NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
KOMOR & KOMOR
ART UNION EXHIBITION OF
WATERCOLOURS.
Open from MONDAY, the 22nd of March.
Pictures by --KATO, YOKOUCHI, MORI OZAWA, KASAGI H. YOSHIDA
eta, old.
ALL PICTURES WARRANTED TO BE GENUINE.
An inspection is cordially invited."
KOMOR & KOMOR,
Alexandra Baliding.
Hongkong, 22nd March, 1915.
ORDER AT ONCE,
THE
DIRECTORY
AND
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PUBLIC COMPANIES
OHINA SUGAR REFINING CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 22ND, 1915.
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET.
HOUSE in Macdonnell Road.
Apply to
A. B. C." Cers of "Dally Tress"! Offleo,- Hongkong, 17th March, 1916.
1397
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY TNNUAL MEETING of the STARE HOLDERS of the above Company will be field at the Offices of t'o General Agents, Feddor's Siro-t, OR WEDNESDAY, the 21th March, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, LAT in Queen's Gardens.
1914,
TE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to 24th
Marab, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lab,,.
Cateral Agents. Hongkong, 4th March, 1915,
LUZON SUGAR REFINING CO.,
THEN
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
ORDINARY
THE THIRTY-THIRD
"ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS of the shore Company will be held. at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder's Strest, on WEDNESDAY, the 24th March, at 12.15 r.M., for the purpose of receiving tho Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1914.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to 24th March; both days inclusive.
TO LET-FURNISHED.
Apply to
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, Hongkong, 17th March, 1916. $399
TO LET.
[O, 2, “ROSE TERRACE,” Nathan Road,
Kowloon.
No. 6, TORRES BUILDING, Kowloon.
Apply to
SPANISH DOMINICAN
PROCURASION. Hongkong, 22nd March, 1915, ch
TO LET.
INTIMATION
for doubt that when postal agencies have. been opened up on a scale fully adequate to the needs of the country, and still more when the railway system has been develop
Five inches of snow fell in Tokyo on the night of the 13th inst.
For kissing a famous actress without permission a man has been fined $50 by the police authorities of
Joking.
WATSON from aorth to south, the operations of the tournament close this evening, the time
A. S.
& CO., LTD.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
BRANDY.
Entries for the Hongkong C.C. tenis
for closing having beow extended two days
It is stated that the survey of the whole line of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway will be completed at the end of September this year.
ed so as to link up all the provinces and provide highways from cast to west and
Chinese Post Office will attain a magni- tude that will make the record figures of 1919 appear quito as infinitesimal as now seem those of 1903, but by then the Annual. Reports will have lost much of their interest. What gives them such a fascina tion now is the tale they have to tell of difficulties overcoms, of successful work- ing under adverse conditions, and of extraordinary expedients and adaptations Per Case Per to meet unusual circumstances. This is
of 1 dós Bot
at present the normal history of the $80.40$2.65 Chinese Post Office; its staple means of |communication-courier lines-would be regarded as an exceptional experience in more advanced countries, so that it is. Poleti, of the Chinese Maritime Cus
toms, is reported. The deceased, who was handicapped from the very start," These
65 years of age, was regarded as one of. 3.00 conrier lines represent, however, a mar
the best Chinese scholars in China, and vellous amount of organization and of he was the author of several works in energetic supervision which can be appre Italian on the Chinese language. ciated to the full only by those who have lived in the far-interior and have
1.60
3.45
[201
TO LET
A
HOUSE si Observatory Villas, Kowloon,
Apply to
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co.:
[303 Hangkong, 10th March, 1016.
A. SUPERIOR FALE
• B. SUPERIOR
OLD
COGNAC
WATSON'S
33.70
2.90
XXX
COGNAC
34.80
WATSON'S
COGNAC Half bottles 2 don
87.00
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SUPERIOR OLD
LIQUEUR COGNAC,
Gold Capsule 40.30.
LIQUEUR
46.90%
BOUTELLEAU'S OHAMPAGNE LIQUEUB...... 59.40
·*4.58
INDISPENSABLE
TO
EVERY
BUSINESS MAN.
and
held of the Company's Office, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, on THURS DAY, 26th March, 1916, at 12 o'clock Noor, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1914,
of
the
Company
by
VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, occupied Madame Gains, sto.
BRANDY... 21.753.50
4.55
Apply to
DAVID SASS00N & Co. Tam, Hongkong, 10th February, 1015, ··(27% ·
MARIE BRIZARD and FINE BOGER'S PALE COGNAC ... 81,50
TO LET -AT THE PEAK,
CHRONICLE
FOR CHINA, JAPAN, ETC.
FOR THE YEAR
1915.
TO BE OBTAINED FROM THE—
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Agents.
Hongkong, 4th March, 1916.
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE FORTY-SIXTH : MEETING. of
GODOWN, No. 94, Rmya Eusi.
Apply
KHONG SANG HONG LID
No. 248, Das Vœux Road Contral. Hongkong, 19th February, 1915, [805
TO LET
A
* D. VERY FINEBOLD:
PALE COGNAC
will be held as the Dean the Company THE GROUND FLOOR of No. 6, DEBE. FINEST OLD BROWN
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICE The TRANSFER BOOKS.
ard
LOCAL BOOKSELLERS.
1,850 PAGES PRICE $10.
The alterations this year are unusually heavy, owing to changes incidental to the War
Hongkong, 16th March, 1915.
G.
NOTICE.
B.
LL Persons applying to the PROVOST A MARSHAL Lor Passes are requested in fature to apply between the hours of 8 A.. to 1. P.M. and 2 to 4 r.m. daily
Hongkong, 16th February, 1015.
NOTICE.
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OXYGEN &
TEFALENE.Co., LTD. beg to
advise their Customers that Mr. BAILLY, Civil Engineer and late Technical Manager
of their Singapore Branch, has taken Charge
of the Hongkong Branch as Technical Manager
will be CLOSED from the 12th to the 25th March, both days inclusive. Zde
By Order of the Board of Directors,
C. PEMBERTON, Secretary. Hongkong, 4th March, 1915,
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THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
NHE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Office of the Company, 2, Queen's Buildings, Connaught Road, Hongkong, on WEDNES DAY, the 31st March, 1915, at 11 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1914.
0, 2, STEWART TERRACE,
Furnished and newly done ap. Apply
E. L. POLLOCK,
*Princo's Baikling. Honghong, 20th January, 1015.
TO LET.
in Knutsford
HOUSE
A Kowloon,
8. V. F., V. O, COGNAC 79,50
V. O. L., 60 Year Old ...119.30
UNITED. VINEYARD PROPRIETORS, 75 Years Old
187.50
4.00
received their mails regularly after an overland transit of perhaps two or three weeks. The latest report shows many other adaptations to meet exceptional noods or difficulties. In one province, the mails have to be ferried across rivers on skin rafts; in another steel cables havo to be fixed over flooded streams to carry the mail
In the north-west, across special staffs have to be engaged to dead with Turki maila; at Nanking, work was conducted amid extraordinary difficulties during the "siega" and the sacking of 6.56 the town by CHANG HUN's troops, carth 9,95 quakes, floods, landslides, and typhoons
2.65
13.15
These Brandies bottled by ourselves are guaranteed Grape Terme Spirit and of Pot Still Distillation,
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co. Lao. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915.
TO LET. From 1st March.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company GODOWN, No. 6, Duddell Street,
will be CLOSED from the 24th to the 31st March, 1915, both dage inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Direntors,
GEO. A CALDWELL,
Secretary, Hongkong, 17th March, 1915.
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO., LTD.
as from the 15th March. Mr. BAILLY is an 11H 41er ORDINABY : : ANNUAL Expart Welder, trained of Marwilles, and is MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS able to undertake any kind of Welding and in the above Company will be held at the Boiler Repairs,
THE FAR EAST OXYGEN Company's Office, St. George's Building,
ACETYLENE Co., Lerp.,
&
AB THE SWEDISH TRADING
COMPANY IN CHINA (LTD),
Agents. Hongkong, 17th Moroh, 1915,
YOKOHAMA,
F390
BLUFF HOTEL.
No. 3 BLUFF.
HEALTHY LOCATION AND
BEAUTIFUL VIEW.
EXCELLENT CUISINE AND HOME COMFORT.
MODERATE TERMS.
FOR SALE.
ONE FATHOME of 23 inch CHAIN ANE STOCK ANCHOR about & tons
with Shackles Complete, Condition good as new,
Apply
ILOILO PILOTS ASSOCIATION, Iloilo, P.I. Hongkong, 8th March, 1915.
FOR SALE;
VREAT VARIETIES OF
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PICTORIAL WAR POST CARDS.
GRACA & CO.
CAINE ROAD, No. 11A Hongkong, 17th March, 1915.
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A LING & CO.. 19, QUEEN' ROAD CENTRAL.
FURNITURE AND PHOTO “GOODS:
STORE
Photographio Goods of Every Dezoription
in Stock
Developing, Printing and Enlarging. Canton Marbles in Various Khuden.
TELETROEN 1219
Hongkong, 4th February, 1915.
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Connaught Road, Victoria, on WEDNESDAY,
the 31st March, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noor, for
Apply..
AB. AVASTA,
Care of E. PABANEY,
No. 1. Duddell Street. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1915.
TO LET
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No. 188, THE PEAK, THE KENNELS.
Apply-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
[54 Hongkong, let Marob, 1915.
TO LET FURNISHED,
ISHOP'S LODGE NORTH, No. 12, THE
For further particulars, apply to
the purpose of receiving a Statement of B From 1st May next
Accounts and the Report of the Cloneral Managers for the year ending 31st December. 1914, and electing * Auditor, carton, Consulting Committee and
The TRA
NSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 20th March, to WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, 1916, both days inclusive,
............ SHEWAN, TOMBS & Co. General Managers, Hongkong, 16th March, 1913. ₤400
HONGKONG CLUB
NOTICE.
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH HALF- YEARLY DRAWING of 65 DEBEN-
PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra Buildings, 3rd Floor. Hongkong, 80th January, 1915.929
QUEEN'S BUILDING.
T.
O LET, the South-West portion of the FIRST FLOOR, including Treasury Floor, iately in operation of the Garman Bank,
GODOWN, No. 9, Ice House Street. Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, Ist March, 1915.
136
TO LET
TUBES (1986-imua) of the HONGKONG FLATS in Nathan Road, Kowloos.
CLUB, Pavabla on WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, 1015, will be held in the Club Honse at 11 o'clock s., on WEDNESDAY, the 24th Marcb, 1915.
Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing.
By Order,
·E. DES VOEUX,
Becretary, Hongkong, 13th March, 1915. [38
YEW LEE.
An CHEONG AND L. HANSEN.
TEVEDORES, BHIP CHANDLERS
and COMPRADORES,
16. LE YUEN STREET, WEST. Telephone. No. 1290, 77
Hongkong, 27th October, 1914.
TO LET,
₤104
"PENTRHEW Minden Row, Kowloon, C-Roomed House with Tennis Court,
1 and 2. MINDEN VILLAS, Kowloon, 5.Roomed Hors with Tennis Court. V
TOUR ROOMED HOUSES in Humphrey's Avenue, Gordon Termos and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
· Co., In Alexandra Buildings. Ingkong, 4th March, 1915.
TO LET
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Hondais Road
TOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Post Office
95, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD, 1. HILL BIDE, 110, THE PEAK. GODOWNE, New Praya, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS BỈ wchai Rood. Apply, etc.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, let Mareb, 1915.
88
TO LET. NO. NATHAN ROAD, Kowloon (No. 1, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, ROOMS BEACONSFIELD on a three VERY CONVENIENT OPSICLE moothly tezanoy, and 55, FLGIN TERRACE, and ROOMS. Including Fire Commodious
No. 1, GOUGH HILL, No. 100, THE PEAK, Sito. Farnished or Unfurnished, from 1st April, 1918.
“ROGATE," Austin Boad, Kowlook. "EILANDONAN" No 54, Mount Kellett Road. 6 Forms," unfurnished.
No. 2 DES VEUX VILLAS, 61, PEAK Unfurnished).~
SECRETARY, Apply
4. §. WATSON & Co, Læð, Hongkong, 23rd October, 1914 [36
TO LET.
\FFICES L 85. Groruz's Building,
hrmediate possomsion.
LIMITED,
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
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HONGHONG OFFICE: 104, Das Vaux ROAD O LONDON OFFIon: 131, FLAT 6, 20.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, MARCH 22ND, 1916.
THE CHINESE POSTAL ADMINISTRATION.
all combine to harass the transmission of maile; robbers and local rebellions add their quota to the difficulties to be over- come, though it is noteworthy that when one town was given over to looting by robbers for a week, during which time the gates were closed and all traffic held up. the mails passed through without delay It is, in short, the usual tale of the
by
A.S. WATSON & CO.. Chinese Post Office, with advantage taken of every means tending to improvement, and with instant steps taken to overcome any difficulty or obstacle that may arise a splendid example of what cat be done a well-trained Chinese staff under efficient foreign administration. The on gloomy feature of the Report is the small number of offices that are able to announco themselves as self-supporting, but outlay must always exceed returns during the period of development, and (although no financial statistics are published) it is oler that the deficit must be becoming proportionately less every year, and that when the development of the service has proceeded to greater lengths, it may be self-supporting financially, in addition to the benefit it furnishes to the country in THERE is always a peculiar interest in a speedy and reliable means of communi watching the development of a new cation. We can only regret that the same administration or organization, and this cannot be said of the other branch of is doubled when the young service is China's communications, and that the subjected to the test imposed by external | telegraph service is not organized on the and unexpected difficulties This has some efficient and trustworthy basis, but been notably, so in the case of the Chinese perhaps it is not too much to hope that, Post Offico, and
and its somewhat bolted in process of time, the lesson ohit think Report for 1013 should give encourage in and the telegraph administration will ment to those who are concerned for the be committed into the hands that are progress of China. 1913 was not a happy doing such excellent work for China's year for China,, nor one likely to offer postal needs. much assistance to a budding enterprise- the South was in a ferment, the Yangtze Valley was in a state of war, and the Mongolian trouble was at its height, yet the number of articles dealt with by the Chinese Post Office during the year showed the greatest increase ever recorded in the history of the administration, the total reaching 630 millions, or an increase of about 25 per cent, over the preceding year. It is curious to compare this with the 421
r. Walter Schofield, cadet, has passed dis final examination in Cantonese.
According to the Kokumin, six pro- minent German merchants of Tsingtao, who were recently arrested and placed in the prisoners' camp at the tis Barracks, will be brought to Japan as soon as the investigations are finished.
The sudden death at Shanghai of Mr.
Mr. G. P. Paton, who has been dating British Consul at Nagasaki for more than
year, has just left to take up another acting appointment as Consul of Tamsui, Formosa, relieving Mr. T. Harrington, who has been ordered to Manila. Mr. J. Twizzel Wawn, transferred Chemulpo, has been appointed Consul at Nagasaki
from
In Japanese telegrams to a Shanghai paper Dr. Sun Yat-sen is represented as advocating the closer union of China and Japan, and as treating with scorn his quondam friends who have returned to China with the intention of giving their allegiance to the Government of China. We give the report for what it may be worth.
The Gazette notifies that at the expira- tion of three months from this date the following companies will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off tho Register and the companies will be dis solved: The City Printing Co., Ltd., and The Chi Po Co., Ltd: The names of the following companie have been struck off the Register-The Yee Mi Co., Ltd., Tlentein Horse Bazaar, Ltd., and The Whangpoo Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.
The latest list of oon local Cigarette and Tobacco Fund for the list of contributions to the front brings up the total to $3,766.57/ A total of 8150.50 was received from the Professors and students of the University. Mr. Geo. J. B. Bayer; the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, writes My Committee desire me to express their sincere thanks to the generous contributors to the fund, which will chable them to forward another consignment in a few days. As there are several lists outstanding the Hon, Treasurer will be glad to receive theul to be entered up."
hop to be ent
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals bogs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospitals:-
Lau Ce Fong i
Chan Kai Ming Chan Kang U
$100.
300
100
Chow Shou Shan
100
Teang Chun Shang
100
The Yam Chi
100
Ming Sun Bank
100
Chong Wo
50
Wong Fa Nung
50
Young Sing Un
30
Ming Kes...
Messrs. Kemer & Komor advertise an exhibition of the Japanese Art Union, Pictures by Kato, Yokouchi, Ozzwa, Kasagi, Mori Kawai, etc., whose names 2.re # guarantee of excellence, are A District Post Office, known as the included in the exhibition. Every picture Wantsai Branch Post Office," has beens warranted to be genuine. Yokoucht established in Queen's Rond East, adjoin ing the premises of the Sanitary Depart ment,
was in Hongkong in 1007, when h painted for Sir Matthew Nathan some pictures of great merit. Ozawa is a son of Wirgman, the pioneer of European millions carried annually ten years Mr. H. Avery of San Francisco, painting in Japan. The prices are cut before; since its inauguration the returns | Asistant General Manager of the Toyo low and lovers of good pictures should of the Chinese Post Office lave shown a Kison Raisha, is at present on a visit to not miss the opportunity of visiting the exhibition, now open at Komor & Komor's steady increase overy year, but it is ecr Hongkong and is staying at the Hongkong Art Gallery n Alexandra Buildings. tin that it has not yet reached the limit Hotel. of its development, Assuming the popu lation of China as 350 millions, her average of letters per head is even now not for below that of India, but aho is so much behind the latter country in facili-
Captain A. Riddell, 74th Punjabis, has been appointed Inspecting Officer of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps and of he Hongkong Volunteer Reserve.
ties for communication that there is little
-A general meeting of the Hongkong reasen to doubt that, when the disparity | Lecal Centre of the Institution of Electris in this respect has been repaired, China's cal Engincera is to be held at the Univer- annual returns will show a total at least sity at 5.30 p.m. to-u
to-morrow, when proportionate to that of Japan, which Professor C. 4. Middleton Smith, M.Sc., would mean for China a total mail of will read a raper entitled Electric nearly 2,000 million articles yearly Generating Stations in China. India with 33,000 miles of railway, with abundant steamer communication along an extended coastline, and with 20,000 Post Offices, sends 2 letters per head of
The Russian steamer Boyarin, on the voyage from Hongkong to Haiphong, observed a capsized fishing junk in
BOOMS, mitable for Ofoes, on the First Second Floor Overlocking into the population every year; China, with Hainan Strait between Islet Point and
Floor of No. 8, Daddell Bireef ik kan kig
No. 69, THE PEAK (5 CAMERON VILLAS),
Apply to-- LINSTEAD & DAVI,
3rd Floor, Alexandra Balklinge
Hongkong, 17th March, 1915.
Apply to---
SLASHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, Sri Desember, 1014
about 4,000 miles of railway and under Cape Kami. One fisherman who was on the junk was rescued and landed at Hoi 8,000 Post Offices, is only a fraction
how on the steamer's return to Hongkong. behind this average, so there is no room
HONGKONG SANITARY
BOARD,
Mr. P. W. Goldring pursuant to notice: will mayo the following resolutions, at to-morrows meeting of the Sanitary Board
(That a sub committee of the Board.
be appointed to consider the ques- tion of the down pipes, side- chaunels, private wels, drains, sewers and open spaces in the Teim Sha Tsui District (That such committee do consist of
the Head of the Sanitary Depart ment, the Director of Public Works, the Assistant Medical Officer of Health for the time being, and two other non-official members of the Board to be selected by the members and on
(That such committee do make their first report within one month from the date of their appointment.