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THE ~ HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI

MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923,

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES FORTHCOMING AUCTION SALES

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

FFICE Room $80.00. Conveniently located. Plenty of light. Above Hughes Hough. 8 Des Voeux Road. Apply any time I.T.D. 2nd floor.

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

ΤΟ

O LET-Seven-roamed do

tached house with tennis

lawn and garage for two cars. Apply to Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming.

with

Repairs Skifully and Carefully attended

to by-

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM

NAVIGATION CO, LTD. HUGHES & HOUGH LAMMERT BROS.

Consignees Steamer

GENERAL AUCTIONEERS per Company's

"EURYLOCHUS **

AND

BROKERS.

PUBLIO AUCTIONS,

THE Undersigned

bave received instructions to sell The Undersigned have received by Public Auction an KEPAIRING | Hall's Wharf, Kowloos, where it instructions to all by Public Monday, the 30th. April, 1933

REPAIRING

T. NAKAO Japanese Shoe Expert. TORTOISE SHELL BOXES and CASES A SPECIALTY. Astor House Hotel Buliding.

Queen's Road Central.

TER HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

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are hereby notified that thei Cargo will be discharged into

will lie at Consigneès' risk and Auction (For Account of the Con subject to terms and conditions corned),

of storage at Holt's wharf. The

00 TUESDAY,

Cargo will be ready for delivery the 17th April, 1923, at 10.30 am, from Godown on and after 16th, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Desj April.

Voeux Road, Comer of Ice House Street,

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

All broken, chafed, and damag ed goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will – be examined on any Tuesdays and

NOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN Fridays between the bours of that the ORDINARY 10.45 1.m. and neon within the YEARLY MEETING of Share-free storage period. holders of the THE HONGKONG No claims will be admitted HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED after the Goods have left the TO LET Flat in Kowloon will be held at HONGKONG steamer's Godown, and all Goods ail modern con- HOTEL Peddar Street, Hong remaining undelivered after the veniences, 4 minutes ferry, kong on Saturday, the 28th. April 21st. April will be subject to geyser, telephone, plate, linen, 1923, at 11.30 o'clock a.m., for rent glass. Preference given to person the purpose of receiving a All Claims against the Steamer taking over furniture. Apply statement of accounts and the must be presented to the under- Box No. 929 c/o Hongkong report of the Board of Directors signed on or before the 5th Talegraph."

for the year ended the 31st May, or they will not be December, 1923, confirming the recognised. appointment of a Director, and No Fire Insurance will be electing a Director and Auditors. The Transfer Books of the

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Company will be closed from

Agents. Monday, the 23rd. April, 1923, until Saturday. the 28th. April. 1923, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board,

WALTER J. HAWKER,

Secretary.

TO LET European Flats in

Nathan Road, Kowloon, adjoining Bowring Street and opposite Saifee Terrace, Con *taining 4 Living Rooms, 2 Bath Rooms, Kitchen ad aus) Servants Rooma. Flushed Drainage and concrete floor construction. For farther particulars - and rents apply to J. Caer Clark, Architect, 14 Queen's Road Contral.

FOR SALE. FOR SALE-Tibatos“. No. 38 The Pest, for further particulars apply Java-China-| Japan Lija,

LOST.

LOST-One Spanish pearl

Hongkong, 16th. April 1923.

THE SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

NO

སྤད་་་་་མས་མ་

effected.

15th, April, 1923.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

S. SANYO MARU" From SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, and JAPAN PORTS.

THE above gamed Steamer

A Quantity of Hourhold Furniture (removed to Sals Rooms for convenience of sale). Comprising:

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at NOON

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

The Wreck of the

5. 5. "Nichiren Maru," as she now lies stranded inLong 110°42′50′′E Lat. 20°10′ 50′′ N to- gather with whatever cargo of cos!

may be in the vessel at the time..

Terms: Cash on fall of ham- mer, when vessel &o, will be

Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Wash-the purchaser's risk. stands, Dressing Tables, Chairs, Tables, Cooking Stoves, etc, etc.

Also

Electric Fans, &c. &c.

on WEDNESDAY,

the 18th April, 1929, at 11 am, at Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., No. 16 Godown.

2,333 Sacks of Flour, Slightly Damaged. Hongkong, 10th April, 1923.

on WEDNESDAY, the 18th April, 1923, at 2.30 p.m., |

Causeway Bay Breakwater,

The Yacht S 7 Lady Godiva, Chinese wood built, 1893, dimen-

sions 38′ x 12′ 44′′ 7" deep, 21 tons, over 1 ton of lead on bottom;

also sundry fittings. Comprising:

22

- Primo Stove, large Blue and White Striped Canvas Awning, two Mattresses. two Anchors, fathoms of 1 inch Chalu, Sundry: |Ropas, etc., etc., etc.

on THURSDAY,

A Consignment of Household Linens. Comprising:

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers.

THE Undersigned have receiv” ed instructions to sell by Public Auction

Tuesday., the 17th. April, 1923. commencing at 11am.

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NEW TIES

LATEST DESIGNS

NON-CREASEABLE

NECK-TIES

RUBBER LINED

AT

SINCERE'S

NEW GARDIN CITY SPORTS. (Homuntin)

Third Athletic Meeting.

THE BOYCOTT.

Canton Meeting a Farce.

Owing to the lack of a quarum, resulting from the non-attendance. of the majority of the represent- atives of the various schoola invited to participate, the meeting of students called in Canton for the purpose of furthering the boycott resolved itself into a mare conversational party, and. it was suggested at the break-up to call another meeting and to secure the interest of the Student Party in the maramani,

LIGHT IN LUXOR TOMBS.

Mr. Edward P. Mathers writes to the Times:

If the light used by the ancient Egyptians was the sun, it must have been conveyed by mechanical means we have no idea of now. I also visited the Tombs of the Kings about twenty- .. five years ago and again since, and it seems impossible to imagine reflectors powerful. enough to give the brilliant steady light by which the wonderful HE Committee have much mural THE

pleasure in inviting the down in the deep sirmg rooky decorative work away. Ladies and Gentlemen of the chambers could have been deas. Colony to their sparts at Hom-If they existed, where are they untin on Sunday, the 15th. April, now?" It was a pure power- commadcing at 2.30 p.m.

By courtesy of the management that was needed to do the miles ful light as bright as electricity Old Cast and Wrought Iron, there will be a special trains leave of subterranean hieroglyphical Acetylene Lamps, and Containers ing Kowloon at 245 p.m. from writing on the walls of the tombe. Fish Plates and Bolts, Old Boller Homantin. Tubes, Ornamental Gas Brackets| and sundry other material.

at the Lower Terminus, Pent Tramway

A Quantity of Miscellaneous

Gear-

comprising -

On view from Monday the 16th April 2923,*

Terms-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers,

DO NOT MIES—

BOOKA'S

POPULAR AUCTION SALES

Every Tuesday Thursday

& Saturday

E. P. HYNDMAN,

Hob. Secretary. Hongkang, 13th. April, 1923,

The endless and mathematic-

ally accurate drawn about 2

lines of characters averaging inches deep ozi the great walls, “say, anything up to 20 feet square, are a silent mystery. You can ponder on this TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. and down below you to the ground, writing away above your, head

all sa sharply defined in red, bine, and yellow, and as freshly and "Tam O'Shanter," the famous beautifully drawn as it was the day work of Robert Burn, has been fit was done. The black lines are translated into Spanish. The almost more wonderful than the translator is Mr. De la Barrs, coloured. As Sir Lees Knowles Chilean Coosal jn Glasgow, says, it would be interesting to who is at

present on know what the light was by which leave in his own country.the work was done.. Writing to a correspondent, he The mysteries of the Pyramids states: I recited the poem in are a question of life, the knout, here on St. Andrew's Day, and though at Baalbek one of the it was a great success." Mr. De three 60 by 13 feet monstrous la Barra is an able journalist, and stones declinad to since he returned to Chile he "bas farther then

adjacent written many arricles about spot. Two of them were got into Glasgow and Scotland in the position in the wall of the Temple publications of his native land. fof the Sun, and are so finely masoned that you cannot get a knife blade between them. Ent what was the necessary, clear, artificial light of the Egyptians ?

having arrived on Sunday, the 19th April, 1923, at 11 am a: TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 15th April 1923 consignees of their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des that the Twentyeighth cargo are hereby notified to pro-Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House ORDINARY GENERAL MEE-sent their Bills of Lading for Street, TING of Shareholders of THE countersignature, and take im SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.. mediate delivery from alongside will be held at THE HONG steameror the Company's Go- KONG HOTEL, HONGKONG, down, whereall cargo impeding on Saturday, the 28th. April, immediate discharge will be Damask Table Cloths, Serviettes, Bed Sheets (single and double), 1923, at 12 o'clock noon, for the landed at consignee's risk, earring between Barker purpose of receiving a Statement) Storage will be assessed of Pillow Cases. Bedspreads, Counter DA ROCHA'S MART Spanish at a big bangtet we held rope and tackle and rollers. Road and Kingsclere. Reward if of accounts and the report of cargo remaining andelivered panes Shirtings, Bath Towels, returned to Mrs. Daugherty.the Board of Directors for the after Monday 23rd. April, 1923 Kingaclare.

year ended the 31st December All broken, chafed and damaged 1923. and confirming the packages will be landed into the appointment of the Directors and Company's Godown, where same the Auditors.

will be examined on Monday: The Transfer Books of the 23rd. April, 1923. at 11 a.. Company will be closed from, No claims will be recognised Thursday the 26th. April, 1923, after goods have left the steamer until Saturday, the 28th. April, or Godown, and none will be 1923, both days inclusive.

entertained if presented later than three weeks after arrival DÍ steamer.

THE HONGKONG · ELECTRIC 00., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Thirty-fourth Ordinary General Meeting will be held at the Company's Offices. St. George's Building, on Saturday, 21st April 1923, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together 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.

By order of the Board of

Directors,

GIBB. LIVINGSTON

& Co. Ltd.

Agents,

Hongkong 4th. April 1923.

NOTICE.

www.

WILL FOREIGN

COM. MERCIAL TRAVELL-)

Į

ERS seeking trade connections, "

!!

By Order of the Board,

WALTER J, HAWKER,

Secretary, Hongkong, 16th. April, 1923.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY

CO., LTD.

THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION CO., LTD.

No fire insurance whatever will be effected.

Y. TSUTSUMI; Manager. Hongkong, 31st. March, 1923.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES AMERICAN & ORIENTAL -LINE.

From NEW YORK The Steamship,

LUCERIC"

Huckaback Towels, Long Cloths, Blankets, Mohair and Reversible Rugs, Curtains, etc., etc, etc. Hongkong, 10th April, 1923.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

MES

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

NOTICE.

EMBERS and subscribers are informed that there will be NO DANCE on Thursday.

the 19th. inst., at the U. 2. R. Club, Kowloon, 4.5 stated beretofore.

J. E. CHIPPINDALL,

Capt. B. E... Hon. Secretary.

NOTICE.

ME. Leslie Solbe Greenhill

Resuried charge of the Having arrived, Consignees of above Companies with effect Cargo are informed that all Goods HONGKONG ENGINEERING & are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-

¡CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD. hazardous Godowns of the Hong-

from the 16th. instant.

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THE HONGKONG, JOCKEY CLUB.

4.

kong and Kowloon Wharf, and MR. Frederick James Godown Co.

Easterbrook has been Limited, whence delivery may beobtained appointed Acting Secretary of No claims will be admitted the above Company, as from the after the goods have left the 15th April, 1923,

By Order of the Board,

samples and information, kindly, "THE Second Gymkhana is godowns, and all goods remaining communicate with P.O. Box 643.

fixed for Saturday, May undelivered after the 21st. inst. 5th., 1923 Draft programmes and will be subject to rent. Entry forms may be obtained at All claims against the steamer the Race Course, Hongkong Club must be presented to the Under- and Causeway Bay Stables.

signed од ог before 28th. April, 1923, or they will not be recognised.

THE HONGKONG HIDE & LEATHER CO., LTD.

Entries close on Saturday, 21st

NOTCE is hereby given that April 1923.

the First Ordinary General

Meeting will be beld at the Com-

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowne where they will be!

any's Office, 67/69 Des Voeur MARINE EX¡GNEERS' GUILD examined on the 21st. inst., at

Road Central on Monday, 30th. April, 1923, at 12 noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Auditors together with & Statement of Account to 31st December 1922, and electing Directors and Auditors.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 23re to the 30th. April 1923, both daya inclusive.

By Order of the Board.

E. PEPPERELL,

Acting Secretary

OF CHINA.

Hongkong Branch.

THE Regular Monthly Meet

ing will be held at the Guild Office, Sailors' Home, West Point, on Wednesday, 20th, April at5 o'clock, p.m.

Important Business, circular No. HELK. 3/23...

9.30a.m.

No. Fire Insurance has beer effected..

Bills of Lading will be counter THE BANK LINE, LIMITED signed by

* Osneral Agents. Hongkong, 16th. April, 1923.

48 por

BAT CUANO King of Fertiliser

W. J. STOKES, Branch Secretary.

THE SCHWEPPE'S SMILE

SCHWEPAL'S LEMON SQUASH IS MADE FROM

SPECIALLY HALFOTED LEMONS.

PROM ALL HIGH CLASS STORES.

(COOPER

390

By applying Guano, you will have an early and rich orop. And will beautify your garden. EASTERN ARGRICULTURAL

FERTILISER CO.

95, Jervois Bt. 3rd floor,

Hongkong.

C. P. CHATER,

Chairman.

NOTICE.

HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST CO., LTD.

MR. James Shafto Agassiz has been appointed Secretary

of the above Company as from the 15th, April, 1923.

By Order of the Board,

J. SCOTT HARSTON,

Chairman.

~ NOTICE..

THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LTD.

If

At 2.30 p.m.

1A, D'Agulia: 81. Phone 2932

CITY HALL

TUESDAY, 17th. April, at 2.30 p.m.

MAY MUKLE

The World's Great Cellint. Assisted by

Fraz! Ezog, who played the part of the Penitent Thief in the Passion Flay last year, has sent authentic information about the part which America is to play in reviving the industry of Oberam- mergen. It appears that two Ame- REBECCA CLARKE (Violin.)rican Dollar Milliarder" who GERTRUDE WATSON (Piano) saw the performance'in Jane re-

Tickets $3; each.

At

THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD. 2, Queen's Bldg., Ice House St (Tel. 1322.)

HOUSING COMMISSION. THE Undersigned would be glad to receive in writing on or before the 20th. inst. sugges tions from members of the

general public in regard to 1-(1) The standardization (with the object of reducing the cost of buildings) of

(a) designs for houses. (b) fixtures and fittings for

bonses. (2) The reduction of the cost

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

materials.

GETTING TO KNOW THINGS.

move

Imperial Tours For Civil Servants.

turned to the village in January and suggested to the almost bankrupt players that they should Dake things for a great exhibition to be held in New York in

"Please take it from me, when December next. Representatives nation which aspires to carry- of various crafte met and agreed out responsibilities treate them on to set to work at once, the basis of dollars and pente, and American visitors promising to of selling the affection and love finance them. In the autumn of our fellow citizens for the asks three men from each trade will of dollars and cents, it is time to convey the goods to New York. put the shutters, up.” -

"This statement regarding the absurd proposals that the British The 47-ball carillion which is to West Indies should be sacrificed form Leughborough's war memor was, says the West India Com ial is all but the biggest in the mittee Circular, made by the world, being exceeded only by Right Hon. Edward Wood in the those at Bruges and Great, which course of the "Cust" Iscture Bach contains 48 bells. Of last which be delivered at Notting years many fine carillions have been erected in various parts of personal loyalty shown by the ham recently. Emphasising the England, one of the most interest West Indians to the King, Mr. ing of which is in the tower of the Wood declared that it would be church of Cattistock. Dorsetshire. very bad day for the British

his consists of 38 bells, and is Empire if we

were ever so

a duplicate of one of Louvain's ill-advised as to think we (4) The greater employment of two carillons, and made by the could ran the Empire with

labour-saving machines or same Belgian firm of ball makers out

Monarchy, The Duke devices

because of Westminster's

we could not. When he thought (5) Improved methods for the Cheshire seat, Eston Hall, pos of the gratitude shown In the transportation of building sesses one of 28 belle, there is West Indies to England for the one 22 bella at Bournville, and Stay in which she had done her Aberdeen, job, he could hardly speak

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materials. (6) Procuring an increased Nicholas

supply of skilled labourers,

(7) Reducing the number of

middlemen.

tion.

Chorch. boasts a 36-bell carillon...

patiently of the plea made through the newspapers, by

It is predicted that 1923 will be a people who ought to know better. (8) Other methods for reducing record travelling year for Ameri- that we should sell the West the cost of house construc- cans. The cost of transportation Indies to redeem our American 2-Measures which should be purchasing power of the American

has increased two-thirds, but the debt.

Summing up the Impressions taken by the Government for dollar abroad has more than which he formed on his tourin promoting any of the above doubled, TES: stories which 1921-22, Mr. Wood said he came objecta.

Americans have taken back to back from the West Indies 3. Measures which should be baraback to feeling it was of prime taken by the Government be had on the Continent, bare importance to use every means of (1) To increase the quantity of bed the effect of stimulating establishing direct personal housing accommodation, and travellers to make early plans for touch between the Colonial Offies in particular

| holiday making in Europe. In and those outside places,, and be To facilitate the building of 1922, something like 200,000 believed it would pay this country more honies for occupation by people came to Europe, and over and over again to insist upon

() Parsons of moderates it is reckoned that each toŭrist regular visits by people

spent, on the – sretage," 1,000 ible for administration, and that (H) The working classes. - | dollars, or a total of 200,000,000 one condition of civil service.

H. E. POLLOCK, Lollars- An American – express try-should-he-the- Chairman, Housing Commission, company official estimates: the Year or twa 'on the cin Princes Buildings,

this will be fanzemead this year of the "Empire bei

administer in the

MR. Thomas Andrew Barry

has been appointed As(2) sistant General Manager of the above Company as from the 11th April, 1923. ***

By Order of the Board,

J. SCOTT HARSTON,

Chairman. Hongkong, 12th April, 1923.

MOLDS,

9th. April., 1923.

by 20 per cent