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INTIMATIONS
CHINA EXPORT-IMPORT AND BANK COMPAGNIE.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that any persons or firms having claims against the Hongkong Branch of the CHINA EXPORT-IMPORT AND FLINK COMPAGNIE are required to file sama with the Liquidators on or. before 31st October, 1918, after which date no claim will be recognized.
BRADLEY & Co., LTD.
Liquidators
Hongkong, Oct. 1916
COMIC
6489.
"REGAL"
foss
INTIMATIONS
OUR DAY".
EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction, of Public Business on THURSDAY the 10th instant at 1 p.in.
·Hongkong, Oct 15, 1918.
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THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER, COMPANY, LIMITED.
ORDINARY THE FIFTEENTH
ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be beld at the Office of the Company,
7. St. George's Building, No. Connaught Road, Victoria on SATURDAY the 21st day of October, 1918, at 11.30 AM. Accounts and
the Report Managers for the year ending 31st July, 1916
4
Statement of
THE CHINA MAI..
INTIMATIONS
YOUR BYES
SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL,
..
At the first "symptom
THE COLONIAL BUDGET.
FULL TEXT OF THE GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT.
of
purpose of receiving of the General of eye strain you "should and liabilities of the Colony at the dix HILA
RECORDS.mittee and Auditors.
Mary MacLean
Mary, Mag Indon
Rexlerick McKenzie
490 The Heather Hill O'ban
6491
6434
6493
Jess From Inverness Mary McIntyre
We All Go Pavading in Tartare You're Always Welcome There
(MacGregor's Trip to Londor:
Where Tell Me Where
THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.
e. Des Voeux Road. TEL 1322.
PATELL & CO. Importers--Exporters
AND
Commission Agents
HONGKONG.
Branches
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. YOKOHAMA, JAPANË BOMBAY, INDIA:
China :-
HANKOW
SHANGHAI:
GANTON,
JAPANESE MAKERS
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
TO
ORDER
ULA. and electing & Consulting Con- consult The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from 18th to 21st of October, 1918, both days inclusive..
SHEWAY, TOMES & CO.
General Managers. Flongkong, Oct. 8, 1010
1108
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
NOTHING CAN EXCEL
+ " OUR
DAISY BRAND
..
BUTTER.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST NEW ZEALAND TABLE BUTTER. Sole: Agents
THE DAIRY FARSÍ CO., LTD.
Isay
KEATINGS LOZENGES
cure the worst Cough.
66.
SILIMPOPON (SEEATTIK)
COAL
THE Undersigned having been appointed
AGKs for the COWI HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quote prices fr best quality SILIMP PON COAL trimm jeb Bunkere at SEBAT- TIE SANDAKAN (British-North Borned
SILIMPOPON COL compares favour. ably with the better grades of Japanese. Coal and gives good results on a very moderate consumption.
Steamers calling at SRBATTIE or.. SANDSKSN exclusively for SILIMPO PON COAL (either virgn or Bankers) | are
of all Port exempt from payment charges.
F
:
The full statement made by E. Legislature, and the Secretariat for Chiness Affairs. The staff of the the Governor at the Legislative
Colonial Secretariat has been streng Council yesterday, in laying the thered by the creation of a new Estimated for the ensuing your before 2nd Grade Clerical post the need for the Council, was as follows m which is explained in Appendix III.
The but as no new Cadets will be Honourable Members Legislative Council, I think that appointed there is a considerable saving under Personal Emoluments. you will agree that the financial Small increases are shown in the position disclosed by the Estimates Audit Department and the Treasury before you must be regarded as due to the creation of new clerical) eminently satisfactory. The assets posts which are explained in Appen-
In the Harbour Master's Deport- | and of the year 1915 were presented ment Personal Emolumenta pro We test is a new form and as has been vision has been made for the Bri eyes scientifically and fit already pointed out they are now on Grids Clerks in place of poet glasses to individual re-a cash basis. The result of abandon Grade Clark. One of these clerks is ing the proposed loan of £250,000 required to keep the accounts of the Government buoys. In the Mercan. quirements.
which had appeared as an asset and tile Marine Office the post of Euro debiting the general account with all peal Constable has been abolished expenditure over and shove that making a saving of $1,971. The derived from the actual cash order to meet the higher cost. Under votes for coal, have been increased in ments received on accouns of the
Lighthouses and Lights it has been the Wushang Leon resulted
possible to make a saving owing to expenditure for the year 1815-reach- the installation of Aga Lights at Cape of Collinson and Ma Wan. The posts ing the $15,148,268 However, notwith of two Lighthouse-keepers have been standing this drastic but sound holders. On the other hand provi method of dealing with the situation,sion has been made for house allow the balance of liabilities over assets ances to two married Lighthouse on the 31st December, 1915, was only keepers amounting to $1,050, while $452,337 During the first alx the sum required for lodging allow- months of the current year theses while in Hongkong has been
reduced from 8540 to $169. rope receipts were satisfactory The work in the Department of and the deficit of $452,687 was on Imports and Exports, has increased the 30th June last converted into a to a large extent owing to the varicus credit balance of $544,205 It is War measures in force especially estimated that the balance of assets the Importation and Exportation oyer liabilities as the end of the year Ordinance and to the imposition of For some will be $1,000,643. The revenue for the tax on tobacco.
RK & Co. SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS **RK BLDGS: CHATER RD
HONGKONG"
HONGKONG & MANILA
MITSUBISHI COSHIKWAISHA (Mitsubishi Co.) COAL DEPARTMENT.
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF
TAKASHIMA, OCHI MUTARE,
KISHIJAKE YOSHINOTANI,
HOJO, NAMAZUTA SAYO, KANADA," SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA BIBAI
OYUBARI COLLIERIES
AGENT FOR SAKITO COAL
Head Offico pa MARUNQUCHI, TOEY).
BRANCH OFFICES Nagasaki, Moji, Karatan, Wakamatas, Otaru, Murvran, Hakodate, Kobíó, Osaka, Kare, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Tauriga, Vladivostock, an
Hankow, Peking, London, New York, Shanghai, Eorgiong, Haiphong and Canton.
Calle "Address"IWASAKI Codes:-A1, A. B. C. 5th Ed. Western Union, and Bentley'a...
abhorreal
150,800. 1,170,000
abolished on the rotirement of the
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 19IE.
"LEADING THE WAY
CAPSTAN
MIXTURE
THE SKIFPER'S FAVORITE"
W. D. & H. 0. WILLS.
BRISTOL and LONDON.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD
WATCHMAKERS
JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansions.
for ADMIRALTY CHARTS
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,"
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers. High Class English Jewellery.
the current year is now expected to months the Superintendent has bad Agents amount to $13,274,000 or $1,564,980 the assistance of the Cadet. Officers, mbre thad, the original estimate. but it will be necessary in the near This excess is largely accounted for future to provide an adequate staff by estimated increases under the for this department, which is becom following heads
ing one of the most important in the service. Under Personal Emolu- Liquor duties............
menta" the principal increases are Opium Monopoly
the creation of temporary posts of Premia on new leases150,000
one Higher Grade Clerk and Efteen and by a yield of. $200,000 from the 5th Grade Clerks, and the permanent duty on tobacco. The expenditure posts of a 3rd Grade Interpreter and for 1916, which was originally a 5th Grade Clerk at the Opium estimated at $11,882,774 is now Factory On the other hand one expected to fall short of that figure post of Revenue Officer has been by 65,10This is more than abolished causing a saving of nearly accounted for by the reduced expendi- £3,000. Under Other Charges" # ture for loss on subsidiary coin small net reduction has been made When I addressed you last year I of $710. stated that there was some reason to In the Royal Observatory Vis hope that the reduced sum of proposed to incur special expenditure 8750,000 entered in the Estimates of $6,000 for ag. Installation for would be sufficient. It is probable receiving Time Signals by Wireless that owing to the high price of silver Telegraphy. A
which has diminished the loss ou sile Under Miscellaneous Services the of coine withdmwn from circulation following chenges should be noticed. the sum required will only be The contribution
on of $2,000 towards. It approximately $570,000.
is the maintenance of the Signal estimated on the other hand that Stations at the Penk® and Cape AGENCIES there will be an increase in the cost d'Aguilar is no longer required sines Woof maintaining the prisoners of war the erection of the Wireless Station
Te
At Sotaitik Steamers are herthed along. CHENKIANG: Mesara Gearing &
side the Company's wharf where there is s
minimum, death of 77 to 28 feet at low MANTRA Messrs Macondray
water Spring Tides,
Charts of Sibeko Bay (Sebattik Har-'
boar). Prices and all other information
concerning the Port can be hai un SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo CO application to the Agents.
# BRADLEY & CO, LTD.,
Agents Cowie Harbour Coal Company, Limited.
Fongkong, Dod 2, 1915,
1027.
L
GLASGOW. Messrs A. R. Brown, McFarlane & Co., Ltd.
For Particulara, apply to
B. KATO.
No. PEDDIE STERET
HÖGKONG.
and their families of about $97,000 at the latter place. 4 sum of 12,100
while their transport to Australia has has been entered under this head for already cost a sum of $183,000. I language, bonuses, and corresponding hope shortly to lay a statement on antries under various departments the subject before you
have been omitted. The amount. ESTIMATES OF REVENUE 1017 provided to meet the loss on sub- The estimated revenue for 1917 Bidiary coins has beat reduced from $18,243,000, which is $1,899,990 in $750,000 to $800,000. It is impos- excess of the approved revenue for sible to estimate at present with any 1914, but is actually $32,000 less approach to accuracy what sum will than the revised figures for the be required. It is impossible to pm- dict when the rehabilitation of these current year. As compared with the approved estimates for the current coins, will be completed and with Year the principal increases, of which Crawals from circulation cease. The sum entered must therefore, be explanations will be found in the looked upon as in the nature of a guess. Economies have been made
fcot notes, are as follows:
Carriages, chair, etc.,
Assessed Taxes
Licences
Fines
Liquer duties
CHERRY & 00.,
PEDDER STREET, Upporbe Hongkong Habel
Telephone No. 481.
Hongkong. March 20, 1914,
TANG YUK, DENTIST, successor to
the lsts SIEN TING,
14, D'AGUILAR STREET.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation free.
MARTIN'S
PAPIOLASTELL
SEKEPILIS. ”
MARTIN'S
EPILIS
HIMROD'S
: Ģīvas `Instant Relief
• No matter what your susplisfory": OFELGA MAY be astering wron—whether
ASTHMA, INFLUENZA, WANAL DATARRH, AP ORDINARY COUGH. -you will dad in this among remedy. a restorative power, that cấu • ning by,
240. TIANS
Oplum Monopoly': Tobacco duties
of emigrants
.
TAKE
LAWAKE OF:
5,000
$15,800
·5,000:
-17,000
160,000
1,000,000
400,000
Analyses, Government
Notifications
China Companies Fees Deeds Registration Fees for use of Govern-
ruent Buoys
40,000 0,200
82,000
Medical Examination
85,000
lodical Treatment: Sunday cargo-working, pernite
6,000
Water, excess supply.
and meter rents.. Postage
85,000
1,0,00 50,000 6,000
Goods, through the
8,000
Lands not leased
8,000
Leased lands Newy
Territories
6,000
20,000 $60,000
in the consumption of Electric Light and current, and it is hoped to effect a reduction of 82,000 under this bead. Owing to the high cost of materials it has been necessary to increase the vote for Stationery by. $7,500, although every effort is made to aconomise. The vote for telegmos has been entered at $25,000. It is hoped that owing to a new arrange ment by which the public are now
The Signature.
To distinguish the original and genuine Worcestershire Sauce from the many imitations, see that the signature of LEA & PERRINS appears in White across the Red
abel
bottle: on every
No other, sauce has such an exquisitely delicate flavour, or ́such a reputation among discriminating people in every part of the world.
Lea Perrins
WELLINGTON
KNIFE POLISH
charged för telegrams sent oir their WELLINGTON SILVERSMITHS
behalf this sum, which is much less than the amount which will be
expended this year All suffice. A saving of 810,00 anticipated in the cost of transport of Goverment ser vants due to the fact that fewer passages will be required for officers who come under the Free Pascago Schetne
(Eontinued on pase 8.)
BLACK LEAD SOAP FOR CLEANING
TPLATES
POLYBRILLIANT METAL POMADE NEVER BECOMES DRY & HARD LIKE OTHER METAL PASTES
JOHN OIKEY & SONS, LIMITED, "WELLINGTON *MILIA, LONDON,
THE FIRST CHINESE NEWSPAPER
EVER ISSUED UNDER
PURELY NATIVE DIRECTION.
The Chinese Mai
華字日報
Tax LisaDIES CHINNER POLITICAL AND
Commercial "Joukkiz,
Sortaxes, the Mowr. Bataanza ZLEGRAPHIC NEWS TROM NORTH OBINĄ"
ALL THE Hiltons LSTELLIONSUN STOE
$11.00 per Annum. deliver
Zongkr
FRENCH
LESSONS CURE FOR
G. MOUSSION.
15, Morrison Hill Rasā.
EUROPEAN AGENCY.
for all British and Continental goods including EN Books and st
SINGON & CO Coaching local traffic
AURO A.D. 1880.
FRON STEKI, METAL sûd HARD
WHOLESALE Ladente prARE MERGEANTS Wholesale WHE
and Retail Ironmongus." Pig Iron and Foundry Coke Importers Geber! Bhore- keepers and Shipokandlers Nom/85- and 37, Hira Loons Bezzez, (fad Street, wesh (of Contral Market) Telephone Na 515,
Hong September 4, 1915.
Boote Shoes Bod Leather Chemicals and Drugrats Simarles, China, Farthenware and GlaswwsTE, Oydiny Motor Cars and Accesorios Drapery, Millinery and Place Goods, Fay Geods and Perfumery.. Hardware Machinery and Metals;: Jewellery, Flate and Watcaus Photographic and Optics, Goods, Provisions and Oilmen's Stores,
vada Dacounts allowed!!
Sample CaseS
THE NEW FRENCH
THERAPION NO.41 THERAPION NO
ERAPION NI. 3
THERAPIO
A CURE.
Slaughter-houses Premin on new leases
$1,912,000
I should, however, explain that the increase of $40,000 under Chin Companies Fees is to a great extent counterbalanced by the lose C 882,840 under the head Companies Local, Registers Licences and the payment of 33,719 for the Registrat of Companies at Shanghai as shown 30 page 45,2
The Man Who Gets There
la the man who has blood—” real tich red blood and pleaty of it in his body
WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED: COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND
ronicos blood
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