NEW
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED.
and CHINA MUTUAL STEAM
NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Consignees per Co.'s Steamer
"PELEUS."
are hereby notified that the Car- go will be discharged into Holt's Wharf. Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees' risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godowas on and after 6th October.
Optinoal cargo will be landed. unless notice has been given prio" to steamer's arrival.
All broken,chafed, and damag- ed goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 a.m. and noon within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 13th October, will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the udder- th signed on or before the October, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be efected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Agents.
Hongkong, 4th October 1919.
THE ADMIRAL LINE.
THE Steamship
"OLEN"
Seattle,
BUNKER COAL
Silimpopon (Sebattik) Coal. The only British Coal on the
Hongkong Market
G.
NOTICE.
R.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919.
P.&O.S.N. COY. A NEW MACHINE GUN.
HE Twin Screw-
THE
All persons with the exception $.S." PRINZESSIN
race, of persons of Chinese wishing to leave the Colony must hare in their possession a VALIÐ PASSPORT. Passengers not in possession of passports will not be allowed to leave the Colony. This Coal is imported direct
All persons with certain excep- from the Mines in British North Borneo. It is a high class Steamtions who remain in the Colony Coal, very economical, and equal for more than 7 days are required to Best Japanese Lump. It is to Register themselves under the Forms of easy burning, of high calorific REGISTRATION of PERSONS Registration giving the parti. value, and equally suitable for ORDINANCE 1916 Marine or Land Boilers.
culars required may be obtained at the G. P. O. and at all Police Stations.
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Prices on application to
BRADLEY & CO., LTD. Sole Agents.
The Cowie Harbour Coal Co., Ltd.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received
instructions to sell by Public
Auction on
WEDNESDAY, the 8th Oct.
1919.
commencing at li a.m.
at his Sales Rooms. Duddell Stree:
(For account of the concerned)
203 Bags Myrobalams Terms Cash on delivery
Geo, P. LAMMERT Auctioneer.
NOTICE.
TO BE SOLD
The Valuable Leasehold Pro- perty Known as Inland Lots Yos. 1247. &.1262 Victoria Hongkong gether with the Messuages Erections and Buildings thereon.
to-
having arrived from Wash. via ports, on Oct. 7th, 1919 consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and/or Extra-Hazardous Godowns Inland Lot No. 1247 contains a of the Hongkong and Kowloon total area of about 38,952 square Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. feet. Inland Lot No. 1262 con- Kowloon, and stored at contains a total area of about 33,348
square feet. signees' risk.
Consignees of cargo must pro- Inland Lot No. 1247 is held for duce an Import permit signed by the residue of a term of 993 years the Superintendent of Imports having about 933 years unexpired and Exports. Hongkong. before and Inland Lot No. 1262 is also Bills of Lading will be counter-held for the residue of a term of signed.
999 years also having about 935 All broken, chafed and dam-years unexpired. aged cargo is to be left in the
it Godowns where will be examined at 10 ani. on Oct. 13th, 1919 by the Company's Surveyors. Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
All claims must be presented within thirty days of the steamer's "arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized. No claims will be recognized after the good- have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after Oct. 14th, 1919 will be subject to rent. No fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Consignees are requested to sond in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO. Operating Agents U. S. Shipping Board. 5th floor, Hotel Mansions Hongkong. October 7th, 1919.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE DOLLAR STEAMSHIP
LINE.
THE Steamship
The purchaser will buy the Lots subject to a Lease for 5 years from the First day of October 1916 at rent of $6.550 per calendar month. The vendors wil'. if the purchaser desires, give twelve months' notice to deter- mine this Lease in accordance with the terms of such Lease.
The purchaser will also buy the above properties subject to
for $167,000 with Mortgage interest at 8% per annum repay- able on the 6th June 1920.
The above mentioned Lease and Mortgage can be inspected at the offices of the undersigned Mesers. Deaton, Looser, Deacon & Harston.
Purchasersdesiring to purchase the above properties must send in sealed Tenders to the undersigned. Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon!
The Penalty for non-compliance is & fine not exceeding $50.
E. D. C. WOLFE,
"C. S. P. Hongkong, 5th September 1919.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHINESE LANGUAGE
SCHOOL.
A Beginners Class will be started on Monday. 13th October at, 5.15 p.m. at the New School, junction of Zetland Street and Ice House Street (Masonic Hall Premises).
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Intending students are quested to send in their names to the undersigned for enrolment.
By Order, E. A. M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary. Hongkong, 29th September 1919.
NOTICE.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that that an Extraodinary General Meeting of Humphreys Estate and Finance Company, Limited will be held at the Hongkong Hotel on the 10th day of October 1919 at noon, when the subjoined resolution, which was passed at the Extraordinary General, Meet- ing of the Company held on the 24th day of September, 1919, will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution.
"That the new articles already approved by this meeting and "for the purpose ofidentification "subscribed by the Chairman "thereof be and the same are "hereby adopted as the Articles "of the Company to the ex- clusion of and in substitution "for all the Articles thereof." Hongkong dated the 26th day of September, 1919.
By order of the Board,
G. 'RAPP.
Secretary.
NOTICE.
INDO-CHINA STEAM- NAVIGATION CO. LTD.
Will be despatched from Hong- kong on or about OCTOBER 21st, Taking THROUGH PASSENGERS
and CARGO to MARSEILLES & LONDON. For Pawa and Freight apply to
MACKINNON MACKENZIE & Co..
4. Des Vetix Road Central
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Auction on
A
THURSDAY, the 9th, October 1919. commencing at 2.30 p.m. Quantity of Valuable House
WEAPON THAT CANNOT
JAM.
LLOYD GEORGE'S
SUCCESSOR.
30
T.P. O'CONNOR'S VIEWS.
If Lloyd George goes under in the House of Commons owing to the split-up of the artificial fabric
to
tinuity in English life that the Cecil family should still help to govern England three centuries after the original Cecil directed the. foreign policy of Queen Eliza- beth. Generations of undisting uished Cecils in the interval bad held great posts, but once more the old family glories. were
One is В
Lord
A demonstration has been given at Bisley of the Beardmore- Farquhar light machine-gun, and it is claimed for it that it is the of the present coalition, either he revived when the late Lord lightest machine-gua; that it is will force a dissolution or a new Salisbury guided for years aKE the cheapest to manufacture and administration will carry on the premier and foreign minister both to use; that it cannot jam that present Parliament. This, writes the domestic and foreign policy. it has perfect breech loading:T.P. O'Connor, to the New York of England. that it is well protected against Herald, brings at once the difficult
A great journalist before he was the entrance of dust and mud; that problem of who will lead the a great politician. one of the it can be used without any oil. Tory party.
founders of the Saturday Review, and is therefore, not liable to
Bonar Law, the present leader, once the most powerful weekly in go out of action through freezing at very low temperatures or high has many things in his favour. He England, and its most mordant altitudes; and that the automatic bas facility, dexterity of speech, writer, a poor younger son, who mechanism is never lubricated, perfect temper, modesty, straight-made a love match with the is not affected by the heat of the forwardness, a candor at opce daughter of a judge then con- barrel, and will continue to act disarming and perilous in parlia-sidered the last word almost in even though the barrel be kept mentary conflicts where every a mesalliance, Lord Salisbury had the struggles of a young red tot by continuous rapid firing. word ought to be weighed. An-
the death of The weight of the gun complete other wonderful gift is perfect journalist till with mounting is 1641b.; the memory. He never takes a note, his elder brother brought him in length of the gun is 49in the can fling out long rows of figures direct succession to a great title length of the barrel is 26in; the without looking at a single docu. and huge family estates, mainly
his speech goes weight of the barrel with fore- ment and
consisting of big ground rents in point to point the most central parts of London sight is 311b. 15oż, and the num-easily from THE Undersigned has received
instractions to sell by Publicber of different components is 132. without suy aid even from off the big street known as the
big headlines most Strand. The rotary magazice as at the present constructed holds 81 practiced speakers have cartridges in two rows. The un employ. His method of prepar- His sons are all distinguished. may alternatively be served by aing a speech is to sit down in a box magazine and a special plate comfortable chair for a couple of with a socket for such a magazine hours. When that is over he present mechanism is gas operated. The mental effort but quite prepared has been fitted. The self-loading rises utterly exhausted by the breech section is a "straight pull." to start out saying all he has having a bulk carrier sliding in arranged to say. This method of slots outside the body.
preparation partly accounts for The decastration at Bisley his main defect of too candid was given by the inventor, Colonel utterance, for he speaks as a man Farquhar, under the direction of thinking alcud, and a parlia Admiral Adair,
representing menterian can never safely think Messrs. William Beardmore and aloud. Co., Parkhead Steel Works, Glasgow, and was witnessed by LACKS IRON IN TEMPERAMENT. lifting the whole House of Com He also lacks that iron in his mons to that deadly stillness Major-General Sir G. Feilding. G.OC. London District, officers temperament which lies at the which is the greatest demonstra- from the War Office, naval and core of most great leaders of men. tion of an orator's amripotence Teak extension dining tables military attaches of the Powers, Farnell had it, Gladstone had it, over the emotions of an audi- and chairs, teak sideboards, d'n- ners waggons, ice chest, dinner as well as a number of officers Lloyd George has it. Bonar Law, ecce. But he is eccentric imprac- end non-commissioned officers of intensely emotional, extremely ticable, supersubtle and so pro- service, electric-plated ware, cut-the Guards Machine-Gun Corps.
modest, lacks self-confidence and nounced and narrow an adherent shrinks from responsibility. His of the Established Church as to be lery, glas ware etc. etc.
Colonel Farquhar demonstrated
He lost formists and distrust by that Double brass mounted iron bed-with continuous rapid fire that emotionalism is augmented by regarded with hatred by Noncon- commercial element middle steads. teak wardrobes with the gun is capable of firing at a bitter personal scrrows.
the wife he adored several years bevelled glass doors, teak dress rate of 480 rounds per minute.
showed that in emptying one privatethat genuine interest in life modern Tory party, an element, ing tables, washstands. chest of An examination of the target ago. He has been heard to say in which has entered into the rotary magazine he put 75 shots had never been inspired since, and besides, which has that distrust Also
out of 81 on to the target. The on top of this came the death of of sacerdotalism which is at the ot the overwhelming The latter loss roots drawers, toilet crockery, etc. etc.
Several Typewriters (Under-inventor also showed how to fire two boys in wer.
without risking an outburst. In men. from single shot to automatic fire.
Lord Robert has not the great wood. Oliver, Remington etc.) in single shots, and how to change cannot be mentioned by or to him majority of rationalistic English- Considerable rapidity, by the way, a speech celebrating the victory good condition.
can be obtained by firing single of the Allies he happened to inen-gifts or great defects of his shots. Colonel Farquharexplained tion the immense sacrifices vic-brother, though he also suffers the mechanism, and demonstrated tory cost and then bad to pause from the taint of sacerdotalism. On view from Wednesday, the how quickly the gun can be stripp- several minutes before he could He resigned his appointment in
hold Furniture Comprising:-
Teak hatstand. tapestry cover- ed drawing room suite, easy
chairs, teak overmantels, black- wood desk, tables, teapoys, flower stands, stools, chairs, engravings, ornaments, teak bookcases and desks, card tables, etc. etc.
1 Bicycle
Electric ceiling fans
8th inst.
Catalogue will be issued. Terms Cash on delivery..
Geo. P. LAMMERT.
Auctioneer.
WISEMAN
LIMITED.
JJ
continue his speech.
SONS ARE DISTINGUISHED,
bishop. The Salisbury is a prominent though not powerful figure in the House of Lords. The chief brains, however, are divided between two sons in the House of Commons, Lord Hugh and Lord Robert, Lord Hugh is one of the true orators of his time with an extraordinary wealth of beautiful diction, cap- able of "sebstuff," as you call it in America, on occasion and of
the ministry some months ago ed and reassembled. He also gave
because his views on the Welsh One of these two sons was a demonstration of fire from the bip. and at the request of his killed in the remote figiting in church disestablishment act, & audience, fired the gun upside Mesopotamia. An Irish Catholic measure about which all classes down and sideways. The ma chaplain told Joe Devlin innum feel absolute indifference with the chine-gun which he used had erable stories of the poor boy's exception of better high church- already fired over 20,000 rounds. bravery, unselfishness and uni- men in England and perfervid
with al: Nonconformists in Wales. and Colonel Farquhar declared versal popularity
Jce, though a most But Lord Robert, as a practis that although the gun had been comrades. thoroughly tested under all sorts belligerent politician publicly, is ing barrister for many years, is a kindhearted in husband and father, while Lord ofconditions, and that every effort notoriously
bad been made to cause it to private, and thought it hie duty Hugh remains an obstinate ba jam, the gun had in fact never to go to Boner Law and repeat chelor. He has mixed more with yet done so.
these encomiums as a salve for men and realities than Lord the father's wounded heart and Hugh and thus unlearned some as Joe spoke he saw great tears thing of the narrow, Tory, high streaming down Law's cheeks-a church squirearchical creed in
he WAS brought up. strangely touching scene between which
the the old Elizabethan two men who represent the poles in
BOXERS AND DRESS.
The Best Tiffin SOME AMUSING COMMENT.
We take the following from
THE-THIRTY-EIGHTH OR-in town To-day the Manila Times, which will be
& Harston before noon on Friday DINARY GENERAL MEET- the 31st day of October 1919 at ING of the Company will be held which time all Tenders will be at the Offices of the General Messrs. Jardine opened and the properties deemed Managers, to be sold to the Tenderer whose Matheson & Co., Ltd. Des Vœux Tender shall be approved of and Road, Hongkong, on Friday 17th accepted by the undersigned October at noon for the purpose Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon of receiving the Report of the & Harston on behalf of the Directors, passing the Accounts,
Directors electing
end BESSIE DOLLAR"
vendors whose agents Deacon, and
Auditors. having arrived from Vancouver. Looker, Deacon & Harston re B. C. via ports, on Oct. 6,
serve the right to accept such The Transfer "Books of the are hereby Tender as they
No Company will be closed from the please. 1919, consignees. notified that their cargo is being Tender will be considered if it is 11th October to the 31st October landed at their risk into the not as much as or more than the both days inclusive.
will be fixed by Deacon, Looker,
hazardous Godowns of the Hong-reserve price. The reserve.price kong & Kowloon Wharf & Go down Co., Ltd and stored at con- signee's risk.
All broken, chafed and damag- ed cargo is to be left in the godowns, until Wednesday Oct.
Deacon & Harston prior to the opening of the sealed Tenders but
By Order of the Board,
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers
they shall be under no liability to Hongkong, 2nd October, 1919.
disclose same.
The Tendorer whose Tender is 8,1919, when they will be examin-accepted as aforesaid shall forth ed by MessTE Carmichael & with enter into and signa Clarke at 10 am. October 8,
1919.
Claims will not be accepted unless cargo is so examined by said Surveyors, prior to the above date...
All claims must be presented within a month of the steamer's arrival here, after which they will not be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the godowns,
...
All goods remainning after Oct. 8, will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance whatever
NOTICE.
Contract for the purchase of the THE DAIRY FARM ICE &
COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. property in the form already pre- pared by the undersigned Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon & NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS Harston which can be inspected The Twenty-third Ordinary at their office at any time during Annual Meeting of the Share- the usual business hours.
holders in the above Company
The Tenderer whose Tender is will be held at the Company's accepted as aforesaid shall also Town Office, 2 Lower Albert Road, forthwith pay to the undersigned, Hongkong, on Saturday 11th day MOBSTS. Degcon, Looker, Deacon of October 1919 at 12.30 o'clock in & Harston ten per cent of the the afternoon for the purpose of purchase price as a deposit in presenting the Report of the accordance with and subject to Directors and Statement of Ac- the terms of the aforesaid Con-counts to 31st July 1919. tract.
will be effected nested to Dated the 6th day of
Consignese are
send in their bills of lading for countersignature.
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.,
27th October, 1919
October, 1919.
DEACON, LOOKER DEACON & HARSTON,
1; Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, ~^ Solicitors for the Vendor.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 1st to 11th October 1919 both days inclusive.
By Order
M MANUK
Secretary. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1919.
is at
Usual Price
of opinion on Irish self-govern mansion called Hatfield. whers
ment.
his great progenitor invested some As to Law's self-distrust, the of, the big plunder Henry VIII
proof is that he was offered the
practised ca the lands of the great
Reformation.
of special interest to Hongkong premiership on Asquith's fall but monasteries at the time of the proffered the position to that lex- readers, as the fight spoken of has rible little Welshman, who knows
been shown on the film here:-
From Paris comes the delightful, fear neither of God nor man nor news that when Georges Carpen.
himself.
and
broad
seres.
He has not is `
particle of the resounding, in spired oratory of his brother, but, practice in the law court has given him considerable debating. CECIL MAY GAIN CONTROL. powers and be knows the- WISEMAN'S, tier, the French heavy weight.
entered the ring the night he Finally Law has the great technique of the House of He enhanced knocked out Dick Smith of Eng difficulty of no roots in the party Commons work
reputation enormously land he wore a kimono instead which still large represents the his of the conventional bathrobe.
He went in with an excited old order, the Established Church by his work on the League of He is Nations in Paris and surprised and admiring retinue of seconds, 3 Presbyterian Scotch-Irish- and delighted old time radical who brought with them resin, Canadian, and before he entered opponents by democratic human- basins, water carafes,
politics was 4 Glasgow metalitarian instincts entirely denied bettles, liniment, flasks, eau de merchant. Arrogant Tories used him in formier epochs of his cologne, mouth wash, dippers, speak of him in. private as a sponges, monogrammed towels
Scottish iron-monger. He has He has a striking, rather than lot of other "fixin"
commanding ap-handsome, personal appearance. and a designed to contribute to their none of the principal's welfare and comfort pearance that magnetizes men, His height, though great, is is tall, raw-boned, high-cheek- diminished by a heavy stoop in. boned, between rounds.
very like the typica! the shoulders, the face is thin and Fred Fulton, who was sitting at Scottch professional golfer and sallow, and he is lanky with the the ringside, got pop-eyed when finally he got the leadership thin, long legs characteristic of
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career.
he saw Georges' kimono, and
as a compromise man between all the present, Cecil- family, made a derisive remark.
the rival claims of Walter while their father was huge to But Fred didn't get far with
Long, the best survival obesity. his kidding, for an American, of the old Tory squirearchy His traditions are all with the sitting beside
promptly called attention to his own attire. once omnipetent in the Tory old Tory party and he shares Fred attended the fight in a new party, and Austen Chamberlain, some of their prejudices with A Tuxedo, with a white dress shirt, the representative of the modern certain admixture, of modernity patent leather shoes and white commercial Tory democracy and learned in the law courts and
these compromise candidates Parliament. In the old days, when..... kid gloves.
Just before the gong sounded always bear the sear of these he was in opposition to Lloyd to start the fight, an attendant of internal struggles as Abraham George and the Irish Nationaliste Lincoln did when he ousted Se- he was extraordinarily excitable the Frenchman jumped into the ward and Chase. Finally, Law for an Englishmau, interrupting ring with an apparatus resembling has no private weaknesses except constantly, sometimes almost a fire extinguisher and shot-a spray of cooling, scented air over love of a cigar and a game of shrieking, revealing a certain Carpentier's head and body. His bridge; his strongest drink is neurotic tendency in keeping with his physique. I would compáze aim was pone too good, however, and he sprayed a lot of ringsiders, These are reasons why people him with Clande Frolan, the behind the scenes begin to discuss unhappy priest, who loved Emer who got quite fussy about it.:
Carpentier may to America to seriously the chance of Tory alda in Victor Hugo's O hight. If he does and he wears leadership passing to the handsNotre Dame and waschmas that kimono and gets the same of Lord Robert Cecil. It is an by Quasimodo: from the
extraordinary example of con- of the great catho sort of service-oh, boy!
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