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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. ·FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920,

REALITIES AT HOME.

accumulated in the hands of

those to whom war has brought|

increase of fortune as compared

SOME WAR LEGACIES

NOTICE.

CO., LTD.

0.

NOTICE.

R.

2

NEW

ADVERTISEMENTS.

QUEEN'S DISPENSARY.

NOTICE.

WANTED.

WANTED-AN ELECTRIC-` AL or MARINE ENGINEER i»; required as a Shift Engineer at: the Generating Station of the HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO... LTD. North Point Apply in writing accompanied by details af experience and copies of testimonials to The Manager.; We beg to announce that HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO...

LTD. St. George's Buildings.

WISEMAN LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. with the standard of their fellows, THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT Of that sum, some, 540,000 par

The Sixteenth Ordinary annual The Rt. Hon. C. F. G. Master-sons (in a population of 45|

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of Particulars and Conditions of Meeting of the Shareholders in man writes in the Daily News millions) have taken over two-

Fifty cents per share has been the letting by Publio Auction the above Company will be held The outward results of the war thirds of the total increase, The

Consider again another declared for the half-year ending Sale, to be held on Monday, at the Company's Office, 11 Des are sufficiantly manifest convulsions which are still shak-gigantic problem: the change 30th June, 1930.

the 5th day of September, 1920, Yeux Road, Central, Hongkong, Such Interim Dividend will be at 3 pm at the Offices of the on Monday, 20th day of Septem ing society will form the subject produced, not by the loss of for historian and moralist a thou-wealth and the redistribution of payable on and after FRIDAY. Public Works Department, by ber, 1920, at 1230 o'clock in the sand years bence. Alen will still wealth, but by the redistribution 17th September, 1920 at the Order of His Excellency the afternoon for the purpose of be musing over man's falls. Let of sexes, owing to the loss of men. Offices of the Company, where Governor, of one Lot of Crowa presenting the Report of the us hope that they will not also be Upon a society whose equilibrium shareholders are requested to Land at Pokfulam Road, in the Directors and Statement of As-

Colony of Hongkong, for counts to 31st July 1920. repeating man's foally, after again was already a little disturbed apply for Warrants.

The REGISTER of SHARES

term of 75 years, with the The Transfer Books of the building up a new civilisation out owing to the increased number of of the ruins of an old.

women in porprotion to man of the Company will be closed option of renewal at a Crown Company will be closed from 13th But some of the less spectacular which ware being reared to adult from 5th to 16th September, 1930 Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor to 20th September 1920, both days the Queen's Dispensary has results are scarcely you appre life, has suddenly come the both days inclusive) doring of His Majesty the EISO, for one inclasise

transfer of further term af 75 years. handed. And certainly their slaughter of over 800,000 of the which period no

of flower of its manhood, men Shares can be registered. influence

the งง

future

By Order of the Board of PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. humanity remain obscure. If the married, or of marriageable age.

here also society has Directors, Supreme Council could cease its And follies, a League of international never seen the like. There are appeasement take its place; if now probably two million more wars were suddenly to cease in females than males in England Europe and outside it, and all and Wales. Of these over a shipwrecked humanity to come million are women between the together to devise means of pre-ages of twenty and sixty. Taf

· serving the bare structure of may look forward to an excess of society, these results would still three million Females be confronting politican and re-distant date. No adjustment former. And they are results could in any case take place which cut far deeper than the within a generation-not even controversies which all the news if all female children benceforth papers of to-day.

A PRICE STILL TO BE FAIÐ.

17924

at no

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

General Managers

NOTICE.

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

A Grand Illuminated Promen- born were immediately shain.ade Concert will be held in thei

solve the grounds of the K.C.C. on Satur Let us consider but three of Ro emigration these as they affect the future of problem. For in most of our day. September 11th, at 9 pm. Dominions the war has exercised The Full Band of the Wiltshire this our own war-scarred island.

in its destruction the same process Regiment will perform (by kind) of male slaughter as at home. It permission of Lieut-Cal Wynd- The first is the enormous is evident that here are possibilites ham and Officers), and several change in the distribution of of profound change in the very well-known local artists will ap- fortune caused by the war. I am structure of society. And change pear. Admission $1.00. Bót now referring to the rise in here, alas, as in the case of the prices. I am speaking of the changes 19 material fortune. changes in fortune estimated upon) mag de exerted by one or both off any price index standard. They two things: the facts themselves. are right who say that the war and the knowledge of the fac has been paid for already that influencing the minds of thos all wars have to be paid for as they affected by the changes. go along-that you cannot borrow from the future

effort the

THE PROBLEM OF THE UNFIT.

TRADE TENDENCIES IN MANCHESTER.

THE QUESTION OF CO..

OPERATION.

insecure.

No. of Bair

Registry Ku

181

Tural Building Lot 2

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Boundary MamazemeƏZA

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NOTICE

Fonday

KESED PORTOZA

all 12.009

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

By Order

to been removad

D. K. KHARAS

Secretary.

NOTICE.

We have this day removed our Office to No. 35 Queen's Road Central. second floor, Room No. 17.

RIBEIRO, SON & CO.. Hongkong, 1st September, 1920.

NOTICE.

WANTED.--A godown of about 4,000 square feet of floor space on ST. or near the Water Front. Apply

to P, O. Box No. 5.

GEORGE'S BUILDINGS.

(OPPOSITE STAR FERRY),

HARPER AND CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD

•►

An Interim Dividend of $5 per

Hongkong, 27th August, 1920.

WANTED.--By firta of Solicitors in Hongkong. Short- hand-typist Apply by letter to Bar No. 423 elo "Hongkong ¡Telegraph."

WANTED.-Posision by qualified Mechanical Enginear. (British), possesses good kaaw- ledge of Electrical Work & Commercial Engineering. Apply

graph."

We have this day matablished half rear ending with June 1920, rap ca "Hongkong Telty.

ourselves 39 Consulting 30th gineers and Surveyors

BEST & MAY, 13 Chater Road.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Such interim dividend will be payable on and after Tursday, [14th September 1920 at the Offices of the Company, where Share holders are requested to apply for Warrants.

The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from 7th 10 14th September 1920 (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of Shares can be

WANTED.--Lady Stenographer state experience and salary ex- pected. Reply to P.O. Box No. 96.

FOR SALE

FOR SALE.-Land at Kowloon, about 16,345 square feet, in a very desirable position for European By order of the Board of dwellings. For full particulars

Thursday, the oth September registered.

Igata

Directors.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

commencing at 19.30 a.m. at No. 18 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf &

Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon Hongkong, 31st August, 1920. A Large Quantity of Flat, Round and Square Bar Trou, Steel and Iron Plates etc.

M

also

T

VRES

50 bales Cotton

NOTICE.

Belting. ex 9.3 Mr. Charles Albert Bannerman Harold Dollar. Brooke bas been admitted a Part- arrived on 17th, ner in our Firm as from 1st April.

1920 Apail; 1918

The name of the Firm will re- main unaltered.

D

and

A Lake Quantity of Sundry Goods.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers,

THE

HE Undersigned lava received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sala, to be held on Monday, the 6th day of September, 1920, as 3 pm at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor. of One Los of Crown Land at Plantation Road, The Peat. which fashions gaus and muni- 3. And in my third example the

Mr. Leonardi B. Gary, U.S.‡in the Colony of Hoog- jona. 7 which provided food secord of these the knowledge

of 15 years,Į which has been consumed and of the facts-may be perhaps Trade Commissioner at Manches-kong, for a term clothing which has rotted away. more disturbing than the facts, makes the following report with the option of renewal at Is Crown Rent to be fixed by the You cannot thus bring future themselves. That is the revelation upon the rotton industry there.

During the recent period of Surveyor of His Majesty the effort into the service of the pre-of the national physique of the sent The effort is over. But people, and of the evil influences cano-mill amalgamations and King, for one further term of 75 they are right also who say that on it produced by the war. Great company reflotations in Great years. the price of the war has still to masses of men bare returned Britain, many old Lancashire PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

maimed and brokens lost their indentity, and be paid: that we have eigh:home

mate the thousand millions of war debe. Certain specific diseases, stima. this is tending to tied round the necks of a produc-lated by the atmosphere and Position of merchant exporters Many merchants and ing society, as a first heavy and influences of war, have ravaged damaging charge upon all its en- and are to-day ravaging society, shippers are becoming uneasy ergles. How can these two truths Recruiting statistics bave reveals to their future supply of goods. be reconciled? Simply in this ed, as never before, a breeding of some cases merchants bave fact: that the effort ingenuity an "uo:" which at the age of protected themselves by becom and cleverness of the few have seventeen or eighteet is outside ing financially interested in the resulted at the end of the war in any category of satisfactors new companies, and in other cases merchants have been "In Kensington, buman life. the accumulation of enormous |

And that where I live" writes one medical obliged to make arrangements wealth in their hands. the annual payment

for deb: observer, there are two parts whereby they agree to take a interest and reduction is not a North and South. The North has certain percentage of the output payment for commodities or ser-twice the birth-rate of the South of certain mills for a number of vices rendered or supplied in the But the South has the parents years: bat, generally speaking. present and foture, but a tax laid least affected either by what leall the Lancashire cotton manufac upon the present and future for the racial poisons, or by hereditary turer is not willing to enter into NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. commodities or services rendered defects of unknown origis. And such arrangements, and it is rare) or supplied during the five years the South could afford sir and to hear of a case where a firm light and seaside holidays and sell its whole production or The measure of the loss out of cream and butter for the children the greater part of its whole pro-

↑ From SAMARANG, SOURA- which these fortunes have been whom it ever more and more duction to any one buyer.

Although it is not pronounced, BAYA, CHERIBON, BATAVIA acquired is the increase of prices declines to produce: while advan-

SINGAPORE & SAIGON. which all have to pay for all they ages are not available for the some authorities bave a feeling require, and the tremendous fall children whom North Kensington that there is a tendency toward

LAKE ONAWA" in the capital value of all stable continues, though diminishingly, combination for export securities which have lowered to produce." "A very, very few among some of the merchant!

It is not, however, behaving arrived on August 30rb.] of this," is the bouses. the standard and reduced to new generations

which is typical of lieved that there will be any from the above-mentioned ports, poverty those who did not make summary,

made the consignees of cargo are hereby wealth during the war. The the whole nation, must be fataleat strides

mills motifed that they must take de- Here at least, it would seem, malgamation of cotton family with a few "safe" Gor- srnment or Trustee investments are "realities at home" as import and export houses so that the livery of same alongside, and all ant for the concern of an Imperial same house will both produce the cargo impeding discharge will be .3. 316, or 4

into the goods and distribute them in landed at their risk and expense сель. HUN find

their small race an axpeditions

foreign markets.

into the hazardous Godowna of fortace reduced by something Mesopotamisu Desert

transatlantic

Little co-operation is found be-Frank Waterhouse & Ca, Yau- between one-third and one-half applanding of a

tween the merchant houses for mati Shelter, and stored at con- its value. At the same time they cinema star.

extending foreign business. Most signees' risk. of the firms engaged in foreign Consignees must produce an trade prefer to work independent-Import Permit before bills of ty of the others. In recent years lading can be countersigned. WAR OFFICE, STAPY, 6,391. Mr. Churchill gave the follow. efforts have been made by the All broken. chafed and damag- written reply recently to a Manchester Chamber of Com-ed goods are to be landed in Iquestion by Mr. Waterson-The merce to bring the different Frank Waterhouse

Godowns, to understand. they all got in virilian staff employed at War werchant houses together in a when they will be examined on fors against a careless Cover Office Head-quarters (including usual scheme for increasing the Sept., 3rd, at 2.30 p.m. by Messra. ment waste which torments thero with its janaty contempt for their outlying branches) on July 1 coo-Lancashire cotton-textile trade Carmichael & Clarke.

nister of 3.964 males and 1,571 in foreign markets. In the Farl All claims must be presented females, and the weekly cost is Eas: particularly, these efforts within 10 days" of the steamer's approximately £30,000. These have been blocked by one large arrival here, after which they But they are not only paying figures include the staff trans merchant house, which prefers cannot be recognised.

from for present Government waste, ferred

the Ministry of to handle business in its own way i No Claims will be admitted They are paying, or have paid, Munitions. The military staff and without the co-operation of after the goods have left the for the war. By a process of numbers 756, and the weekly cost other merchants, and there is steamer or godowns. Goods re- which they are quite ignorant, is approximately £10,000. The feeling that no matter what the maining undelivered after Sept.. their money has gone into the female staff includes a large num-committee of the Chamber of 6th,will be subject to rent- hands of those who made money ber of shorthand writers, typists,Commerce might do in this foreign No Fire Insurance whatever

The corres market as to formulating methods will be effected. out of the war: as effectively. if and charkomen.

of war.

per

find the interest on these securi. ties having a purchasing power of less than half the amount off its value before the war came. Ball wonder that in their misery.) whose cause they are quite unable

condition.

MONEY AND MEN..

the

trade THE Steamship

Saturday, the 4th. Sept. 1920. commencing at in a.m. at their Sale Rooms, Daddell

Street 1200 Bags Tapicca Flakes

187 Tins Flag Brand White Zinc

4 Coils Steel Wire Rope

i

10 Bales Asbestos Lagging

6 Casks Dry Vermillion Red

4 Cases Paper Clips Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

PENTREATH & CO.

NOTICE.

ST. PAUL'S INSTITUTION

(Causeway Bay}

The Reverend Mather Superior fof the St. Paul's Institution: Causeway Bay, desires to so- nounce that the Institution will re-open on 6th September, 1920.

LESSONS IN CHINESE.

TIK LADIN XAS, a Chinese graduate, entsch 1.5 dceratzen, has been a yachee 1 European

apply to Linstead & Davis. Alexandra Buildings. Hoogkong.

FOR SALE-1920 Model In- dian Motorcycle, travelled 200 |miles. A bargain at 8525.00. Apply Box 429 co "Hongkong Tale, graph.**

SHORTHAND CLASSES

St. Mary's School, Kowloon, Evening classes for Young ladies in Pitman's Shirthand will reopen on the 3rd Septembar. There will also be a class for beginners.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG TUTORIAL & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

43, Bonham Road Opposite the University Tel. No. 732. P.O. Box. 593. Principal

JOHN P. JONES, B.Sc., M.E. Mis. ́

The Institute affords Special Pre- ani husthants in this Cuong for paration (Claas sad Private, Day and Evening. Oral and Currespondence) for Daiversity Matriculation Degres Examinations.

-**r !men! as

The hot gibed at training Enraganas to pare in the Chinese CRIMINALISA,

fara si Hakka.

The Chin Exported to write to No. 133 (Qamom's Irat. Contral, but guar

Auctioneerson of Rex extende

the has cood knowledge of a

HEUndersigned bave received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Monday the 6th. Sept.. 1920. -

Commencing at 11 am.

at their Sales Rooms, Duddeli Street.

35 cases Electric Ceiling and Table FanS

50 Instantaneous Electric Water Heaters

(More or less damaged) On view Now. Terms: Cash on delivery

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

Burglar & Fire-resisting

SAFES.

"Prevention is better...

than Cure."

not so simply, as if their pockets pondence from the public re-for doing business the movement Consignees are requested to had been picked or their safes ceived in the War Office, an inflow would always be ineffective, due send in their bills of lading for i The Undersigned have just bargled by these gentlemen.(which the Department canno: to the independent activities of countersignature. "Four thousand

house. The Billions of control, is still six times the this particular

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO+Milber's Safes. booty-according to the Report amount received before the war, Chamber of Commerce, so far as of the Inland Revenue repre- while the staff is only four times can be found, is the only organiza- Operators U. S. Shipping Board.

tion working toward this end. sents the increased wealth thus the pre-war strength.

Hongkong, 30th August, 1920.

received a new consignment of

LAMMERT BROS.

Duddell Street,

NOTICE.

THE DAIRY FARM. ICE & COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE TWENTY-FOURTH OR- DINARY ANNUAL MEETING ] of Shareholder in the above Com- pany will be held at the Com pany's Town Office 2 Lower Albert Roa). Hongkong. on |TUESDAT" the 21st day of |SEPTEMBER 1920 at 12.30 [o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of presenting the Report [of the Directors and Szatement

of Accounts to 31st July 1920.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from 7th to 21st September 1929, both days inclusive.

By Order

M. MANUK;

Secretary. Hongkong, 1st September, 1920

and

New Semi bas now contoencǝd... Tutorial Classes are being conductal in English, Mathematics, Trigtmome- try, Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry. and History, Geography, Latin French, for Hongkong University

# July Examinations.

Private Tuition can also be had in these subjects.

Prospectus on application.

Monday Sept. 6th at 9.15 P.M.

St. John's

Cathedral

ORGAN RECITAL

Vocalist

*Mr. D. J. Brow A

MUSTARD & Co.

Connaught Rd. Central

TRADE

YALE

MADE

Every type of Builders Hardware, Specifications given on all work.

Padlocks of all descriptjóns.

of all Drawer

Night Intebes of all deser

áll. purposes,

SOLE AGENTS N

- CHINA, HONGKONG