NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
Y Earopean Firm doing large business in Brand Export COMPRADORE Security of $59,000 required by Mortgage of! Landed Property in the Colony,
Apply to MESSES, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Solicitors,
Prince's Ruildings,
Ice House Street. Hongkong, 20th March, 1915.
G.
B
1412
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,
IN THE MATTER of the Estate of EDWARD JAMES RICHARDS alias LACHMAN SINGH, Iste of Canton-Macao Railway, Englover, deceased.
Railway
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that tho'
PUBLIC COMPANIES
CHINA BUGAR REFINING CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 23ED, 1915.
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET
-HOUSE in Macdonnell Road,
Apply to
****A.B. C.," Care of "Daily From" Office. Hongkong, 17th March, 1916. [397
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE. HOLDERS of the shove Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Peddor's Strat, TO-MORROW (WEDNES DAT), the 24th March, at Nous, 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 CLOSED from the 11th to 26th March, both days'inėlusive.
JARDINÉ, MATHESON & Co., LID.,
General Agents. Hongkong, 4th March, 1915,
LUZON--SUGAR REFINING CO.,
LIMITED,
NOTICE
Not las, hy vir Of THE THIRTY-THIRD The Probates Ordinance, 1897 (No. 2 of 1807), mado an Oriler limiting the time for sending in Claims to or against the aboro Estato to the 21st day of April, 1915.
Crediters and Claimants are hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the above date.
Dated this 22nd day of March, 1915.
HUGH A. NISSET,
Offcial Administrator.
ORDER AT ONCE.
THE
DIRECTORY
AND
[411
ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Podder's Birect, TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY), the 24th March, at 12.15 ... 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 CLOSED from the 11th to 24th March, both days inclusive..
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Agenta. Hongkong, 4th March, 1915. [365
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE FORTY-SIXTA MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held of the Company's Office, No. 3, Queen's Fond Central, Viatoris, on THURS DAY, 26th March, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noow, for
CHRONICLE the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts
FOR CHINA, JAPAN, ETC.
FOR THE YEAR
1915.
TO
INDISPENSABLE
BUSINESS · MAN.
EVERY
TO BE OBTAINED FROM TRE-
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICE
onl
:
·LOCAL BOOKSELLERS.
1,850 PAGES PRICE $10. The alterations this your are unusually heavy. owing to changes incidental to the War.
Hongkong, 16th March, 1913.
G.
NOTICE.
R,
and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1914,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to the 20th Maroli, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
C. PEMBERTON, Secretary. Hongkong, 4th March, 1916,
[366
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of 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
TO LET-FURNISHED.
LAT in Queen's Gardens, Apply to
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 17th March, 1915,
1998
TO LET.
ATO. 2, “ROSE TERRACE,” Nathan Road,
?
Kowloon.
INTIMATION
Hongkong bas been invited to partici
official pronouncement contained in one of the reports of the United States pate in the Athletic Games Meeting at Public Health Service, which said: Shanghai in May, and we learn that the "Deratization as a general measure is Hongkong Amatour Athletic Federation not rafiqnal. The warfare against rats will probably send football, volley-ball, should be made by improvement of tennis players, swimmers and cycliste Habitations should elected from the Chinese teams affiliated bo kept free of garbage and offal which with the Federation. attract rafs and serve for their nourish- ment," Dr. CLARK affirmed that the We regret to report the death of Mr." rapid increme in the rat population as Charles Deighton-Braysher, a very old indicated by the stendily increasing member of the Chinese Imporial: Mari-
A. S. WATSON housing conditions,
& CO., LTD.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, numbers of rats collected and examined by time Customs Service. Mr. Deighton-
BRANDY.
Per
Bot.
$2.65
0.00
160
TO LET.
A
HOUSE at Observatory Villas, Kowloon. Apply to
"ARBATOON V. APCAR & Co. Hongkong, 16th Marob, 1915. [393
Per Caso of 1 dos.
* A. SUPERIOR PALE
"B. SUPERIOR
$80.40
OLD
COGNAC
33.70
WATSON'S
XXX
COGNAC
31.50
WATSON'S
XXX
COGNAC Half bottles 2 dax
+
37.00
[394
C. SUPERIOR OLD LIQUEUE COGNAU, Gold Capsule
40.30
*D. VERY FINE OLD PALE LIQUEUR COGNAC ...
...46.90
4:00
BOUTELLEAU'S OHAMPAGNE LIQUEUR 12.50
4.55
E. FINEST OLD BROWN
BRANDY...
52.50
No, 0, TORRES BUILDING, Kowloon,
Apply to-
SPANISH DOMINICAN
· PROCURATION, Hongkong, 22nd March, 1910.
TO LET.
GODOWN, No. 94, Fraya Beat.
Apply
KWONG BANG HONG LEO
No. 248, Des Voeux Road Central. Hongkong, 19th February, 1915. [305
THE
TO LET.
TV UND FLOOR OF No. 6, DES VOUX ROAD CENTRAL, occupied by Madame Gains, etc,
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., Lad. Hongkong, 10th February, 1915. (272
TO LET AT THE PEAK.
the Board's Staff in the period 1910-1910 Braysher, after a long period of service was the natural result of the large at many of the treaty ports in China augmentations of the native population retired some live years ago He died ut during 1911, when some 40,000 to 50,000 Ashford, Middlesex, on February 11th, Chinese poured into the Colony and, in his seventy-eighth year.
At a meeting of British residenta no Foochow convened by H.M. Consul, Mr. F. B. Wilkinson, C.M.G., it was resolved to form in that port a branch of the the following Committee was appointed: Patriotic League of Britons Overseas. Re Rev. Bishop Price, Messrs. C. H. Brewitt-Taylor, C. Skerrett Rogers, W. M. Gair Smith, and H. S. Brand, 'with the Consul as Chairman.
gain in 1913, when an even larger number sought refuge here, owing to the political disturbances on the mainland. Apart,” he said, “from the question 200 of migrations en masse and of devastat
ing epizootics, the number of rals in any area is almost wholly dependent upon the available food supply for these animals. and the most obvious, result of human avercrowding when carried to excess is marked increase in the amound of waste food both in the houses and in the yards A new coin of Afty-cents denomination. and lanes adjacent thereto, and the crowd has just been put into circulation, re ing of much unnecessary furniture and marks a Peking contemporary. The new baggage into the houses, thus providing coin bears the President's portrait in hiding places for rats." The soundness proble on its obverse and two rice stalks of this advice has been abundantly on the reverse. The stamp on the now attested by the experience of the past few coin is simikir in every respect to that of Whenever there has been a the one dollar coin, with the necessary sudden and great influx of refugees from exception of the characters denoting their China into the Colony it has been invari- 4.55 ably followed by a severe epidemic of
denominations. - plague. The absence of plague so far this your seems to be clearly accounted for by 2.65 the reduction in the population which
3.45
6.60
years.
According to the Manchurian Daly Tea, up to March 9th about 1,000 Shan-
MARIE BRIZARD and BOGER'S FINE PALE COGNAC 31.60
undoubtedly followed the outbreak of the tang coolies had been taken to Tairen 8. V. F. V. O. COGNAC 79.70
war, though if we were guided by the from Cheloo by coast vessels. On the V. O. L, 60 Years Old 118.30 9.96 estimates of the population on which the following day, the steamers Funglee and Water Authority each month bases bis Rimi Maru had 171 and 71 deck passen- UNITED VINEYARD -PROPRIETORS, 75
estimate of the consumption per head we gers respectively, all embarked at Chefoo. Yours Old ... *** 4,757,60
13.15 should have to conclude that a steady About ten réssels, are now engaged in
increase in the population *These Brandies bottled by been maintained.
has transporting Shantung coolies between perfectly North China ports. ourselves are guaranteed Grape obvious, however, that there is no coolies going northward by the railways The number of Tomos Spirit and of Pot Still Distillation. justification for such an assumption, is appreciably less than it was a year ago. Several marriages are taking place in
No. 2 STEWART TEBBACE,
Furnished and newly done up. Apply
H. E. FOLLOCK,
Prince's Building Hanghong, 20th January, 1916.
TO LET.
HOUSE in Knutalord
A Bowlcon
APPE
THE HONGKONG LAND INVES
MENT & AGENCY Co., Lad.. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915.-
Diroutors and Statement of Accounts for the GODOW
year ending 31st December, 1914.,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will to CLOSED from the 24th to the 31st Marah, 1915, both days inclusive,
By Onler of the Board of Directors,
GEO. A. CALDWELL, Secretory..
Hongkong, 17th March, 1916.
[401
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO., LTD,
ANY EUROPEAN desiring to lose the Colony should apply in writing for per- mission to do so to the PROVOST MARSHAL Heat Quarters Offices, at least 48 hours before the intended boar of departare, giving name nationality, ago, sex, height, complexion and MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS occupation of the applicat, and stating the name of the steamer or other vessel or the hour of the train by which the applicant wishes to leave. Applicants should apply in person for their passes to the Provoar MARSHAL at Head Quarters Olles between the hours of 9 A M. to 1 P.M, and 2.P.M. to 4 P.M. daily. Hongkong 6th January, 1815,"
G,
R
NOTICE.
(307
LL Persons applying to the PROVOST
A MARSHAL for Piates are requested in fature to apply batween the hours of 8 am to I P.M. and 2 to 4 P.M. daily.
Hongkong, 16th February, 1916.
THE
NOTICE.
FAR
[200
THE 31er ORDINARY ANNUAL
in the above Company will be held at the Company's Office. St. George's Building. 6, Connaught Road. Victoris, on WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the
Statement of purpose of receiving a Accounts and the Report of the General Managers
for the year ending 3let December, 1914, and electing & Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company wil be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 29th March, to WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, 1915, both days inclusive,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Manegera. Hongkong, 16th Marok, 1915.
·HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH HALF- A YEARLY DRAWING of 65 DEBEN- TURES (1880 issue of the HONGKONG EAST OXYGEN
CLUB, Parable on WEDNESDAY, the 31st & Mareb, 1915, will be held in the Club House ACETYLENE Co.. LTD.. beg to advise their Customers that Ms. BAILLY NESDAY), the 24th March, 1915.
at 11 o'clock AK, TO-MORROW. (WED. Civil Engineer and late Technical Manager
Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend
By Onler,
of their Singapore Branch, has taken Charge the Drawing, of the Hongkong Branch as Technical Manager as from the 15th March. Mr. BAILLY is an Expert Welder, trained at Marseilles, and is able to undertake sny kind of Welding and Boiler Repsira,
THE FAR EAST OXYGEN & ACETYLENE Co., LTD.. A.B. THE SWEDISH TRADING COMPANY IN CHINA (LAD),
Agouts.
Hongkong, 17th March, 1915.
(30)
KOMOR & KOMOR ART UNION EXHIBITION OF
WATERCOLOURS
Open from MONDAY, the 22nd of March.
Pictures by:-KATO, YOKOUGHI, MORI
E. DES VEUX,
Secretary. Hongkong, 13th March, 1915: [391
FOR SALE.
ONE STOCK ANCHOR, about & tons and 160 FATHOMS of 2 inch CHAIN with Shackles Complete. Condition good as new.
Apply
ILOILO PILOTS' ASSOCIATION, Iloilo, P.L Hongkong, 6th March, 1915.
TO LET.
[370
6ISHOP'S LODGE SOUTH," No. 11,
TO LEE.
From 18 March.
LODOWN, No. 6, Daddell Streek.
Apply.
[45
A. B. AVASTA,
Care of E. PABANEY,
No. 1. Duddell Street. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1915. [344
TO LET.
NO. 163, TE PRAE, “THE KENNELS,
Apply.
THE KONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, lat March, 1915.
[54
B
TO LET FURNISHED.
DISHOP'S LONGE NORTH, No. 12,
PEAK. From 1st May Dext, For further parlionfars, apply tom
PALMER & TURNEE, Alexandra Buildings, 3rd Floor, Hongkong, 30th January, 1915.
QUEEN'S BUILDING,
O LET, the South-West portion of the FIRST FLOOB, including Treasury on Ground Floor, lately in occupation of the German Bank.
GODOWN, No. 9, Iss House Street, Apply to--
MARRIAGE.
[15
MENCARINI-LOYZAGA-On March 15th, at Manila, MANUEL, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. JUAN MENCARINI, to JULIA second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jose DE LOYZAGA.
Hongkong Office: 104, Des Faux Roan C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, Fiat STETET, E.C.
It is
and if the conclusions of the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH are accepted, that heavy
Hongkong shortly. Mr. John Cumming Fletcher, of the Queen's Collego staff, who was formerly on the staff of the Ellis Kadooria College at Canton, and, later, Headmaster of the Ellis Kadoorio College in Hongkong, is to marry Miss Jean Chalmers McGregor, who is en route from England; Mr. Feter Octavius James, chartered accountant, le to marry Miss Mabel
Whitton Johnson; and Mr. William Carstairs, marine engineer, of the Nam Sang, is to marry Miss Enelio Pettitt, of Fulham Park, London,
A.S. WATSON & CO.. epidemics of plague are an inevitable con- sequence of overcrowding in Hongkong, the present freedom of the Colony from LIMITED,
plague must be accepted as proof that the HONGKONG AND CHINA.
pressure of the population upon the hous ing accommodation of the Colony is not so great as it was a year ago, Au important lesson, it seems to us, is to be derived from this experience. The reduction in the population is temporary When the war comes to an end and trade revives and expands with the progress and development of China, the Chinese will swarm back to the Colony in even greater numbers than before. Therefore, if we are ever to get the mastory of plague epidemics in Hongkong greater efforts will have to be made to prevent over- crowding; but this can only be done con- currently with the provision of more
Chincho housing accommodation for This means that the population must spread itself out beyond the present con- fines of the city. A feature of the scheme upon the hillside at the Peak and in for the development of the Southern side other suburban neighbourhoods. It will Ir is extremely gratifying to observe of the island, for which the Government be interesting to hear if there occurs any week after wook the absence of plague granted a concession last year, is the epidemic of sore throat and satarrh such cases from the weekly return of com creation of a new Chinose city. In the as is alloged to live occurred in previous municable diseases issued by the MEDICA light of the Colony's experience of years under corresponding circumstances, OFFICER OF HEALTH We believe wo are
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, MARCH 2PD, 1918,
HONGKONG AND PLAGUE.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE PRIVET NUISANCE
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE <<
HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."
SIR-The privet is now in full flower
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST correct in saying that since January 1st plague epidemies such a scheme is clearly I am, Yours truly,
MENT & AGENCY- Co., LTD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1916. - 186
TO LET.
FLATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
6.Roomed Honse with Tennis Court.
PENYRHEW, Minden How, Kowloon,
5.Roomed House with Tennis Court.
1 and 2 MINDEN VILLAS, Kowloon,
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSESia) Humphrey's Avenue, Gorden Terravo and Salisbury Avenue, Konlopu.
Apply tomin
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 4th March, 2015,
TO LET
(280
OUSES CLIFTON GARDENS,
Conduit Rond.
Hongkong Club and Test Office,
OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the
25, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD.
· 1, HILL SIDE, 110, THE PEAK. GODOWNS, New Praya, Kennedy Town, GODOWNS, at Wanchai Bend, Apply, etc.,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST, MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, let March, 1915,
38
TO LET
ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGA,
ROOMS BEACONSFIELD on a three- I VERY CONVENIENT OFFICEE OZAWA, KASAGI H. TOSHIDA, monthly tenancy, and bt, ELGIN TERRACE. and ROOMS. Including Fine Commode
eta, etc.
ALL PICTURES WARRANTED
TO BE GENUINE.
An inspection le cordially invited.
KOMOR & KOMOR, Alexandra Building.
Hongkong, 22nd March, 1915.
[410
No. 1, GOUGH HILL, No. 100, THE PEAK, | Suita Furnished or Unfurnished, from 1st April, 1015,
44
HOGATE" Austin Road, Kowloon.
Road, 5 Roout, unfurnished.
EILANDONAN-No 54, Mount Kellati
No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, $1. PEAR (Unfurnished),
ROOMS, suitable for Offices, on the First Floor of No: 3. Daddell Street, nyky
No.59. THE PEAK (6 CAMERON VILLAR). Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
3rd Floor, Alondra Buildings, Hongkong, 23rd March, 1915.
Apply
SECRETARY, A. B. WATSON & Co., LTD Hongkong, 23rd October, 1914.
TO LET
not more than two, or three, cases of plague have been notised in the Colony, whereas last year by this time over 200 cases had been reported. Last year, ng we need hardly remind our readers, was the worst, in respect of the prevalence
an urgent decessity.
VICTIM.
A mail for Europe a Siberin closes THE MERCANTILE BANK OF
to-day at 11 am.
INDIA. LIMITED.
The only cases of communicable disease.
of plague, which the Colony had experi notified in the Colony last week were
caced since 1804, for no fewer than 2,141
Mr. B. C. M. Johnson, agent of the
Mr. J. B. Crichton, acting manager of the Mercantile Bank of India in Hong- kong, informs us that a telegram has hean received from the head office stating that at the approaching annual general mest- ing of shareholders of the Bank the directors will recommend a final dividend
People fell victims of the epidemic. One even cases of diphtheria American, 1 Eurasian, 4 British, and 1 Chinese naturally asks how this remarkable
One case ended fatally. improvement has been to effected, Old residents are familiar with suddenly
the fact that the records of the plague epidemics of the last twenty years show Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corf 4 per cent, fren of income tax on the "A" and "B" shares (making 8 per many similar instances of rise and fall.poration at Ipoh, is to be transferred to To go ao further back than the Ina, ten Manila, and Mr. H. C. Joasa has arrived cent for the year), that 5,000 be added.
to the Reserve Fund, making years, we find that the total number in Ipoh to take his place.
a total of £500,000, and that £47,200 be carried for- ward as undivided profits.
of cases in each year were as follows: 1905, 301; 1906, 802; 1907, 240; 1906, 1,037:
A Bromley paper announces with regret 1000, 121; 1910, 23; 1911, 261; 1912, 1,517; the doath of Mr. James Rennie, 1913, 406; and last year (1914), 2,141.0 Elmfield House, Elmfeld-road, Many theories have been advanced from Bromley, aged 50. The late Mr Renais time to time in explanation of the was for many years in the Hongkong and figures atmospheric conditions, the state of the drains, the use of cats in the campaign against rats, and a variety of other circumstances, but there is no members. explanation which fits the case so well as
that advanced in the interesting Memoran
Shanghai Bank. He joined the Special Constabulary in Bromley when the force was established, and was one of its kcenes
THE BELGIAN BELIEF FUND.
Mr. P Verstraten, Acting Consul General for Belgium, gratefully acknowl- edges the following further donations :-- Crédit Foncier d'Extrême-Orient & 250.00 Mr. Ellis Karloorie Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G. Kowloon Cricket Club.
250.00
100,00
.50.00
The
Fath, Douspis):
Mr. J. H. Kemp The Italian Opera Company.
Quaints " Catholic Mission, Swatow (R.
50.00
45.00
25.00
12.50
Mcles. Liébert
10:00
5:00
dan prepared by Dr. FRANCIS CLARK Mr. Keith Fraser Arbuthnot, of Summers Probate has been granted of the will of
and submitted to the Sanitary Board just Place, Billingshurst, Sussex, and of 37, a year ago. In thah Memorandum the
Mincing lane, EC, Colonial broker, MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH declared that chairman or director of twenty-two rub Mr. C. Giraud wholesale rat poisoning as a plague preventive measure had failed, not only ber and tes companies, who died October of the gross value of £208,647 55. 5d., of
Total
...8707:50
FFICES ST. GEORGE's BUILDING,in Hongkong but in many other infected 31st last, aged fifty years, leaving estate Already acknowledged (1st st)...84,700.71
Overlooking Harbour,
43
cond Floor, homediate pocenion.
Apply to in
AAN SHEWAN, TOMER & Co. Hongkong, Bed Desember, 1914, 139
districts, owing to the enormous fertility
of the rat in the presence of an ample which the net personalty has been sword food supply, and he fully endorsed an at £78,448 65. 4d.
Total
$3,495.21 Kindly collected by Lady May.,.£150 109.