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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 6. -1923.

DAY BY DAY.

"

There will be a Musicals at

|HONGKÒNG TRAMWAY CHINESE PORCELAIN.

COMPANY.

Reports of Old and New Companies.

Interesting Lecture" by

Grent War, and the appalling spread of its fames over the world, until even the naked:

TO STAY AT THE LESSON UNTIL

Mr. H. W. Kent. savages of the interior of Africa

IT IS LEARNED AND STOP BY THE and of New Guiana fall its hot wORK UNDERTAKEN UNTIL IT IS

There was a big gathering in the Halona May Institute yesterday breath, one bannot contemplate | COMPLETED 19 THE REAL THING.

afternoon, when Mr. H.-W. Kent hostilities of the nature just

The report of the Directors of gave a most interesting lecture |threatened without great sadness.

Prias Day at St. Stephen's the Hongkong Tramway Co. on the collecting of Chinese pot- OFFICE, HOUSEHOLD OF It is the day of the ornic and the College (Boys) will be Saturday, Ltd. (incorporated in the United tory and porcelain and other February 10th. H.E, the Governor Kingdom) for the year ended 31st curios. A number of objects d'art pessimist.

has kindly consented to distribute December, 1999, states ———

ilustrative of the discourse were The intention to asaigo the on view, and comprised porcelain Most of us, at heart, whilst the prizes.

whole of the tramway under-ware of the different dynasties, discussing the chances of the

The lecturer pointed out that Empire being involved in another knocked down yesterday by a

A man was injured by baing tating to new Company to be

incorporated in Hongkong was for the successful collecting of | war, had a lingering belief-born tramar in Des Voeux Road West, duly carried into effect on the Chinese pottery and porcelain of ever-springing human hope-He died soon after admission to 18 July last, and the accounts one had to have training and now presented show the position sufficient skill to distinguish be- that everything would be settled the Government Civil Hospital.

at 30lb. Jank 1922, and at 31st. tween the genuine article and a would peace

eventually

December, 1929.

fake. Visits to places where there An interim dividend of $174,800. were collections of genuine pieces raign. Yesterday, with the dogs of the Helens May Institute on equal to 1s 03. per share at ex-wore opportunities not to be lost. war almost unleashed, how many Thursday, February 8th., at 530 change ts. 7lid, was paid by the Having divided cario hunters into {thousands of lips must have beaap.m. for Members and their Hongkong Tramways, Limited, their different groups-rooghly praying that a happy solution friends. Tickets fifty cents each, in August last, and distributed to those who did not appreciate should be obtained in advancesbareholders of this Company. A a thing for its artistic features be fouadt The mothers, sisters, from the Secretary.Adel. final dividend for the year 1922, and those who did-Mr. Kent and wives who have suffered, even

of 8391,588.78 will be received, want on to the pleasure that can those who yet have to suffer- Last

health return and the Directors therefore robe associated with calleating. they are the ones who know shows five cases of diphtheria command the payment of a final When several curios had been the agony of suspense that two British two Chinese and one dividend of 24. 03. per share, the acquired after prolonged search

Indian), of which three were fatal: equivalent at exchange 29. 29jd. [ing, and

perhaps bargaining. threats of conflict bring-four of enteric fever (two British,

The actual Hongkong receipts there was the added attraction of The men

who have survived one American and one Chiness and working expenses for the year, a history attached to each object, Ganaine pieces were not to be the horrors of war, broken in one ending fatally; and one fatal in local currency, are as follow:- Chinese case of cerebro-apiasti

miscellaneous obtained for a mere song, sald body or in spirit-they can tell faver. There was also one Chin-receipts, $1,260,041 ($1,087,969 to the lecturer, or bargains picked (what might be happening a few eso death from influenza.

1921).

[up readily.' Reputable dealers months bence. The shades of

Power expenses, traffic ex- and skilful private collectors the glorious dead, perhaps, look Investigations into the robbery Pecses, maintenance and repaire, could be depended upon to have and general expenses $509,570 really representative specimens. sorrowfully upon

the foolish at Jervois Street, resulting in ($461,501 in 1921).

Some porcelain again, though the disappearance of seved mortals who might be going balas of cloth, valued at $1.260, 8750,171 (6626.463 in 19212

Working profit, Hongkong genaine, was inferior, balog the rubbish" turned out during the nothinkingly over the brink of led to charges of complicity The retiring Directors are the different dynasties, I com- the precipics. The ghosts of being preferred against five men Rev. Fr. L. Habert and Mr. A. H.mend to the attention of collec

to-day. Compton, who are eligible and tors of limited means and small allipoli, what must they think at the Police Court

two of the accused being offer themselves for re-election. ambition the .. wares made if they can look down upon the fokis of the shop. They The auditors, Messrs. Lowe, in Towkwong's reign. They gathering bosts? What say the were all admitted to bail with the Bingham and Matthews, offer are plentiful, quite attractive,

man who is themselves for re-election. spirits of those who perished exception of one

and display skilful craftsmanship miserably

alleged to have committed the Meepstactual burglary,

New Company's Report. if lack of originality." campaign? A theme for a Consu Doyle, maybe!

Offering.

MUSTARD AND CO.

17, Connaught Road, Central.

Tel. Central No. 1186.

BIRTHS. MALIG-To Mrs. G. 8. Malig (Higina Baleros) of Miller & Co, ason (stillborn) (Manila papers plesse copy).

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Traffic and

DOYLE-O© January 23, 1923, at St. Mary's Hospital, Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Doyle, Avenue Dubail, a daughter.

LINDSAY-On January 28, 1923, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs

The Directors of the Hoogkong The Chinese Curio Dealer. H. S. Lindsay, a 100.

Tramways, Limited (incorporat- There was a special way of AMIDANI-On January 28

Yesterday, through an ined in Hongkong) submit the tackling the curio dealer in China, 1923, at No. 23 Yu Yuea Road, But to come down to concrete advertence, we reported that

sudited statement of accounts for Mr. Kent proceeded, and tact and Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. considerations, we would point employed at the Post Office, wber, 1922, and also a balance sheet tion of the objects being examined shroff asmed Ng Pak-en the half year ended 31st. Decem-courtesy and a proper apprecia- Amidani, a son,

to the serious effect that a war be missing and that his accounts as at 1st. July 1922, the date on went a long way towards effect. HENDERSON-On January 29, 1923, at Dr. Fearn's Hospital, tween Britain and Turkey would revealed a deficit totalling nearly which the whole of the tramway ing a mutually satisfactory sals. three thousand dollars. We Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A have had on practically

andertaking of the Hongkong One should never hesitate to offer understand that there is no shroff Tramway Co., Ltd, was acquired, considerably less than one interd- Henderson, a daughter.

Asia, besides the detrimental of this name employed An interim dividend for 1922 of ed eventually to pay for a curio, KENNEDY-On January 29, effect on the British Isles and t the Post Ofice, and $124,800 (38.40 cents per share) and the first offer could be in- 1923, at Nanking, to Mr. and

whole probably the

Colonial that there have been no defalca was paid in August last out of the creased by stages to meet the Mrs. J. Kennedy, C. M. Customs,

tions whatever discovered in any profits for the half year ended gradual descent in the dealer's a daughter, Christina Marion. Empire. Trade would be bound of the postal departments.

30th. June 1922, received from the quotation. Once gain the respect FRIEDMAN-0ɑ Jabuary 31, to suffer, and ca. spread, off.

|Hongkong Tramway Co. Ltd: and confidence of the man and 1933. at Dr. Fearn's Hospital, hostilities outside the Turco- We learn of the return to the The proft for the balf year he would bring from some inne? Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Max Arabian ates would affect the Colony of Mr. C. F. Mendham, ended 31st Decembar, 1922, recesses objects of rarity and Friedman, a daughter.

commerce of probably half the M. I. Mech. E., M. Coas. E, who amounts to $291,121.38; to which beauty that would otherwise recently arrived by the se. Mores must be added the amount at perhaps remalo padise'osed, for world. It would be a time for to join Messrs. W. S. Bailey & credit of Profit and Loss Afc. many dealers, being independ GABBOTT FRANKLIN,~OD|racial and religious ill-feeling of Co., Ltd. as Senior Assistant taken over from the Hongkong en: me, ssemed not to January 30 1923 at Holy Trinity an aggravated nature, with all Managing Director. Mr. Mend. Tramway Co, Ltd., less interim care whether they Dected x 9x16"

Rev. Dean Symons, H., Cecili

that ibare Vero

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MARRIAGE

Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Very that such bitterness could Rise years Superintendent Engineer balance of $631,369.63. Of this mentioned

ham was formerly for many dividend, $340,248 23; making or not. Incidentally, Mr. Keat

The Telegraph.

Parr Gabbott af Leytonstone, rise to. Soviet Russia would of Cosmopolitan Dock and bas there has been transferred to some well-known, "pukka" dealers London, to Ethel May Franklin almost certainly assist Turkey, for the past eighteen years General Reserve Account, $81,ļi Peking and Shanghai, and one of Ilford, Essex, England. openly or by ways that are dark, carried on the business of a Con-793.59; there has been written off or two such in Hougtong.

sulting Engineer in London. We goodwill in the item of Tramway In deciding on a purchase, one DEATH.

and we have to bear in mind the extend a very cordial welcome to Undertaking $22,000; and the had to visualise the eventual headway that Bolshevism has former resident and wish Mr. Directors recommend the pay eetting for the piece, which should SCOTT-On January 24, 1923.| st Richmond, Surrey, Mary made up to the very shores of the Meadham every success in his ment of a final dividend for the be in harmony with it in every year 1922 of $291,588.75; lesving|way. A "Chinese setting" to a Aitken Scott, beloved sister of Pacific. Who knows but that the 48 undertaking.

| to be carried forward, $235,987.26. | room of carios from Cathey would P. M. Scott, Shanghai.

clash of arms in the Near East

The Sterling Fixed Deposit of obviate any bizarre effects that At the Marine Court this morn- would erbo and re-echo in the ing the foreman of a night-soil 19.119 was sold in December at might otherwise result.

exchange 2s. 448., realising Passing on to a description of Far East too? And then think of junk was charged, at the instance

aud $566,265.28, all that it would mean for Britain of Sanitary Inspector W. ThompLoan of $700,000 from the Hong. Mr. Kent concluded by saying: The Special some other Chinese art curios, .800, with dumping night-soil if her industries, just recovering in Kowloon Bay yesterday. The Long and Shanghai Banking I will give you a few more tips from the crippling effects of the Inspector stated that the night-The profit on realisation, $70,545. with. Factories in Honan are at Corporation WAN then repaid. regarding imitations to wind up recent war, were again disor-soil was dumped off the Kow, has been added to Exchange present producing Han, T'ang and ganised by the needs of the fray the defendant was arrested all his the Purchase Account Adjust productions of the Ming and Icon Reclamation, sad when Fluctuation Account, from which Sung pottery. The most dangerous Think of the internal unrest that fokis ran away. Defendant's ex-ment has bean written off. Manchu wares are the Japanese. The Contingent Liability Ac- They have made a speciálity of In these days, when the possi- necessary to make calls on the discharging the night soil into count and the Exchange Fluctus Ming forgeries. Kioto is fall of bility of armed conflict looms nation's reserve manhood. Think feome gardens and did not dumption Account have been combined this spurious ware which is into the water. The Marine darkly on the borizon, when of all the possibilities that can Magistrate (Commander C. W. one Account as a General clever enough to take in many

Reserve

experienced acasteurs. The rumours of settlements give place follow the word War when it is 1 Beckwith) imposed a fine of $20.

The retiring Directors are Mr. Japanese import the clay from D.G.M. Bernajů and the Hon. Sir Chins for the work. Marks are C.P. Chater who are eligible and no reliable guide to genuineness.

Either on pottery or porcelain. offer themselves for re-elecion.

your best and only safeguardin ex- perience and a well-trained øya.”

HONGKONG, 6th Feb., 1923

CAN WE FOREFELL"

would be engendered if it became planation WAS that bo WK3

to threats of war, and when translated into actuality-and tidings of treaty ratifications and hope fervently for peace. disarmament come over the wires almost in the same flash with talk of preparedness and troop concentrations-when the drums

Too Much Talk.

The auditors, Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, offer them selves for re-election.

NEW ASSOCIATION.

The lecturer was beartilyap- plauded at the conclusion of his discourse, and on the proposal of the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp be was accorded a cordial vote of thanke,

REUNIFICATION,

When Reginald Radcliffe, de- scribed as mercantile officer, was charged at the Police Court this morning with the theft $100 and a brow overcoat from his The President of China has ex-| friend, 5. Allen, third officer of pressed his approval of Sun Yat- the e.a. Haihong, be said they had of war sound as a muffled under-en's disbandment proposals and a bottle of whisky between them tone where the nations meet to given voice to the hope that in on the night to question; and smoke the pipes of peace-it is future everyone will further that, in a sudden fit of genero- indeed a difficult task to foretell peaceful reunification and dissity, "Sandy" lent him the sam

bandment Aspions expressions, in return for an LOU. Having For Ex-Marines.." the future of even a few weeks these are very gratifying, but treated "Sandy" well in Singapore, abead. One's thoughts naturally China's problems are not going he was all the more surprised at There has just been formed

Premier Makes a Stand. tara to a subject of this nature of the opinions of her leaders be-ed only to a feeling of regret later Chine branch of the Royal to be solved by the mere process this action which could be attribut-locally the Hongkong and South

Peking. Feb. 6-The Kuomin at a time when the British Eming telegraphically sent all over on at having lent the money. Marines Old Comrades Associatang members of Parliament are pira seemed on the verge of the land. We fully agree However it was explained to tion, of which Inspector C. E criticising the Government appoint Conflict the results of which it with the President that China's the Court that the com-Frith, of the Sanitary Department of Lia Chunting as Tah of

difficulties are entirely to be plainant was away in his ship atment, is the Hon. Secretary. Mr.Kwangsi; na bindering unideation would be impossible to foresee. It attributed to the fighting between present, and the case was ac- Frith, incidentally, is a Patron of Taau Kun and Wu Pai-ft have ako may be that everything will come the various parties, but, as be cordingly put over until his the parent Association in London. reported urging the Government to right in the end, the Turkish says, the militarists are inces return. Inspector Purdin said. His Excellency the Governor appoint Shen Hung-ying Tull of extremists realising the folly santly preparing for war and that when the accused was ar-and H. E. Admiral Sir Arthur Kwanglung and Sun Chuan-fang

[recruiting fresh troops.

The rested he was wearing the over- Leveson are Patrons of the new Tuli of Fukien. The Premierre? of a bellicose attitude; to-day's mischief is that nobody will set cost and had a sum of $59,45 on local Association, of which the plied refusing, saying that the re- news inspires hope, at any rate. an example by beginning the dis- bim.

In case of war, who could foretell bandment process, Why? Be

cause of a lack of trust in others

President is the Marine Officer of cent appointments were made with the Chins Squadron. There are the object of reunification, which. already some forty members will be hindered if withdraws ibem how it might end? Would Turkey which is common to all Chinese sooner the military chiefs get enrolled, and it is hoped that all and makes fresh appointment. be the only foe Britain would have political and military leaders. It together, sbandon their selfish ex-Marines in the Colony will It will also cause much trouble to contend with, or would the is useless for the President of smbitions and work out & prac join. The Association, which and confusion. battle-line, be far-doog

The Premier add. that if his from Chips, the Premier, Dr. Sun or tical scheme of disband meat, the hopes to hold social gatherings

not comprehended Gallipoli to Mandalay? In view anybody else to hope to solve the better will it be for everybody. periodically, is being formed for viewpoint is

unification problem by talk. Deeds, not words, are the prime the purpose of assisting all ex- he would like to retire from offes. of the small beginnings of the Action is needed, And the necessity.

Marines who are in need of help.§-Router.