It re- was an anxious time, in which minded him of something: it was

C.P.A.S. Board Trust,

of

Patronage

Three reefer jackets, valurd at £19, the property of Mr. F. C. Elissing, third engineer of the 8.8. Haiyang, now at the Cosmopolitan Dock, were stolen from his cabin between Sunday afternoon and Monday.

regiment during the War. Poor old Graham Rotten luck to go through unhurt from 1915 only to be hit

This is the right way.

In collected $1,200 from various frnis the shipbuilding trade the depree towards the end of last month, and

Two dogs belonging to Mr. A. C. Į questions were arising with regard just the noise that was going on sion has not been peculiar to Great/has not been seen since, Naturally Gomen, of 482, Nathan Road, Kow-to the power of Japan, the awakea- when Graham was hit. Britain. It has existed all over the his employer suspects that he has toon, bit a Chinese woman, aged ing of China, and the ambitions. Rather grim that typewriters world, but Britain is holding "her own--in-world, competition The Alvives from Los Angeles an...] motor trade is flourishing and the nounce that M. Emil. Danenberg | British light car is in aupreme has joined the Los Angeles Academy demand in the home market while of Music and has charge of "one of its branch schools. M. Danenberg

SCOTCH WHISKY is rapidly-winning favour-in-

OF GREAT AGE.

IT NEVER VARIES,

BOLE AGENTE: —

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER A. S. WATSON

& CO., LTD.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

CO. (1918), LTD.

WITH Reference to the No ice to Ebambolders of the above L'om- pany dated 10th June, 1927, whereby the Final Call of $3 Per Share on the New Shares was made Payable on 30th

Novases, 1997, instead of Toth J17 Phone C. 616. Established 86 years

the of the Company have decided to further Extend the Time for Payment of the Call.

ACCORDINGLY

NOTICE

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HEREBY GIVEN that the Late for Payment of the FINAL CALL IS POSTPONED APRIL, 1928, and that the Forms of Banters' Reipt al ready sent to Shareholders can bʊ” rued though the Date named therein were the 2nd Ara, 1928.

-SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..

General Manager. Hong Kong, 8th November, 19.7.

IN

BANK HOLIDAY:

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'N Accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI

OD FRIDAY,

1irs NESS

Lis İNSTANT.

[5503 Hong Korg, 7th Nov, 1927.

ITUATIONB WANTED by Two

European Ladies an Nuase Cox PANION, HOUSR-XERTER, OF CHILD's Noust. One to live cut-Apply Box No 0514 c/o Hong Kong Daily Prep. [0514

WE Require FLAT and HOUSES

in CENTRAL, KewLoom and Above "MAY ROAD LEVEL, Hong Kong. Will Landlords interested send part 'cular to SHALL INVESTORS TEL. "C. 4690 ?

foreign countries. The outlook for British trade has never been so good since before the war period.

MOTORS FOR THE MANY.

The recent Motor Show in London provides a striking illustration of the changes that have taken place in the last twenty years in a social sease. Even in the period, inmedi-

and his talented "young" "san "have" appeared-at many concerts on the Pacife Const of America and have heen exceedingly well received. everywhere.

20 years, and have been sent to Ma Tau Kok for observation. The woman was sent "to the Kowloon Hospital.

of Russia; and the importance of rat-tat-tatting out letters whereby Hong Kong as the base of the fleet, Tucker, made his living, and could hardly be overstated. The

machine guns rat-tat-tting out bullets whereby Graham lost his Boser rising of 1900 kept tha

life... ; establishments there working at

But grimmer till that Tucker high pressure,

and Commodore with whole skin and carrying oa Powell stimulated energy and con his old job was full of "grouses". "tributed largely to the maintenanertrude bad, profits reduced, chaos in of the feet during the operations China, dengue fever, and so on. FERRY RUNS INTO JUNK. in the North. For this valuable But Graham with his two maimed

COLLISION IN THE HARBOUR.

SIX PERSONS OVERBOARD:

ALL. RESCUED.

The Chinese lad who was con- ricted on Monday by Mr. W Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- tracy, of largeny of a jacket from the back yard of No. 1, Cox's Road, was yesterday morning sentenced to ten strokes of the cane. The ne countant of the shop in which the forry launch and a Chinese passen-

There was an exciting incident in the harbour yesterday morning. a collision occurring between a

service he was created K.C.M.G. on his return, and was awarded a good service pension.

ADMIRAL A. K. BICKFORD,

Admiral Andrew Kennedy Bick- ford, C.M.G., who was at one time

stumps for legs and unable to carry on his old job with his bands, iras making enough to keep him,-fit as a fiddle, jelly old Haig, and so

Tucker looked at the calendar on. his desk. It would be the 110 November in a few days, Armistice Day, Remembrance Day. Niue long

ately preceding the war the owner defendant was employed appeared.ger junk, as a result of which six Commander-in-Chief in the Pacino years ago, but could be

forget!

ever

died on October 9th at Hore at the age of 63. As a sub-lieutenant of

He took out his cheque-book and the corvette Barrusa, on the China Wrote a cheque in favour of Earl Station, he served in the operations turned and is still turning hun- Haig's Fund-the Fund which has in Japan. which resulted from the dreds of thousands of the shattered closing of the Straits of Simono-survivors of the Great War into the

Grabany of the pence. seki. He was present at the action

POST OFFICE ARRANGE-

*MENTS.:

in the Straits, the 'capture of the

On Armistice Day the General

a will be open from 8 am to 8. a.my There will be une collection from the pillar boxes and one 'delivery of ordinary correspondence as on Sunday, and one delivery of regis tered correspondence from the G.P.O. At 3 am,

The Money Order Ofices will bri closed a day.

of a motor car was regarded as a but refused to stand security for people were precipitated into the water. All of them, fortunately, person of comparative affluence the boy, There were few middle-class people

were rescued.

It appears that the Man Shing A marriage has been arranged, who possessed one. We recolect

and will take place shortly in ferry, which plies between a wharf that a certain popular novelist who

Nairobi, between Major Edward off the Western Market, Con wrote a story of a middle-class Hugh Ward, Royal Marines naught Road, and Mongkok, was in family was rebuked by the reviewers (Retd.), of Naivasha, Kenya the Central Fairway when the cox*- because he gave the family" a car. Colony, son of the late Mr. Edward wain saw a cargo boat, a passenger for the critics argued that as the Ward, of Shanghai, and Rebecca, junk, and a stain lausch in his set, when he had charge of si rocket Pont Office and Branch Post Offices family were able to afford auch a youngest daughter of the late Mr. inipèdiate neighbourhood,

The passenger boat altered its bont. In February, 1883, he re- luxury they must be above the Henry Jephson, formerly of

courge, but in spite of every effort commissioned at Hong Kong the middle-class" stratum in the socini Cornwall-gardens, S.W.

by the ferry coxswain, who signal- l'egasus, composite sloop, and com- scale, The recollection may seem

led for the ferry to reverse her manded here for two years, until trivial, but it is certainly amusing

engines, he was unable to avoid a promoted captain on December 31st, - MARRIAGES.

now when we read of the multitudes HUTCHISON-MONAORAN.OR Octo

1884. He negotiated the release "ol The passenger boat capsized and the captive crew of the Nixeru ber 10th, at Ealing, ALICK, who flocked to Olympia for the youngest son of the late J. D. Motor Show. The vast majority of 1; Obare, wife of the Manager of its six. occupants were thrown into in Acheen, Sumatra, who were in JITCHISON, of Hong Kong and the visitors were by no means the Vacuum Oil Company, Dr. D. the water. Shanghai, and Mr HUTCHISON, Colverd, Finchley, to MARJORIE blessed with a superabundance of W. Lyon, of the National Council BELL MONAGHAN, Kent-avenue, this world's wealth, and it is clear of the Y.J.C.A., and Mr. T. Wever, and were none the worse for Ealing, KLOUT-RUSSELL-BROWN-On Oo that there is no middle-class family, Southam, of the A.P.C. Company, tober 10th, at Broad, Hinton, free from exceptional burdens, who all of whom are going to Shang- CHARLES CROSBY KNIGHT, of

cannot afford to buy a motor car Hong Kong, to ENID MURIEL, elder daughter of Mr. and in these days. Mrs. RUSSELL-Baows, "of Broad Hinton House, near Swindon, Wilts.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

The marriage of Mr. K. K. STAPLE and Miss M. J. Wannarca will take place at St. John's Cathe dral on

Monday, November 14th, at 246-p.m., with a recep: tion afterwards at the Hong Kong Hotel, All friends are cordially invited. No formal invitations will be

[5494 issued.

Mr. T. V., Soong left Hong Kong for Shanghai by the President Jefferæn yesterday. Among other, passengers by this steamer “were

bai."

collision.

W

They were all picked up, how-

the mishap,

The passenger boat was later towed into Mongkok.

BIG OPIUM

YESTERDAY,

HAUL.

Sir Robert William Buchanan The multiplication of the email. Jardine, Bart, of Castle Milk, cheap car has of course obvious Lockerbie, N.B., and St... James- disadvantages There are many place, S.W., as already announced, NEARLY 3,000 TAELS CAPTURED persons in England who write left personal estate of the value of regularly to the papers to complain 547,203. This includes horses in of the dangers of the roads and the: noise and discomfort resulting from "the enormous stream of motor traf-

training valued at £34,700; year- lings, brood mares and stallions

value £80, 43; greyhounds value £2,412; Victory Bonds and War

A party of European officers, acting upon information received

as to a junk in the harbour having fic. No doubt the amenities of the stock value £395,721,

illicit contraband on board, paid her a surprise visit yesterday." countryside have been disturbed,

Their efforts were rewarded by especially at week-ends, and the The Eastern Welcome Club had safety of the highways has been their first reunion after the holia haul of nearly 3.000 taels of pre-

pared non-Government opium. But after all these days in the shape of the customary Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House endangered.

It is understood that arrests were London Office: 21, Bride Lane, perind, due aot to the motor car

Street

kre merely the evils of a transition monthly luncheon at the Great

Eastern Hotel, London, on October will be heard at the Magistracy made and that a sequel to the haul Fleet Street, E:C. 4

ith. Mr. Whitby was, in the itself, but to its too sudden appear chair, and the proceedings passed to-day.

world which was snce it 31

not off with much success; the visitors prepared for its The problems included Mr. J. P. Enticknap, of created are not easy to solve, and Shanghai,' and Mr. H. E. James,

The Daily Press.

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.

FLATS ΤΟ LET

Hoxo Kore, Noveza Sru, 1927.

FACTS ABOUT BRITISH TRADE.

The central fact is that the coming of the small car has brought incalculable pleasure to hundreds

NATHAN ROAD,

KOWLOON.

AFFLY TO

S. J. DAVID & CO.

PRINCE'S BUILDIXO,

CHATER ROAD.

123

کبھی

NAVY'S CHAMPION

LINGUIST.

GEORGE.

the hands of the Rajah of Tenom,

and was created C.M.G. for this and other services as seniot officer of combined English, French and German squadrons at

various operations in the South. Prežfic, His only service as nä"admiral was as Commander-in-Chief on, the Pacific Station, with which he had become especially familiar by rea son of his many years there. Pro moted to vice-admiral in February, 1904, and to admiral in March, 1908, he retired in the following May; after 50 years on the active

Bat.

MI. F. W. LYONS.

روپایی است و

CORRESPONDENCE.

SERVICE AT THE

CATHEDRAL..

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG

DAILY PRESS."].

St-May we trespass on the space in your columns for the purpose of bringing to the notice of all men. who served in the War 1914-18 that it is hoped to secure a record at- tendance of Ex-Service Men at the Cathedral, Garden Road, on Armis tice Day, November 11th, at 9.30 a.m. (not 10a.m. as originally stated). The service will be a short

one and will be followed by the ceremony of laying wreaths on the Cathedral Memorial to Hong Kong Men.

From the Cathedral those attend- ing who prefer can proceed inde- The death occurred in a London pendently to the Cenotaph for the Mr. Frederick William Lyons, present at the Cathedral should nursing home, on October 8th, of customary ceremony of Remein- brance. Those who fro inable to be

The third son of the late Mr. F. Cenotaph. Commissioner of Customs in China. make

point of being at the W. Lyons, of Warrenpoint, County of Regular units present should In Hong Kong the large number Down, Ireland, he was born make the ceremony this year parti- years ago, and as a B.A., with hon.cularly impressive, and it is hoped ours in mathematicni science of the that the attendanos of Ex-Service no solution is at present in sight, of the Federated Mainy States.

civilians, whether or not belonging Royal University of Ireland, enter to the undersigned Associations, but that does not mean that no The Club will hold a dinner and EXTRA 173 A DAY FOR PRINCE ed the Chinese Customs Service may be worthy of the occasion. colution is possible.

concert this month, and it is | "

It may be pointed out that a under the late Sir Robert Hurt in rumoured that it will soon have a

1908. In 1924 he was premated to this year in this connection by Ex- special effort is being made at Home habitat of its own.

Having spent most of his time the rank of Commissioner and Service Associations. Yours faith- since returning from China in was stationed at Peking. He had fully,"

G. K. HALL BRUTTON. Inquiries made.at Headquarters France, Lieutenant Prince George, previously been decorated with the of thousands of people who would of the North China Command to R.N., the King's fourth son, will Order of the Chic Ho (fourth

President, British Legion. In recent months a decidedly on otherwise fail to rentice how fair nécertain the reason for certain receive Is. 6d. day additional class). Much sympathy will be ex timistic, spirit has been manifested is the land in which they live. They officers of the Shanghai Defence Day as a qualified interpreter intended to his widow, in trade circles in Great Britain, are able to get away from their Force wearing mourning hands French from October 21st, when he There are sure signs that the surroundings in the towns and en- úpon Uyir arms, elicited the infor- joined the battleship Nelson. country is at last settling down joy the supreme delights of freedom mation that this was due to the after the prolonged period of unrest of movement in the pure air, and death of the Marquis of Cambridge, in the industrial areas. The official the heavenly beauty of the English for whom the British Royal Court champion linguist of the Navy. He figures dealing with production are countryside. For thousands & nex Royal Household Regiment, on such Dutch, French, German, Italian, After the taking of the Philippines Hong Kong Royal Observatory at in at present in mourning. - The is a qualified interpretir in Danish, on October 7th at the age of 83,- The weather report issued by the encouraging. The export of manu- meaning has been given to life, the censions, wears mourning and Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and by the United States he was de

7.50 last evening stated:--Changes factured; goods has been slowly inequalities of wealth have been the officers

are slight since this morning, of the Coldstream Swedish. Major Wright joined the ignated Archbishop of Valencia, Moderate to fresh monsoon may be growing, and the export of raw lessened not by lovelling down but Guards, as the only representatives Royal Mariner when he was 18, and but resigned as a result of a camexpected along the S.E. coast of materials is also steadily increas by levelling up and this assuredly of the Royal Household Regiment is now at Nanking, where he is no paign against his nomination. He China and over the north China

Sea. ing. In coal, in spite of the condi- is the way to, if any rate, ain Shanghai, followed the usual doubt making efforts to learn Chi- was the author of several books on Local forecast-N.E tions in the industry, we are actu- material millenium.

biology,

fresh, fine.

custom.

A Royal Marine' Officer, Major

C. E. S. Wright, seems to be the

hese

FATHER NOZALEDO,

་

Father Nozaledo, formerly. Arch bishop of Manila, died in Madrid

F. HAYLEY BELL,

$1

President, Ex-Active Service Men's Association,

WEATHER REPORT.