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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

WANTED.

VACANCY in

private

HOUSING COMMISSION,

HOJEKOM K

NOTICE.

TELEGRAPH:

TO ALL IT MAY CONCERN

We the undersigned John D. Humphreys & Son of Alexan dra Building, Des Voeux Road Central, hereby give notice that' we have this day authorised Mr. John David Humphreys to sigu

THE Undersigned would be family for two paying) glad to receive in writing guests bachelors preferred. Moon or before the 20th. ist. suggesar frm name par procuration. dern Building Kowloon. Every sions from members of the convenience. Apply Box No. 890 general public in regard to c/o "Hoog-tong Telegraph."

WAN ED. By Foreign bank,

experienced Bookkeeper and Exchange clerk with good knowledge of English and general banking. Apply Box No. 923, c/o Hongkong Telegraph."

WANTED-Young Portu

guese

Lady Speaking | Chinese seeks position as Steno- Typist: aged 17; unexperienced moderata salay. Apply Box 917, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."

TO BE LET.

TO LET Premises suitable for Office or godown in the central district. Apply Wan Hing, 10, Queen's Road.

・TO LET-Ons European flat in Lee Building" Wanchai Gap Road. Apply to No. 32) Kennedy Road.

Το

0 LET.-Seven-roomed de- tached house with tennis lawn and garage for two cars. Apply to Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming.

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1-(1) The standardization (with the object of reducing the cost of buildings) of

(a) designs for houses.

(b) fixtures and fittings for

houser.

(2) The reduction of the cost

of building materials.

(3) The use of cheaper or more suitable kinds of building materials.

Dated this 4th day of April 1923.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS

& SON.

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1923.

FORTHCOMING AUCTION SALES

HUCHES & HOUGH

GENERAL AUCTIONEERS

AND

BROKERS.

The Undersigned hava' received instructions to sell by Public Auction. (For Account of the Can- carned),

on TUESDAY,

the 10th April, 1923, commencing HONGKONG CRICKET ULUR.at 230 pm, at their Sales Rooms No. 8, Des Veux Road, Corner of MEMBERS are requested to Ice House Street,

waar Membership Badges when watching matches from Valuable Teakwoood and Blackwood

Furniture and Household the stand court; otherwise they

Sundries, &c., &c, &c.

(4) The greater employment of are liable to pay the non-mom-

Isbour-saving machines or bars' entrance fees. devices

By Order.

(5) Improved methods for the transportation of building materials.

(6) Procuring an increased supply of skilled labourers,

(7) Reducing the number of

middlemen.

E. J. R. MITCHELL

Hon. Secretary.

CITY HALL.

ROOM

(8) Other methods for reduc- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

ing the cost of house con: struction. 2-Measures which should be

taken by the Government for promoting any of the above objects

3.-Measures which should b

taken by the Government

MISS MAY MUKLE

THE WORLD'S GREAT CELIST will give & CONCERT

on

(1) To increase the quantity of WEDNESDAY, April 11th. 1923.

housing accommodation, and in particular

(2) To facititate the building of more houses for occupation by (i) Persons of moderates

means.

(ii) The working classes. 14.-Measures which should be

taken by the Government to increase the quantity of hous- ing accommodation.

H. E. POLLOCK, Chairman, Housing Commission..

MODERATELY priced con- Princes Buildings,

located Office

room, light and airy, use of tele- phone, opposite King Edward. Apply International Trade Deve- loper. 8 Des Voeux Road.

TO

O LET European Flats in Nathan Road, Kowloon, adjoining Bowring Street and opposite Saifee. Terrace'): Con- taining 4 Living Rooms,2 Bath Rooms, Kitchen and usual Servants Rooms. Flushed

floor Drainage and concrete construction. For further particulars and rents apply to J. Caer Clark, Architect, 14 Queen's Road Contral.

FOR SALE.

OR SALE-"Tjibatoe", No.

FOR

38 The Pesk, for further

9th. April, 1923.

REPAIRING

ROYAL & CO.

1. D'ÁGUILAR STREET.

at 5.30 p.m. Assisted by

Miss REBECCA CLARKE (Violin)| Miss GERTRUDE WATSON (Piano) Booking at THE ANDERSON MUSIC CJ.

Price of Admission: $3.00

HONGKONG TEAMWAY COMPANY, LTD.

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Comprising:

Dining Suites, Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chairs (DOW), Tea Tables, Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE U

www.

“HE Undersigned have recaiv-} desinstructions to sell by: Publie Auction on

Tues, the roth, April, 1933- commencing at 11 am. at their Sales Rooms, Duddeli Street,

A Quantity of Electrical Goods

and Fittings.

comprising:

Braas standard lamps, Table| lamps, Hauging lamps, Electrol iers Pendants, Toasters, Chafing dishes, Heaters, etc, etc.

30-Electric Table Fans. Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers,

on

and small Wardrobes, Dressing THE Undersigned have receiv Tables and Chairs, Washstands, } ed instructions to sell bý etc., Sideboards, Dinner Waggona, Public Auction Dinner Services, Crockery and Glass Ware, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Carpets and Rugs, Staircase Car- pets, Electro-plated Ware, Electric Reading Lamps, Screens, Black-

Stands and Side Tables.. Wood Teapoys, Marble-top Flower

ri

Also

One Enamel Bath, One Piano by John Brinsmead & Son, London,

One American Ice Chest. (Full Particulars from Catalogue).

Terms: Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 5th April, 1923.

LAMMERT BROS.

PUBLIC

AUCTIONS.

THE Undersigned have receiv

ed instructions to sell by Public Auction Thursday, the 12th April, 1923-

commencing at 2.45 p.m. (at No. 15 A Orient Buildings, Coronation Road, Kowloon)

A Quanity of Valuable House- hold Farálture

comprising-

that the ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Hongkong Tramway Company Limited will be held at the Offices of Messre. Jardine Mathe- son and Cor pany Limited, Ped-

ha:stand. chesterfeld drz Street, Hongkong, on Wednesday, the 11th. day of couch and chairs, teak extension April, 1923, at 12 o'clock abon, to dining table; chairs, teak side. transact the ordinary business of board, dioner waggon, glassware, the Company..

By Order of the Board.

W. E. ROBERTS,

Secretary. Hongkong. 5th. February, 1923,

INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.

THE Annual General Meeting

of the above Institution will

particulars apply Java-China- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.be held on Wednesday, the 11th.

Japan Lijn.

FOR SALE BUICK" Motor

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

THURSDAY, 12th. APRIL.

Teak

crockery, cultery, etc, etc.

Teak.bedsteads, teak wardrobe with bevelled glass door, dreasing table, washstand with marble top, curtains, etc.

One Perambulator. On view from Wednesday, the 11th. April..

Catalogues will be issued. Terms Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Auctioneers.

inst, at 6 p.m. in the rooms King's THE Undersigned beg to notify Buildings.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

that the auction sale ONE SET OF MINT MACHINERY,

has been postponed until a date to be notified later.

LAMMERT BRCS,

Auctioneers.

+

Car, 1920 model, 6 cylinder. Five seater, fitted with Auster wind screen at back. Four pract N consequence of the Roof

Garden Ball Room being NOTICE is hereby given that ically new tyres, one unused tyre

the Thirty-fourth Ordinary on spare wheel all, in good run- privately engaged on Thursday. General Meeting will be held at ning order. Car No. 284: can be 12th. April, the usual evening the Company's Offices, St. seen at Hongkong Hotel Co's Dance will take place in the

Undersigned have George's Building, on Saturday, THE garage, Russell Street. Offers to Grill Room.

Teceived instructions to sell 21st. April 1923, at 11.30 am. for: Box No. 912 c/o Hongkons

the purpose of presenting the by Public Auction on Telegraph."

Report, of the Directors together Monday, the 30th. April, 1923 with a Statement of Accounts to 28th. February 1923, and electing Directors and Auditor. The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 14th to the 21st. April, 1923, both days inclusive.

FOR SALE Motor Boat. 25 feet, Perfect condition. 9/12 "Universal" motor, 4 cylinders en bloc, Bosch magneto, reverse gear. Exceptionally well fitted with electric light, ice boxes, life-

FOOTBALL

HONGKONG LEAGUE

CLUB GROUND, HAPPY VALLEY.

belts, cushions, window curtains, SATURDAY, 14 h. April, 1923. brass-work, dingby, etc., etc.

Box No. 925 care of "Hongkong Division II. Kick off 3.15 pm Telegraph

THORNYCROFT

ΜΟΤΟΣ

LAUNCH FOR SALE,

The Rest

King's (Winners)

Division I. Kick off 4.45 p.m.

H.M.S. Ambrose King's v. (Winners) (Runners-up)

Admission to ataod $1.00.

Built in England. Hull of teak Chairs 50 cents. Services in

coppered.

Length 35' Beam 8' Depth 4 Draft forward 1' 2" Draft aft 2'

Displacement 5.1 tons. Three

quarters cabined.

Pitted with Thornycroft No. 4

uniform, chairs 30 cents.

H. K. C. O. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

1/2 x 6" Motor. 45 B.B.P. Pro- THE following match will be

peller Dis 21" Pitch 16"

Fuel Kerosene. Mean speed

played in the Stand Court 10.92 Miles per hour. Apply Box at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, 9th.

924, c/o Hongkong Telegraph." April

X. F. Lo & Thomas Lay

W

NOTICE.

ILL FOREIGN COM- ROKKE "TRAVELL- (theade" connections, Preformation, kindly wwith P.O. Bár 643.

T.

0. & H. Damjaho

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Ltd.

Agenta. Hongkong 4th. April 1923.

at NOON

at their Sales Room, Duddel!

• Street,

S. S.

The Wreck of the

"Nichiren Maru,"

as she now lies stranded in Long

&

Tuesday,, the 10th. April, 1923.

commencing at 2.45 p.m.

3

at No. 13 Broadwood Road "Bridge House.” Quantity of Valuable Household

Furniture 'comprising.

:

Teak hatstand, chesterfield couch, and armchair, engraving Oilpaintings, Carpets, Curtains, Rugs, Standard lamp, etc., etc.

Teak extension dining table. dining chairs, teak sideboard, dinner waggon, teak screen,)

brzes |fender, etc., etc.

Double and single teak bed- steads, double and single tosk wardrobes with bevelled' mirror doors, teak dressing table with bevelled mirror, washstand 'with marble top, tables, chairs, etc.

atc.

One Cottage Piano by Moutrie & Co.

On view from Monday the 9th April 1923,

Catalogues will be issued, Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

DO NOT MISS- ROUHA'S POPULAR AUCTION SALES

Every Tuesday Thursday

& Saturday

At 2.30 p.m.

DA ROCHA'S MART 3 A, D'Agullar St Fhone 2931

PEAK RESIDENTS'

ASSOCIATION.

NOTICE.

The Brunswick Ultona

the all-record reproducer

Ali, arcista, ali makse of. recorda played with equal feldby, Bawweida'vo fá...“ titre of The Brunswick,

YOU ARE SURE TO BE PLEASED 1F YOUR

MACHINE IS A

BRUNSWICK

New Records To-day including 'to'clock in the Morning"

STUDIO

17, Ice House Birot

Inaudibility is a vien of the age. Complaint has been made lately

not, by any means, for the first

time—of "actors who cannot be beard and tingem whose remain" a "myst+ry、A definite complaint is now presented in `a latter to The Times from "Law Reporter on the practice of Judges of delivering their judgment in such a way 18 to be almost unintelligible to | knyans, sitting in the body of the Court."With an experience of the Courts extending over pearls. thirty years, anya"this" corres pondent, “I feel convinced that daver bar the standard of judicial alocution reached so low, an ebbe us at present." - You may walk from Court to Court in the King's Bench Division and encounterin ļovary one" the same inaudi- |bility, dus silber to the wzirume rapidity with" which judgments are delivered or to the adoption of the monstroussmalt voice' which many Judges appear to consider appropriate to the delivery of the decisions, at which they hate

rived."

M.Abel Chevalley, the distinguishedTM French critic

and High Commissionde for France in the' Caucasse, has been on a visit' to London. He lectured, during his stay. before the Royal - Society of Literature and the Anglo-French Society. His subject was Prok, Louis Courier," one of the greate est prose writers of the last sentury, and perhaps the porest. and "most pungent pamphleteer.. But there was a prelude.`__M. Chevalley is the author of a book on the navel of to-day, in which [ he pays" "high tribute to nr own novelists; and Mr. Edmund- Goane, who pres ided, did not fall to bring M. Cheusiley's compliments to the notice of the meeting. As for M. Chevalley, be said that never WES the vitality of English literal üre more manifees than at present.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. ■nd never perhape, not even in

the eighteenth century, did it awe so much to the English novel and. novelists. France was now, as An appeal is being made from before, caualizingand transferring Melbource, on behalf of the Mat- to a large-portion of humanity the thew Flinders' memorial executive best and worst of our flow committee for subscriptions to of fiction. Montesquieu said complete the fund to erect a statue L'Angleterre est faite pour y in the city of the famous navigs- penser." He might have added. tor, who was the first sailor, to "Et la France, podrty dapenser." circumnavigate Australia, and who gave its name to the contiu- ent. The total sum needed is

| £3,000 of which £1,450 is in hand,

and, pending the receipt of the fuli

$100

mount, the committee has provi GIVEN AWAY

sionally accepted the design of Mr. Web Gilbert_as reproduced above.

The Melbourne City THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL Council which bas granted £300| to the fund, will be asked to choose à site.

-

COMPETITION,

We will give a prize of $100 to the reader who sends in the correct goal scores of the two matches to be played SATURDAY next,”April 14th. as detailed in the coupon to be found below.

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All forecast thrust be written on

Rules of Competition.

coupons cut from The Hongkong The name and address in Talegraph." the entrant, to be plainly printed· íir, block letters in Ink.

After visiting Melbourne, where Admiral Gilly and his officers were entertained by the Federal Government, two French battle cruisers, Jules Michelet and Victor Hugo, left Sydney on January 11, the flagship going to New Zealand, and the Victor Hugo to Adelaide. At the Invitation of the New South Wales Government, aj large party of French officers and THE first annual masting will sailors visited La Perouse (New for each attempt.

be held at the Peak Club on South Wales) where a brass tablet-The Frits of $100 wil be awarded

to the competitor who, gires THURSDAY, 12th April, 1923, was placed on the monement in

correct goalscores of the matches: at 5.45 p.m.

memory of the Camte De L

below. In the event of more tha "A foll attendance of all Peronss, who commanded tha one competitor sending in correctly.

forecasted gosi scores of these matob members and those interested is French frigates which followed

then the Prim will be divided equally de Captain Cook into Botany Bay: particularly requested.

tween shom competitors. No one pa petitor shall be entitled to mars

to more than- coe share of the prizes

E.B.C. HORNELL

Bon, Sacretary,

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that

the to pursuant

Técon

2.--Any number of, attempts may be as in, but a separate puupon must be used

Details concerning B Bew engins of war, apparently in the nature of an automatic tank; are! being discussed in Chinese circles, and arrangements are said to be proceeding for its 5. Be responsibility will be accerf he Kiangnanny coupon. The Editor's decision memap construction Arsenal The inventor is a map

4. AD ompons must be received at the

*Telegraph ofice was later than 12- o'clock, noon on Saturday, April 14th. Coupons received after that time will be disqualified,

at

› the Häitas for the law or non-delivery of

beza). Me correspondeboe zer i terviews will be entered Info concerningk this competition,dilatad

any cause whatever, is not played, to s finish will not be coated

By order of the Board of 110°42′50′′E Lat. 20° 10' 30" N to struction agreement made beamed Chao, sad according to

Directors,

gether with whatever cargo of tween Arnhold Bros. & Co., Ltd. the information gleanedTM it coal

the may be in

vessel and Harry Montague Mann, the is electrically-driven and con-ny match given below which, through at the time.

Liquidator thereof and others trolled, it can turn and fire in ali Terms: Cash on fail of ham- and this Company, this Company directions and can then be brought 7.-Fo members of the Telegraphy staff will be permitted to také, pars in tha mer, when vassel &c., will be a bas as from the 1st. April, 1923, back to its original starting point

competition. the purchaser's risk.

acquired the undertaking of when necessary. It is said that LAMMERT BROS.,

Arnhold Bros. & Co., Ltd. and one of China's military leaders is Auctioneers.

will henceforth carry on the now negotiating for the purchase Mark the envelope "FOOTBALL business heretofore carried on by of the invention, which, if suc- that Company.

NOTICE.

P. A. XAVIER & CO.

N

OTICE is hereby given that

the business of my firm

CITY HALL,

has this day been sold to Mr. TWO PIANO RECITALS

B. M. Castro and my interest

and responsibility in the firm ceases as from to-day.

(Signed) P. A.XAVIER, Hongkong, 4th. April, 1923.

HA

AVING this day taken over the business of P.A. Xavier & Co. I hereby giza notine that the mid businesswili

Entrance fee, Members 20 cta carried on by me under the Non-Members 50 ciasma style of P. A. XAVIER &

00,"

(Signed) B. M: CASTRO.. Hongko 4th April, 1923.

By Order, E. J. R. MITCHELL

Hon. Becretary.

by

Alexander Sklarevski

(world famous Pianist) to be given on Monday, 9th April,

at ́s.30 p.; and

10th. April,

Booking at Moutria's.

Tickets $3

ARNHOLD & CO, LTD. Hongkong, Ist. April, 1923.

BAT CUANO King of Fertiliser

cessful, la bound to be a decisive factor in Loy clash of armas 00- curring in the country.

- CUT HERB Telegraph

Matches to be played on,

Saturday, April 14th

LEAGUE DIVISION

Goals

Raplying in Parliamentary do bates to Mr. Bromfield, Comman- der Eyres-Monsell said: The cost involved in the building of a first-class battleship in 1914 (pre- King' war) was approximately £500,000: The cost involved in the building of a-similar type of battleship. corresponding to the 1 labour and By applying Guane, you will material pricas now current! have an early and rich crop. And 1823, would be about

It must, however, be borne t will beautify your garden.

| mind that a modern

EASTERN ARGRICULTURAL embodies festures font

FERTILISER CO.

95, Jervois BE Srl floor,

Hong

sary in the

LEAGUE DIVISION