NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE SHARE CERTIFICATES Nos.:
2010/11 for 10 and 25 Shares respectively, Bamborad 12730/12746 and 39608/35832 inclusive, standing in the register in the joint nemen of GEORGE ANDREW
HASTINGS and JouN BARHAM Aving
Solicitors, Liverpool and Bincingban, bean LOST or DESTROYED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Certificates be produced at the Office of the Company, Queen's Buildings, Victoria. Hong- kong before the 24th April, 1915, New Cortestos for the said Shares will be issued and the Old Certificates will thereafter be hold by the Company as Null and Void,
GEO. A. CALDWELL,
Bocrotary. Hongkong, 25th March, 1915.
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD.
THE TURTY-FOURTH ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE. HOLDERS will be held at the Officer of the General Managorn at 12 NCON, en MONDAY, the 12th April, to roceiro a Statement of the Company's Accounts to 31st December, 1914, and the Report of the General Managers.
The TRANSFER BOOKS ₫f the Company will be CLOSED from the 30th March, to the 19th April, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Gorgal Managers. Hongkong, 24th March, 19:5,
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PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
A
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HOUSE at Observatory Villas, Kowloon,
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ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co. Hongkong, 16th March, 1918,
393
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TO. 2, "ROSE TERRACE,” Nathan Road,
Kowloon
GODOWN, No. 94, Praye East.
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BRANDY.
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$2,66
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B. SUPERIOR
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62.40
4.55
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BRANDY...
53.50.
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THE HONGKONG CLUB.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an NEXTRAORDINARY GENERAI MEETING of the HONGKONG CLUE will be held at the Club House, Connaught Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong,” on TUESDAY, the ath day of April, 1015 at 6.25 o'clock in the afternoon, when the subjoined resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution-
"The Article 22 of the Articles of #Association be cancelled and the follow-
ing Article substituted therefor:-
HE FORTY SIXTH MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Camping will be held at the Company's Office, No. 3. by Queen's Road Central, Victoris, TO-DAY (THURSDAY), 25th Merch, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Director for the year ending 31st December, 1914.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 18th to the 25th March, both days inainsive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
C. PEMBERTON, Secretary, Hongkong, 4th March, 1915,
Member shall be Seven dollars THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA
02. (a) The subscription for an Absent
"per annum payable in advance
on the 1st January in each year. (6) An Absent Member shall, in addition, pay at the rate of Seven dollars per month for "every month or part of a month ho is present in Hongkong "provided he makes ure of the Club for more than one week in "any month.
(c) Any member shall be entitled on
payment of Twenty-five dollars "to be relieved from all further "liability at all times thereafter for the payment of the subscrip “tions otherwise due from him as "on Absent Member (save 18- "provided by sub-clause b).”; Should the resolution be passed by tho required majority it will be submitted for confirmation as a special resolution to Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened. And
TANTE: DES YEUX,::
Secretary. Duted the 22nd March, 1915. [122
THE HONGKONG CLUB:
NOTICE.
DOCK CO, LTD.
NOTICE.
THE ORDINARY TEARLY MEETING
of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Office of the Company, 2, Queen's Balldings, Connaught Road, Hongkong, on WEDNES DAY, the 31st March, 1815, at 11 o'clock a... for the purpose of receiving the Report of the var ending 31st December, 1914.
DAVID SABSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 10th February, 1915,
A Kowloon
APE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY Co., LOD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915.
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TO LET From 1st March.
Directors and Statement of Accounts for the GODOWN, No. 6, Daddell Street.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 24th to the 31st March, 1916, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GEO. A. CALDWELL,
Secretary. Hongkong, 17th March, 1915.
Apply
A. B. AVASIA,
Care of E. PABANEX,
No. 1, Daddell Street. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1918, [244
TO LET.
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9, 168, THE PRAE, “THE KENNELS. Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST, SMENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915,
154
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU
FACTURING CO., LTD.
TABBING NAAREHOLDERS
in the above Company will be held at the
QUEEN'S BUILDING,
FIRST FLOOR, including Treasury German Bank on Ground Floor, lately in cocupation of the
Company's Office, St. George's Building, 60 LET, the South-Weal portion of the Connaught Road, Victoria, on WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, 1915, at 19 o'clock Noox, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Manager for the year ending let, December; 1814, and electing a Consulting Committee and
HE TWENTY-NINTII YEARLY A GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the Club House, on TUESDAY, | Auditors. the 6th April, 1915, ut 5:30 PM.
By Order,
EDES VEUX, Secretary. Hongkong, 2201 March, 1915. [423
THE HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE
THE TWENTY EVENTH HALF- YEARLY DRAWING OF SIXTY- FIVE DEBENTURES of the HONGTONG CLCD (1898 issue-$100,00 each) was held in the Club House on WEDNESDAY, the 24th March, 1915, when the following Debentures were drawn for Redemp
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tion:~
93
748
74 440 655 452
€86 1171: 1659 96 437 705 1178 1581 176 510 249 1182 1004 225 531 243 544 749
1916.
1600
1300
1640
233 018 812
1093 3181 536 226 1336 1717 417 822 906 1407 1742 420 193 231 1444 1777 434 640 973
1790
1381
1447.
436 017 1021
1461 1806
437.653 1071 1534 1866 and will be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, 1913, in exchange for surrender of barne.
By Order,
E. DES VEUX, Secretary. Hongkong, 24th March, 1915, [424
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
5.8. BENVORLICH,"
FROM MIDDLESBRO, LONDON
AND STRAITS. WE
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informe that all Goods are being landed at the risk into the hazardons and/or extra hazarion Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whar and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharven delivere may be obtained," "
No Claims will be admitted after the Goodi have left the Godowas, and all Goods remainiu:
the
will be subject
undelivered after. 31st inst
to rent.
All Claims against the Blamer must be resented to the Undersigned an or before the 7th April, or they will not be recognised,
All broker, ohafed and damaged Gooda are
fa be left in the Hedowns, where they will be
examined on the 31st inst. at 11:4M,
No Fire Insurance has been effected,
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Bills of Lading will be counteredpoed by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON • Ch
Hongkong, 24th March, 1915
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 20th March, to WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, 1915, both days inclusive,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Bete General Managers. Hongkong, 16th March, 1915, £400
NOTICE.
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A MARSHAL for Passes are requested in LL Pomons applying to the PROVOST future to apply between the hours of 9 am to 1P.M. and 2 to 4 r. daily.
Hongkong, 10th February, 1915.
WANTED.
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DY European Firm doing large business in
B'Imperand Exporta a COMPRADORM
Excurity of $50,000 required by Mortgage of Landed Property in the Colony,
Apply to MESSES. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
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Prince's Buildinga,
Ice House Street. Hongkong, 20th March, 1915. ^ [412]
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WE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AGENCY LTD Hougkont, Ist Marah, 1915,
138
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in Nathan Boad, Kowloon.
FLATS in Na
PENYRHEW, Minden Row, Kowloon, 6-Roomed House with Tennis Court.
#1 and 2, MLSDEN VILLAS, Kovicon, 5-Boomed House with Tennis Court,
FOUB-ROOMED HOUSES in Humphrey's Avenue, Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.
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IVER CONVENIENT OPRICES KOMOR & KOMOR and ROOMS. Including a Fine Commodious
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Opon from MONDAY, the 22nd of March.
Pictures by -KATO, TOKOUCHI, MORI OZAWA, KASAGI H YOSHIDA,
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An inspection is cordially invited
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Hongkong 22nd March, 1915,
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ISHOP'S LODGE NORTH, No. 12, THE
B Fax From 1st May next.
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19
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0
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ISHOP'S LODGE SOUTH," No. 11,
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The Bishop of Victoria is giving a course of addresses in his private Chapel at St. Paal's College in Holy Week at 5,30 pm, viz-Monday, March 29th, The Tears of Christ; Tuesday, March 30th,
The Louelineas of Christ Wednesday, March 31st, The Binlessness of Christ Thursday, April 1st, "The Courage of Christ."
nection with the Royal Naval Dockyard The fortnightly whist drive in con-
Recreation Club was held at the Chap lain's room at the Deckyard last evening, the function being a most enjoyable one. The prize winners were:-Ladies-1, Mrs. Barr; 2, Mrs. Tooker, 3, Mrs. Sears; Consulation prizes, Mrs. Cochran ""and Mrs. Windebank; booby, Mrs. Hawkins. Gentlemen-1, Mr. Pile; 2, Mr. S. T. Grundy; 3, Mr. J. Hollands; 4, Mr. J. Gladwell; booby. Mr. J. Craig.
one
the tea markets of the world. Of the ten cultivation in China, it has been sald that "Chinese methods of cultivation are based on tradition and the needs of the moment; they are entirely divorced from scientific knowledge."
This observation seems equally applicable to the cultiva tion of cotton o China, though cotton is one of China's largest agricultural industrice, being co-extensive with China Proper, Mr. C. KEABBLEY, whose lecture at Shanghat has cuggested these com- ments, remarked that the Chinese havo the land, the necessary climate, the experience and the people to cultivató cotton. What they need to be taught is not how to grow cotton, but what sort of cotton should be grown. The lecturer expressed the opinion that if the quality of the cotton at present grown was not improved, the import of raw cotton from 2.90 abroad must inercase as the demand arises
among the Chinese people for a better The Union Church Guild wound up a kind of cloth than satisfies them to-day most satisfactory session by a social We believe the Ministry of Agriculture gathering at the Church Hall last even- recognises the need for improvement in ing, which, fittingly enough, proved 1.60 many important branches of agriculture of the most entertaining and successful
in China and seems anxious to do some- thing towards that end. Some useful hintschings of the whole session. The con 3.45 might be gleaned from Mr. KEARELY' tributors to the programme were: -Mrs.
lecture Briefly, his advice was that some
Gibson, Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, Messrs. #ystem of central control over each dis. Hughes and C. Edgcumbe (songs); Mrs. Maconachio (reading) and Miss 400trict should be inaugurated, with a sort
of advisory committee who would have at Mackenzie (pianoforte solo). Mrs. Mạc- their disposal a good, practical farmer. kenzie playou the accompaniments. It A series of practical tests should be begun was announced that, after making a grant with different types of seed, and the for lighting, etc, there remained a satis- various methods of cultivation required
factory credit balanco on the working of the past session. by the central body could be obtained from the local farmers, who should be invited to cooperate with the central com mittee. In the second season those varic ties which had not proved successful 9.95 should not be distributed. Those which had been approved by the committee on the advice of their superintendent could be experimented with on a more extensive scale. If the system of seed selection was carried out under proper supervision at the ginneries, and the gins set in a pro per manner to prevent seed being demaged during the operation, in four or five seasons a reliable type of cotton could be established in each district. It is obviously important that this question should receive the earnest attention of the Ministry of Agriculture. Cotton is said to be replacing the poppy to a considerable extent in north and west China and the present would seem a particularly opportune moment for taking the matter
less than forty large cotton mills with an in hand. There are now in China not
aggregate of over a million spindles, and the next ten years will doubtless seo that number considerably enlarged and the demand for raw material correspondingly increased. No Government worthy of the name would ke content to contemplate the increasing import of a product which the country with proper encouragments quite capable of producing itself; but the Chinese farmer is the incarnation of con servatism, and it is almost as hopeless to expect him to change his ideas as to persuade the leopard to change his spots
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BIRTH. HARTLEY-On the 22nd March, at the Government Civil Hospital, to Dr. And Mrs. Hartley, a son
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DEATH
ASETON—At Pagoda Anchorage, on the morning of the 15th Marca, FRANK ABIITON, native of Lincolnshire, England, for many years a well known and highly esteemed resident in South China, in his 65th year.
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HONGKONG OFFICE:10, Den Vaux Road C. LONDON OFFICE: 191, FLEET STAVE, E.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, MARCH 2TH, 1915.
COTTON CULTIVATION IN CHINA.
an
more Kobe men-Messra. A. R. Hull and By the Suwa mara, leaving to day, two A C. Young-are proceeding to England to join the Army. departure from Kobe there was
On the eve of their
interesting gathering at the Gymnasium in their honour, when they were prevented with lists of friends who had subscribed : for souvenirs of their regard and drafts for the purchase of these souvenirs. Mr. G. H. Whymark, who presided over the gathering, said that in a small community like that on Kobe there wits strong family feeling and he personally felt thesa departures as if the young men going to the front were his own relation: Mr. Hall is a Tokyo boy who has been prominent in sport during his residence in Kobe, Mr. Young is the son of Mr. Robert Young, the well-known Editor of the Japan Chronicle, and before his departure he was presented by the Japanese staff of the Chronicle with a handsome Japanese sword, and other souvenirs of their esteem.
next month:
that the Howitt Phillips Company will We learn from Messrs. Montrie, Ltd, present " Milestone" in Hongkong early phenomenally long run of two years
This clever comedy bad a
duration at the Theatre Royal, London, and was a great success, also, in the United State A play of great psychologienl
interest, it shows in an amusing and withal pathetic manner how the pioneer. the enemy of change in the next. of progress in one generation may become 'The evolution of shipbuilding from the days A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes of wood and canvas to those of steam and to day at 11 am
iron and, later still, to steam and steel, furnishes the basis of the plot, and, side
It is expected that construction work on tho Nanking Changsha railway will | by side with this industrial development, begin on April Ist.
In these days when the "boycott" is a much-discussed subject in China, the All the banks in Tokyo have decided "Why should China import to reduce the interest on deposits per
question
American Cotton 1" sounds somewhat cent. per annum ominous. It was however, with no Binister intent that this question was asked by an authority on Chinese cotton în
we say the accompanying changes in
in Act I: (1800) crinoline dresses are wors manners, enstoms, and costumes. Thus,
in Act II. (1885) the big bustles or dress improvers, and in Act III: (present day)
The Daily Heal (Tientsin) in tight skirts, The ageing of the young informed on first class authority that people and their children and children's German prisoners are entering Siberia at children as the play proceeds is a charm. the rate of 3,000 per day
ing sketch of real lite
the course of a lecture delivered at Bhang hai last week. Very likely he did not r mean to discriminate against cotton from any one foreign source, but rather to ask why China should import cotton from any foreign source whatever. As is well known, China imports cotton now only
frem America bu from many other sources, principally from British India and Japan. Hier annual import fluctuates greatly. In 1010 it was in the neighbour hood of a quarter of a million piculs; in the following year it was not more than 41,000 picuis; in 1912 it was 202,040 piculs, and in 1813 139,639 puls. The export of raw cotton from China is enormously greater than the import roughly it may be said to be about seven times as much. That being so, the question
question suggested is
The Hongkong, Canton and Maeno Steamboat Company have now resumed their week-end service to Canton, leaving Hongkong on Saturday night at 10pm. and Canton on Sunday at 001.
The Bishop of Victoria has returned from his recent visit to Pakligi and Teighbourhood. At Pakhoi fu colfirmed come sixty persona, including funrteen lepers in the M.S. Leper Hospital. He. The death cocurred at Tokoliams an March 12th, of Mr. John Gibson, recre workers, admitted some Chinese Lay presided over the annual confenes of ary of the local branch of the St. Readers and conducted special services Andrew's Society. Mr. Gibson had heen for the missionaries, the European com- resident in Yokohama for about ten years.munity and the Chinese Christians. At
ve recently
Liemchow he dedicated a handsome new Church that has been erected in memory which is a large ok was more than of Miss Beatrice Lakewell. The Church,
enquirers, the chief magistrate of the thronged by Chines
Christians and
district being prominent among them.
After the dedication the Bishop hold a
At
confirmation in the new Church, Kotak he also opened a new Mission Hall.
A Japanese Naval roppet says: -On the 5th March, while sweeping mechanical mines in Tsingtao, a malesweeping ship was sunk by an explosion of mines. Ons man was killed and ten ars missing Why should, China import raw cotton at prevalent the Shanghai Admiralty as well. Owing to all sorts of wild rumours being all? The answer is that a better quality as the Arsenal authorities hare, of cotton is needed for certain spinnings shown unusual activity in faking pro- than China produces. It is not, it becs,tionary measures, reports the Chinese He was much impressed with the progress that China cannot produce cotton of Press.
of the work in this part of his large higher quality, but in the cultivation of t
dcore The good No 2 DES VEUX VILLAS, 61, PRAK - cotton, as in the cultivation of tea and
ood influence of the Many old residente in Hongkong and Medical Mission is very apparent, and it (Unfurnished)
BOOMS, mitable for Offees, on the Fin many other things, the cultivator makes along the Ching coast will regret se rend is gratifying that two of the doctors from Floor of No. 3. Duddell Street, NOUS no effort to improve the standard of the announcement of the death of Captain Pakhoi are opening up new medical No.69, THE PEAK (5 CAMERON VILLAH). quality. It is because of this that Frank Ashton, of Pagody Anchorage, missionary work at Yunnan. The Bishop Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS, *.
3rd Floor, Alexandra Bullings, Chinese tea has lost, almost beyond hope Foothow, formerly in the service of the was cecompanied by Miss Lander and Hongkong, 23rd March, 1916.
Kas
of recovery, the position it oncs held in Douglas Steamship Co.
Master John Lander.
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