NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
"KENNEDY'S HORSE REPOSITORY.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nall Claims against the above Business must be forwarded to me on or before 15th April, 1915. No Claims received after that date can be antertained.
C. BERNARD BROWN, Liquidator, Care of LINSTEAD & DAVIS. 1474 Hongkong, 2nd April, 1915.
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FFICE in Hotel Mansiona.
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HENRY HUMPHREYS, Alexspire Buildings. Hongkong, 4th April, 1915.
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LUSITANO RECREATION CLUBA
NINTHATHLETI) MEETING,
PATRONS.
His Excellency Sir F. II. MAX, I.C.M.G., H.E. Major General H. KELLY, C.B., C.M.G, Hi Lordship Bishop D. PoZZONI Commodoro R. H. ANSTIUTHER, R.N., The Hon. Mr. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G.
The COMMITTEE how much pleasure in inviting the Ladies and Gentleman of the Colony to their Sports at the Race Course (by kind permission of the STEWARDS of the Hongkong Jockey Club) TO-DAY (EASTER MONDAY), 8th April, 1915, commenting st 1.30 PM
There will bo Two Open Events-
HALF MILE FLAT EAct, open to European Sailors, Soldiers and Polfe, Free, 220 yards Championship, open to all Bona Fide Amateurs in the Colony under the rules of the AAA
§ 1.00. F
By kind permission of the Officers, the Band of the 74th Panjabis will play during the
afternoon.
By conriety of the Management there will be Specil Tram Care
J. O. REMEDIOS, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 1st April, 1915.
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PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1915,
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA|
**DOOK CO., LTD.
THE
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. HE DIVIDEND of $3.00 per Share declared
at Today's Annual General Mesting will- be Payable at the HaNGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CONFORATION on and after THURS DAY, 18 April, 1915, and Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants at the Town Office of the Company, 2. Queen's Buildings.
By Order of the Board of Direstora,
GEO, A CALDWELL,
Secretary,
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Hongkong, 31st March, 1915.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
201 ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Buildings, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongong, on SATURDAY, the 10th day of April, 1815, at 120
for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Account and the Report of the Director for the year ending 31st December, 1914, and declaring a Dividend,
The TRANSFER BOOKS the Company
will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 1st April, days to SATURDAY, 10th April, 1915, beth inclusive.
"BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
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ESTABLISHED 72 YEARS.
WATSON'S
guard against giving away secrets, added This afternoon the Royal Hongkong that, in democratic countries which were Yacht Club, assisted by the Corinthiam engaged in protracted warfare, one of Y.C., will hold a regatta, in aid of the the means of real assistance was the feel- Belgian Relief Fund. The Lusitano Club ing of the people towards it. Now, there sports will also take place at Happy can be no doubt that the nation recognises Valley this afternoon.
at the war was forced upon us and that,
at all costs, we must bear our full share The Gazette contains a long list of of the task of carrying it to a triumphant articles which are prohibited, under The conclusion. But it is doubtful if the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordi- magnitude of the struggle is anything nance, 1914, to all destinations for &. like fully realised. The truth is." saya period of oon year. Also, of goods pro- a well-informed correspondent, "that life hibited to all destinations, other than the WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.goes on in England to-day very much as United Kingdom, for the same period.
though we were not at war. coplo-I
At the Magistracy on Saturdays can the majority of folk going about their daily business-cannot realise that Chinese employed at the Hongkong and we are at death-grips with our enemy Shanghai Bank was charged with the The land has not ben ravaged us in Bel-theft of brass to the value of $6.20. It gium and France, and we have not even was stated, on behalf of the bank, that soon the face of an invader. Accordingly, misunderstanding has occurred with there is a tendency to revert to domestic regard to the directions given to the man, disputes and class divisions, as in days and the request was made that the charge of peater, The silence imposed by the should be withdrawn. Defendant who Press Censor also contributes to blur has been employed at the bank for 44 the vividness of the tragic picture across yoara, was accordingly discharged. the water, and the papers, in the absence
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THE THIRTY-FOURTH ORDINARY
HOLDER) will be hold at the Qfloes of the General Managers at 12 Noor, on MONDAY, the 12th April, to receive a Statement of the Company's Accounts to 31st December, 1914, and the Report of the General Managers,
ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
will be CLOSED. from the 30th March, to the 12th April, both days inclusive.
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THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 6,013
Tor TWENTY (20) SHARES neberod
THE BELGIAN WAR RELIEF Reported LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY
IN AID OF
FUND.
AN
58162/81, in the above Company standing in the name of Mrs. LAURA MCINTOSH, having been
ORIGINAL GIVEN that unless the CERTIFICATE is produced within ons manth from date hereof, it will thereafter bo held by the Company NULL AND VOID, and a NEW CERTIFICATE for the mall
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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
ORGAN RECITAL Shares will be issued.
· TOMORROW (TUESDAY), APEIL 6TH,
AT 9,15 M.
AT
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.
KOWLOON,
By Mz. GEO. GRIMBLE,
Assisted by Miss CAMILLE CASTRO and Messrs. CAWSET, MURIEL, GONZALES
and the Choir of the Church, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1915.
NOTICE.
WE HAVERIAN and WE HAVE This Tay authorized M. MR. JOHN HENRY BRISTER to Sign our Firm per Procuration until further Notice.
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NOTICE.
NO
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in respect of a SEASON TICKETS avaibble for Thrs the issued on and after 1st day, next, the ns, otive Prices will be as follows:-
Gentlemen
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$18.00
$12.00
and that the Price of Sermate' Panch Tioko's - availble for 20 Rider will be $1,20.
Season Tickets expiring in April can to extended to April 30th, on game terms pro vila ne now in force, but no three monthly Season Tickets and no Annual Tickets will be issued in April.
Notice is further given that on and after Ist May next, daily return Tickets and Annual Tickets will be abolished,
By Order of the Directors,
..
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st April, 1916.
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NOTICE.
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GEO. A CALDWELL,
Secretary, Hongkong, 25th March, 1915.
No
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THE HONGKONG CLUB,
AJOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the HOOEONG CLUB will be held at the Club House, Connaught Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 6th day of April, 1915, at K,16 o'clock in the afternoon, when the subjoined resolution will be proposed us en Extraordinary Resolution:-
TO LET.
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Conduit Road, OFFICES, Lacing the Harbour between tho Hongkong Club and Post Office.
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As supplied to the House of Lords and House of Commons.
The following places have been
Indian
of really important now, which they know of but cannot publish, throw up tablished as cronatoria, the opening of other matters under bold headings and which has been authorised in writing by create not deliberately, but for the the Sanitary Board, and approved by the reason stated-a wrong atmosphere. Governor-in-Council: The Japanese imagine that brief telegrams such as you Crematorium at So Kun Po; the Sikh receive must often be very misleading Burning Ground behind the Bikh Temple;
cremation ground for because they give a false perspective tho The strike on the Clyde, for example, Troops at Kowloon shown on a plan col- might reasonably lead people abroad to oured red and blus deposited in the office think that the working classes were of and signed by the Director of Public becoming indiferent to the outcome of the Works. war Labour, however, is still solid om that point, and nothing will satisfy the of the Legislative Council a resolution workers axcept the absolute overthrow of will be moved as follows:- Resolved by Prussian militarism. Some of the the Legislative Council that the percen
It is notified that at the next meeting
tage on the valuation of tenements pay- able as rates at the under-mentioned
Labour leaders themselves are officers in KITCHENER'S Army. It is, in fact, a pity that the world is told that a strike is on, for it is due entirely to local and places be altered from the 1st July, 1915, domestic causes. Our readers will follows:-Set Wea Ho from 10 to 121; receive this assurance with satisfaction, Shaukiwan East from 10 to 12); Shauki- because in the absence of explanation, wan West from 101 to 124; Tsing Shui Ma the conduct of the artisan classes- Tau from 101 to 12); Po. Kau Wat from
especially of those engaged in producing 10 to 121,
munitions of war-has appeared to indi-
cato callous indifference to the nation's The Gazette announces that the British welfare and a selfiak desire to exploit to and Belgian Industrial Bank of China, their own advantage the present parlous Ltd., and the Shanghai Wah Hsing Fire.
A.S. WATSON & CO.. situation.
LIMITED,
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Alexandea BuILLINGS, HONGKONG,
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HONGKONG Orton 108, Dza Voux Boan C. LONDON Officnt, 131, Frups 82mans, E.0.
The Daily Press.
Hardkoro, AzBIL 6TH, 1815.
DEMOCRACY AND THE WAR.
THIS is the first great war waged by the British democracy, and there were many speculations at the outset as to how they DISHOP'S LODGE NORTH, No. 12, THE would rise to the occasion. Since that
PRAE. From 1st May next.
For further particulars, apply to
1229
PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra Buildings, 3rd Floor. Hongkong, 30th January, 1915,
TO LET.
FFICES in St. GEORGE'S BUILDING
Immediata possession,
time the attitude of the masses has not appeared to justify the hopes that were reposed in them. Although there have been many notable exceptions in manu- facturing and industrial pentres, the impression
prevails that the working
"The Article 22 of the Articles of "Association bo cancelled and the follow-
ing Article substituted therefor "22. (a) The subscription for an Absent
Member shall be Seven dollars Bond Floor, Overlocking Harbour, classes, as a whole, have not responded as
"per annum payable in advance "on the 1st January in each year. (6) An Absent Member shall in 'addition, pay at the rate at "Seven dollars per month for every month or part of a month "be de present in Hongkong "provided he makes use of the "Club for more than one week in "any month.
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(c) Any member shall be entitled on 'payment of Twenty-five dollars "to be relieved from all farther "liability at all times thereafter "for the payment of the subscrip- "Lions otherwise due from him as #an Absent Member (save as
provided by sub-clause b)" Should the resolution be passed by the required majority it will be subunitted for confirmation as a special resolution to future to apply between the hours of 9 a.m. to | Second Extraordinary Meeting which
will be subsequently convened
E. DES VEUX, Secretary. Dated the 22nd March, 1915. [429
THE HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
-1 PM, and 2 to 4 P.3. daily..
Hongkong, 16th Febrary, 1915, ***[291
KOMOR & KOMOR
ABT UNION EXHIBITION OF
THE TWENTY-NINTH YEARLY
GENERAL MEETING
Me. boy of the HONGKONG CLOn will be held in the Club House, on TUESDAY, the 6th April, 1915, at 5.80 P.M.
By Order,
WATERCOLOURS THE Open from MONDAY, the 22nd of March.
Plotures by:-KATO, TOKOUCHI, MORI, OZAWA, KASAGI H. YOSHIDA, etc, etc.
ALL PICTURES WARRANTED TO BE GENUINE.
An inspection is cordially invited,
KOMOR & KOMOR,
Aleandra Building.
[410 Hongkong, 22nd March, 1976.
E. DES VEUX, Secretary.
Hongkong, 22nd March, 1915.
TO LET
ALEXANDRA
VERY CONVENIENT
la]
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914, V
QUEEN'S BUILDING.
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The South West portion of the FIRST FLOOR, including Trosary on Ground Floor, lately in occupation of the German Bank,
GODOWN, No. 3, Ice House Birtet. Apply 10---
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST, [MENT & AGENCY CO., LÆÐ, Hongkong, lai Marsh, 1915.
135
TO LET.
THE
GROUND FLOOR of No. 6, DES I (GUA ROAD CENTRAL, acepind by Madane Gains, etc.
Apply to
DAVID BASSOON & Co Hongkong, 10th February, 1915.
TO LET.
they should have done to the call to arms, and that it is chiefly to the use of duty
Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., have been struck off the register. Also, that and at the expiration of three months, unless
The Gazette announces that Mr. Fcause be shown to the contrary, Keblo Meade has been appointed a second class Sanitary Inspector,
Mr. William H. Hornibrook, the new American Minister to Biam, is expected to leave the United States for his post shortly.
H.E. the Governor has selected na site known 8 Tai Shek Ku, situate in Kow loon, to be used as a burial ground for the Chinese,
The Cigarette and Tobacco Fund for the Allied Forces at the Front now amounts to $4,244.07, of which 9462.70 is unexpended.
It is announced in the Gazette that
"The regulations of Hongkong, 1914, will be in force in the Colony from and
after the 12th inst.
A census taken on March 6th showed that 505 Germans, comprising 104 males, 103 females and 208 children, were still living in Tsingtao.
The latest statement to hand of donn
& Co, Ltd., will be struck off the register and dissolved. Another notifice- tion by H.E. the Governor states:-
Whereas I havo reasonable cause, to believe that the China Pharmaceutical Supply Co., Ltd, in keeping in e place where it transacts business outside the Colony a register of members without having a valid licence under the Companies Ordinance, 1911, now therefore I hereby give notice, under section 36 of the waid Ordinance, that at date hereof the name of the said company the expiration of two months from the
will, unless cause to the contrary he shown, be struck off the Register and the said company will be dissolved.!!.
ALLIED FORCES TOBACCO FUND.
CONCERT AT THE THEATRE
ROYAL
There was a fairly numerous audience' at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, when a concert, organised by Mr. F. E.
and patriotism of the upper and middle tions received by the Shanghai branch of Hall, was given with the object of secur classes that we owe the force that is now the Patriotic League of Britons Overseasing funds for the purchase of tobacco and taking the field. But, even if it be true shows the following totals: £183; Tls cigarettes for the Allied Forces. Among that the labouring classes have not con- 45,070 and $41,013 tributed to our new armies in proportion to their numbers, are we justified in hold-
those prent were Captain R. O. Hut chison (A.D.C., representing H. E. the Governor), the Chief Justice and Lady During the Easter vacation the offices Rees Davies, Colonel Darling, R.E., and Mr. H. ing them entirely to blame? This war, it of the Supreme Court will be open daily Colonel and Mrs. O'Hara. must be remembered, is being conducted from 10 am to 1 p.m. from the 2nd Relph was deponsible for the arrange- ment of the programme, and he had in a way that is contrary to all precedent. April, 1815, to 8th April 1915, (both days secured the services of each well known The eilenes and scerccy in which every inclusive), except on General Holidays artists as Professors Datenberg and Gonzales, Messrs. A. J. England and W. thing in shrouded may be and no docht when the Ofices will be entirely closed,
B. Cawsey, Mrs. Goodman, and the is, in large measure, essential to the
of a coat, and the fact that Kowloon Male Voice Quartette (Mesars,
The
While the programme was strong in
Bocess of our arms at least, we like to the theft was noticed, led to an exciting A Gray, J. Smith, W. Brown, and J.
on of onthe rest of stimulat- chase over the
the roofs of house in Allen), while he himself contributed ing. In former days recruits used to be Elgin Street on Friday night. At the some excellent impersonations Lobtained in rural districts by sending Magistracy on Saturday the thief was companies of soldiers on the march with sentenced to a month's imprisonment and hands playing and colours flying, as four boars stocks. until men hear the call of duty speaking from within, some such aid to enlistment A notice appears in the Gazette giving in essential if they are to farnish their
new directions to marinera when fair quota...
If anybody questions this approaching certain ports of the United let him look at the wonderful success of Kingdom, or any of the ports of the the Salvation Army, and asks himself localities of the British Buspira
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WEST WARD," Bonham Road.
"EGGESFORD" No. 124 THE PEAK Unfurnished (8) Rooms), from lat May, 1915. (6 Room)
on a three
BOOMS in BEACONSFIELD on monthly benaney, and 56, ELGIN TERRACE No, L, GOUGH HILL, No. 100, THE PEAH, Furnished or Unfurnished, from 1st April, 1915,
HOGATE Austin Road, Kowloon ELLANDONAN," Ne. 54, Mount Kellett Boed. 5
Rooms, unfurnished. No. ལྷ་ DES VEUX VILLAS, 61, PRAX ROOMS, suitable for Offices, on the First No.53,THE PEAK (6 CAHERON VILLAR). Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Brd Floor, Alexandra Boildings. Hongkong, 29th March, 1915,
BUILDINGS, Unfurnished).
OFFICES Floor of No. 3, Daddell Street.
rad ROOMS. Including Fine Commodious Suite.
`Apply
SECRETARY. A«S. WATRO & Co., Lrn,” Hongkong, 23rd Ostober, 1914
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whether it can all be attributed to number of new regulations have been abstract ethics. It is, suroly, a little made in regard to the China Sea. unreasonable to expect men of sluggisha in to imaginations to gam much inspiration
It is noted in the (fazette that all from the dry hones of official reports. As letters intended for British prisoners of war in Germany should be forwarded to Sir W, P. BYLES id in the House of Commons recently. If we had not a the Deputy Chief Censor (Hostile Coun- RUSSELL in Flanders, or a FORRES in tries), Salisbury House, London, EC., Poland. I believe that England would he who will censor them and transmit them ablaze with national zeal and patriotic to their destination. They should not be fervour." Mr. BONAR LAW, also, while sent to the Frisoners of War Information admitting to the full that we should Bureau,
vocal and instrumental items, it might well have contained more of the humor- ous element. True, the act sketch, "Packing Up,'' was both laughable and lively, but it was presented at the con- clusion of the other numbers in the pro- gramme, when it might with advantage. we think, have been given much earlier in the evening. As it was, not a few
left before this was performed.
The caste in the sketch, which was undoubtedly a great succes, was as follows:-Mr. Clugwater (as youngish- married), Mr. H. Belph; Mr. Clugwater (his wife), Mrs. H. Williams; luggage man, Mr. F. Williamsgagem
Mention might well be made of the
effective manner in which the stage was Messrs. Komor & Komor, and the piano by Messra Robinson & Co. Professor Gonzales orchestra rendered a couple of excellent overturce. The accompanists were Mr. George Grimble and Mrs. J. E.
set out. The furniture was lent by
Buiter.