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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE MEXTING, 1917:
To-day (Wednesday) and Saturday (off-day), February 28th and 3rd March.
TICKETS of ADMISSION to the GRAND STAND and ENCLOSURE may be obtained frous Messrs. Kelty and WALSH LTD., or at the Gate. Price 810 for the footing foxcluding the Day), er #1 por day. Tickets for the Off Day, 83.
No ono admitted, without "Ticket, to ha abowa to the Ticket Inspector at the Gate,
"T. F. HOUGH, Clark or the Cour. Hoagkong, Feb. 23, 1917.
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HONGKONG 'JOCKEY CLUB,
THE STEWARDS request the plea
Ture of the presence of the LADIES at the GRAND STAND and the ENCLOSURE during the Races..
A Stand and Enclosure will be reserveć for Members and Members' Wives and Families Tickets for which are being sent out with the Members' Tickets.
All Tickets must be produced to gain "admission.
Special accommodation will be reserved as in recent years for Chinese Ladies and their Female attendsats, in the Stand arseted on the plot of ground next to the Lasitizo Clab Stand
T. F. HOUGH. Gerk of the Course. 23, 1917.
Hongkong Feb.
NOTICE.
A PROPOS of the above,
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are hereby notified that although
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HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
IT is hereby notified that there will be
NO OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS, during the three Rack Days, viz :—26th,
7th and 8th instant..
By Order of the Committee.
E. HANCOCK,
Acting Secretary.
Flangkong, Feb, 20, 1917.
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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
$
THE FINAL, DIVIDEND_declared for the Year ending 31st December, 1016 at the rate of TWO POUNDS THREE SHILLINGS Sterlings together BONUS of TEN SHILLINGS with per share. is payable on and after MONDAY the ssh day of February, Current at the Offices of the Corpor tion, whofe Shareholders are requested. to apply for Warrants.
By Order of the tours of Directors,
N. STABBR.
Chicy Manager.
Hingkong. Feb 24, 1917.
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OREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED & REDUCED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From THURSDAY, 1st March to SATURDAY, 31st March. 1917, both days inclusive.
The return of Capital of 82.50 per share will be paid to Shareholders an and after the 15th March, 1017, on presentation of Share Certificates for endorsement.
By Order of TEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Hongkong, Feb. 22, 1917.
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Membership of the JoKRY CLUB entitles THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU them to free wimission to the Enclosure and Stands during the Race FACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED.
Meeting, an offty is given t
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contribution to!
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The Free Prass" continues :— The Ontaria Coyerument has intro- dived provincial-wide prohibition by Demon Bum, says the "American Taras of legislative enactment. On Literary Digest." is fighting for his life September 16the last all hotel and whole.
na
(Mitsubishi Co.)
COAL DEPARTMENT.
SOLE PROPRIKTORS OF
in Canada to-day, and the Dominion basale licctises went gis of existence, but riped him by the throat with such force the legislation provides for a referendum
the question of reintroducing the TAKASHIMA. DURI MUTANE, ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE that his death seem to any Canadian, traffic, to be held in June. 1919.
KISHIDARE YOSHINOTANI. THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY HOLDERS in the above Company will editors to be laevitable. During the year
The last citude of the traffic in the HOJO, NAMAZUTA SAYO, KA NADA, be held at St. George's Buildings 1015 a great prohibition wave has swept maritinis provinces, namely, the city of|
SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI Charter Rond, Vietorin e SATURDAT Canada from wist te rast and has Halifax, fell to the temperace forces lost! the 19th March, 1917 at 11.30 o'clock in
&OYUBARI COLLIERIES the forenour for the purpose of receiving leapt on by the neighbouring colony of
Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year Newfoundland. In reviewing this aspect, 1527 ending 1s: December, 1918 and electing the year's work, the Winaifex
Manindia Free Press writes
the War Charities by also purchasing Admission Ticket at the Gate Book will be in the care of the Gute Keeper in which Marbers are asked to record any such purchases.
T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, Feb. 23, 1917
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
DASSES for Servants will be issued on
appliostion to the Undersigner on SATURDAY, the 24th instant.
No Servant will be allowed inside the ENCLOSURE of the Race CONTRO diring the Race Days WITHOUT TICKETS, which can be had on pplicati to the Undersigned. These Tickets are. only available for Servants while in attendance on their employers or when on. duty at the varithis Stand-
Any Chinese frend 1itering shout with Bervants' panes in, their exon will
'forfeit them and the holders thor-fore will
be removed from the Enclosure...
T. F. HOUGH,
Flerk of the Costa.
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Hongkong, Feb. 23, 197
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
NOTICE is bereannience on MONDAY, July 9th, 1915.
TOTICE is herche given that these
Arrangements will be made to holl the Examination, at any town where
Consulting Committee did Auditors. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 5th March, 191, until SATURDAY, the 10th March, 1917, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers. Hongkong, Feb. 20, 1917.
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The unvement has blazed across Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ke a prairie-fire. Raving onk one or two cases, which at any moment may be visited by the cleansing élément,
fall.
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"One must not forget to mention that on the Ifth of this month representatives | of the temperance argesizations of all the provinces conferred with the Domin- on Government at Ottawa and asked for Federal legislation to sepplement the measures taken by the prvingin legislac tutes against the liquor.trafic. Spesie ally the delegation asked for Poleral" prohibition of the manufasbugs ot, importativa into Canada of intoxicating lighter as a beverage, or, no no alternative, that referemtur be taken next June
Eacional prohibition
Saskatchewan blazed the traile in 1913. In the summer of that year the Government closed every bar in the pro- Exite and took over itself the wholesale on
ture, greatly reducing their number. meure."" It was originally provided that a referen-
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Britain's, oldest colony went on the dam on the dispensary, or whitsale-store | Water-wagon on the first of January, says system, should be taken in 1919. But the Fondon. Outario, the system did act passes vitality enough which proceeds :-- to survive more thair a year and a half! "At midnight the whole island of At the municipal elections, of last year Newtonnilland went dry." A prohibition several of her were voted - fat, faut, becoming effective, stops the importa existence, and so strong was the temper- tion, manufacture, or sale of intoxicating ance sentiment in the province that the „Government, decided to bring is the referendum in 1916 instead of three years later. The result was that on December 11th lust, the remaining care ofdia pensaries wers out of existence by a vote
of seven to one.
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Manitoba carne next. The citizens of the province, by a vote of two to one, decided that they could get along better without liquor licenses of any kind. The
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themselves Candidates who wish to be examined at any other place thin].. Hongkong or Shanghai must apply to the Registrar on or before April 2nd, 1017..
Forms of entry and all particulars on be obtained on application to the REGISTRAR THE UNIVERSITY, HONGKOVO.
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The entry form, duly in, cust reach the Registrar, together with the
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or before-May 2nd, 1917.
The following Scholarships and Prizes will be awarded on the results of the Matriculation Examination, provided that candidates of sufficient merit offer themselves.
The King Edward VII Scholarships of £40 a year each, for five years, tenable in any Osculty. A candidate for these scholarships must be under the age of 21" on July 1st and must before the first day of the examination, submit to the Registrar proof that he is,
British
(b) One President's Scholarship of four hundred dollara (Peking urrency) for five years, tenable in any Faculty. A candidate for this Scholarship must be under the age of 21 years on July Jat and must before the first day of the examination submit to the Registrar proof that he is the son of Chinese parents; that he was not born in any British Possession or Protectorate; that
he
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THE ARTS OF WAR..
had a seat, previously, voted out the EVOLUTION OF WAR EQUIPMENTS.
liquor traffic by a large majority.""
En British Columbia, says the Winni per paper," the movement was attended by one unique feature:-
Interesting notes on the evolution of
war equipments sines August 1914 are
"A referendum on prohibition was supplied by Me Henry Wood, the United taken in the coast province last Septem-Presa correspondent with the French ber and carried by what seemed safe Army. majority. Bowever, a provision for "s soldiers' vote wan attached to referendum, end, extraordinary is this may appear, the votig has been proceed iry among the British-Colombis soldiers ever since."
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Hongkong September 6, 1915.
Breathed A.D. 1986. Germany, it is now clear, has been the unable tomaintain her former superiority
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Wholesale WARE MERCHANTS. vention, and has had to adopt newer and more effective means of warfare and Retail Ironmongers, Pig Iron and koopers and Shipchandiers Nos. 35 and developed by her enemies since the be- Foundry Joke Importers. General Store- ginning of the struggle
87, Hora LooNG ÉTEKET, (2nd Street, wost All France admits that 30 months ago of mural Market) Telephone No. 515. Since The Free Prese."
wrote the Germany rather led the world in military returns have come in, and the soldiers in progress and invention. She had been their wet trenches have voted "dry" by quick to equip her legions with every a substantial majority. In Quebec, where new device, such as neutral coloured uniforms. She began the war with an 85 per cent of the municipalities were
uncontested superiority of equipment; under local option,, a modified form of material and methods. Now she is A list of prohibition, patterned on the Gothenburg copying ber antagonists, plan, has been introduced," a caure devices which she has borrowed, or stolen or tried to adapt from the French has been compiled and authentically established.
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In light artillery the Germany have so far failed to match the French, who originated, developed and perfected the the most barrage fire which is now one of elective weapons being employed in the present war. The enemy can even yet use this method only as far as his in- forior light artillery will permit
which
The French were the first to equip their deadly • "70" abells with a prolonged ncas and delayed fuse, preventa the shell from exploding until it has. entered deep into the ground. The Ger- mana since July lart have substituted all of their amiversal shells filled with ex-
06 and':
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type
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artillery also dis- French light
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a
dy
This, too, is
being copied by the Germeating precisely
The French secret of locating
br the sound waYOR battery, by an om its discharge is said to have coming from been since found out by the Germans.
In July 1916 France adopted the steel belmet that has reduced the head wounds in her arm 15 per cent Since then the rest of the Allied armies, as well as the enemies, have adopted their protection:
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