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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.-

FRIDAY, SE

EMBERVAR J819

G.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

BAQUERIA FILIPINA

(SHANGHAI)

LEADING TOBACCONISTS IN THE EAST.

STORE WILL BE OPENED

IN HONGKONG

10 DES VŒUX ROAD.

BEFORE THE END OF

THIS MONTH

HEN THE NECESSARY PRE-

PARATIONS HAVE BEEN

COMPLETED.

TABAQUERÍA FILIPINA,

26 ICE HOUSE St. (TEMPORARY OFFICE).

CONSIGNEES:

THE ADMIRAL LINE".

HE Steamship

CITY OF SPOKANE" 3 arrived from Seattle via on Sept. 18th, 1919 con- des are beraby notified that

cargo is being landed at Frisk into the Hazarious or Extra-Hazardous Godowns be Hongkong and Kowloon if and Godown Co. Ltd.. Hoon, and stored at con. ines' risk.

basignees of cargo must pro- ean Import permit signed by Superintendent of Imports Exports, Hongkong, before of Lading will be counter- fed.

broken, chafed and dam- cargo is to be left in the will be where it downs

mined at 10a.m. on Sept. 24th.

by the Company's Surveyors, ESTS. Goddard and Douglas..

A claims must be presented

· PUBLIC UCT ION.

THE Cadersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

SATURDAY, the 20th Sept, 1919

commencing at li a.m.

at his Sales Rooms, Dúddell Street

13 cases Assorted Soup

9

cases Honey

3 cases Currant Padding

9 cases Sweet

10 cases Mixed Pickles

1 case Milk

10 cases Rolled Oats

Terms Cash on delivery

Geo, P. LAMMERT Auctioneer

TO BE LET.

"O BE LET: -Half Space of

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Store. May be used for thin thirty days of the steamer's office. Moderate rent. For terms ival here, after which they &c. Apply Box 244 co

hot be recognized. No claims kong Telegraph."

l be recognized after the goods

We left the Godowns, and cargo

Helivered on and after Sept.

th, 1919 will be subject to rent.

NOTICE

*Hong.

No fire insurance whatever will HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND

affected.

Consignees are requested to: ad in their Bills of Lading for

ntersignature immediately. PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO. Operating Agents U. S. Shipping Board. 5th floor, Hotel Mansions ongkong, September 18th, 1919. NIPPON YUEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNÉES.

FINANCE CO. LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that

an Extraordinary General Meeting of Humphreys Estate & Finance Company Limited will be held at the Hongkong Hotel on the 24th, day of September 1919 at noon for the purpose of considering and if thought fit ap- proving the draft new Articles which will be submitted to the

NOTICE.

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On and after the 8th day of September, 1919 —

NOTICE

E. D.C. WOLFE...

C. S. P.

MOTORING IN KOWLOON.

CIRCULAR TRIP POSSIBLE SOON.

At the end of this month it is

Permission given by His Ex- On and after Monday Sept. 15th cellency the Officer Administer-1919 the Pass office and the ing the Government under section office for the Registration of expected that the road" from Persons under ordinance 6 of 1916 | Kowloon to Castle Peak will be 10 of the Travellers Restriction will be located at the Central opened for motoring. The road. Ordinanca 1915.

Police Station and dot at the Fost is in quite fair condition and Office Building.

there are no dangerous corners. It is one of the roads with the easiest bends in the Colony and with no steep gradients. The road will ensure a circular motor trip on the mainland. Starting from Tsim Sha Tsui, the old road skirts Shatin, Fanling, Autsu, Pingshang, to Castle Peak, Tai La-cheung and Tsinwan and back to Tsim Sha Tsui. From Tsim Sha Tsui to Fanling by the old road the dis- tance is 21 miles and from Tsim Sha Tsui to. Castle Peak the distance is 38 miles whilst from Castle Peak to Tsim Sha Tsui by the new road it is 19 miles-a total length on the circular route of 57 miles.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

(1.) Persons who are in posses-Hongkong, 12th September, 1919. sion of such passports as are here- in-after mentioned and produce the same hereinafter mentioned are permitted by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government to leave the Colony without a pass from the Captain Superintendent of Police,

(2) A British subject is per- mitted to leave the Colony, with- out & Police Pass, provided that hé has in his possession a valid passport which has been issued or renewed within the last two years and provided that he pro- produces such passport, on de- mand, on board of and prior to the departure of the steamer by which he is leaving-

(S.) A Subject of a Foreign Power is permitted to leave the Colony without a Police Pass, provided that he has, in his pos- session a valid passport granted by or on behalf of the Govern- ment of the Country of which he is a subject, and provided that he produces such passport on de- mand, on board of and prior to the departure of the steamer by which he is leaving.

2. A person arriving in and leaving the Colony by the same steamer is permitted to leave the Colony, provided that he has such valid passport as aforesaid and provided that he produces such passport, on demand, for examination on board, both prior to the arrival of the steamer in the Colony and prior to its departure from the Colony.

3. Members of ships crews are

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

ATURDAY, the 20th Sept. 1919.

commencing at ii am. at his Sales Rooms, Duddell

Street"

6 bales Periodicals

8 cases Freezing Machinery

1 case Brandy

23 tine Coffee

18 tins Biscuits ·

84 bags Flour

95 tins Yellow Paint

10 tins Soft Soap

5 cases"Three Boys "Soap

50 cases Bar Soap

73 Pairs Hair Clippers 30 pairs Rubber Boots

3.Sewing Machines Terms: Cash on delivery."

Geo. P. LAMMERT.

Auctioneer.

WISEMAN

LIMITED.

permitted to sign on without The Best Tiffin

obtaining a permit from the Captain Superintendent of Police.

Note: 1. All persons, who are in either without a passport or with-- out such a valid passpoft as above mentioned. must continue to

comply with all the provisions of the Travellers Restriction Ordin- ance, 1915.

2. To prevent delay in sailings, Shipping Companies should satisfy themselves that intending passengers have the necessary

town To-day

is at

NOTICE

MERCURY GARAGE CO

MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE

TELEPHONE 977.

GERMAN TRADE OUTLOOK.

CHEAPEST COUNTRY IN

THE WORLD.

43,000 GERMAN PIANOS.

BRITISH MAKERS' FEAR OF DUMPING.

Considerable anxiety prevails

"The whole road has been great- ly improved and a splendid motor trip is made possible. Im- In the current number of portant work is being carried out System is & very interesting among English pianoforte manu- in respect of widening the present article by a Special Commission-facturers as to their position in Taipo Road between the third and er sent to Germany in March the world's markets in the im- fifth miles. It is hoped that and April of this year to make mediate future. According to a considerable improvements will careful inquiries into the business leading manufacturer, revived bo affected on this secttion situation there. The writer is an German competition seriously

of the road. Improvements experienced business man and the are also being carried out financial editor of a well-known on the section of the road be- paper. He sums up his positive tween Loklaha and Taipo.

SHIPPING ITEMS.

Coal to the extent of 1982 tons was unloaded here this morning by the as. Hangchow, a Chins Navigation Company vessel, from Hongay. She experienced heavy mousoon weather.

consigument of coal for Hong-

conclusions as follows:

threatens the industry.

"During the war," he said, "the German Government prohibited the sale of German pianos even 1. German trade has no con- to their own people, although certed policy and does not want manufacture was maintained right any; it wants to run itself with through. The object was to col- out outside interference from the lect such a number of instruments Government and will have noth- that German traders could secure ing of subsidies.

The general a share of the business of the opinion is that the subsidias did world immediately peace was more harm than good, and also declared. They have not moved that cartels were not particularly very extensively yet, though a few useful and should not be revived. pianos have been sent to Amster-

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2. The notion that the Gerdam and to Copenhagen, but the mans would trade under a quasi-embargo against the importation military system or with a uniform of their instruments into this From Holbow the Namwan. a policy is the result of a hectic in-country comes off next September. Portuguese vessel, brought 200 agination. It has, never been Reliable figures show that in tons of general merchandise for given serious consideration in Germany to-day there are some Hongkong.

Germany and is considered an 43,000 pianos to be dumped on to Another vessel that had, a interesting absurdity.

the world's markets at cut prices, 3. There are

German the State offering a subsidy to the kong is the Uranga Maru stocks to 'dump and not the manufacturers in the form of a which came in this morning from slightest intention of selling in grant based on the cost of Mike with 2,775 tons of the com- any market below cost, although, manufacture, on the prices current modity. Her agents are the if the home tariff is high enough. in the general markets at the Mitsui Busan Kaisha.

concerns will., dispose of their time they are offered, and the Tes, tin composition, cocoa, surplus stocks outside of Ger- prices actually realized.

This is the spirit of German chandise to the extent of 5156 will charge the home trade. penetration all over again, but we tons was delivered here this

The German tariff will are trying to secure that the morning by the s.s. Kaga Maru,make foreign competition inside Board of Trade will protect de în

WISEMAN'S. truck silver and general mer many at prices cheaper than they

passports aforesaid in their Usual Price She had 41 first-class, 17 second-cept in special lines not made so

possession.

All persons with certain excep- tions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the

$1.00

REGISTRATION of PERSONS Punch ticket for

ORDINANCE 1916 Forms of Registration giving the parti-

cular required may be obtained at 30 meals $25.00.

the G. P. O. and at all. Police Stations.

The Penalty for non-compliance

is a fine not exceeding $50.

E. D. C. WOLFE, WISEMAN LTD.

C. S. P.

|Hongkong, 5th September 1919.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG STEEL

FOUNDRY CO., LTD.

Notice to Shareholders. The Ninth Ordinary Yearly

Tel. 407.

THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED.

Hand Vice: 6 Des Voeux Road Cit Hankow Banch. Panof Building,

FOR THE YEAR. TO COME

Pricaution is imporant in all things. This applies to your own as. The

is by

of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Germany nearly impossible ex-some way from this competition. class and 123 deck passengers. well in Germany.

After pointing out that the cost of manufacture of the British in- strument is far in excess of the

Americau and Canadian instra-

Three hundred tons of general cargo was brought from Canton ONE OF THE BIGGEST FACTORS.

The German trade of the prices charged for high-grade by the Chinese vessel Yuet Shang.

The Kuing Hong arrived this future will not be as dramatic as ments, the canufacturer in ques it has been pictured. It will not tion said that there was not an morning three hours late.

The Kwong Lee had 863 tone be dramatic at all. But because American or a Canadian business of general cargo from Shanghai. her

merchants. bankers, and house in the trade that had not The se. Haitan cleared this manufacturers have both feet its representative over here now, morning for Foochow via Swatow squarely on the ground, and are and," according to the reports we prepared to go after profitable have received, they have secur- business anywhere and on sane ed some rather substantial orders. lines, Germany is to-day potenti- Within the last three months The ss. Gablonz left at noonally one of the biggest trade

some hundreds of orders placed to-day for Trieste with 455 of factors in the world.

with English manufacturers. "She is strong because she has notably from South Africa and through eergo and 262 cabin

no illusions and knows that what Australia, have been cancelled in passengers.

with 1,400 tons of cargo.

The Kaga Maru departed for Kobe with 450 tons.

The Taksang departed for the sells in the world will have to favour of cheaper American Hongkong with 50 tons.

be sold on price and merit pianos of equal quality. There is nothing of the superhum have tried to meet this by secur

POET LAUREATE FOR LIFE.

of inspiration and intellectual

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We

men resist the bonus scheme ou

the ground that it is a reversion to what they term the 'discredited" piece-rate system.".

from EUROPE AND STRAITS meeting. A copy of such Articles Meeting of Shareholders" in thebat way of providing for the future, freely appointment. Colonel A. Murray German industry, he makes vers the movement which is so ripidly

THE Company's Steamship,

“KAĞA MARU,”

and a copy of the existing Articles above Company, will be held at may be seen at the Office of the the Company's Office, St. Georges General Managers in Alexandra Building, Hongkong, on Tuesday Buildings. In such copy the the 30th September, 1919 at ying arrived from the above portions of the proposed New 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of pre- rts, Congsignees of Cargo are Articles which differ from the senting the Report of the General reby informed that their Goods Old Articles are indicated by Managers, and Statement of ac-

being landed and placed at underlining in red ink,

counts to 31st May, 1919.

Bir risk in the Hongkong, and Should the meeting approve of The Transfer Books of the owloon Wharf and Godownjauch Articles with or without Company will be closed from

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OPENING A BAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH US. $1.to Mart, SYSTEMATICALLY it will grow to

- THOFBANES-

DANCING.

Does it carry any obligations to write poems-Mr. Bonar Law: I think not

Of all possible obligations that would be the most unressonable. (Laughter.)

DUTY OF A WIFE... •

in any of the methods ing an increased output, to obtain or plans with which I came which we have even offered to ia contact but there is give the men the increased pay. plenty of hard common-sense and ment for which they are now Was the office of Poet Laureate & complete appreciation that to pressing, and to add to it a bonus

rehabilitate even a fraction of a life appointment, irrespective Germany's former world trade on all increased output. The output, asked Sir Ernest Wild in will require an almost endless the House of Commons recently. amount of hard work." Mr. Boner Law: It is a life

When the writer comes to deal with the immediate prospects of little allowance for the influence of political agitations and discovering Europe will gain a foot.

hold in Germany.

The strikes, have been due ' orders. He writes:

"For six months or a year, mainly to dissatisfaction with provided raw materials arrive and the purchasing power of money, trade is not restricted, Germany and have been literally bread will have no difficulty in dispos- strikes. They have been solely A little homily on the whole ing of goods for export against for money and not for a duty of a wife was delivered by any competitor, because the low order of things. The soldiers' magistrate, to a woman who was the cheapest country in the world

everywhere sprang up in charged before him recently with to buy in.

Germany at the time of the. streets. no-drunkenness in

NOT WORRIED BY STRIKES. "Why were you not at home

revolution have either faded looking after your husband ? "" "It is the loss of efficiency in away as in Essen and Dusseldorf, asked the magistrate. The labour and not strikes or wages or have been transformed into woman replied that she had as such which is causing worry labour bodies and are distinctly prepared her husdand's supper to Germans in making their plans stabilizing factors.

"The Spartacist movement of and left it on the gas-stove to for the future. The coal loss in

new

mpany's Godowns at Kowloon,modification the subjoined extra-23rd September to 30th September)ANCING-Lessons given in Mr. Symmons, the North London value of the mark makes Germany and workers' councils, which

GORDON & CO.

here each consignment will be ordinary resolution will be pro-1919, both days inclusive.

ted out mark by mark and posed. ivery can be obtained as soon the Goods are landed. Optional Goods will be carried Sunless instructions are given the contrary before NOON, DAY.

„Goods not cleared by the 26th ptember, 1919, wll be subject Frente

Damaged packages must be left The Godowns for examination the Consignee's and the Co.'s

"That the New Articles

General Managers. already approved by this meeting and for the pur- Hongkong, 16th September, 1919.

pose of identification sub scribed by the Chairman thereo fbe and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in, substitution for all the existing Articles thereof.” Should the resolution be passed

NOTICE.

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., (1918) LTD.

Notice is hereby given

all the latest dances. Last season's success a guarantee for the coming season. Terms

c/o derate, Apply Box 241 Hongkong Telegraph."

ARMY AB A CAREER.

the

Mapy inquiries are being receiv-keep warm. As she had done but a fair average, and whether which one reads so much is a ed from non-regular officers, who her duty she thought she was this is a permanent loss or merely noise rather than a movement, have served in a theatre of war, entitled to go out. Mr. Symmons a reaction to war weariness and it has no hold upon the Ger man workers. There has been as to the success of their applic-But you had not done your whole cannot be more than guessed at. ations for permanent commissions duty. You ought to have been "Aside from this decrease in nothing in Germany so important ia.. the Regular Army. at home when your husband man power, labour is in a fairly as the Clyde strike in England; to The resentatives at an appointed by the required majority it will shareholders of the above named the delay, but it is impossible to have talked to him, and to in the world gosalin these days. soldiers with machine-guns, hand Army Council regret arrived and given him his supper, satisfactory condition, as labour but if ten men start a row, 500 fr on Tuesday & Friday. All be submitted for confirmation as Company that the Transfer Books Kims must be presented within a special resolution to a second-will be closed from Tuesday the as to how many commissions will say. He would want to tell you much ground the membership a field gun or two will be called.

make any to

announcement have listened to what he had to The union movement has gained grenades, liquid fire and probably of the steamer's arrival Extraordinary General Meeting 23rd September 1919, until Tues-be granted, until

date they cannot which will be subsequently con- day the 30th September 1919, establishment of the Regular how he had scored off the fore- and the rank and file of the men are

the future what he had done during the day, has tripled; and the union leaders out to bring them to order. They so afraid something may both days inclusive)

Army has been decided. At the man, and done other things, are squarely with the employers start that they swat flies with SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

present moment, the number of (Laughter.) Don't tell me that in working for the re-establish sledge hammers General Managers.

officers holding regular permanent you did your duty as a wife ment of industry. There is The Labour problem of Ger commissiode is in excess of known by simply keeping his upper practically no Bolshevism or many will be met when there is Hongkong, 16th September, 1919. requiremente, v

Spartacism, and little chance that work for the workers.

ime will be vened

s have left

By Order of the Board

1919.

GRAPP,

Secretary.

9th September, 1919,

Warn