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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NOTICE TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the bore Company will be held on FRIDAY, the 26th February, 1915, at 4 P.M., at No. 10, Canton Road, Bhanghai. GA
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
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'GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
MIDDLESBROUGH IMMING HAM, LONDON AND STRAITS
FROM
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AHE Stemmahip
during the Races.
A Bloud and Enclosure will be reserved for Members Wives and Families, Tickets for which are being sent out with the Members Ticket
All Tickets must be produced to gain admission,ke
Special sccommodation will be zererved as in recent year for Chinese Ladies and their female attendants in the Stand erected on the plot of ground next to the Lusitano Club Stand,
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Clerk of the Course, Hongkong, 17th February, 1915,
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HONGKONG JOCKEY OLUB.
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TASSES for Serrante will be lamed on application to the Undersigned on SATURDAY, the 20th February,
No Servante ed inside the ENCLOSURE of the Race Cares during the Bice Day WITHOUT TICKETS, which ena be had on application to the Undemigned, These Tickets are only available for Berrands
while in attendance on their employes or when en daty st the various Stands
GLENLOCHY," Captain E. E. Willams, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignos of Cargo are hereby Informed that their Goods are being handed their risk into the Godowar of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Cousigres T. F. HOUGH, risk and expenses.
Any Chinese fouad loitering aboat with Servante passes in their pos salon will forfeit them and the holder theroof will be removed from the Enclosure
All brokan, chafed and damaged Goeda azs be left in the Godowni, where they will he camined on ToRIDAY, 23rd laut., 10.
All Claims must be presented within PISTEEN DATS of the Steamer's Legival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. N
No Cidima will be admitted after the Goods bave left the Godowns, and all Goods ramsining undalivered after the 23rd lust, will be subject to rent,
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O Natal Goods are one had for the
No Claims will be admitted after the bave left the Godowns with Goods remaining undelivered after the 24th inst. il be subject to rent.
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of they will not be recognised
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No Fire Insurance has been effected. Billa of Lading will be counterugned by
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES FUND, BELGIAN RELIEF FUND, TOBACCO AND CIGARETTE FUNDS.
To sell by Public Auction
HE Undersigned have received instructions.
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), TO-DAY (THURSDAY),
the 18th February, 1918, at 3 P., at their Bales Booms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of BHAREHOLDERS' will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th February, 1915, at 11.30 A for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Director together with a Biate- ment of Account for the year ending 31st December, 1914SONEN
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 16th to the 38th February, 1918 (both days inclusive), during which period ao Tramfer of Shams can be effected.
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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation, will be held at the CITE HALZ. Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th day of February, 1915, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Director together with Statement of Accounts to Sist December, 1914, dan saya peranka je
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 8th February, to SATURDAT, the 20th February, 1915 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered
Order of the Court of Directors,
N. J. STARB,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 3rd February, 1815,
By
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD. THE 1 ANNUAL MEETING & SHARE
EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY
HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Bl. Georza's Building, No. 6 Connaught Road, on FRIDAY, the 26th February 1915, at 11.50 Am, fər the purpose of receiving Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the rear ending 31st December, 1914
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or seven months, however, the world has During the week onding February 13th, been supplied with abundant proof that six casos of enteric fever were reported the people who talk
tently of in the Colony-one British (imported) their love of "kultur" refer to something and the rest Chinese Three proved fatal. very different from what other uations Two cases of diphtheria occurred (Fortu- of Europe regard as culture." What
the possibilities oro of Germany being guess and Chinese), one being fatal. uble to succeed to any great extent in There was also a fatal Chinese imported the barbarous enterprise in which she has caso of plague.. threatened to embark it impossible for **The attention of our readers is directed us to judge. Mr. CRUROKILL has given to the sale by public nuction of a 40-hp- what is at once a warning to Germany and Lemoisine Car to be sold by Messrs an assurance to our own people that it Hughes & Hough at 3 p.m. to day at must not be supposed that becauso an their sales room. Full particulars spent
attack is extraordinary, a good defence
in our advertisement columns. The pro Cannot be made Germany cannot
The opening up Prince of Wales' Fund. be allowed to adopt a system of open eds of the sale are to be given to the piracy and murder while maintaining of roads in the New Territory, not to herself behind the bulwark of intern mention the extension of mads suitable tional instrumente which sho has utterly
for motor traffic on the Island, should ba repudiated and defied, and which wo,
an incentive to those interested to acquire much to our detriment, have respected.
a, practically new high-standard car. - There is in this a bint for Germany which there is no mistaking, and we need
A special performance of Spohr's not emphasise, the fact that the position oratorio, "The Last Judgment," is bring which the British Navy acquired in the got up by Mr. Denman Fuller in first days of the war and has sine so aid of the Prince of Wives successfully maintained, gives more force Fund. It will take ploce, with to the British warnings than German the consent of the Church Body, in throats can posibly carry. It is casy St. John's Cathedral on April 2nd (Good" to talk in the grand manner about a Friday), at 9.15 p.m. This work has not a great namÓ-- submarine war on commerce, but it has been given in Hongkong for a yet to be proved that Germany is able to ber of years, although a small part of it embark on such an enterpriss on any
was given in the Cathedral when the organ considerable scale. It is noteworthy that was reopened after rebuilding some four German submarines have not managed to years ago, and various solos and quartets sink a single British trasport, though we cannot doubt that they have made and from it have formed items of various continue to make great efforts to do so; organ recital programmes at one time they failed also in their incessant attempts and another. On Good Friday, the work to torpedo British warships employed in will be performed by a chorus of over one destroying German works on the Belgian hundred voices. All those who are helping coast, and if the British Navy has been are reminded that the first rehearsal takes able to frustrate these efforts, it may be place to day (Thursday), at 6.15 p.m., in
St. John's Cathedral. depended upon to ensure that the com- merce of the country shall not be brought to a standstill by anything that it is within the limited power of Germany to
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The following official announcement is made of the generous donations by Mr. Ho Tung referred to in our issue of Tues. day last
be seriously alarmed by German bravado, The fact that in the recent raid on Zebruggo and the neighbouring coast, no German submarines were sighted leads to the conclusion that the coast bus The great interest taken in the Univer-- been shelled so effectively as to destroy sity by enlightened Chinese has been Germany'a hope of establishing submarine further demonstrated by two generous bases in a position so advantageous for donations offered by Mr. Ho Tung. One
Apply to STEPHEN & WILLSON, A. S. WATSON & CO.. the piratical operations now in con of these is an immediate gift of $50,000 to
Solicitors for the Owner, Hongkong, Srd Fobrazy, 1915, [251
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BIRTH MACDONALD, On February 11th, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, the wife of DONALD MACDONALD, of a
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The Daily Press.
HOYOKONG, FEBUART 181 1015.
templation. Consequently the German the Endowment Fund, with the proviso submarines have to rely on a bass too that part of the income therefrom shall remote to be favourable to the success of be devoted to a Chair of Clinical Surgery the operations they have in view. Germany tenable at the Civil Hospital. The second apparently has very few ocean-going sub- gift, one of 85,000 yearly for ten years, marines so far as is known, indeed, she also benefits the Endowment Fund. The has only one submarice as yet with a range Council of the University has gladly of about two thousand miles. She is said to accepted both these offers, and has be building inore, but their usefulness appointed Mr. E. L. Martyn Lobb, M.E remains to be proved. The increased size F.R.C.S., first Ho Tung Professor of of a
à submarine has obvious disadvantages, Clinical Surgery. and in any case, it would require a very This striking recognition of the aims Large fleet of them to do vital harm to of the University recalls the large donar British commerce. On a small scale a tions made when its founders were submarine war un commerce has no more struggling Ito collect an adequate Endow- significance than the dropping of an ment Fund. Among the most important cocasional bomb in a town from an air- contributions were those from Mr. Luk ship. If Germany really does pursue Yau (recently made C.M.G), Mr. Cheung what Mr. CHURCHILL has called "a system Pat Sze, Mr. Cheang In Hin and the late of open piracy and murder, she must Mr. Ng Li Hing. The memory of the expect to be once more surprised by largest donation of all is perpetuated in counter-measures, not only the title of the Taikos Chair of Engineer- appropriate con by hor present adversaries but by others ing, and a well-known local gentleman bag FROM to-day, according to the recent who, if the recognised rules of warfare permitted his good deeds to be recorded official statement, Germany is to be gore observed, would gladly refrain from in that of the Ellis Kadoorie Chair of
The note of warning Physics, or rather resume, her war by mine sounded by the American Ambassador in and submarino against peaceful mer Berlin the other day and the Note chant shipping in Britsh waters. These "threats to extend her policy and practice of frightfulness!! are published apparently for the mere en
The Theatre Royal was again well filled pleasure of making our fesh creep, Germany talks of SOWIDE floating
last evening, when Messrs. Gonsalez Bros.'
mines broadcast on a gigantic scale
accomplished Company presented Caval British in the waters of the
During 1014, the loss on fres in Mauilu leria Rusticana and Pagliacci" Both iales, and at the same time of amounted to 120,000. sending flotillas of submarinos to sink our merchant shipping. It is, as Mr. CHURCHILL seid in his speech in the House of Commoni - on Tuesday, a kind of warfare never practised before by civilized States.
GERMAN PIRACY.
out
intervention.
addressed by Italy to Germany dearly indicate what are likely consequCTICES.
A mail for Europe wa Siberia closes to-day at 3 p.10.
Mr. Henry Humphreys returned to the Colony yesterday on the Shingo Maru, after a holiday at Home.
GRAND OPERA
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA” AND
PAGLIACCI,"
the stories which are enfolded so beauti fully are remembered by all genuine theatre-goers, and it need only be said that both were presented in a manner which would not have offended the most ardent and particular follower of grand opera. In Cavalleria Rusticana the chief parts were undertaken by Mlle. Turpallo to Hongkong on the Shingo Mary, which area (Lola) and A. Artino (Turiddu), arrived yesterday.
German submarines Dr. Wu Ting Fang, who has been to have already sunk some British mer- Manila to witness the Carnival, came over
everyone
many 8 part to treat still more interna-states that notwithstanding exckness in troupe noge value is wo
chant ships without search or parley; yet we have the German Government whining
both of whom were excellently supported. te America because it finalarab that
Throughout, Lascagnis exquisitely sad British merchantmen are taking measures
Messrs. Benjamin & Potte, sharebrokers, melodies were never allowed to lose their to protect themselves against this flagrant
inform us that the Oriental Consolidated intense expression, and the passionate violation of international law and
Mining Company has deoared another climaxes of disappointed love were per- practice. It is but another griovons No
TO. 1, NATHAN ROAD, Kowloon (No. 1, miscalculation if Germany imagiced interim dividend of G60.50 payable in formed in a manter, which appealed to
Fairview), from 181 February.
that no defence would be made to New York on the 9th January. "SHORNCLIFFE," Garden Road, to let these extraordinary methods of
The latest report on the Saigon rice In Pagliacci" M. Artino appeared as fornished (6 Rooms),
Canio, the Punchinello, master of the BOGATE, Austin Road, Kowloon, from attack This determination on Ger market, by Mesars, Wm. G. Hale & Co.,
was again most successful; ARGE OFFICES, prefembly facing 1st February 1015 N
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remarkably effective, being encored for his beautifully-rendered prologue. Mile anxiety and the grave VIEW
PEAR
Visoni filled the role of Nedda, in which suitable for Offoe, on the F Fins of the tasks which are before the Floor of No. 8, Daddell Street Britian Navy, for, 4
A trusted employe of the Toyo Kisen her vivacity, coupled with an entertain- CHURCHILL No BE THE PLAN 2 CAMERON sad of this warfare
only is it Kaisha at San Francisco-Georg Wing voice, could not have been utilised to VILLARNI Furnished
recedented, but it is also Jorgensen, zshier-was arrested last better advantage. The romance of the hings no one contemplated month on a charge of embezzling a sun tinsel and real life experiences of the poor econd charge brought players was vividly revealed, and the pro- No. 59, Tis PSAK (OCAMISONVILL8, before the wars indeed, it would have of over $7,000. Apply to -* -1INSTEAD
been universally reprobated and repudi- against him was8 CF falsifying the longed applause of the audience when the
curtain fell was thoroughly deserved. before the word”. During the last six Company
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