COMMERCIAL NEWS,
CHINA'S CREDIT SYSTEM. It is understood that the efforts of the China Association to organise British merchants against the long-credit system in China "bave practically been abandoned, owing to the im- posibility of securing common action.
BANK RECORDS. Bankers clearinghouse opera- tions in 1919 aggregated over £28.415.000.000 being an increase
of £7,217,000,000 over the clear- ings in 1918, and surpassing all records, says a London wire of January 1. The high cost of raw material, the increased price of production and the consequent greater demand for banking a commodation partly account for the larger turnover.
RAVAGED FORESTS.
French forests are suffering not only from the ravages of war but from destruction by parasitic growths. The oak is the most valuable tree, constituting nearly 30 per cent of the forest area. This tree seems to suffer especially from the fungus Oidium, which appeared in the Province of Champagne about 1907, and is exterminating the oak in France Young trees particularly.coppice shoots of the current year are most susceptible to attack, though seedlings up to ten
years of age have been destroyed. No remedy has yet been discovered.
BREVITIES.
Christianity was officially re- cognized in China in 169%.
The Indians have a universal sign language known to all tribes. In 1701 the population of China was what that of the United States is to-day.
A single mangrove tree is often sble to start a small island by its manifold roots and arms.
The magnetic equator fluctuates and curves, crossing the geo- graphical equator in at least four places.
The inventions of gunpowder resulted in the development of what is called the bastion system of defense.
As late as the revolution of 1688 in England, few English noblemen owned more than a
dozen forks.
Most of the leather marketed 38 muroceb is manufactured in the province of Kano, ia British, Northern Nigeria.
"Hockey on horse" was the first name given to polo, a sport played more than 2,000 years ago throughout the Orient.
Americu get its name through the error of believing Ameriga Vespucci was the real discoverer of the western hemisphere.
A good Arabian horse can can- ter in the desert for twenty-four hours in summer and forty-eight in winter without drinking.
A came with the neck and legs a giraffe ranged the plains of Colorado with the three-toed an. cestor of the horse, a million and a half years ago.
NEW BANK FOR TIENTSİN. Chinese, French and Japanese capitalists propose to open. an Industrial Bank in Tientsin. The subscribed capital is reported to be $4,000,000. Of this amount Chinese and Japanese share- holders are said to have cach furnished $1,500,000, the French finding the balance of $1,000,000. When Baron Okura was at Tientsin in December he There is a hideous repetile, discussed the scherse with Mr. | known as the flashing frog, which Wang Kuoming. The final ar-angles for its grame as expertly rangements were signed in and with as great success as the Peking. Messrs. Chou Tzu-chi, | most adroit fly fisher. Wang Kou-ming and Hen Shih- Because so few typewritten inks chan have been appointed direc-are indelible or unalterable the tors, while Japan has two repre- Venezuelan Government has for- on the Board, and bidden the official registration of sentatives France one.
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At the funeral of the late Mr. N. G. Nolan, wreaths were sent from the following:-"His Sorrowful Wife," "The Children," Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Mr. C. G. Perdue, Mr. and Mrs. L Forster, the Government of Hongkong, Mr. Eldon Potter. Mr. J. H. Kenip, Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill, Mr. and Mrs. Davitt, Mrs. E. G. Cropley, Mr. W. Blakestone Hind, Hastings and Hastings. Messrs. Lo and Lo, Mr. | H. K. Woo, Mrs. H. H. Gompertz, Mr. J.R. Wood, Mr. F. C. Jenkin.. Deacon. Looker, Deacon and Harston, Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, Chief Inspector and Mrs. Kerr, Mr. and Mrs. E. Danenberg, Mr. C. W. Olson, Mr.
and Mrs. D. Tolian and family. Mr. and Mrs. T. Hynes and family. Mr. and Mrs. Blake. Henry Dixon, Miss Freda Dixon, Miss C. L. Lysaught. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. J. Simmons, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Mr. and Mrs. Brazil, Mr. and Mrs. Angus, Inspector and Mrs. Kent and family, Inspector and Mrs. J. J. Watt, Inspector and Mrs. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Willis, Mr. Tim Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Earner, Mr. Murison, Inspector and Mr. J. Grant. Sergts' Mess
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1920.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THEATRE
ROYAL
RUSSIAN GRAND OPERA CO.
TO-NIGHT
PAGLIACCI & CAVALLERIA
RUSTICANA.
BY SPECIAL REQUEST * WEDNESDAY, 28th Jaou-ry.
LA BOHEMF.
Booking is open at MOUFRIE'S,
Owing to shipping delay the Company will extend its season until 28th January.
in the Central Police Station, HONGKONG UNIVERSITY
Chan Kwok Ying. Ng Chak
For good luck, in North Eng-Wing, Yang Yat Hung, So Ut Tai, land. it is considered important the former Students Chamber that marriages should take place of Commerce Chinese Language while the moon is waxing. not School. Chinese Staff in Mr. J. H. waning,
Gardiner's Office, the Bailiff Staff As early as 175 A. D. texts of Supreme Court, Mahomed Akbar, the Chinese classics were en-Wong Kin Wo, Messrs. Lau Wing graved on stone tablets and im-Sheum. Ong Kean Kee, Lin Shau pressions were taken on päper by Ping and Teang Ngiah Boon, rubbing.
(Magistracy), Mr. A. B. Sufflad, the Interpreters and Translators Department (Supreme Court). Shui Ching Chaw, (Nam Yeung Tobacco Co.), Mr. G. Lanigan.. Mrs. R. Carroll, Tootsie and Connie, Mr. A. Arculli, Mr. and Mrs. 1. Rocha, Mr. and Mrs. Fox, Mr. C. J. Poole. Mr. and Mrs. Stenham and family, Mr. Longinotte, Wilkinson and Grist, the Clerical Staff of the Attorney General's and Crown Solicitor's Departments, Ng Ping Wu and Wong Cheuk Hal, Mr. T. L. Sung, Hau Hang, Messrs. Dennys and Bowler, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kerr, Sergt. C. MacNab Wilson, and family, Percy Smith and Seth, Mr. Stainfield. Mr. Leo D'Almada.
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ONE EFFECT OF WAR WEDDINGS.
Individual table forks
London-Theatrical agencies first introduced into Venice in
are having great difficulty in ob- the eleventh century by a Brzant-taining trained chorus girls and ine princesss, and from Venice actresses for minor parts. These spread through the rest of italy. young women engaged in war The Island of Formosa is re-work and a great number of them garded by some scientists as the have not returned to their pro- remaining link in a chain of fessions. Many married soldiers. volcanic islands to the east of a former Malayo-Chinese continent.
BRA DEMAND FOR TOYS, In the Lady chapel of the great Manufacturersexperiencedcon- cathedral in Liverpool is a siderable difficulty in meeting the magnificent array of stained Christmas demand for toys, es-glass windows in commemoration pecially of the mechanical type, of the deeds of good women. Clockwork engines that could best Probably the first attempts at hought before the war for a fe y defense consisted of fences or Ehillings now cost alviut 10s. 6d.. palisades of wood, Intended to and there was a limited supply of serve as an obstruction to the them. The quality, too, of me- advance of an attacking force. chanical toys
by was means 80
as in 1914. good "Capturing the German toy market," said the manager of the toy department of Messrs. Vick, ers recently. is not so easy as some people think. There are many difficulties to get over, and this cannot be done in five minutes. A clockwork engine is by no means an easy thing to An automobile of the limousine make, and it will be some time type has been invented with a before the British toy trade is telescoping body that can be Srmly established. In my opin-drawn out to afford more room ion there is no need to fear when tourists wish to use it for competition from Germany. Our camping. chief handicaps are lack of material, the difficulty of train- ing labour, and the impossibility of guaranteeing prices for any length of time. The public will have to be prepared to pay at least double as much for toys es before the war."
The gradual melting of the I/T shows in the higher mountainDemand
ranges in Spain during the 30 dis
warmer months provides a con- stant supply of water for irrige- tion purposes,
King George has more thrones than any other living monarch. He has three in his London palace, one in the House of Lords. one in Westminster Abbey and a sixth at Wind: or Castle.
CHINA'S SILVER SHORTAGE, The problem of China's silver currency is a threadbare subject. but nevertheless vital to business men. Professor Jenks and others The unique collection of Chinese went "into the question of works of art made by the Vate conversion to Fold standard, but Li Hung Chang, which for years collectors tried vainly to acquire, clearly such action was, and is, impossible without outside has finally been bought by a assistance.
Swedish syndicate for. $280,000. Government has been
A favourite inode of suicide unstable that offers of assistance among the African tribes who on an adequate scale have been dwell near Lake Nyassa is to shelved, while small loans to meet wade into the lake and there pressing needs of the moment calmly wait for
a man-eating have been eagerly accepted. In crocodile to come and finish the view of this fact, there is little to job
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Nom. 11.90 6 m/s. Francs 12.02 Demand, Germany. Demand, New York 9614 T/T Bombay Demand, Bombay is made is contained in an article An ice cream freezer of English T/T Calcutta by the China correspondent of the invention, in which ice and salt Demand, Calcutta... Times Trade Supplement, extracts are packed in a cylinder that re- Demand, Manila from which were telegraphed out velves inside the cream, delivers Demand, Singapore. a day or two ago by Retuer's its product in a continuous stream On Haiphong Agency. This, writer, says after half a minute after a crank is On Saigon
On Bangkok alluding to the present shortage turned. of silver:"This is
A new mineral has been discov. Sovereign, serious problem and demands ered in Siberia. It has the appear-Gold leaf per Tael... 32 immediate attention. Only ance of dark brown rubber and Bar Silver, per oz. 81%
forward experts can determine whether when ignited it burns with a strong the best solution is immediately flame. When placed in water it
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NOW READY.
1920
HONGKONG DIRECTORY, DIARY AND BLOTTER
PRICE
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FROM
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. 3, Wyndham Street.
Tel. 440.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Friday, the 30th Jan. 1920. commencing at 11.45 a.m.
at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon 64 Cases Pilsener Beer (qts)
Terms: ash on delivery.
Geo. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
NOTICE
The Annual Open Billiard Championship of the Colony, held under the auspices of the Victoria Recreation Club.
Entries close on 31st January and are to be accompanied by entrance fee of $2.
The number of points to be played and. other arrangements will be decided at a meeting of the Competitors.
The competition is open to all in the Colony.
R. H. B. MITCHELL.
Hon. Secretary. Victoria Recreation Club.
TO BE LET.
SUBDIARY COIN".
DISCOUNT PER $100:
423 pm. $77 pm. | ati"Apply The Hongkong $74 pm.
and-Reclamation Co., Ltd,
matter of keeping China a silver taken of an infantry regimeat| Hkong, 19 cent pieces $15.00 TO LET.-A Godown at Yau-l
a rich showed no variations exceeding country, for they reap harvest from all exchange fluctua- two inches in height or twenty tions and transactions ",
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NOTICE.
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On
Wednesday, 28th January, 1920. and Saturday, 31st January, 1920. TEA DANSANT from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
DINNER DANSANT from 8 p.m.. On these occasions, the charge for Tea will be $1.00 per head, and for Table d'Hote dinner at $3.00 per head, exclusive of wines.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
THE INDUSTRIAL AND
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LIMITED.
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FOR THE TEAR TO COME
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NOTICE.
FIRST
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY
NOTICE is hereby given, that ORDINARY MEETING of an Extraordinary General Meet- SHAREHOLDERS in this Coming of the above named Company pany will be held at the COM. will be held at the Registered PANY'S OFFICES VICTORIA Office of the Company, St BUILDING on Thursday 5th George's Building. Victoria.. February 1920 at 12 o'clock noon Hongkong, on Wednesday the for the purpose of receiving the 28th day of January 1910 at of REPORT of DIRECTORS to- o'clock noon for the purpose 12 gether with Statement of considering and if thought fit of counts for the year ending 31st. passing the following Resolutions
as Extraordinary Resolutions --- (1) To consider, and if thought fir, approve the draft new Articles which will be sub- mitted to the Meeting
December 1919.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from Wednesday 28th January to Thursday 5th February 1920 (both days inclusive), during which period no TRANSFER of SHARES can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of
Directors. MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE Secretary to the
Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd. General Agents for the Kowloon Land and Building
Co., Ltd.
Hongkong. 21st January, 1920.
NOTICE. ⠀
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LTD.
(2)
That the Capital of the Company be increased to Three million dollars ($3,000,- 0001 by the creation of Two hundred and forty thousand (240,000) shares of Ten dollars ($10.00) each, ranking.. for dividend and in all other respects pari passu with the existing shares in the Company.
And in the event of the First Resolution being passed with or without modification. (3) To consider, and if thought
fit, to passed an Extra- ordinary Resolution to the efect That the new Articles already approved by this Meeting and for the purposo of identification thereof subscribed by the Chairman be and the same are hereby appoved, and that such · Artics be and they are hereby adopted as the NOTICE is hereby given that
Articles of the Company to the Thirty Second Ordinary
the exclusion of and in Meeting of Shareholders in this substitution for all the exist- Company will be held at the ing Articles thereof. Offices of Messrs. Jardine Mathe- AND NOTICE IS HEREBY son & Co.. Lid, on Thursday 29th, ALSO GIVEN that a further January 1920 at 12 o'clock at Extraordinary General Meet- noon for the purpose of receiving ing ot the Company will the Report of the Directors to be held at the Registered gether with the Statement of Ac- Cffice of the Company. St. counts for the year ending 31st. George's Building aforesaid December 1919.
on Monday the 16th day of
The Register of Shares of the February 1920 at 11 o'clock in Company will be Closed from the forenoon for the purpose of Monday 19th to Thursday 29th, receiving a report of the proceed. January 1920 (both days in-res of the above mentioned clusive), during which period no Meeting and of confirming, if Transfer of Shares can be Re-thought it, as Special Resolutions gistered.
il the above mentioned Extraordin
ary Resolutions 2 and 3.
And the subjoined Resolution Extra. will be proposed as an crdinary Resolution.
By Order of the Board of Directors, MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE
Secretary. Hongkong, 13th January, 1920.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
"That it is desirable to capit- alize the sum of $600,000.00 stand- ing to the credit of the Company's Reserve Fund, and accordingly that for the purpose of effecting such capitalization a bonus of $10 per share on each of the issued shares of the Company be and the same is hereby declared and that the Board be and they are hereby authorised to satisfy such bonus by the distribution amongst the NOTICE is hereby given that persons who are registered as the Nineteenth Ordinary Meeting holders of the issued $10 shares of of Shareholders in this Company the Company on the date hereof will be held at the Office of Messrs. of one of the unissued 10 shares Jardine Matheson & Company, of the Company credited as fully Limited on Thursday the 29th, paid up in respect of each a'are January 1920 at 11.45 a.m. for the of the Company held by such per purpose of receiving the Report of sons as aforesaid and in satisfact the Directors together with the ion of such aforementioned bonus, Statement of Accounts for the and that such shares fank for year ending 31st, December 1919. dividends and in all other re
The Register of Shares of the spects as from the first day of company will be Closed from March 1920," Monday 19th to Thursday 29th, January 1920 (both days in clusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors, MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE
Secretary.
Hongkong. 13th January, 1920
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.
Drafts of the new Articles of Association may be seen at any time before the second meeting, except Saturday and Sundays, between the hours of 11 am, and 4 p.m. at the Registered Offices of the Company, or at the Offices of
Stokes Messrs. Johnson,
& Master Prince's Buildings, Hong- kong, the Company's Solicitors. Date this 13th day of January,
1920.
By Order of the Board, GIBB LIVINGSTON & CO.
Agents.
NOTIC E.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Sixth Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders in this Company will be held at the Offices of THE HONGKONG TUTORIAL & Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Company, Limited, on Thursday
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE 29th January 1920 at 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Decem- ber 1919,
43, Bonbam Road. Opposite the University Tel. No. 732. P.O. Box, 593. Principal
The Register of Shares of the JOHN P. JONES, B.Sc., M.L. Min. F. The Institute affordé Special Jie, Company will be Closed from paration (Class and Private. Day d Monday 19th to Thursday 29th Evening. Oral and Correspondence) January 1920 (both days in for University Matriculation
clusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
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By Order of the Board of Directors.
The Hongkong Central Estate, Limited. MOWBRAY & NORTHCOTE
Secretary to
The General Managers. Hongkong, 13th January, 1920.
Degree Examinations.
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New Session has now commenced Tutorial Classes are being conducted fn English, Mathematics. Trigonome. try, Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry, History, Geography, Latin and French, for Hongkong University Joly Examinations.
Private Tuition can also be bad ta theas abjects.
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