NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS
CO., LTD.
THE COMPANY will be pleased THE
INTIMATIONS
KOWLOON CRICKET, CLUB.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 27TH, 1915.
N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held in a Cab
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LIMITED.
Consumers or Prospective Consumers Hous: TO-DAY (TUESDAY), the 21 July, A Half Dollars por Share for the six months
1915, at 0,3) P.M.
of GAS for Cooking or Hrating purposes will allow the Company's Lady Canvasser (who speaks English and Chinese Anantly and has a practical kowledge of Gas Appliansse) to enll In order to demonstrate to them or to their Servante the propor metlol of using Gat Cookers, Water Heators, &c., and how to obtain the best results from saine. A few hints on the matter given personally will be found of considerable-sistance.
4 post card or letter to the Company asking such assistaucu will be given oerly attention. - GEORGE CURRY, Local Secretary.
Hongkong, 20th July, 1915.
FLOOD-RELIEK---
IRAND ENTERTAINMENT
ia
797
JOHN'S LASE, 1 bham Road (opposite the Universityl, TO-NIGHT (TUESDAY) July 27th, at 80 look.
BusinessAddition to rules as per circular.
1. J. BLACKBURN, iz. becrotury. Hongkong, 3d July, 1915,
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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB: NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY
N
GENERAL MEETING. TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that AD EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the above Club will be held at the Club Honeo. Happy Valley, Hongkong, on THURSDAY; the 20th day of July, 1915, at 5.303 when the subjoined
Hesolution:
Sp. Resolution will be roused as an Extraordinary That the Articles of Association of the ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF altored in the manner following CLUB be That the following words be inserted in Article 42 after the word "Creditor"
Latest Cinematograpit Films, and Items by Eminent Artistes. Refreshments, &c., during
interval.
Tickets $2 and $1, to be obtained at Meagra A. TACK, De Vosar Road.
Hongkong, 24th July, 1015.
HONGKONG CLUB.
WANTED.
N EUROPEAN STEWARD.
Apply in writing to-
THE SECRETARY. -
(785 Hongkong, 21st July, 1916.
-WANTED,
TOUNG EUROPEAN for Sales Depart
Yuna Sundri) la Norenutile Othe
Apply to
"T. L' Care of "Daily Press" Office. [780 Hongkong, 2nd July, 1915.
NOTICE.
TIROM August lat, 1818, my Offoes will be
REMOVED ic
No. 2, CONNAUGHT
ROAD, Third-Floor Talophone 1200. PO. Box 539.
G. MARTINI,· ·
Export-Import. 1791 Bongkong, 26th July, 1915.
NOTICE.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
NOT Partnership hitherto carried on by Sir SABUDON DAVID, Bart, and ABBAHAM JACOB DAVID, Esqr,, at Hongkong and Shang- hai nador the name and style of & J. DAVID & Co., has Ceased and determined as from the Twenty-First day of July, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen.
The Liquidation of the said Fiend in Hong. kong and Shanghai has been undertaken by the private Compaor with limited liability registered st Hongkong under the name of 8. J. DAVID & Co., LTD., and all Debts dug by or pwing to the esid Firm will be discharged and received by the said limited Company)
S. J. DAVID & Co.
or be the subject of a nation between which and Great Britain a state of war "existe."
Should the above Rosolution be passed by the rogaisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation es a Special Resolution to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently conreurd,
By Order,
T. W. HILL, Acting Honorary Secretary. Hongkong, 20th July, 1915.
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ALIEN ENEMIES (WINDING-UP) ORDINANCE, 1914.
SAND
IN THE MATTER OF BEEN MEYER & COMPANY, LIMITED. AN ENEMY COMPANY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE SAID ORDINANCE.
NOTICE
OF
OF
SALE
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD LANDS AND HOUSES. SITUATE AT Collyer Quay, Do Bours Street, Prince Street, Robertson Quay, Kanisah Marican Road, Mohamed Sultan Road and Grange Road. Singapore.
TO BE SOLD
BX
PRIVATE TENDER.
The 31st August, 1915, has been fired as the last day for the acceptance of tenders,
Copies of the Particulars and Conditions of Sale and form of Tender can be obtained on and aftor the 28th Jane, from the Liquidator at No. 4, Collyer Quay, Singapore, or from the Undersigned.
SISSON & DELAY, 168, CHANGE ALLEY, Singapore, Solicitors for the Liquidator. Singapore, 1st July, 1916,
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R
TRAVELLERS: RESTRICTION
ORDINANCE.
THE PUBLIC are informed that the
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Thies and
endine 30th June, 1916, will be Payable on THURSDAY, the 29th July, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on applica tion at the Company's Boa
The TRANSFER BOOKS of thé Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 20th July, to THURSDAY, the 29th July (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares oin be Ra istored.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE, Acting Sooratory. Hongkong, 13th July, 1915.
INTIMATION
BY APPOINTMENT.
WATSON'S.
GOUT WATER
AN EFFERVESCENT WATEL THAT
[767 18 A SOLVENT AND ELIMINANT
THE WEST POINT BUILDING
CO., LIMITED.
A Dollars por Share for the six months N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Two
ending 30th June, 1915, will be Payable on Dividend Warrants may be obtained on THURSDAY, 20th July, on which date application at the Company's. Offco.
*The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 20th July, to THURSDAY, the 29th July (both days isolusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be logistered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE,'
Acting Secretary to the HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENOT Co., Irx., General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING CO., Lrn Hongkong, 13th July, 1015. [758
ENTERTAINMENTS
THEATRE ROYAL,
RETURN VISIT.
OF THE
Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co.
FOR FIVE NIGHTS ONLY With four new and popular Plays.
WEDNESDAY, 28th July:---
The Grest American Mining Drama,
OF URIC ACID.
sufficiently scared to command rates In asking for the adjournment of the of freight that ensuro substantial Macao" extradition ose yesterday, tho dividends for most shipping companies. Crown Solicitor (Mr. P. M. Hodgson) No...
country has benefitted
more said that one of his witnesses had been from this boom in shipping than detained up-country by the floods and Japan.At the present time the total had been unable to come, As a matter of tonnage, owned in Japan is about fact he was not the only one thus hindered, 1,585,912, and contracts have been placed for Detective Inspector Watt was also with Japanese shipbuilding yards for held up in the flooded districts, and could
When these approximately 280,000 tons.
not get down to Hongkong. vessels come into servico Japan will prob- ably rank as the fifth merchant shipping- Owing to the war, says & Hankow Power in the world. British shipping, paper, the British and Chiness-Corpora- - according to Lloyd's Register Book for tion and the Central China Railways, 1814-1916. totalled 81,045,019 tons; and Limited, who are the concessionaires for that of the United States, 5,368,194 tons. the construction of the Sinyang-Pakow. These load. Then come the German with Railway, have found it impossible to Boat 3,459,200 tons (much depleted since the a sterling loan in London at présent. war bogan); next Norwegian with Arrangements have in consequence been The following prescription shows the exact 2,504,722 tons; then the French with made to issue a Silver loan of seven mil- 2,318,430 tons. In the next list compiled lion Taels, an advance prospectus of constituents of each bottlo :——— ̈
Japan will take precedence of Italy, and which has been circulated Of this possibly also of Franco. Japan has amount two millions have been taken up more than doubled hor steamship tounage in London by the Central China Bail- The balance of five millions in ten years, and there is every indica
ways, Ltd. tion of continued growth, for the present will be placed on the market in China boom in shipping is not likely to see p
shortly. | very sudden collapse. Even after pesos
The death occurred is declared and that event seems a long
on Sunday of way off yet-hundreds of ships will still Police Bergeant William Kendall, of the be needed for many months for military Hongkong Police Force. Deceased was transport purposes, while at the same recently admitted to hospital suffering time the tonnage needed to meet the from internal trouble. His condition special requirements of Germany, Austria gradually became worse, and he died on and Turkey will be very considerable. Sunday. He was 19 years of age, and. It is very significant of the opinion joined the Force from the R.G.A, in 1896, entertained in Home shipping circles that being promoted Sergeant in 1906......... Ho THEN CONSIDER are still being taken up for two, was a native of Yorkshire. The funeral at the Happy Valley yesterday was attended by the officers of the Polico A mail for Europe wii Siberis closes Force, and by the following members of the Police Reserve:-Chief Inspector C. to-day at 11 a.m.
F. Mason, Sergt-Major G. Roylance, Sergts. F. P. Silva-Netto, Un Hew Fan, Wong Kwong Tin, and A. B. Suffad. Thore were a large number of floral tributes from all the various Stations, aud Also a wreath from the officer and N CO of the Police Reserve..
12 8
2
8
"
Lithium Bicarbonate...12 Grains. Potassium- Magnesium Sodium Chloride Carbonated Water ...12 Ounces.
ASK YOUR MEDICAL PRACTITIONER FOR HIS OPINION ON THE ABOVE
AND.SEE IF HE DOES NOT THINK IT
AN EXCELLENT WATER
FOR THIS COMPLAINT,
WHY SHOULD YOU PAY
EXORBITANT PRICES.
FOR IMPORTED GOUT "WATERS
WHEN YOU CAN OBTAIN A
SIMILAR, ARTICLE
FRESHLY PREPARED
DIRECT FROM OUR OWN FACTORY
IN HONGKONG
AT A FRACTIONAL COST.
three and in some cases even six years.
It is stated in a Shanghai contempor- wry that £250 up to the present has been remitted by the Shanghai St. Andrew's Society to the funds of the Scottish Red Cross.
A telegram was received from the Manila Observatory at the American Consulate at 12.15 p.m. yesterday report
THE BARRIER." A. S. WATSON in a typhoon west of Balintang Channel,
By Rex Bench. THURSDAY, 29th July:---
& CO., LTD.
almost stationary.
Housekeepers should be interested in the announcement appearing in another
BELGIAN RELIEF FUNDS. SNOWBALL BAG SALE.
The Golf Bag "B" won by No. 23, and the Silver Bag won by No. 68 at the
"WHY SMITH LEFT HOME," FRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. column that the local Gas Company has Rares on July 9th have not been-claimed
The Boreaming Faroloal Comedy,
Mr. Smith
FRIDAY, 30th July :--
Charles Howitt,
The Amusing Comedy,
"DON +
A TALE OF A PARSON'S MOST UNUSUAL SON,
A SMILE, A LAUGH, A SIGH, & TEAR,
Saturday, 31st July:---
The Latest London Success, MILESTONES.
Monday, 2nd August :---
LAST PERFORMANCE, The Famous Comedy,
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
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BIRTHS. ANDERSEN.--On July 21st, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. M. ANDERSEN, a
son.
HYNES-On July 24th, at Mayfield, The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. HYKEE, &
[796 daughter.
MARRIAGE.
appointed a lady canvasser, who speaks English and Chinese fluently, for the pur- pose of demonstrating the proper method of using gas cookers, water heaters, etc.
The Kuo Ming Kung Pao reports that the British Legation has considered necessary to institute an investigation into the inside working of the differont line which British money has been in vested, and it is said that the British Minister has communicated this intention
NOTIOR JE HERE fimated Lisbilly T PERMANENT PASSES issued by the A MESSAGE FROM MARS," CARE BAKER. On July 20th, at, Shung-to the Ministry of Communications.
IS GIVEN that the
registered at Hongkong nader the psms of S. J. DAVID & Co., LTD., has undertaken the Liquidation at Hongkong and Shanghai of the Firm of B. J. DAVID & Co, and (among other thinge) will carry on the Business of the said Firm; and will discharge and receive all Debts das brand owing to the said Firm in Hongkong and Shanghai.
S. J. DAVID & Co., LTB. Hongkong, 20th July, 2010.
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THE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRO YEAR OF THE KEPUBLIC OF CHINA. SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000)
AND
SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUR OF EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS ($8,000,000),
QUBSCRIBERS to the above LOAN are
hereby notified that the Interest Instalment for the month of July amounting to Dollars 0.16 Hundred and Twenty Thousand (8120,303) has been duly received by the Undersigned and brought to Loan Service Accusunt.
F. A. AGLEN, Inspector Cleaoral of Castorns, and Vico-Chairman of the Bureau of
National Loa128. Inspectorate General of Customa,
Peking, 15th July, 1918-
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WHANGPOO CONSERVANCY BOARD.
NOTIFICATION No. 58.
TENDER FOR TU 18 AND BARGES.
ENDERS Ar by invited for the ENDERS
follo vine Steal Vasaul
A. ONE TU-BOAT for Tawing of Drad
pur, Dolg og Birgen, eta, with Engine Dilapias ab at 400 İ.K.P. B. ONE TUG-BOAT for Towing of Eagine Burger with De dging Deloping shout 250 I.B.P.
C. TARRE TOPPER-BAKGES (to be omotied by proping only) fa loading
PROVOST MARIHAL will not be available after August 7th next. Any person desiring to renew
PERMANENT PASS should give Notice to the CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE- stating in full the reasons for his request, the places to which he desires to procood, the average number of journeys made out of the Colony month, and at the same time rotarn the Permanent Pass in his possession.
B
If the application is granted it will bo necessary for the applicant to forward two
Horace Parker
Charles Howitt
COMMENCING AT 9.15 P.M." PRICES: $3, 82 & $1. BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S. Hongkong, 19th July, 1915.
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eoples of his photograph, and call personally BAGS OF USED POSTAGE STAMPS.
at the Central Police Station.
The size of the photograph should be abini
C. McI. MESSEL, ・・ Captain Superintendent of Police. Hongkong, luth July, 1915.
G.
NOTICE.
E.
(77%
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asistio or Indian
A desiring to leave the Colony should apply in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, at least 48 hones before the intended hour of departare, givin name, nationality, age, sos, keight land scanpation of :
the applicant, 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 at the CENTRAL POLNI STATION between the hours of 9 am, to 1 FM, and
P.M. to 4 P.M. daily. Hongkong, 10th July, 1915.
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FOR IMMEDIATE SALE.
twice last meeting, sound, very good pace ; DOAN Poor (des] Deblis, winner and placed
should win a race.
Apply -
LT-Cox' WYNDHAM-QUIN. Hongkong, 19th July, 1915.
SUITABLE FOR. PRESENT).
ALL ASTATION 2,000 for $5.00 300 $1.00
ALL CHINA. 3,000 for $3.50-
300, $1.00
MIXED STAMPA.
3,000 for $2.00 1,000 $1.00 ALL HONGKONG. **1,500 for $4:50 300, $1,00
GRACA & CO..
No. 11a, CAINE ROAD, Hongkong, China. Hongkong, 27th July, 1915.
DRINK
ALLSOPP'S
1785
BRITISH PILSENER
BEER
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SOLE AGENTS:
for separately Sale Teiders for way ez
SAVE YOUR
GIVE YOUR RAZORA
NEW LEASE OF LIFE.
CALDBECK,
es inity about 320 enbic yards of
Band,
Esch of the above Items should be tendered
all of the ab ve Yu-iele, saldmesed to the BLADES member we do all kinds of MACGREGOR&C.
#WEANOPO ANSERVANCY BOARD. Shanghai," and market **TENDERS FO TUGS AND BARGES," mu be wat in 1-8 ti rasch the 75 Cra Bosed by Now on MONDAY, September 97th, 1915.
per.
General specifi Hons for the above Vezels Dosen.
Engla
ing Department, 6. Kuklang Road,
The Bos d
the lowest and tende. De
grinding and edge making. We
sharpen Clippers, Shears, Scissors,
hai, CATHERINE JANE, widow of the late GEORGE BAKER, to JAMES WILLIAM CARLO.
Two fatal cases of plague were reported in the Colony of Hongkong for the HONGKONG Ormon:10, Des Vœux Road C. week ending July 9th, both being LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, EU. Chinese. Since the commencement of the year there have been 100 cases and sc deaths from plague, all being Chinese. Last week, also, there was a fatal Chinese cass of diphtheria, three Chinese cases of enteric fever, two proving fatal, and throo fatal cases of puerperal fever, one Portuguese and the rest Chinese.
The Daily Press.
Hosarose, JULY 27TH 1915,
JAPANESE SHIPPING.
on
The Postmaster-General (Mr. E. D. C. Tat war is said to have put out of Wolfe prosecuted a coolie employed by commission for commercial
purposes Messe Jardine, Matheson & Co. for upwards of 12,000,000 tons of shipping conveying unstamped letters out of the reckoning vessels detained in neutral and
Defendant was arrested Colony. belligerent countries (3,650,000 tons) board the Laisang, one of the Indo-China vessels sunk by warships (800,000 tons), Company's steamers, and the letters, and vasola chartered by belligerent which were marked "On Company's Powers (7,500,000 tone). This represuite business," were said to contain lottery something like 25 per cent. of the world's mercantile marine. The swift elimination
tickets. The case was remanded.
by the winners. It is intended to raille thers articles again at the Ministering Children's Bazzar unless claimed in the
meantime.
A further sum of $102.25 has been paid to the Snowball Bag Sale Fund at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
HONGKONG-OWNED STEAMER IN COLLISION. NORWEGIAN VESSEL SINKS IN FEW MINUTES.
Straits papers contain particulars of a disastrous collision between the steamer Brisbane (716 tons), owned and managed by Messrs. Carmichael & Clarke, of Hongkong, and the Norwegian-owned steamer Vival (846_tons), which occurred at about 3 o'clock on the 14th inst, off Tiger Island, 80 miles from Singapore." The Fival was struck practically amid- ships, and dived straight down by the head in a very few minutes, throwing crew and passengers into the water. Five of the passengers and six of the crew Chinese) wore drowned.
thorough overhaul in Hongkong recently, and she was on her second trip from Singapore to Bangkok when the collision occurred. She carried a general cargo, which, happily, was not damaged, the vessel springing no leak.
The Bisbane went into Tanjong Pagar Dock for repairs, which, we understand, will occupy a period of from 25 to 30 days. Her bows were badly store in and crumpled some four feet below the decks, and the main blow, on the port bow, has twisted the bows to starboard. She has two iron bulkheads abait the tank, and of go large a percentage of skips from A visitor to Tsingtau writes: --Tsing~
it is thought that these saved the vessel the
trade routes necessarily tan begins to look like self again. from destruction. The vessel underwent a wrought a wonderful transformation in Steamers come and go daily. We are. shipping conditions throughout the agreeably surprised at the entire absence world, and nowhere was this mons of Military occupation. We have been evident than in the Far East. Within a hero five days and have suarcely seen any few days after the declaration of war officers or soldiers. The hotels under the navies of the Allied Powers had their new management are thoroughly up rid the cosam highways of every to date. They have all been repaired and German and Austrian mercantile ship. refurnished at a great deal of expence and Those that were fortunate enough to the rates are very reasonable. escape captare found refuge in home and
There are doubtless many eld residents neutral ports and left the carrying trade of the world to the ships, of the other of Hongkong who remember Mr. F. T. Foster, whose death W28 Powers, belligerent and neutral. As scoo Pearoc. as the fret shock of the war had passed, announced in cur columns yesterday as and it was seen that the British and having cccurred at his residence, Quarr allied navies were in a position to Count, Binstead, Isle of Wight, on June guarantee the safety of cosa traie, 20th. Mr. Foster was formerly a partner
on trade revised and shipping in the firm of Messrs. Linstead and freights went up with a rush. To-day, Davis for about ten years, coming to nearly twelve months after the declara Hongkong in 1883 and retiring in 1893 Pocket Knives, Surgical Instra WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. tion of war, does shipping i; enjoying His died at the rips age of 71 after an z prosperity it has not experienced for operation for appendicitis. He is sur tomoy years. Instead of a superabundance vived by his wife and a daughter who of tonnage resulting in rainous competi- has also recently become a widow, her tion, as was the case prior to the war, husband, a Major in the Army, having shipping space for cargoes offering is now been killed in action.
iments, etc.
WE SHARPEN EVERYTHING,
15 Queen's ROAD CENTRAL,
at hid themselves to seep! THANGPOO CONSERVANCY BOARD.
Shanghai, 15 b July, 1915,
· Hongkong, 22nd July, 1918,
CAMPBELL, MOORE & Co., LTD.
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the
The official enquiry into the collision, does not open until the 28.h August, six weeks after the accident. This scens, to be a very unecessary and unbusizosaliko delay.
OF
CHINESE CHAMBERS
COMMERCE, SOME INSTRUCTIVE FIGURES. According to the statistics recently col
number of Chambers of Commerce
locted by the Ministry of Commerce, the throughout Chia has greatly increased during the past year. There are at pre- sent 960 Chambers of Commerce against 794 ihst year when only 186,336 shops were enrolled. The latter now number 230,431
The officers serving in these bodies uumber 22,002 against 21,854 last year.
increased from $1,023,558 to approximate- The total of membership fees has also ly $1,500,000.