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ADVERTISEMEN

REMEMBER TEL. No. 977

FOR

MERCURY GARAGE

LICENSING BOARD,

FULL LICENCE FOR REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

A meeting of the Licensing Board was held to-day at 12:15. The Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, O.B.E presided, and there'ware, present the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, CMG. hạ Hon Mr. C. Mi I Messer, O.B.E, the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, OBE, and Messrs. Shelton Hooper, A. Mac- kenzie. H. Percy Smith, and Mr.

·G. A. Woodcock, (Secretary). “

THE MOST MODERN CARS

IN TOWN.

AN UNPROVED CASE.

A Chinese coolie was this morning charged, at the Police Court, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell,

NOTICE.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY

COLLTD::

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that an INTERIM DIVID END of NINE PENCE: par Share on account of the year 1919 has been declared. “

of

The DIVIDEND will be payi able on and after MONDAY, the 25th day of August 1919 to Shareholders on the Register, oa MONDAY, the 11th day August 1919 and will be paid to Shareholders on the Colonial (Hongkong) Register at the ex- change rate of 3/6 per Dollar.

By Brder of the Board, W. E. ROBERTS.

Secretary.

with assaulting Mr. Nowel Hongkong, 28th July 1919. White, who is a steward at the Hongkong Hotel.

The complainant said that on

NOTICE.

ESTATE LIMITED.

Saturday evening he engaged THE HONGKONG CENTRAL a chair at the Hongkong Hotel to go to his residence at Belilios Terrace, Condoit Road. Two men, the defendant and another man not? in custody, approached his chair, which was a covered one, Application was made by Mr. and, placing themselves on either J. H. Taggart for a publican's li-side, dragged it down to the cence for the Repulse Bay Hotel.

Mr. W. E L Shenton, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker. Deacon and Harston, on behalf of the

ground. He jumped out and seized hold of the defendant, while the other Chinese bolted.

Questioned by the Magistrate, the complainant said that he thought that the defendant was attempting to rob him. Witness ad mitted giving the defendants black eye, as he thought the latter had some weapons in his possession.

An Intàrim Dividend of. Four Dollars per share for the six months ending 30th. June 1919 will be payable on Monday 28th July on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's office.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Friday the 18th. to Monday the 28th. July (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By order of the Board of Directors.

A. SHELTON HOOPER Secretary to the General Managers.. Hongkong, 9th July, 1919.-

Sergeant Appleton said that the defendant was formerly em- ployed as a chair coolie by Sir Paul Chater. He had a basket containing his personal effects when he WBS brought into the Police Station. The The China Light and Power complainant

an excited

Company (1918) Limited. state when he came into the charge room, hold- ing a revolver in one hand aud a police whistle in the other. He

was in

applicant, said the application was being made by Mr. J. H. Taggart and in applying for the licence in the name of Mr. Tag gart he would mention that that gentleman has been for many years connected with the Hong- kong Hotel and had held a licence something like ten years without single com- plaint from the police. He would mention that the applica- tion has been guaranteed by some very substantial gentlemen in cluding Mr. F. Maitland and Sir Ellis Kadoorie. It was the intention to sell intoxicating liquor separately, but it was not the intention to have a bar.told the Sergeant that defendant People would come and

sit had caught hold of his wrist when at tables and have their re- he came out from the chair. freshments in the ordinary way. There was

other place closer than Hongkong where intoxicating liquors could be had excepting the Golf Club. which, as the members of the Board knew, was confined to inembers. He thought that it must be apparent to the Board that anything in the sense of drunkenness on the premises wuld be extremely detrimental to the interests of the Hotel and it would be conducted as orderly as possible. He mentioned that

licence any

no,

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The defendant admitted the truth of the statement that he was dismissed from Sir Paul's service

NOTICE OF CALL. NOTICE is hereby given that a call of $2 per share has been made on all members holding shares upon which only $1 has been paid, and that such call will be payable on the 30th day of on Saturday but stated that he September 1919 to the Hongkong did not know the reason for the& Shanghai Banking Corporation dismissal. He called a witness, at Hongkong. one of the chair coolies, who gave SHEWAN TOMES & Co. evidence to the effect that he could not make out the name of

General Managers, the street the complainant want

The China Light & Power Co., éd to go to, and was making

(1918) Ltd. enquiries with the defendant when Hongkong, 12th June, 1919. the complainant jumped out of the chair and assaulted the man.

Mr. Lindsell remarked that he

BANKRUPTCY COURT.

TO-DAY'S SITTING. The Bankruptcy Court sa, this morning, before Mr. Justice Melbourne.

3

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.. THE Undersigned has received Auction on

instructions to sell by Public

WEDNESDAY, the 30th July 1919. commencing at 2.30 p.m. at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street

A Quantity of Valuable House- hold Furniture comprising →→→ Tapestry covered drawing room suite, easy chairs, blackwood fire screen, teapoys & flowerstands, card tables, extension dining table

FOO

MARASCHINO

FAMOUS LIQUEUR.

Obtainable from A. S. Watson, Co., Ltd. and the Leading Wine Merchants

NOTICE.

Sole distributors for China. HOLLAND PACIFIC TRADING CO.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY 'CO., LTD.

and half Dollars per share for the six months ending 30th June, 1919, will be payable on Monday, Warrants may be obtained on 28th July, on which date Dividend

application at the Company's office...

An Interim Dividend of three

Company, will be closed from The-Transfer-Books of the

Friday the 18th, to Monday the 28th July (both days inclusive) : during which period no transfer of shares can be registered. By order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER.

Secretary

Hongkong. Jib July, 1919.

NOTICE.

SHELL TRANSPORT AND

TRADING CO. LTD,

NOTICE-We have been re-

quested by the above Com- will be issued at par to share- pany to announce that new shares holders on the 16th Jupe 1919, in the proportion of ONE new share for every TWO old shares fractions being disregarded.

Holders of BEARER" War- rants should deposit their hold- ings not later than the 9th August, 1919, accompanied by payment of the equivalent of £1 Sterling for each new share claimed, with their Bankers who will stamp the warrants on the face thereof with

the words "RIGHTS CLAIMED 1919.^

Registered shareholders should: pay to their Bankers the equival- ent of £1 Sterling for each new share claimed, not later than the l 9th August, 1919.

For the Hongkong & Shanghai: Banking Corporation.

N. J. STABB..

Chief Manager. Hongkong. 24th July, 1919.

NOTICE

other than had some doubt about the case. a full licence would be As the defendant had no evil quite inadequate, for several intention, he ordered him to be reasons. In an adjunct licence discharged. it was necessary to purchase meals before intoxicating liquor could be sold. But that did not apply, because the Repulse Bay Hotol would be putting up a number of people who go there for picnics and bathing. A man takes his family and wants to Application was made by the have glass of beez, and it was not Official Receiver for the recission necessary that he should have of à receiving order made in the to have a meal. An adjunct case of F. Reichmann. licence would therefore be totally The Official Receiver, Mr G. inadequate. It would only be Lloyd, said that a receiving order useful for customers who possibly was only consented to on the went out there for dinner or who condition that a deed of undertak-. were living there. There were a log was signed by the debtor ggon, single & double brass very large section of the people and his wife, promising to dressing table &

mounted iron bedsteads, teak, of Hongkong who would go out pay the creditors in full after

washstand, there for the purpose of enjoy- the death of the wife's father's carpets, electric ceiling fans etc: ment and did not necessarily widow. The deed of undertaking: Etc.

meal a

thought was (drawn up but the creditors the scheme of the Hongkong could not see their way to accept Hotel was worthy of any it and the debtor could make no support which it could receive in other suggestion. There were the Colony. The Hotel proprietors absolutely no assets. were, he might say, pioneers and The application was granted. had laid out a very large sum of

. In the case of the Kwong Wing money in the new building in the Loong Firm, application by the hope that it would also open up Official Receiver was made for entirely new territory which, he the recission of a receiving order, might say, would greatly assist on the ground that there were no the very acaté housing problem substantial assets. in the Colony.

& chairs, sideboard, dinner THE WEST POINT BUILD...

want

He

The application was granted. In the case of Chan Yau, in his public examination the debtor. said he owed $9,000, which sum he put up as a security for a man taking the postion as compradore. He mortgaged a house in Willing-

The application was granted. Application was made for the transfer for the Nontura Hotel from No. 15, Connaught Road Central, to No. 66, Connaught Road Central. The applicant stated that the old premises had boen vacated, for about & fort-years before his bankruptcy, night

The application was granted.

BUNS AND WEAK TEA NOT WANTED. Lambeth Borough Council re jested a proposal that a halfpenny rate should be levied partly to set the cost of the peace celebre tions. A halfpenny ráte, would rafo about £3,500, and out of this the Fe Celebration Committee propose to give a tea and a medal 400, school children, which £2,213. Alderman

also

Two Large Steel Safes.

ING CO., LTD.

An Interim Dividend of Three Dollars per share for the six months ending 30th. June 1919 will be payable on Monday 28th. July on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on.

office.

On view from Tuesday the application at the Company's 29th inst. "

Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.

Gea, P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Pub- lic Auction on

THURSDAY, the 31st July, 1919. commencing at 2.30 p.m. at No. 12 Chatham Road,

-Kowloon

tou street for $12,000 about two A Quantity of Valuable House-

Asked by the Official Receiver

to account for, this money, the debtor said he required time to think about it.

ad.

Was

The examination. journed. Evans said the school child of to-day would laugh at their tea and medal,, for the girl of seven read Eleanor Glyn, whilst the boy of ten cocked his hat at the back of his head had slapped his leg with a cane. They did not want tea or medal. Alderman Davey said there was no glory in stuffing children with buns and week tea

hold Furniture

comprising:

Teak extension dining table & chairs, Teak sideboard & dinner overmentels, Waggon, Teak mirrors, tea tables, teapoys, car- robes with bevelled mirrors, teak peta, teak bedsteads, teak ward-

dressing tables, chests of drawers etc. etc.

On View from Wednesday, the 30th Inst

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Friday the 11th. to Monday the 28th. July (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By order of the Board of Directors.

A. SHELTON HOOPER Secretary to

The Hongkong Land Investment & Agency.Co., Ltd. General Agents for the West Point Building Co., Ltd

Hongkong, 9th July, 1919.

THE INDUSTRIAL AND "COMMERCIAL BANK,

LIMITED.

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HAPPINESS /* Inquiry on our SPECIAL SERVICZ

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