1922-08-22 — Page 12

MANUFACTURED

in

ENGLAND

BY

W. D. & H. O. WILLS.

151

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTICE.

The

Three

Castles

Virginia Cigarettes

The Cigarette with the Pedigree

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22. 1922.

HOTELS

LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

HONGKONG:

Hongkong Hotel,

Peak Hotel.

Repulse Bay Hotel. SHANGHAI:

Astor House Hotel,

Palace Hotel,

Grand Hotel' Kalee. PEKING:

Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits.

The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotela, Ltd.

and

The Grand Hotel das Wagons Ltd.

KING. EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION,

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING,

TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMER-,

Telegraphia Address::“VICTORIA

J. WITCH ELalog

FUL. 373-

Manager.

THE EUROPE HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

DANCING AFTER DINNER

EVERY

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.

TEA DANCES-

TUESDAYS and 3 HURSDAYS.

The Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of

Mr. F. R. Martens.

Telephones in every Room.

Telegraphic Address:-"EUROPE, SINGAPORE.”

Telephone Na 2740 (9 lines).

KINGSCLERE

THE EUROPE FOTEL, LTE

ARTHUR E ODELL Manager,

MID-LEVEL

KOWLOON

.:OTEL

KNUTSFORD HOTEL

SACHSE, LENNOX & Co. General Axents

Are resident Managers.

PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON.

NK..

Tel Add. Palace,"

Two mizure fthms Ferry and Railway Station. Five minutes by Perry from Hongkong

A best mass fluted in error respect and under English management.

Cassior somer personal enpervision of the Proprietor.

2 oz. marad Billard Ho

Te Mod rate.

djeca, amandments for families on application to

J. EL OXBERET, Proprietur.

ENTERT

THE

CORONET

230. 5.15. 7 15 & 915

WHITE HANDS

LARRY SEMON.

រង

THE FALL GUY.

TOP.CAL BUDGET.

KOWLOON THEATRE

at 9 p.m.

NEGLIGE

DANCE.

Booking at MOUTRIE'S

$1.50 each.

WORLD

PHONE: 1337

THEATRE

PHONE. 1337

Hongkong's Most Modern & Coolest Picture Palace.

3.15 and 9.15 p.m.

STUART HOLMES & ELLEN CASSIDY in

LOVE HONOR & ?

2.30 & 7.15 p..

EILEEN SEDGWICK in. "THE GREAT RADIUM

MYSTERY"

Episodes 4 and 5.

Usual Prices. Booking at the THEATRE.

THE TELEPHONE QUESTION.

Pafenued from Pane Ja

i know of no difference be- tween the basis of valuation in name of the National Telephone Company and that arlupted

Fale.

la rad by B2.Agaricas TDC.

to $95 per annum for service with in one mile of the exchanges.

It is to be observed that the Committee, although showing a great desire to escape from Mr. Cook's valuation of the property and plant, avoid committing then salves to any other valuation.

A Query.

tim.mk Lt."

EXCHANGE.

—

Opening Rare: donis Rase

TF Demand 30 dia

on Page 11

SELLING.

DU NIPPON

AROWER

VTOKY

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD...

HONGKONG,

RIVER LEVELS.

As a guide to shipmasters and others interested in the water levels of the river we have bean requested by the Board of Con- servancy Works of Kwargtung to publish the following table of water levels. The levels are taken at 10 am, each day. *

*1634 2/6.1/18

50 d

SOLE AGENT.

4 m/s

247

T/C Shanghai

Cóm

110W

120 197

& New York.f

579%

14814 No..

7 25

Hige W. L

1922

Lowest W. L.

BUYING.

Place of Observation

WTEX

W. L. I W. L

recorded

2 79% 2:77% 2.794

Agg. 20 Aug. 21,

Feet

Fet

Wactow,

West River

-42

Kongmoon,

-0.80

9.30 9.00

21834

Linkonghon, North

0

12.50

11.00

Jamshui, Sbaklung, Exst

-5.00

14 80

14:0

+ 15.35

-0.98

3.90

380

TIDE TABLE.

STAR THEATRE.

PEKING ROAD, SOWLOON:

'Phone. K. 795.

The biggest house exhibiting the best pictures. ›

TUESDAY 22nd. to THURSDAY 24th.. 5.30 & 9.15. p.m.

MARGUERITE CLARK

IN

-

"COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN."

Booking at the Star Ferry Waart for Hongkong Resident FREE FERRY TICKETS BOTH WAYS.

Open Day 4.33 to 1,15 pt. and § to 9 pm.. Saverlays to 2.15 p. 4.3 5.15 p.m. and 6 to 9 pm. SEE HAND BILLS.

T/T Singapore. T/ Japan T/T India..... Demand, India T/T San Francisco

T Mr. Cook it the presect instance. The system known as

Part II The Committee's re- the Tramway Terms; Le proper commendation that the Govern and plant a valuation, plus 10ment should install a system of per chat far compulsory sale, audits own to be in working order by plus goodwill, was the ope

1930, at once gives rise to the applied to the present Case

question, wby, if Govern meat without any addition for goot-ownership and administration are T/T Java will, going cancera or compulsory desirable, and if it is an assured T/T Marks It is not yet known what the thing that in their hands the rates T/T France

could be brought below those Demand. Paris..... depreciation will be in the future, agreed on by the experta, and if except that by the Agreement it the Committee believe that the must not exceed 8 per cent.

4 min. 1/C Part 11, Clause 5-The pro-and that these profits in the Company is earninglarge profits,

4 m/s. D/P party from its wituation is bands of the

6 m/s. L/C Government recessary for the business.

would result in lesseding 30 d. Sydney and being astualed 10 or For the rates and giving a fair rear to the Telephone return on the Capital employed, 30 die. San Francis-} Centre. It is proposed in erecting why does the Committee not re- the new building. to add two commend the purchase now of floore for public offices which this profitable concern? would be let until the time arrives because an immediate considera- when the whole of the building tion of such a transaction would Tight bo necessary for the business. This should be a source value of the undertaking. on press bome the fact of the real

which rates have to be based and a fair and reasonable return obtained?

of revenue to the Company.

The New Rates.

Is it

GERMAN DRAMA BOOMING.

Part 11. Clause 6.-The new subscription rates have been the subject of caraful considération and of agreement by the two experts, both of them specialists in this connection. The Com- ruittee seems to have made no calculation to justify ibe According to Mr. Albert II. schedule of rates they propos- Woods, one of the foremost in substitution of that of Messre American producers, who has re- Cole and Cook. They simply turned from a playhunting trip to allege that the subscription rates Europe, "Germany is the liveliest

j

Melbourne

ro & New York) 4 10/4. Marks

mis. France

5338

Nom. .7 60 * mfe. France......... 770 Demand, Germany. Demand. New York 57 T/T Bombay

Demand, Bombay... 197 Til Calcutta

Demand, Calcutta....197 Tu Yokohams.......

120

Demand, Manila

1:6

Demand, Singapore. 110

3n Haiphong

Demand Batavia... 1482

On Saigon On Bangkok Sovereign

METEOROLOGICAL.

Sarometer

Temperature.... Humidity

Previous

Day

on date,

on date.

at 2 p.m. 5 m. 2 pm

****

Eeet

-.9.50

+ 14.70

+57.00

+3.25

29.66 29.61 29.57 82 77 .86

$3 99 72

recorded

Foot

12ad. to 28th. Aug. 1922

Height.

9 26A 5 i

Elonghons

2. m. 1.1

1675

S la 05

Water

LOT WICH

EST Meme The

NOD

b. m.. it. in.

813%

22 1478

Wind Direction

W

CALM NW

Wind Force Weather.

1

2

Nad, 23 m

6. Į

10 7 5.5

ot orit.

Tour, 24 m #58 7.7

m 3 33 $1.9

1 $1,57.

Rain..

Gold leaf per Tanl... -

............ 7.65

Bay Silver, ready... 34

forward

..........33

Bank of England rates 3%

* SUBSIDIARY COINS.

are too high, and the Commit country to the world, theatrically. New York/London... 4.48 te put forward the figure of $84 ❘ at the present time. England is fastead of the existing £10, thus the deadest. I brought back little lessening instead of increasing English material because there'kong 50 où piacer the average rate, which the £ 0 ¦ is not any. With the exception has, until lately, produced. Dar of Somerset Maugham, English

10:

5

ing the years 1905-1917, the £10 playwrights seem to have faded Caton sub coin. subscription produced from $113 out of the landscape,"

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0:47 0.00 0.91 | T. 25 m 10:54 13

JAPAN COAL

AND

GENERAL IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

AGENTS FOR:-

THE MIT UBISHI MARINE & FIR INSURANCE CO. THE OSAKA MAKINE & FIME INSURAÑC&•CO.

ITÕUDIÓN

MITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISHA

(MITSUBISHI TRADING CO., LTD

HEAD OFFICE:-TOKYO

No, 14, PEDDER ST., HONGKONG

BOVIET AMBASSADOR TO

CHINA.

Ambassador to Chiva description of his career and

• Thé, Shanghai New Times ft. activities under the Bolshevist ports that Nikolai Dmitrievitch regime is reprinted from the m619 8okoloff, Petrograd barrister, Izvestia under the title

has been appointed Soviet Traitors of Russia.”

3. 26 m 11.51 6.8

Jan. 77 0

5 18 17 512 17

0.5 6.1.

Highest open air

Temperature on the 21st 85 Lowest.

*p*a air Tamperature on the 22nd 76 Mon, 23 = 55. BU

18.6% dis. T. F.CLAXTON, Direction.

par par

3/16% dis

-Hongkong, August 22, 1922,

159-54

-7 12 25

H.K. Observatory, Aug. 22.

-morning a. afternoon /::

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by Alfred Ics Home Street, in the City of Vis