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CONSIGNEES.

CHINA MAI, 9.3 CO., LTD.

· NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

From SAN FRANCISCO, JAPAN PORTS & SHANGHAI,

The Steamship

"CHINA."

"CONSIGNEES,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNESS.

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

From SINGAPORE, The Steamship

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGN KES,

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1920.

NEW TOLL ON THE HOUSE- HUNTER.

"PROFITEERS” DEVICE"

A naw method of lavying toll upon the house-hunter is decom-

From EUROPE AND STRAITS.ing very general just at present, THE Company's Steamship

"LAKE FARRAR” · having arrived from the above

IN ABA MARU,” mentioned port, consignees of having arrived from the above cargo are hereby notified that ports, Consignees of Cargo are they must take immediate deli-hereby informed that their Goods very of same alongside, and all are being landed, and placed at

When the scarceity of housos. began to ba féli, atlampta ware made to approximate the demand of the premium. The premium to the supply by the Introduction was quite open and unabashed. If there were a number of applic-

Having arrived from the above mentioned porta, consignees of cargo by her are hereby notified cargo impeding discharge will be their risk in the Hongkong, and ants for a house-as, of course, and requested to send in their Bills of Lading duly endorsed for coun tersignature and take delivery of their cargo from ship's side and or from the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.'s hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godown into which all the cargo is being

landed at their risk and expense into the hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong Wharf and Godown Company, and Kowloon Limited and stored at consignees risk.

landed and stored at consignees Import Permit bef re bill of lading Consignees must produce an can be countersigned.

risk.

Ajl broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be landed in the Hougtong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co's Godowns

where they will be examined on May

25th at 10 a.m.

Cargo undelivered on and after Tuesday, 25th, May 1920 at 5 pm. will be subject to rent.

No chain will be admitted after the goods have left the ship's side and or Godown.

All claims should be presented within three weeks of ship's ar- rival, otherwise they will not be recognised.

Kowloon Wharf and Godown wans to the one who could pay there invariably were-the house Company's Godowns at Kowloon, the most, prespective of its in- sorted out mark by mark andwhich depended more upon the where each consignment will be

trinsic value. This extra payment. delivers can be obtained as soon wish of the seller than upon any known natural lawa, was extract- varied greatly in amount. Some ed in the form of a premium

as the Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be carried to the contrary before Neon. To on unless instructions are given

day.

Goods not cleated by the 27th All broken, chafed and damag-| May, 1920.

will be ed goods are to be landed in the to rent.

subject Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co's, godowns, where in the Godowns for examination Damaged packages must be left they will be examined on May by the Consignea's and the Co.'s 21st, 1920 at 230 pm by Carmi-representatives at an appointed chael & Clarke.

hour on Tuesday & Friday. All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they canno; be recognised. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godown.

All claims must be presented within 10 days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the guols have left the godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after May 24th, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance whatever

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Agents.

Hongkong, 20th May, 1920,

£2,000,000 "VARSITY FOR LONDON.

times it wAS

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As low as £50. Sometimes it was as high as £2,000. There are do limits éxcept those fixed by the greed of the seller and the credulity of the buyer.

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SHIPBUILDERS.

SHIP REPARERS. *BOILER MAKERS.

·· FORGE MASTERS.

OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.

MECHANICAL AND - ELECTRICAL

OF HONGKONG, LIMITED

TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

ENGINEERS.

-DRY DOCK-

LESSTN 787 FEET. LENGTH ON BLOČKS 750 FEET

DEPTH ON CENTRE OF

SILL (H.W.Q.S.T) 34 FT. 6 INS. THREE SLIPWAYS-

CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT. ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS

TEL. ABORDEN-"TAMMODOCK" HONSRONS.

COLL. PLAN: "E" OVER "AMI. PEKKANT.”

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS,

FRAUD.

HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN.

STRANGE SIGHT" IN

WASHINGTON

"DOWN WITH BRITISH MILITARISM !**

The only merit of this system was that it was at least an open method of extracting money from the helpless, and the victims bad the consolation that they went into the business with their eyes, open. The method that is being generally employed now is much pare insidious. The premium is abolished. In its place has been is curtly informed that he can BOGUS BAYONET'S LIFE OF substituted the compulsory buying have the house if he buys the of the furniture left behind in the furnitore at the valgation of its house by the old tenantor owner.late owner. Thus a person who wishes to rent

COLLIER WHO PRACTISED a flat may be informed that an ever, that in this matter it is not

It must be remembered, how-],"

AS A DOCTOR. excellent set of rooms is at his usually the landlord who is to man who masqueraded as

The surprising life story of a Undeterred by the disagreeable immediate service.

I will be blame. Both premiums and the baronet, and as a doctor, was told me Sinn Feiner recently fexperiences of their sister pickata, added that there is no premium comprisoss purchase of the recently st Liverpool Assizes. He is just about to complete the furniture are to a great extent BEDFORD ESTATE SITE

blockaded" the British Embassy bargain, when it is casually men doe to the cabit of sub-letting age as 53, Richard Thompson | PLAN.

Smartly-dressed, and giving his in Washington by land and air. tioned that the late tenant has As houses and flats have become Cubbin, pleaded guilty to charges London is to have a new uni- left some furniture behind. He versity at a cost of £2,000,000.

no further use for is, and he more valuable so sub-letting has of-forgery-and-of making false Negotiations

become more general. It is act are proceeding will sell it to the next occupant the landlord, but the tenant, who certificates of death at Blackpool between the senate of the Uni-at a more or less nominal price.is the profiteer now. An example

and Wigan. versity of London and the Duke The sum varies. There is no of the kind of thing that is bar-pretending to be Sir Alexander Counsel said prisoner had bean of Bedford for the purchase of the maximum, but there to be an pening was described to a Thomas Munro, and had obtained island site north of the British anwritten minimum. This is Muse.m. "BEN", LINE OF STEAMERS home of education will be built

If successful a new usually in the neighbourhood of Presentative of The Time by medical situations in different the capital on the wings of the to meet the rapidly growing "de-) mands of the old institution at South Kensington.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected, will be effected.

IL RITTER.

Agent

Ponce's Building, thround

Flour.

Hough ng. Fth May, 1920.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM

NAVIGATION CO., LTD..

Consignees are requested to send in their bills of lading for countersignature.

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO. Operators. U.S. Shipping Board Hongkong, 13th Mag, 1920.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

LONDON and STRAITS.

The Steamship

Consignees per Co's Steamer

"BEN MOHR" "TEIRESIAS “ "ure hereby Gotined, that the targe -Camsignees of Cargo are hereby will be discharged into Holt's informed that all Goods are being Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lands at their risk into the, be al Convienee's risk. The hazarious and or extra bazanduca Cargo will be ready for delivery Godowns of the Hongkong and from Godown on and after 15th | Kowloon Wharf and Godown Col May.

Lid.. whence and or from the wharves delivery obtained.

Optional cargo will be landed. unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.

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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Go downs, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 24th inst. will be subject to re it..

£300.

Two cases of this kind have come to our knowledge recently. The first is that of a flat in the

promineu: London estate agent. He said that an application was made for a flat by a lady, whõ declared that she had lost her husband during the war. On this

account she obtained a flat at a

reduced

rate. She is the evan

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places.

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with women in it circled over the Tossing in a high wind, a plano Embassy and bombed at it with packages of propaganda.

These did not reach their mark filled the air like snowflakes and but broke, so that the leaflets were scattered broadcast about

wind, which carried them far from their target.

While wondering crowds gazed skyward, and wbila merry child-

While at Wigan he gave & go false certificates of death. Ha

The serate want a buibling as

acted as locum tenens for doctors outer west of London. A Bat of

in Blackpool in 1919 and 1920. near the centre of London

ren chased after the leaflets, four Justice McCardio: Had he any other militant women began pai- possible for the convenience of four rooms is offered at a rental slightly From ANTWERP, MIDDLESURO, Students, the majority of whom of £100 a year.

The furniture of did

medical qualifications ?

rilling in front of the Embassy. Counsel: Nous at all.

Taey bad hardly unfurled their live in the suburbs, and for the the late tenant is offered at the fat, but proceeded to another

Priscast bad advantages obtained from being game time, and £800 is asked for estate

practised intrape-draped banners, bearing agent. She told bin near the museums and braries. it. The contrast between the that she had a flat, which she various places, and apparently anti-British satiments, when a They also wish to be independent price asked for the furniture and wanted to get rid of, and asked for had given satisfaction. evins police van arrived and took them of the Imperial Institute, which the number of rooms that it a premium of £1.00). This was formed an attachment with a bail, and were locked up, pending Whilst at Blackpool he away. Toes refusal to furnisha now shares the South Kensington adorns is too remarkable to obtained within a few days. This building. The Bedford estate escape notice In another case is an extrems case, but in the plate, and handering a forged arcaigamant in court. site has a yearly rent value of a la: was offered at £100 a year very great majority of cases in from her, in order, & hy explain-staff of the Enbassy, being in * choque as security, borrowed £20 Bit meanwhile, son of the about £35,000. At present it is and the fornitore was valued at which money is asked for furniture el. tz bır samt hares..

holiday mond, and getting na end. lying ifle except for a small the same minimum of £900. The it is the tonen, who obtains the

Detective T

L72301, of amusement out of it all, hoisted portion under cabbage cultivation intending tenant suggested that money. The landlord can Ket Blackpool, said the prisoner was ons of the captured banners at a

In some cases, it must born at Charnock Rubard, near window. The site faces Woburn-square the fumiture should be valued by notbio on the east and Gordon-square an expert. The proposal was not be admitted, the furniture is well Chorley, his father being a

And in the evening official and on the north while the main received enthusiastically, but the worth the money that is asked for

collier. ბა Jeaving school, anofficia! Washingtos, trooping frontage will be towards the expert was called in and after ait. Many people are only too glad Cabbin worked as a baulage hand hans frambasiness, read the sign. British Museum. It will have a careful examination declared that to have the opportunity of obtain

at Ellerbeck Colliery, Coppuli, | "Down with British Militariam !” wide thorough-fare separating it it was worth very nearly £150, ing good second-hand furniture, and, as a result of an accident, and passed on, grinning. from the Museun, with gardens The intending tenant thus saved when new furniture secured at his leg was amputated below the on either side.

his £800, but be lost the flat. great price is wont to bave the

bigamy and assault, and three If the negotiations fall through which was let a few days later. name of a well-known sugar

He deserted his wife many

years for parjury and fraud. the senate will try to secure The same furniture wa sold refiner on parts of it that do ng: another site in Central London, with it for £90.

appear to the public view. O1the years ago and had had no settled Daring the early part of 1918. All clairos against the steamer is understood they already These prices, high as they may other hand, it is obrions that the Place of residence since 1995. Ha while lolging at Cocoa Tavern, in was sail to have practised for "Liverpool, be became acquainted must be presented to the Under-have two suitable places in mind. seem, are comparatively moderm places undue power in

two or three years at Las Palmas with a waitress, who climately signed on or before the 31: There are more thum 10,000 rate. A flat that is being adver the bards of those who wish to

as a medical man, and had since, obtained a paternity order against inst, OF they will not beatudents, acd in numerical tised in that elastic district called sell poor furniture at an inflated from time to time, represented bin. which be hai failed to obey. strength the university exceeds Kensington contains furniture price, and there is no guarantee himself as a qualified practioner, His lordship printed out that that of any in the counter. that the next tenant must bageren that certain cherished pisses attending post-emer minisoner's stationary maa

A grant will have to be made for £2.000, and this is by no of furniture will not be abstracted ions and in1322, and issing by the Treasury through the means the maximum figure that before the remainder is offered for } falus death extificates.

Mr. Griffiths, for Cabbin, stated Ministry of Education before the is being demanded. Sometimes ale.

Ha bad gained the easilence that after" mesting with his scheme can be carried out. The the arrangemen1 is described Tab Cardiff City Council reator of women in eonfortable cir

scpident in his youth, he studied price of the site alone will be rather more delicately in the day resolved to call the attention cumstances, marrial them, and midicins and surgery. being about £500,000, and it is expected advertisement "columns of the of the Government to the growing stolen their possessina. He hat coached by a Golborne doctor. No Fire Insurance has been that the whole echeme will cost daily Press than it has been des practice of property-owners res boon twice convicted of bigam 7. and afterwards wont to St. effected.

more than £2,000,000.

cribed here, but there are alwaya iftaining.from_letting unoccupied On one occasion be parastatal

Bartholomew's Hospital, London, Pille of Lading-will be countere

The university will try to raise to be found advertisements of houses with a view to obtaining a ship's doctor wie hel dist si sai tz Elinburga Dalgeraity No Fire Insurance will be signed by

sufficient funds for the project houses to be letor sold with the an excessiva price on sale with seasons thres reara proviously, where he qualified as LR.C.P. effected.

and obtain the balance from the addition of such a phrase as vacant possession and to urge and even persuaded the widow and L.R.C.S., bat did not register. Treasure. It is understood that Certain forniture GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. Duke of Bedford is anxious bought

BOW be the "conferment of powers, oa that he was her returned husband, His diplomas wara my valuation or local authorities to require owners although he was living at the Corada. Agents.

for the site to be utilised for Furniture at valuation if re-to let at reasonable rentals after time with a

be had His lordship, remarking that educational purposes, and the quired." More often, however, 28 days' vacancy of promises, ligamously married.

prisoner had a terrible record, Hongkong. th May, 1929.

Government will apparently lend to use is made of such finesse under penalties for non-com- His convictions included five "passed sentence of five years' the som required.

and the intending tensaf or hoyer | pliance.-Times.

years for bigamy; five years for penal servitude..

All broken, chifed, and dame aged goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am, and noon within the Free storage period.

- No claims will be admitted after | recognised. the Goods have left the stermer's Godown, and all Goods re... Ining undelivered after the 24th May, will be subject to fent.

All broken, chafed ad dam- aged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 24th inst. at

All Claims against the Steamer | 10 am. must be presented to the under- signed on or before the 7th June, or they will not be recognised.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Agents. Hongkong, 18th May, 1020.

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