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Intimation.

WM.

POWELL,

LIMITED.

-ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,-

Des Vouc Road.

LADIES'

DEPARTMENT

NEW

LACES

and

LACE

COLLARS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH · THURSDAY JULY 27, 1905.

WEST POIN?' RECLAMATION.»

CLAIM OF MEBERS HOWARD AND STEPHENS

[Continued from page 3).

9. The next point: for decision is what was the value of Marine Lot No. 184 immediately after it ceased to be a marine lot,

(i.) According to Meurs, Leigh & Orange' valuation No. 4, embodied in their statement of the 8th December, 1898, put in by the claimants, the value per square fool at that date

and that while some sling up might have occurred to the west of a former wharf in front of the lot, (which had belonged to and had been removed by the owners of the lot parily In 1891 and partly in 1895) swing to the obe stacle formed by the stone filling under that to the east of that obstruction was due to the wharf which had not been removed; any slleng

these works would tend to produce such sitting Reclamation Works. He was of opinion thät and that the "works themselves must also have caused a large amount of earth stuff to

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Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION. Undersigned have received instructions tobells by Now! PUBLIC AUCTION,..

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONGERNED, TOMORROW, the 28th July, 1905, at 11 AM, at their Salen Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY

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Consignees.

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

S.S. "BENLED!," FROM ANTWERP, London AnD STRAITS.

Cinformed that all Goods are being landed "ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.,

be obtained.

Intima ions.

YOU WILL NOT

be deceived, That there are cheats and frauds in plenty everybody knows; but it is seldom or never that any large business house is gulity ofthem, no matter what line of trade it follows. There can be no permanent success of any kind based on dishonesty or deception. There try that are simply fools and soon come to never was, and never will be. The men who grief-as they deserve. Now many persons

was $2.50. Mr. Orange in his evidence stated/ find its way into the sea and thus considerably HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE whence and/or from the wharves doliyary may re, nevertheless, afraid to buy certain

that when making this valuation he was in fluenced by his belief that the value of the land for the purposes of godowns had gone in 1898, a belief since proved in be erroneous, and that the situation was too far west to be of value for residential purposes. He based his valuation on those he had made on the 2nd July, 185, of land in two Lots between Nos. 198 and 184. These valutions were at the rate of St. and $2.00 per square foot. Neither was a cornet lot, and the houses on them were not godowns (ii.) According to Mesars, Palmer & Turner's statement of the 19th September, 1899, put in by the claimants, the value of Marine Lot No. 184, after the reclamation had been made in front of it was at the rate of $i.co per square foot. Mr. Turner in his evidence stated that

this valuation was made by his partner on the

accelerate the deposit on the foreshora."

Mr. Turner in bis evidence states that be was unable to say whether before the com- mencement of the reclamation boats were able to get alongside the praya at dead low tide.

(i) Mr. Leigh, whose report, dale the rst May, 1896, was based on meatcraments and Toundings taken on the 26th of the previous mouth, stated that fa the eight years between. 1888 and 1896 a very considerable silting up had taken place which he attributed in the first place to the pressing out of the mad and silt by the depositing of the pierre pardus embank. ment of the Praya Wall. He made no reference to the effect on the sea bottom of the remains Palmer and Turner's statement, nor to the fact of the claimants' wharf, referred to in Mesars, that the filling in for the Praya Wall, which

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF

ENAMELLED WARE GOODS, a BICYCLES and a SEWING MACHINES,

AND

About 900 PANAMA HATS in three different quailtien.

TERMS —Âs usual.

-BUCHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, 27th July, 1905.

Intimations.

1772

THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO ST. AMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

SEVENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowo, and all Gooda unde livered after the 1st August will be subject

to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 8th August, or they will not be recognised.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 1st August, at 11 AM.

·

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, zgih July, 1905.

(774 FROM HAMBURG, BREMEN, ROTTER- DAM, ANTWERP, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,

advertised articles lest they be bumbugged and deluded ; especially are they slow to place confidence in published statements of the merita of medicines. The romady known an

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION

is as safe and genuine an article to purchase as flour, silk or cotton goods from the mills of manufacturers with a world-wide reputation. Wa could not afford to exaggerate its qualities or misrepresent it in the least; and it is not necessary. It is palatable as honey and con- tains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of | Male and Wild Cherry; and how valuable such a blending of these important medicinal agents must be is plain to everybody. It is beyond price in Anemia, Insomnia, Weakness and lack of Nervous Tone, Poor Digestion, Wasting Diseases, La Grippe, Lung Troubles and Blood Captain Luening, having arrived from the Impurities. Science can furnish nothing better above Ponts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby-perhaps nothing to good. Dr. W. H. Dalfe, requested to send in their Dills of Lading for of Canada, says: "I have used it in my practice countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from and take pleasure in recommending it as a alongside.

basis of a previous valuation ist $1.25 par:quare formed the westem limit of the reclamation till HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF THE A. A. L. Steamship foot of a property on Inland Lot No. Bot in the 1898, had been completed at the end of 1891 SHAREHOLDERS in the 'Company: will be

Queen's Road (behind the Sailors' Home and 384 feet from the sea) occupied by Chinese shops and a vermilion factory. He also stated that his valuation was bared on the assumption that the property had ceased to be suitable for Rodawns.

(iii) Mr. Rain, one of the claimants' wit. nessce, in his evidence stated that, as an Inland

Lot, Marine Let No. 184 was worth not more than 51 or $2.50 per foot in 1899.

(iv.) Marine Lot No. 184 was actually sold for $110,000 on the 10th October, 1899.

According to Messrs. Palmer & Tarner's valuation prepared for the claimants three LINEN DRILL DUCK weeks before this sate, the value of buildings

MOTOR TAMS

for

LAUNCH & PICNIC

WEAR.

TRIMMED

and

or commencement of 1891. Mr. Leigh con sidered also that this wall acted as a groin causing willing to the West of

(ii) Mr. Denison, whose report, dated the 24th September, 1896, was based on measurements laken on the 11th and 18th April, 1896, stated that the average amount of silting up between 1888 and April, 1896, on ́one section through the foreshore was between

five and six fee! He attributes this entirely to the Praya Wall constructed in 1891-1892, act- ing as a groin.

(iv) The only other evidence put forward by the claimants in connection with the claim for damage on account of alteration of sea bottom

between the 1st January, 1896, and the toth

held at the Office of the Company. No, 18, Bank Balldings, Queen's Road Central, on TUESDAY, the 15th August, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend and electing Directors and Auditor.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

will be CLOSED from the 1 to 15th August, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

T. ARNOLD,

Secretary:

[762

"SAMBIA,"

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO- DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be Lantled into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised,

was $45,000. If this were correct they receives October, 1899, was that contained in the follow- Shire for six months ending 30th June, have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain-

for the land the sum of $65,000, 64, the same sum that they gave for it in 184, f, about 81 per square foot.

extract from the statement, dated the 14th June, by Mr. Ram -

Hongkong, zzád July, 1905, THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND, AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.

`N INTERIM DIVIDEND of $3.50 per 1995, will be payable on the 27th instant, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company be CLOSED from the toth to the 27th instant, (both days inclusive).

(v.) According to the statements of Mears, actual work of reclamation-so far as concer

"This work was initiated in 1889, but the Danby and Shelion Hooper of June, 1905, puted Section I, in which district Marine Lot No.ill in by the Crown, the sale of October, 1899, 184 is situated-was not in band until some was no criterion of the true value of the pro-

years inter and it was not until '1899 or there. party, the small amount received being pre-about--though there had, I believe, bean some bably due to the depressed state of the property market. Seven months after this sale the pro party realized $140,000, and making the same deduction of $45,000 for the buildings, the value of the land was then $1.92 per square foot.

interference at an earlier date-that the access to the sea was interrupted to such an extent as to tender the property in question and the buildings thereon, in great measure useless for the purposes of gedowns, for which it had been bought and developed."

(v.) For the Crown, Mr. Danby, in paragraph 7 of his statement of the 20th June, 1915, re- ferred to observations extending over the whole period of low spring tides in March, 1896, which led bim 10 report to Government that the Praya

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPE", Secretary. Hongkong, 11th July, 1905.

THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.

[734

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of One Dilar and Seventy-five Cents per Share for six months ending 30th June, 1909, will be payable on the 27th instant, on which die Dividend Warrants may be ob'ained on application at the Company's Office.

.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED) from the ott to the 27th

UNTRIMMED Orange ie his evidence stated that his 6tm had Reclamation works up to that time bad pot in instant, (both days inclusive).

MILLINERY

in large variety.

A FINE STOCK

of

WHITE

CANVAS, WHITE KID,

BLACK GLACE

and

BROWN GLACE

WALKING

SHOES.

Also

WHITE AND TAN

TENNIS

SHOES,

At Moderate Prices.

HONGKONG,

The temporary depreciation of the value of property to the vicinity of Marine Lot No. 18, about the time of the claimants' sale of that lot is reasonably accounted for by the building of new godowns in the vicinity. Mr.

completed new godowns on the lots in front of the former Marine Lois Nos. 204 and 205 somewhere about 189; and subsquently Messi. Palmer and Turner completed those in front of the former Marine Lot Nos. 186 and 185. Then lots are those immediately cast of Marina Lot No. 184,

On the whole, taking into consideration the reply of the Judicial Assessor to the fourth question put to him, I feel justified in neglect ing Mr. Turner's evidence os baing based on

jured the godown business on Marine Lot 184 but had been of very great benaft to that buki ness, enabling boats to be discharged along the old, when they were unable to make fast to the new, Praya Wall. To this statement Mr. Dasby adhered when cross-examined.

Mr. Boulton, the other witness for the Crown (vi) It was supported by the evidence of

in this matter, who considered, in this staje- meat of June 28th, 190s, that the Reclamation Works sheltered the landing place opposite winds, as well as from the prevailing current." Marine Lot No. 184 "from the prevailing

Mr. Boulton with & supplementary statement

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the Hongkong Land Invest- ment and Agency Co., Ld., Ceneral Agents for the West Point Build- ing, Co, Ld.

[735

Hongkong, 14th July, 1005. HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

TN accordance with the Provisions of No. 104 of the Articles of Association the General

Managers have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half year ended 30th June, 1905, of FOUR DOLLARS per Share,

DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on application at the Office of the Company on of cargo-boats to the Praya opposite the go-and after WEDNESDAY, the and Angust. downs, He further stated as follows:-

only remotely relevant data, in accepting the submitted a plan dated the 3rd March; higher value given by Mr. Ram, in treating the which showed from surveys taken in October 1889, August, 1892, August, 1 94, July, 1895, sales in October, 1899, and May, 1970, as evi- and February, 1896, that the shoning that took dence of the value of the property having, sub-place within the period they covered was very ject to temporary fluctuations as new properties light and could not have affected the access came on the market, generally advanced sub. sequent to the 1st September, 1898, and after all in treating as the most correct valuation for this date that made by Messrs. Leigh and Orange on the 28th December, 1898. This valuation was $2.50 per square foot,

10. The depreciation in the value of Marine Lot 184 on censing to be a marine lot on the 1st September, 1898, appears from the fore- going to have been at the rate of $3.50- $2.50 $1.00 per square foot, The total amount due for depreciation le flus $32,481.

the various valuations of the buildings on

"Aftar March, 1896, the causes which had produced the shoaling ceased to operate, and Judging by my previous surveys 1 should say that there was no appreciable silting between March, 1896, and 1899."

the correspondence on the subject of damage (vii) In addition to the foregoing evidence, dose to Marine Lot No. 181 by the Praya Yeclamation Works, which took place between the 4th November, 189, and the rith January, 1896, including the 15 letters from Mr. Howard comprised in it, has been considered.

The conclusion I have come to is that, as a result of the construction at the end of 1891 und commencement of 1893 of the right-angle

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 24th to 31st ínst, both days inclusive,

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 18th July, 1905, -

1753

A FOOK & Co., 12, Pottinger Street, Central. GENERAL STOREKEEPENS, SHIP CHANDLER AND COMPRADORES, COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES OF SIXTY YEARS STANDING,

ALL kinds of Provisions, Coal, Water and Ballast supply from alongside at the shortest notice and with all possible dispatch.

Moderate terms.

Orders solicite. Hongkong, 23ril l'ebruary, 1905

Consignees.

Except in calculating the value of the Lot after conversion, no attestion has been paid to

branch of the sea-wall and as a result of the it-555,6co according to Messrs. Leigh and filling behind it, there was some alteration fa the sea-bed opposite Marine Lot No. 184 and |Orange, $45,000 according to Messrs. Palmer that this sea-bed may have been further affect

and Turner, 56",oco according to Mr. Ram.ed by the demolition by the claimants of their $50,000 according to Mr. Danby and to Me.wharf and the consequent dispersal of the stone Shelton Hamper. These buildings, which cost filling under it. I am satisfied, however, that this alteration did not detrimentally affect the originally $36,00%, were generally rated to

godowns from which, abcording to Mr. hive gone up in value owing to the increased Howard's statement, the met senidis derived cost of building operations in Victoria As wers greater in the years 1892 to 1895 (except subsequent to the conversion of the marine lot for one year 1893) than in any previous years, into an island Int they were used, and at the attaining in the year 1895 an amount which THE F. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer

according to Mastra, Leigh and Orangei present day a ́e used, as godowns, there was valuation No. 2, represented the godown piscsically no difference to their value before being constantly full. No evidence was brought forward by the claimants to show that there was and after the conversion.

shoaling between the 1st January, 1896, and the 1 September, 1898, nod.I am of opinion that there was no such shoaling.

ri, in accordance with the reply of the Judicial Assessor to the fifth question put 10 him, the claimants are entitled to an amouni of 10% on that of the depreciation of Marine 1 pt No. 18+ by resson of the alteration In status, that is, to $3,348 in addition to the $1,48), arrived at in the last paragraph, or altogether in $35,729 against their claim for $172,000

|

I accordingly disallow the claim for 825,147 for loss of rents subsequent to the 1st January, 1896, which I consider should never have been put forward,

13. The next item of the claim is for interest. The claimants are entitled to receive interest on $33,719 from the 13 September, 1898, to the date of payment of this award.

|

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"MALTA,"

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

ing undelivered after the 31st instant will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 31st instant, at 3 P.M,

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

FROM NEW YORK.

THE H. A. L. Steamship

"VANDALIA,"

[767

a

valuable tonic and reconstructive." It is remedy that can afford to appeal to its record and represents the science and knowledge of bright and aggressive medical investigation. Effective from the first dose. "You cannot be disappointed in it." Like all good things it is imitated. Sold by chemists throughout the world.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

'

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES

ORDINANCE 1865,

AND

IN THE MATTER OF THE SAM YEE COM-

PANY, LIMITED, IN LIQUIDATION,

NOTICE in hereby given that the Court has adjourned the application of the Undersigned for settling the List of Contribu... · tories of the above-named Company, and the same will be settled at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 1st day of August, 1905, at 10.30 o'clock in the forenooa, pursuant to

thereunder,

Dated the 25th day of July, 1905."-

Captain Haase, having strived from the the Companies Ordinance 1865 and the rules above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to tako immediate delivery of their goods from | 775) alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO. DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

have left the Godawns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the gist instant will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined, on the 31st instant, at 3 P.M. J

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA, LINIE,

Hongkong Office.

**

J. W. LEE-JONES,

Oficial Liquidator.

NOTICE..

IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA.

will be CLOSED on and after

"HE · HONGKONG · BRANCH. of this

Eat August next,

CREDITORS are requested to send in their CLAIMS promptly.

By Order of the Directors,

E W. RUTTER

Manager.

...(763

Hongkong, zand July, 1905.

THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

1768

શું છે

Hongkong, 24th July, 1995.

S.S. "SYDNEY."

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIMES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"ONSIGNEES of Cargo from London, ex 1.1. Dordogne and Charexit, and from Bordeaux, ex. Ville de Valencienne, and Cambrai,in connection with above Steamer, ars hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valu. ables are being landed and stored at their

risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after fanding.

TRAGE

BARRETTO & Co,

General Agents, Hongkong,

SYRUPS.

Gum

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless [62 intimation is received from the Consignees Grenadine":

before Noon TO-DAY, requesting it to be landed here.

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel-are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kewloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained at 2000, an the Goods are landed,

This vessal brings on Cargo - From London, &oger S.S. Macedontu,

From Persian Gulf, &c., ex B. 1. S. N. and

B. & P. S. N, Co.'s Steamers.__ Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 11 AM, TO-MORROW.

4

Goods pot cleared by the and proximo, at

will be subject to rent

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned Goods remaining unclaimed after 31st July, at Noon, will be subject, to rent and landing charges.

All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 31st July, or they will not be recognised,

All damaged packages will be examined on MONDAY, the 31st July, at 3 P.M.

I

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

AMERICAN AND ORIENTAL LINE

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

S. S. "COULSDON," FROM NEW YORK.

12

CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-

named Vessel are bereby informed that

Raspberry Lemons

Red Currant

Lime ****

Vinegar

[pcqte popts. p.bt.q. p.bt.p. S15.co $17.00 $1.50 $0.75

Lime Juice Cordial...#8 p, e ƒ doz, #1 p. bot,

MINERAL WATERS.

Arima "Teppo"..................p. c. 4 802. 85.00

J

all Goods are being landed at their risk into the downs of the Hongkong and Kowloon, Hirano, Peacock".... Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.

-All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are

"} 7.00

4 n

5.50

.8

7.50

examined on the 28th July, at 3. P.I to be left in the Godowns, where they will be Couran, Source Bertrand... (60 bottles) 18.00

12. The claim for $25,142 for loss of renta

4. After fully discussing with the Legal Assessor his reply to the 7th question put to from the 1st January, 1896, to the roth October him, I have decided that the costs of the pro 1899, has, in view of the reply of the Judicial sent proceedings and of the Petitions seat by Assessor to the 6th question put to him, to be | the claimants to England should be given to next considered. The claimants put in three them, but no costs on account of legal pro

ceedings statements to prove damage done by loss of depth of water at the praya wall in front of sum of $35.729 with interest on it from the ist No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in

15. I therefore ward to the claimants the their fot and consegnent impaired access to it, September, 1898, together with the costs of the. Any case whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in the and damage to their business from the time present proceedings and of the petitions sent the reclamation work was first commenced to by the claimants to England. From this Godowns for examination by the Consignees the time when it was carried in front of their award the amount of $15,000 paid on the and the Company's representative at an

29th August, 1953, with the interest that has appointed hour lot.

accrued on it has to be deducted. His Hopour

must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here qfier which presented to the Undersigned on or before the

as they cannot be recognised, *.**

the Chief Justice will give instructions to the Registrar of the Supreme Court to tar the bill of costs in accordance with my fading with regard to it.

«M, NATHAN,,

Wm. POWELL, Ld., (1) Toe first in date was Meters, Palmer nnd Turner's of the 19th August, 1895, based on an inspection by Mr. Palmer made on the 19th of that month. It was to the effect that the forcabore was exposed la front of the lot at Goverment House, [55 | 4. W. O. 8, T. for an average width of 24 feet, Hongkong, 13th July, 1905.

Stangkong, 20th July, 1993;

:

- Nó Cializa.will be admitted after the Goods: have left the Godowna, -

LS LEWIS, Acting Superintendent Hongkong, 26th July, 2005,

i

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods Vichy, Source St. Louis...(50. have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 28th July, will be subject

10 rant,

All Claims against the Steamer must be

30th July, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

ARNHOLD KARBERG & Co,

Bg Agents, Hongkong, 22nd July, 1905, (766

BARRETTO & Co

Agents,

30.00

No1, 22 & 24, Bask Buildings,

Queen's Road Central,

Hongkong, 14th July, 1908