NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
WANTED IMMEDIATELY:
AOOD POINTER ∞ AIRDALE DOG
PUBLIC COMPANIES
KROEWOEK JAVA PLANTATIONS, LIMTED.
G or Fair. Fall grown preferred. ReplyOT FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL
stating price tom
"DOG LOYER."
Caro of “Daily Proés” Oleo. Hongkong, 12th March, 1915, ₤380*
G.
NOTICE.
R.
THE HONGKONG DAILY, FREES, FRIDAY, MARCH 18ra, 1915.
NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at No. 10, Canton Road, Shanghal, on MONDAY, the 15th March, 1915, at 4 P.M. KAMA M
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from the 10th to the 16th Marah, both das inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. A. WATTIE & Co., LTD Becretaries and Goneral Managers.
379.
JAVA CONSOLIDATED RUBBER AND COFFEE ESTATES, LTD.
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET
OS on First Floor of Baropean House,
No. 178, Queen's Boad East, Wanchai,
from 1st April, 1910,
INTIMATION
TWO VERY LARGE and SPACIOUS A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
GODOWNS, Maring Lot No. 42, Prys East, Immediate possession.
Apply
N. MODY & Co., No. 34, Queen's Road Central; Hongkong, 8th March, 1915.
[372
TO LET.
UARNDON, 15, PRIX.
FURNISHED, from 1st April Moderate Rontal 2 minutos from Tram
Apply to
G. TISDALE,
Hongkong, 6th March, 1915.
ANE BUROPEAN daring to love the
Colony should apply in writing for por mission to do so to the PROVOST MARSHAL, Head Quarters Offices, at least, 48 hours before the intanded hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, height, complexion and occupation of the applicant, and stating the name of the steamer or other vessel or the hour of the train by which the applicant. wishes to loare. Applicants should apply in person for their passos to the PROVOST MARSHAL at Heat Quarters Office between the hours of 10 At.The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company DOWN, No. 94, Fraya East.
and 4 1.10.
Hongkong 20th January, 1915,
R
NOTICE.
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LL Persons applying to the PROVOST MARSHAL for Passes are requested in future to apply between the hours of 8 AM, to 1 P.M. and 2 to 4 P.M. daily,
Honghong, 18th February, 1915.
G.
R.
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7ITH reference to Government Notifica
tion No. 445 of 1014, owners of Property are hereby informed that Notice of any oppozla against the adoption of the existing Valuation for the assessment year 1915-1916 should be lodged with the Registrar of the Supreme Court within 21 days from the date of this Gazette, as required under Section 16 of the Rating Ordinance, No. 6 of 1901.
A. M. THOMSON,
Treasurer. Hongkong, 6th March, 1915
G.
1915-16.
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EALED TENDERS in Daplicate will be resefred at the R.N. Hospital until 10 M. ou the 22nd March, 1015, from persons desirous of Supplying Basr, Murron, Fowis, Pork, BREAD, CREESE, PURE COW'S MILK, AERATED WATER, ICE, and other Provisions, and necessaries for the year ending 31st March,
1916.
Sealed Tenders in Duplicate will also be recalved for Coat. (Akaike and Yubari), a
Printed Forma of Tender and further parti- culars éan be obtained at the RN, Hospital,
The right to reject the lowest or any Tender in reserved.
DONALD T, HOSKYN, Surgeon General, R.N. Hospital,
Hongkong, 11th March, 1915.
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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held on WEDNES DAY, the 17th of March, 1915, at No. 10, Canton Road, Shanghai, at 4 PM
TO LET.
Kingdom amounted to £80,511,000, while the exports of British produce to Germany amounted to £40,696,000.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L Leask, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. S. Forsyth, and Mr. M. J. In Breen were among the passengers who
the light of these figures, can any sane left yesterday by the Pacilo Mail liner person believe that England would go Korea.
to war with the deliberate purpose of
destroying, not only that huge trade, but
Probate has been granted of the will of also the large and annually increasing Mr. John Androw Maitland, of 2%, York- commerce between the British Oversea terrace, NW, 65, Old Broad-street, and Dominions and Germany? Such a notion Little Friston, near Eastbourne, who died
on September 17th, leaving £220,136... is too fatuous to be entertained, by any "intelligent person for a single moment. Tha "deferred telegram system, at
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Another statement in that precious com half rates, has just been introduced munication is that "the English make between Hongkong and Manila, Ticilo and use of the dirtiest methods to obtain Cebu (in plain English or Frensh) and German trade for themselves [and] to with other places in the Philippines (în effect this they have expelled all Germane
BRANDY.
af above address.
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A. SUPERIOR FALE...$80.40
Per Case
of 1 dus. Bot.
$2,85
Per
B. SUPERIOR COGNAC
COLD
33.70
will be CLOSED from the 13th to the 17th March, 1915, both days Inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
WATSON'S
XXX
Apply
J. A. WATTIE & Co. Ito.. Secretaries and General Managers,
[385
KWONG SANG HONG, LTD.,
No. 248, Dos Vœux Road Central. Hongkong, 18th February, 1915. [305
TO LET.
COGNAC ...
84.60
WATSON'S
XXX
COGNAC Half bottles 2. des
87.00
THE
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE E GROUND FLOOR of No. 6, DEBO SUPERIOR OLD
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE FORTY - SIXTH ORDINARY
· MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at 12.30 P.M. on THURSDAY, the 18th March; 1015
YEUX ROAD CENTRAL, cooupled by Madame Guns, etc.
Apply to
TO LET—AT THE PEAK.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company Fox AM A BRA
will be CLOSED from the 4th to the 18th, March, 1915, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Managera, HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915.
[353
CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY
STEWART TERRACE,
Apply
THE POLLOCK,
Prince's Bailding. Hengkong, 20th January, 1915. ⠀
TO LET
LIQUEUR COGNAO, Gold Capsule
9.00
A Japanese telegram published in Shanghai states that the fugitive rebels undor Ho Haiming in. Tokyo, after swearing before the Chinese Minister loyalty to President Tuan. Shih-kai, and
from Hongkong and confiscated all pri. plain English only) at reduced rates. vate property." We are aware that all
Mr. J. E. Bingham, liquidator of the Germans have been expelled from Hong Siak Indrapoera Rubber Concessions, kang, but we did not know until we read Ltd., has received a telegram to the effcst: this diatribe that all their private that the case of Dr. Nijhuis against the 2.00 property had been confiscated. Ens Sink Company has been dismissed in our German friend, we wonder, stopped London The telegram adds that Dr.: to consider what would have happened to Nijhuis will probably appeal. Englishmen and their property had Hong- kong been a German Colony, and had Germany been strong enough to hold it 1.60 Or, ngain, did he stop to ask himself what the German Government's attitude has been towards Englishmen and their 3.45 property in Germany since the outbreak after getting their travelling expenses,
of warl Have British merchants been left Tokyo for China at the end of remain in February. This is in connection with the graciously permitted te Germany and to carry on their trade policy of the Chinese Government fo There is no need to discuss further the isolate Dr. Sun Yat-sen, justification for expelling German merchants from a British Colony and putting a stop to their trade-so obviously Japanesa have volunteered for service is it a measure which any Government with the Russian Army, 460 of them in ruay be expected to take against enemy
South Manchuria, and the remainder at aliens. We are more interested in the Teingtau, in response to an appeal made allegation that the British are employing by the Rioto Shimpo. Five hundred other dirty methods to capture German Japanesa in North Manchuria and trade. We are not informed precisely Vladivostock are ready to go to the front, what these methods are excepting that pending instructions from the Russian German traders have been expelled from military commander at Harbin Hongkong--and it is not clear to us how.
ANOTHER TIGER? the writer reconciles his general allega tion with his own subsequent statement A Chinese living in the Lou Pak Tan that "a typically English portion of co-district-where the tiger was killed-has merce, Manchester goods, rest in German bien sout to the Government Civil Hos hands, and even the English banks are pital suffering from injuries alleged to quite prepared to undertake again the have been received from a tiger which financing of business for the Germans, mauled him. Another Chinese, who despite any edicts which the KING of states that he also was mauled by the
40.30
"DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 10th February, 1915, [29
D. VERY FINE OLD PALE LIQUEUR COGNAC
46.00
4.00
BOUTELLEAU'S
CHAMPAGNE. LIQUEUE..... 12,40
*E FINEST OLD BROWN BRANDY...
4.55
63.60
4.55
Kowicon.
A HOUSE in
APE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCE Co. LTD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915,
Knutsford Terrace,
MARIE BRIZARD and ROGER'S FINE PALE COGNAC ... 31,50
[40
S. V. F. V. O. COGNAC 79,70
V. O. L, 60 Years Old 119.30
UNITED VINEYARD PROPRIETORS, 76- Years Old.
2.05
-6.65
9.35
TANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE. HOLDERS of the above Company will Go
be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Podder'a Street, on WEDNESDAY, the 24th March, at Noon, for the purpos of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1914. **
The TRANSFEE BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to 24th Morch, both days inclusive, Anjani
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
General Agents, Hongkong, 4th March, 1015. -
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LUZON SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE.
(993 ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND
SHIPBUILDERS, HONGKONG. THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
will be held at the Institute, King's Buildings TO-DAY (FRIDAY), the 12th March, 1918, at 9 P.M.
BUSINESS: 1-To Receive from the Committee, the Robert and Accounts for the year ending 318 December, 1914. 2.-To elect a President, two Vico-Presidents, Hon. Treasurer, Hon, Librarian, and Committee of Management for the ensuing year. 3-Any other business which may transpire.
J. S. CHAPMAN, Becretary.
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Hongkong, 11th March, 1915.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONGKONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
IN THE MATTER of the Estate of TONG TAI WAN, iste of Hankow, in the Eepablic of Chins, deceased.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Coart has, by virtue of Section 58 of The Probates Ordinance, 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), made an Order limiting the time for sending. in Claims to or against the above „Estate to the 29th March, 1915,
Creditors and Claimants are hereby required
to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the above date.
G. A. HASTINGS,
Administrator, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong
TR04
NOTICE
AN OPERETTA
ENTITLED THE ';
ENCHANTED GLEN
will be Performed by the Fupils of the FRENCH CONVENT. CHILDREN'S MATINEE : WEDNESDAY, 17TH MARCH, AT A P.M., FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 19TH AND 20TH, AT 8 PM,
Армцваток:
Adults $1,00. Children: 30 Cant
The Proceeds will be Devoted to the Relief of War Victime,
Lady MAY has kindly consented to distribute the Oxford Cortistates on the 19th,
Hongkong, 5th Marsh, 1915.
THE THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY
HOLDERS of the shave Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, „Pedder's Street, on WEDNESDAY, the 24th Marsh, at 19.16 PL for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1914.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOBED from the 11th to 24th March, both daya inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Agents, Hongkong, 4th March, 1915,
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THE CHINA TIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY LIMITED.
TO LET. From 1st March,
ODOWN, No. 6, Daddell Street.
"Apply---
A. B. AVASIA,
Qars of E. PABANEY,
No. 1, Daddell Street. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1915, FRAS
TO LET
TO. 168, THE PRAL, "THE KENNELS,
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. HMENT & AGENCY Co., "Erro, Hongkong, 1st March, 1915,
154
TO LET FURNISHED, BISHOP'S LODGE NORTH, No. 12, THE
From 1st May next.
For further particulars, apply to--
PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra Buildings, 3rd Floor. Hongkong, 30th January, 1915, 1920
QUEEN'S BUILDING.
O LET, the South-West portion of the FIRST FLOOR, inleding Treasury
German Bank. on Ground Floor, lately in cesupsilon of the
GODOWN, No. §, Ice House Street, Apply 10
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- KENT & AGENCY CO., LTD, Hongkong, Let March, 1915.
TO LET
حسن
195
LATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon. PENYRHEW. Minden Row, Kowloon, (FINE FORTY-SIXTH MEETING of Roomed House with Tennis Court, BED TSHAREHOLDERS the Company
1 and 2 MINDEN VILLAB, Kowloon, will be held of the Company's Office, No. 3,5-Roomed House with Tennis Court. Queen's Road Central, Victoris, on THURS-
DAY, 26th March, 1915, at 120 clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1914. AKU
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will: be CLOSED from the 12th to the 25th Maroh, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
0: PEMBERTON,..
Becretary. Hongkong, 4th Marsh, 1915.
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GULA” KALUMFONG RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., Lad Alexandra Balldings, Hongkong, 4th March, 1915,
[280
TO LET.
157.50
13.15
These Brandies bottled by ourselves are guaranteed Grape Spirit and of Pot Still Distillation.
It is reported from Dairen that 072.
A.S. WATSON & CO.. England may scatter throughout the animal, has refused to go to the hospital.
LIMITED,
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
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DEATH. PATTERSON -On March 4th, at Shanghai, WILFRED L PATTERSON (Bhanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd.), aged 23 years.
HONGBONG OFFICE:104, Dan Vaux HoAD 0. LONDON Ogrica: 181, FLEET STRE, E.C.
The Daily Press.
world." While this, incidentally, is an assertion which remains to be proved, we repeat that we fail to discover how such a belief in the readiness of British banks to finance German trade can be reconciled of late, with the charge of "dirty methods."
write volumes about the dirty methods Though the writer says that one could
"
employed by the English in order to damage German repute out here," he does
THE "QUAINTS.”
All good things come to an end," and of the good things that have come to us The Quaints may assuredly be counted one of the best. In theso
from the worry and anxiety that troubleus times, to obtain distraction
falls to our common lot is a boon, and
ho must, indeed, be a misanthrope who cannot forget his trouble when charmed by the delicious harmonies and quaint artless mirth, and evident enjoyment of quaintnesses of The Quaints." Their
their own work is not the least of their attractions, and ons pathice with the suppressed excitement can readily syn-
which is now consuming those favoured little ones who have been promised a visit
not venture to quote an example; but it occurs to us to say, by way of reply to this abuse, that the liquidation by British firms of the businesses in Hongkong formerly carried on by German firms must havo given the liquidators very full information of German business methods, and we should think a very URU· ful purpose might be served if either the GERMAN V. BRITISH TRADE Chamber of Commerce or the Government The Quaints" to-morrow afternoon. were to arrange for the publication of For those children of a larger some general report on German methods
HONGKONG, MARCH 121H, 1915.
METHODS.
We reproduced a few days ago an extract of trade based upon the indisputgrowth" who intend to bid au revoir to "The Quaints on Saturday evening, from a letter sent from China to the able evidence which these quidu
a pleasant novelty will be introduced. Frankfurter Zeitung expatiating on the tions have furnished. When attempts As many isolated requests for particular iniquities of the British in Kiao chow and Hongkong and China generally in their incidentally, on their dirty methods
The
are
made
against the British, and by durges of dirty methods
a public duty on the part of the Govern- ment, or the Chamber of Commerce, to issue, in the general interests of trade, a report which will give a plain and unvarnished account of the methods which have been employed by the Germans to capture British trade A comparison methods can safely be challenged.
Avenue, Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, in
vente, Gordon Terrace aus Eis Humphrey's Kowloon,
efforts to capture German trade. most casua, perusal of the dintritt mut have convinced the reader that it was written either by a very youthful German, or by one so blinded by prejudice as to be unable to write with any regard for fact or logic. He tells his readers that it is I VALY CONVENIENT OFFICES clear as daylight to us out here that the war was only occasioned by the fact that the English ¡are = envioRS.
Rear-Admiral von Hintze, the German Germany's commercial success, Such Minister to Peking, is indisposed. ap assertion as
would this, one
It has been decided by the Shanghai Imagine, must have caused many te ontile, and to conclude that it far-off Wales Fand to remit, through the belter informed people, even in Germany. Committed in charge of the Prince of
IN ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, and ROOMS Including a Fine Commedions Buite
Apply
SECRETARY, A WATSON & Co., Lap. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1914, 188
TO LET
BUILDING,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the OFFICE in S. Gronor's Bunge,
Company will be CLOSED from the 20th to 30th March, 1015, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Directors,
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Colonial Register: Hongkong, 10th March, 1915.
A
WANTED.
[880
immediate possession.
Apply to
* SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914.
TO LETA
80
of
China thanks to the “cultural mission"
TO poison the publie
numbers during the season have had to it becomes be regretfully denied, owing to the pro- grammes having been already made up, Saturday night's programme will be composed entirely from “ requests” of the audience, providing such requests shall have been handed in to Messrs. Moutzie & Co. by this (Friday) evening. Such a golden opportunity to indulge os a fancy should not be missed, and, judging from the "requests already sent in, all Hongkong and his wife have made up their minds to foregather at the Theatro. Royal to-morrow evening to say farewell to Mr. Salisbury and his merry party.
STEAMER LAUNCHED AT KOWLOON DOCKS.
Foreign Office, a first instaubent of £5,000.
of the German Press Bureau" thick It is reported that the construction of a darkness broodeth yet." It certainly is
in Des Voeux Road West, has reported to Chan Yuk Ming, the manager of a shop
the police that he has lost a promissory
amazing to find that among the youth lighthouse on Lamato Island off the coast who are the products of German Fultur of Quelpart has been completed. It was there can be such a sad lack of ordinary to be lighted with electricity from the 10th No
TO. 1, NATHAN BOAT, Kowloon (No. 1, intelligence. If the writer, and those who inst.
Fairview) No.1 GOUGH HILL, No. 100, THE PEAR, share his ignorant opinions on the subject, CAPABLE ENGLISH NURSE to Faraished or Unfurnished, from 1st April, 1915.and we take it from him that they are
take charge of 2 Children,
MERION" No. 6, THE PEAK, Unfurnished commonly shared by Germans in the Far Apply to
(6 Rooms).NE
“SHORNCLIFFE," Garden Road, to let | East-will but turn to any book of refer- furnished (6 Booms)AAN
ence giving the statistics of German trade #KOGATE,” Austin Road, Kowloon,
EILANDONAN," No. 54, Mount Kellett and particularly the distribution of that Read. 5 Rooms, unfurnished.
No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 51, PEAR (Unfurnished),
ROOMS, aitable for Offoes, on the First Fleor of No. 3, Duddell Street,
"KIRKEN DOA" Fazaithed, Fu, 12, Plantation Band, Peak
Mrs. B. HANCOCK, 97, Peak, Hongkong, 10th March, 1915.
H
376
TO LEA OUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,
Conduit Road.
OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Post Office.
25, WONG NEI CHONG ROAD.
1, HILL SIDE, 110, THE TZAK GODOWNS, New GODOWNS, AT GRO
New Paya, Kennedy Town. si Wandard Bond, Apply, eto..
THE HONGKONG LAND
LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY. Co., LTD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915,
198
"BEACONSFIELD,” Battery Path, No.59, Tum Prax (5 CAMERON VILLAB). Emall Bangalow adjoining “GLENSHIEL" Barker Road Peak
Apply to-- LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Gård Floor, Alemandra Balldinga, Hongkong, 11th March, 1915,
trade a few moments reflection would
surely give rise to at least a doubt es te the correctness of his information of assumption--as to what really occasione the war. He will and that the United Kingdom has been for many years Germany's best customer,
and,
OR
the other hand, that Germany bus ben the best customer⠀⠀ - of the United Kingdom
In 1913 the mports From Germany into
United
note on the Yu Tuk Bank of the value of $5,000.
A most successful launch was made at Kowloon Dock yesterday afternoon of u very smart cargo and passenger steamer, constructed to the order of the Straits Steamship Co., Ltd., Singapore. Her dimensions are
Length between perpendiculars 250 07 Breadth, moulded ..... Depth, moulded to upper deck 10 11 She is fitted with two sets of inverted, direct acting, surface condensing, triplo At the Summary Court yesterday, expansion engines with cyanders: -H.P. judgment was given against defendant în 17"'; LP. 97", L.P. 44", with a stroke of a caso in which the Fook Cheong Tai 30 inches and three mullitubular marino claimed $3.35 from an European named boilers, two 15ft. diameter by 10ft, 6in- Cooper, employed in H.M. Dockyard.
long and one 11ft diameter by 10ft. Gin. long. The vessel will be handsomely upholstered and she will have amplo every comfort will be provided, accommodation for passengers, for whom
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice acknowledge with thanks the following Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to donation to the fands of the Hospitals: Gibb, Livingston & Co. (2nd Sub ) $25 Com. Z Volpicelli
10
The launch, in view of the existing con- ditions, was quite of a private nature, and there was no ceremony of any sort