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DIRECTORY

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TO LET,

HOUSE........in Knutsford Terrios

A Kowloon,

APRE

HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., La. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915.

-₤48-

TO LEA

LATS Ln Nathan Road, Kowloon. AFLAT in Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloon. PENYRHEW Minden Bow, Kowloon, 6-Roomed House with Tennis Court,

1 and 9, MINDEN VILLAS, Kowloon, 5.Reomed House with Tennis Court.

FOUR ROOMED HOUSES in Humphrey's Avenue, Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD. Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 12th May, 1916,

TO LET.

(580

Honda't Road.

"OUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,

OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Post Office,

58, THE PA, "THE RETREAT.” 21, WONG NEI-CHONG ROAD. GODOWNS, New Praya, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, ■i Wanchal Bond. Apply, etc.,

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 151 April, 1915,

TO LET

FFICES in 81. GEORGE'S BUILDING

immediate poncezion,

Otom Floor, Orerlooking Harbour

Apply Tom T.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914

·TO LET.

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THE GROUND FLOOR of No. 6. DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, o copied by Madame Gaina, ots.

Apply to

DAVID BASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 10th February, 1915. [272

INTIMATION

stands for Excellent, and anyone

Licutses were issued last your for 247, money changers for the Colony of Hong- long.

The first of the two concerts to be given by Mischael Piastro and Alfred Mirovitch takes place to-night at the Theatre Royal.

During last year licences were issued by the Folies for 1,160 jinrickshas in Hongkong and 345 for Kowloon, besides 685 Hongkong chairs and 60 Hill dis- triet chairs. These licenses verb-issued to 13,400 drivers, The following licences were also issued: 33 motor cars (livery) ; 18 motor cars (private); 5 motor cay drivers; 10 motor cycle licenses; 20

more subtle plan for concentrating the gam of the public, even of winning the approval of his country's enomice, than the writing of a pamphlet which could be circulated in Germany as a truthful and unbiased survey of England and the English," and as such recommended for Hut now pernisal to neatral nations! the crash has come.

Mr. Shaw was too who drinks our E PORT. Elever he rockoned without the intensity SHERRY, E WHISKY of feeling among his countrymen.

thought this was another Boer war upon which the British were embarked, and that there would be at least some amount of opposition. It is possible that British interference in a Continental war would have aroused opposition but för one cir- cumstanco-the German invasion of motor cycle drivers. Belgium-in fact, the Chancellor of the

The Manila Cablencus ways:-While Exchequor has himself acknowledged that if it had not been for this factor there the Filipinos who stand in public as the would have been dissensions in the and cattle owner have been systematically. representatives of the Filipino farmer

Cabinet on the question. Mr. SHAW

and effectively opposing the innoculation. cannot so his way to attach proper im-of carabao against rinderpest, and have, portanoc. to this act of Germany's, and,

or E BRANDY oan be in doubt that the letter E

·signifies excellence of a high order and good value for money. By

buying in bulk from the very best

firms, and bottling ourealvos, we are able to give our customers better value for money than we could by importing the same thing by the case. There is an old saying "Wines mature in bottle, Spirits in cash That is the raison d'être

our magnificent wine vaults, which challenge comparison with anything of the kind not only in Hongkong but the Far East. There ear wines

are bottled off soon after they arrive, but-our-spirits, except for small

stook to meet daily requirements.

are kept in wood. That is why our spirits improve in quality, and spirits imported in case do not. Our customers get the benefit of that increment in value, as we charge

nothing for it. We cordially tavite our customers to pay a visit of inspection to our wine vaults, and satisfy themselves that the above is

no idle newspaper puff.

in consequence, he is utterly unable to through Commissioner Singson, succeeded gange the hearts of his countrymen, who, in killing the proposed provision of law: in return, ara-beginning to have doubts to make inoculation compulsory, the of his genius, even to the point of quas Hongkong authorities have been studying tioning whether his plays are " a truthful the methods adopted by the Bureau of and unbiased survey of England and the Agriculture here and have requested the Bureau to supply them with a sample of English." We used to laugh and say, the serum used locally with so much

"When will Snow be serious?"

He was

kong cattle and the results will be reporte success. This is to be tried out on Hong- ed to the Chief of the Bureau in Manila.

the licensed mocker, langbing and jeering of everything, and we left the playhouse with the consolatior that we must not taka him too seriously. Yet there was The extension which has been made to bitter taste left in the month, in spite the Victoria Hotel, Shameen, ie to be of all the cleveness. For that the plays opened to-day. It comprises a grill- are monstrously clover there can be no room, a social hall and music room, a doubt. Never was such twisting and twirl drawing 'room, ladies' reception-room, ing such intellectual gymnastics, such private dining room, reading room, smok turning inside out of old ideals to exhibiting and card room, private billiard room their hollownes. We could only feel it and private bar room, all en suite. The strange, and somewhat a pity, that such grill room is the largest and most im cleveres should come to nought, should

portant room of the suite. No pains or loave us with only that taste of dust and expanse have been spared to make it at BROWNING prescribed for the intellectual tractive and to realise the expectation palates. SHAW never makes us winoc: we that an occasional "Dinner at the Grill " will become a local institution. The are too much engaged in watching his antics to apply what he says to ourselves.

same may be said of the social hall nad music room, where, afternoon teas will bwy He has no rapier-thrusts or even

These are features bludgeon-blows. He is a refined Restora served cach day, tom Dramatist, who, as CHARLES LAMD which should greatly add to the popu said can only be read with pleasure it larity of the Hotel, and it will be hoped the scene is placed in some fairyland that Mr. Farmer, the proprietor, will

tha SHAW has some little touches of Hotel is under the cfficient management Ibsenism, which, however, could well be of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Eyles. spared, for who SHAW is not posing ho

ashes. It is not the nettle-broth which

A. S. WATSON far removed from this World. It is true reap the reward of his enterprise. The

& CO., LTD.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

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Kósarong Ornzón:104, Das Vaux Boad G.

LONDON Orsion: 181, FLAT ST, E.O.

The Baily Press.

Hongwung, MAY 16TH, 1918.

| THE ANTICS OF BERNARD

SHAW.

our most cherished traditions.

It has

tends to be dull, Yet SBAW plaims

ACTION,

to have a message, a common failing in HONGKONG MEN KILLED IN these days of degeneration, when messages seram so necessary for the people. What the message is no one

News has been received that Mr. Ken CL SIT Liko WELLS, the erstwhile scientific romanticist B. Dennys, youngest son of Mr. H. L and now Bociety novelist, Shaw suffers Dennys, solicitor, was killed, in action from indecision of views. He does not the 9th instant.

Mr. Ken Demmys, avery appear to hate wrong and love who was born in Hongkong in 1889, and righteousness, which is the last of the mande many friends here during a visit merits required of these with messages, to the Colony in 1008, was in the theatri- He is hard, bright, scintillating and yet cal profesion at the onbreak of the war, ould, so horribly cold that he acetas almost and enlisted in the Artists Corps He | inruman There is laughter; but it is recently was gazetted Second Lieutdann the cracking of thorns under the pot, in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, a There is no shadow of that laughter which probably joined the Roll of Honour Tur war has tampered with many of lies eo close to tears. There is plenty of the Franco- Belgian Frontier on Sun

clearness of outline, but no tenderness of Inst. unicated German philosophy from its that we are occasionally puzzled to know Mr. Arthur Hirst, who was for eighteen

The parpets, so nearly likelifo

News has also reached the Colony th proud position, dissected

why they still remain pappets, are not originality and found it 2

to most monthis a storekeeper at the Kowloon people we should. discovered militarism to be synonymous Not that they are too bright and Docks, was killed at the battle of Nouve with aggression, and even caused us to

Chapelle on March 11th. fur good

burian nature's

He was a daily

Lance-Sergeant in the Borderers, in c have some doubts as to the gatius of food";

goodness does not BERIN BERNARD SHAW, the most serious of all to quality with which they s7 concerned our for nine years. A letter from his mother

which regiment he had previously served. may, for BERNARD SHAW was by way of way or the other. Perhaps the feeling to Mr. James Logan, the veteran Volua- being a religion. It is, of course, partly of indifference arises from the fact that teor, was read at a parade of the to lv so The most admirably dressed Volunteer Corps, of which he had been a should be silent concerning the war, and puppet, with the most natural move member. Mr. Logan, regretting that age the same needs also made it necessary mente, is not a thing upon which we can prevented himself from being accepted that what he said should be different from

bestow DEF affections. BROWNING'S for service, showed his patriotism by INVAGY CONVENIENT OFFICES proceded to discover that Great Britain mechanical figures into fish and blood.

BUILDINGS, what other people said.

"little more" is wanting to convert those paying Hiret's passage Hone.

QUEEN'S BUILDING. TO LET the Bath-Wert portion of the FIRST FLOOB, including Trendary on Ground Floor, lately in occupation of the German Bank.

GODOWN, No. 9, Ice House Street, Apply to

LE HONGKONG LAND INVEST,

MENT & AGENCY Co., Kan. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915,

TO LET.

ALEXANDRA

185

and ROOMS.—Inelading » Fine Commodiona Suite.

Apply

SECRETARY, A. B. WASBÓN & Co., LTD. {86 Hongkong, 23rd October, 1914,

TO LET.

German sham,

Mr. Saw's own fault. The needs of

touch.

COTO

advertisement made it impossible that ho they are not really alive, only pretending Machine-gun Company of the local

80 Mr. SHAW

was a bit of a hypocrite, and has since beurs trending such a devious course of and his SHAW is unable to give, so we argument that people are now beginning must put him with the Restoration to question whether he is a playwright dramatists and keep him for the time a all, much lees a dramatist. quite just to Mr. to be

To be

when we seel inclined for his sort of

SHAW,

it has fairylaard. admitted that he bas bal

all through objectors

his carcer Charlatan and buffoon are among the epithels that have been hurled

66 DISTOL'S LODGE SOUTH,” No. 11, [maoy

BTER PRAX, Unfurnished, & Booms. "WOODBURY," No. 4, Hankew Road,

Kowloop.

CHRONICLE CAMERON VILLAS, No. 61, THE him, while less prejudiced observers

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Hongkong, 16th March, 1915.

PRAK, Furnished. Immediate possaision.

No. 3, DEB VŒUX VILLAS, 62, Mount Kellett, The Park (Furnished or Unfurnished), No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Conduit Road,

have contented themselves with remarking that Mr. SHAW's plays were placed in a fairyland which, while it had a striking.

A mail for Europe vid-Siberia closes to-day at 4 p.m.

An interim dividend of one shilling per share is announced in our advertisement columns by the Chinese. Enginering and Mining Co., Ltd.

CORRESPONDENCE, BEAUTIFYING THE COLONY,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONGKONG

DAILY PLESS.

SIR,The suggestion in the latter writ- ten over the name of "Linzacus" is, of course, a very laudable one; but is the Colony not beautified already! The Imperial Arms of Germany adorning the face of a prominent German building.

The Bishop of Victoria las returned in the Colony appears to satisfy the No. 27, BELILIOS TERRACE, with resemblance in places to this Earth, was entrance in Condait Road. In very good order. too eccentric a place to be found any Mission Stations in the Canton delta. He

from his recent visitation of the Angliein powers-that-be.

Perhaps Linnaeus" could suggest 3 ROOMS, suitable for Offices, 1st Floor, where in the Universe. Perhaps this is Queen's

a's Boad Central, "WESTWARD HO," Bonham Road.

Unfurnished (6 Rooms), from 1st May, 1915.

MERION," No. 6, THE PHAK, Unfurnished (6 Rooins).

ELGIN TERRACE.

as somebody said of a well-known actor's impersonation of HAMLET.

Say, a kind of floral design that would laurel wreath. French, and particularly

ch, and part Belgian, residents would appreciate

delicate tributa

another way of saying that Mr. Shaw's will conduct a confirmation at Holy "BGGESFORD," Nos. 194, THE PEAK, plays are funny and not at all vulgar,Trinity (Chinese) Church, Kowloon Old improve the arms?

City, to-morrow morning. Nevertheless, Among the actions appearing on the

T: The spite of carping criticism Mr. SHAW Summary Court list yesterday were the

of Viscount Bryo's Govern continued to go ahead, and there is no following claims, the names of the plain- doubt that before the war broke out he tiffs being given rst:-A. 8. Watson & Dent Committee of Inquiry has been rend by most people in the papers this morn

ROOMS in BEACONSFIELD and 35, "KOGATE," Austin Boad, Kowloon, No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 61, PRAK (Unfurnished),

such

report

ROOMS, mitable for Oziices, on the First was the only dramatist in England who Co., e. J., O. Sepeiss, claim for $12.85 ing. This should cause the Imperial Arts

Floor of No. 3, Daddall Birock,

No. 58, THE PRAK (5 CAMERON VILLAS

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

That he still Ho Cheng, v. Mrs. A. Johnstone, claim had European fame. continues to hold this position is due to for $27; Liverpool, London and Globe of Germany to be removed at onc

Yours, etc.,

D. C. Hongkong 14h May-1016

Sed Floor, Amtandıa Buildings. - Hongkong, 4th May, 1816,

his own ingenuity. What master of the Insurance Company, . Tam Boy Tong, art of advertising could have conceivod i 8291.25,

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