(DVERTISEMENTS
ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET
COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
FROM UNITED KINGDOM, COLOMBO PENANG, SINGAPORE, Erc.
THE Steamship?
THE
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"RADNORSHIRE," having arrived from the stove Parts, Consign of Cargo by her are hereby informed that a Goods are being landed at their riak into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. 14, whence and/or from the wharves
may be obtained, doods not cleared by the 9th Ang., at.b F.3.,
will be subject to ront.
ATS
All broken, abafod and daringed packages to be left in the Gadowns, where they will be stamined on 9th Aug., at 9.30 .. Claims against the Steamer mast be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognized,
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us ir any case whatever.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 2nd August, 1915.
NOTICE.
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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 38», 1915.
ENTEMAINMENTS
THEATRE ROYAL,
Charles Howitt
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB. NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Atembera of the above Club will be held at the Clab House, Happy Valley. on FRIDAY, the 13th day of August, 1915, at 6.30 P., when the subjoined Resolution, which was passed at the Extraordinary General Mesting of the Members of the above Club held TONIGHT!
on the 29th day of July, 1915, will be submitted for confirmation sa a Special Resolution:--
That the Articles of Association of the ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB be altered in the manner following
That the following words bs inserted in Article 42 after the word "Creditore":
or bo the subject of a nation between which and Great Britain a state of war 'orists."
By Order,
TW. HILL, Acting Honorary Secretary. Hongkong, 30th July, 1915.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the Bad August, to SATURDAY, the 14th period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 27th July, 1015,
A. Phillips Co.
INTIMATION
BY APPOINTMENT.
osCo. WATSON'S
Turskir, 3rd Aug. :—
The Great Egyptian Drams,
BELLA DONNA.”
WEDNESDAY, 4thhug. :—
ANNIVERSARY
资料
THE WAR.
The Popular Farse,
"WHAT THE BUTLER SAW," When 40% of the Night's proceeds will be given to the
***RED CROSS FUND.” The support of Patrons is kindly requested so that a subatanțel sum can be given to the
WE HAVE authorisni M DUDLEY August, 1915 (both days inclusive), during which above most deserting osuse,
VAUGHAN STEAVENSON
to
Sign our Firm name a Partuer from the First day of August, 1916,
DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON & HARSTON.
Hongkong, 1st August, 1915.
NOTICE.
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that
IS HEREBY NOTIFIED I'
1 sm Resoming Business as a STOCK and SHARE BROKER en my own account as from 1st August.
W. G. WOROSTER
18, Dea Veur Road,
Hongkong, 31st July, 1915.
LOST.
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NOTICE.
1800
DONALD MACDONALD, of York
1, Building Hongkong, hornby give Notise that in consequence of having purchased the S.S. ORIENTAL," I have applied to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Blerchant Shipping Act. 1691, in respect of the ship ORIENTAL" of Greenock, official number 03,210. of gross tonnage 5,284 loor, rogistor tonnage 3,085 tons, heretofore owned by THE PENTNRUTA & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co., for permission to change her name to HONG KHENG" and to have her registered in the new nume at the Port of Hongkong s
ON July 20h, hatto KT, BLAMES CO, LTD,
Penk, a DIAMOND BEE BROOCH Findor rewarded on returning same to
IL F.,
of 63, Kling Street, Singapore.
Any objections to the proposed change of name must be out to the Registrar of Shipping at Hongkong within seven days from the appearance of this advertisement.
105, Peak.
Hongkong, 31st July, 1918.
(812
1915.
FOR IMMEDIATE SALE.
Rtwice last meeting, sound, very good pace;
DOAN Pony Ideal Dahlis, winner and placed
should win a rade.
Apply
Lr-Com WYNDHAM-QUIN.
Hongkong, 10th July, 1916,
1739.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
THURSDAY, 5th Aug., and Last Performance:- The Screwing Farcical Comedy, "ARE YOU A MASON?"
PRICE: $3, $2 & $1. BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S. NIGHTLY AT 9.15.
Hongkong, 3rd August 1915.
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ALIEN ENEMIN (WINDING UP) ORDINANCE, 1914, AND
IN THE MATTER OF BEEN MEYER & COMPANY LIMITED, AN ENEMY COMPANY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THESAID ORDINANCE.
NOTICE OF SALE FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD LANDS AND HOUSES. SITUATE AT
OF
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BROWN
BRANDY
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MY HEART.
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& CO., LTD,
Dsted at tougkong, this 30th day of July Collyer Gaay, De Sours Street, Prince Streek, A.
AUCTIONS
[$10
IMPORTANT AUCTION OF LAND IN SWATOW
L. MOORE & CO., LTD. (Established 1874),
FAVING baan favoared with instructions TUPOR IN ENGLISH AND HISTORY AND HAVING FAVOR
READER IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY,
THE above Post will he VACANT from the 15th September, 1915. Salary CU per natum payable in demand drafts on London, and Quarters.
University degree and teaching experience
are venential.
Fall particulars may be obtained from the Itegistrar, to whom applications, testimoninis,
of the estate of FRANK HABRY HYDE (in Bankrupty), will sell by Public Auction within their Salesrooms,
Ox TUESDAY,
Robertson Qu, Kanisah Marlosa Road, Mohamed Satin Road and Grange Road, Singapore.
TO BE SOLD
BY
PRIVATE TENDER.
WATSON
The 31st August, 1915, has boon fixed as the WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
last day for thioceptance of tenders.
Coples of the Particulars and Conditions of Sale and forma Tender can be obtained on and after the 25th June, from the Liquidator at Ne, 4, Collyer Quay, Singapore, or from the Undersigned,
BISSON & DELAY, 161 CHANGE ALLEY, Singapore, Solicitors for the Liquidator,
[766 Bingapore lit July, 1915.
GIVE YOUR RAZOR A NEW LEASE OF LIFE. Bemember Ewe do all kinds of
SAVE
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
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irr.
I suppose that now that the flood is
at
acquainted with, did his popularity The black typhoon signals wore taken dwindle. Indeed, those who looked pou down last evening. They had been up ̈ the fairy-tales as puerilo were inclined for 58 hours, to think that WELLE bid more in hini
A San Francisco-born Chinese, Hua than they bad given him credit for., The
Chiuen Moi, LL.B., has been admitted to Whools of Chance" is as delightful a pics of comedy as any in English the Bar of the Federal Courts of the United States. He is the first men of his literature. But unfortunately, Mr. WELLS fell into the miconception that he race to win this distinction. was something of a philosophor dhe
At the annual meeting of Singapore St. commenced to set forth his philosophic Andrew's Society it was decided to hand views in works which only served to over the Society's balance in the Wan reveal his philosophic ignorance Me Rohief Fund to the loost Prince of Weus had been fond, in his novels, of Wales' Fund. It was nier digreed, instead dwelling on the chaotic state of mind of of the annual ball, to invite members to the average individual, but if we are to send their subscriptions for the same pur Judge by Mr. WELLS' philosophic works, pose. Mr. Adair was reelected Presidend this impression arises from the chaos of of the Society, and Mr. Still Vice- his own mind a philosopher who can President. definitely assert that there is no auch science, as sociology and that humen relations are governed entirely by chance down i Canton you had to come down eam only appeal to the unthinking andhere to steal," remarked Nr. Landell in ancritical. Lately Mr. WELLS has made sentencing a Chinese stranger charged a new departure in the shape of pro-with pocket-picking to three months' hard. the Magistrsey yesterday. blem" novels, dreary productions which alour are supposed to throw light on various The story for the prosecution was that th social questions of a complicated nature. | defendant suddenly snatched a leather, As tho "problem", novel, like the purso from the pocket of a Chineso ugar "problem" play, dea's, for some inserut-the junction of Wing On Street and Des able reason, only with high society, Mr. Voeux Road West, and neatly dropped it WELLS has felt compelled to enter circles into an umbrella which he was carrying. of which he has little knowledge and The complainant saw the maneuvre, how- wherein he moves very, awkwardly. The over, and the thief took to his heels," The result is depressing. It is also con other man chased him, and the thief fusing, because Mr. WELLS has felt com reversed, the numbrella and the purso
alf his former | dropped out-A-lakong joined in the chase, - pelled to throw очет beliefs. From extrene Socialism he has and captured the defendant, who had now drifted to high Toryism; the taken refuge in a shop, the fokis of which emancipation of women is to hima "the declared they did not know him. Défend- great insane movement," and his former aut, told the Magistrate that ho game to political associates are arotien hot,"
the Colony on the previous day, He This is the Mr. WELS who now comics walked about Taim Tsa-sui for some time, forward to tell us what we should do and then came over to the Hongkong side, with the war, and what we should do He was locking for a relative, and knew when the war is ended. It would not
nothing whatever about the theft. be interesting to analyse his proposals; suffice it to say that his latest offusion contains a suggestion for neutralising. Mr. all the waterways of Germany. WELLS means well, no doubt, but it seems to us that he would do a good deal He is not better to stick to his last. increasing his reputation, and he runs the risk of making himself uidiculous. Mr.
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BENNETT is wikther the
THEATRE ROYAL.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR,
Tomorrow every tuwa, village and hamlet throughout the British Empira
day when Great Britain declared war will be celebrating the anniversary of the prolific
with the object of upholding the cause of who has arned favous Liberty and annihilating the oppressive of the public by writing books and barbarous militarism of Germany.
ABNOLD writer
01 certain aspects of
life with The Lit Phillip Ca, who are to
which he is very familiar. All
writers are interesting when they write stage on that night What the Butler Saw," announce that 40 per cent of the of what they know by personal obser
ture,
His
BIRTHS.
vation, and Mr. BENNETT'S ndies of gross receipts for that night will be given JORGENSEN-On July 24th, at Shanghai,
to Mr. and Mrs. JonESSEN, a dangh-lift in the Poterice, if not great literate Red Cross Fund: It is hoped that the Company will be well supported that auro eminently readable.. MACPHAIL-On July 28th, at Shanghai;. limitations, however, become plainly night so that a substantial sun may be
discernible when he passes from things collected for this nrest deserving cause.
The Company gave a capital perform-
to Mr. and Mrs. A. W. MACPHAIL, & daughter.
YOUR BLADES ginding and edge making. We TAYLOR. On July 27th, at Shanghai, to which he knows to things which he knows
the 10th Angest, 1915, at 4 F.M.-precisely, THAT VALUABLE AND VERY DESIRABLE PARCEL OF LAND, situste in the Foreign Settlement of Swatow and Hotel was recently de troyed by fire).
PARTICULARS: The Land held under one 75 Cle Foreign and iwo Chinese title deads.
sto, should be forwarded not, later, then the known as the site of the Swator Hotel (which
31st August.
Hongkong, 2nd August, 1915.
THE
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PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.
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The Aroa of the Land is
2,120 SUPERFICIAL FEET.
The Nour boundary measures 32 FEET and
Tas Hour
THE EAST
is bounded by property of the Estate of Dircks & Co, boundary measures 6 Frer and is bounded by a 16 Foot Road, boundary measures 60 FEET and i bounded by the Maritime
Customs property. Weer boundary measures 60 FEET and
is bounded by #10 Foot Road, The property is in the heart of the Foraign Settlement and comprises one of the best business Bites in the port
CONDITIONS OF SALE may be obtained an application to the Offics of this paper or direct from THE AUCTIONEER",
THE Undersigned, H.D.M. Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, hereby publicly notilles all whom it may concern that he has appointed the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA and the
BANKINGun HONGKONG AND SHANOMAI CORPORATION to be the Banks in China to which in accordanes with the provisions of Article V. of the "TRADING WITH THE REGULA- (AMENDMENT ENEMY TIONS," No. 10 of 1915, issued by him This Day, all the sums specified in §1 and §3 of that Article are to be paid by any person subjoot to the jurisdiction of His Mjesty's Supreme Court for Chins.
J. N. JORDAN.
Peking, 12th July, 1816.
Q.
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TRAVELLEES RESTRICTION
ORDINANCE
THE PUBLIC are informed that the
TPERMANENT PASSES issued by the
to
PROYOST MARSHAL will not be available after August 7th Bort. Any pemondesiring to renew a PERMANENT PASS should give Notice the CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE sisting in fall the rassons for his reqaent, the places to which he desires to proceed, the average number of journeys made out of the Colony
• month, and at the same time return the Permanent Pass in his possession
Pore application to rated it will be necessary for the applicant to forward two ooples of his photograph, and call personally at the Central Police Station."
The size of the photograph should be about
C. McI. MESSER Captain Superintendent of Police. 1772 Hongkong, 19th July, 1815,
9"x3"
B.
NOTICE.
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Adistic or Indian
A desiring to leave the Colony should apply
in writing for permission to do so to the
Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,
least
48 hours before the intended hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, height and occupation of the applicant, and stating the name of the steamer or other vessel or the hour of the brain by which the applicans wishes to leave Applicants should apply in person for their passes at the CENTRAL FOLIOM STATION between the hoare"of 94mt, so 1 PM. and 2 PM to 4 P.. daily,
Hongkong, 10th July, 1915,
1728
SEALED BIDS. The Anction will, as advertised; be held in Shanghai, and in order to give parohssare non- resident in Shanghai an opportunity to bid Sesled Offers in SHANGHAI Tarts will be accepted, which Offers will be opened in the rostrum at the time of the sale and in the presence of the Trustee.
L. MOORE & Co., Len, 45, Klangee Rout Shanghai, Anotioneers.
Shangha, 5th July, 1015.
R.
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PUBLIO AUCTION.
PARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of
the letting, by Pablo Diction
to be held on MONDAY, the 9th day of August, 1015, at 3 P., at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of Hrs EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR, of Oas Lot of CROWN LAND «t Conduit Road, In the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 year, with the option of renewal ut a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further
teria
of 75 yours,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT...
Noi of Bale.
Regitry No.
Locality.
Boundary Muasurements {{Approxipiate),
Cantenie
Square feet.
Annual Rent.
Upest Fries
P K
1:0
fect feel
feet fest
As per aleplan 28,037 181 4,406
abone)
per Dozen.
carpon Clippers, Shears, Scissort, Pocket Knives, Surgical Instru mints, etc.
WISHARPEN EVERYTHING. CAMPBELL, MOORE & Co., LTD.
[067 Hongkong, Bad July, 1815.
BAGS OF WED POSTAGE STAMPS.
SURABLE FOR PRESENTY.
ALL ABIMICS. 2,000 fer 15,00 300 $1.00 ALL-CENA. 3,000 for 50 300 $1.00
MIXED STAMPE,
3,000 for $2.00 1,000 $1,00 ALL HONGKONG. 1,500 for $1.50 300, $1.00
GRACA & CO..
No. 11. CAINE ROAD, Hongkong, China. Hongkong, 17th July, 1918.
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ALLSOPP'S
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BRITISH PILSENER
BEER.
BOLE AGENTS
CALDBECK,
Mr. and Mrs. C. SINCLAIR TAYLOR. a
Son,
HONGKONG OFFICE:10, Des Vœux Road C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, Avousy Jen, 1916
NOVELISTS AS
EXPERTS.
WAR
not. His fertile imagination can invent auce last sight of "A Message from a thousand details, but he lacks the Mars" before a good house. Tonight the power to give them the glamour of play is "Bella Douna." reality and he becomes prolix-a fatal fault, It is probably Mn. BENNETT'S
PIRACY IN DEEP BAY, facility with his pea and his training as a journalist, which have drawn him into
Twelve pirates, armed with rifles and war. There was a subject teeming revolvers, came alongsido a licensed boat with
of way possibilities in
in Deep Bay at midnight on the 29th ult journalism, from which great stores of held up the crew of the boat, agst forced
the
the
them into the hold of the vessel, where The robbers them they were imprisoned,
"copy" could be obtained. So MR. BENNETT commenced to inform the public, among other things of the reason for the STICK to your last
a very good recent political crisis, which was due to ransacked the boat, but did not secure a very valuable or useful hout, their booty maxim, and never probably has it placing military man at the head of a deserved more careful attention than at State Department and so on, spread over consisting of four old rifles, a revolver, the present moment, when every person two columus of what, in the end, must be two muskets which, doubtless, would ha who has succeeded in getting his namo considered as more verbiaga. MR. BENNETT of as much harm to the person using it as before the public is holding forth or and Mr. WELLS have, of course, a perfect to the person fired at one cannon, a suit cularly on the one great subject of the right to utter their views and, as they of clothing, and 810 in subsidiary coin, war. Yet it is obvious that a large are probably well paid for uttering them, the whole being worth just over $100. number of these gentlemen can have no no one can blame them for doing so. special knowledge of the subject which that we contend for is that their remarks they are so eager to write about, and it should be taken at their face value. The GARMENTS FROM HONGKONG, requires o large amount of investiga fact that they as popular noveliste does This week the following 61 garments have tion to discover that they have no special not mean that they are endowed with been sent to Miss Lloyd Thomas, 116 Mur- ability on these lines.
The public, it is superior insight into all the acts and ray Street, Hoxton, N., by the women of Hongkong and Foochow for the Belgian true, is very apt to believe that a gentle | sciences of life. man who can write a popular novel, or
Refugees:
a philosophie treatis, is fit to handle They believe any other theme on earth.
in the novelist because they have read his books and like them, and they believe in the philosopher because they have been told by some one else, who heard it from a university man, who was told of it by a professor, that the said philosopher had Bound views. The popular press, feeling the public pulec, discerns a commercial asset in the names of the novelist and the philosopher and draws them into its net, and so it comes to pass that Megare, WELLE, ARNOLD BENNETT & Co. End that writing war articles is as profitable as
MACGREGOR&C. writing novels, or
All
Mails for Europe ia Sibería close to-day at 11 am, and at 3 p.m.
The total sum elected by Mrs, Milroy for the Weekly Dispatch Tobacco Fund for the troops was £51, not £15 as was inadvertently stated in yesterday's issue
The police have been informed by Miss Munchen, of Kowloon, that some time be tween 11.30 p.m. en Friday and noon on Saturday a thief entered her bedroom, and stole from ber dressing-table a gold open-faced wrist watch, with leather strap d bangle attached, valued pseudo-philosophy. altogether at 863.
2 cloth coate and skirts, 1 cloth skirt, a moirette petticoats, 10 woolen golf conts, 4 woolen waist stats, 7 boy's sailor suits, 9 delaine and flannel blouses, 2 silk blouses, (all the foregoing were kindly given by Messrs. Powell), 2 scarves, 6 children's petticosts, 2 cúldren's suits, children's knickers, 1 children's woolen sweater und
8 boy's knickers, 2 boy's shirts, 4 pairs cap, 2 children's vests, 1 pairs night socks, stockings, 1 kimono, 1 coat and skirt, 9 pairs secks, and I cap.
CHINA'S CONSTITUTION, UNITED STATES TO BE TAKEN There is no doubt that both H. G. WELLS
FOR MODEL. and ARNOLD BENNETT are very clever The death is announced in Japan papers
Vice-President Li Yuan-hung in his writers The former, drawing his in of Mr. Walter Gasott, who has been the WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, Spiration from EDGAR ALLEN POE, by the United States Vic-Consul at Kobe for capacity as chairman of the Tenchung- help of a very pretty imagination and a the past ten years. Mr. Gassett had yuan, will become chairman of the con
which held a preliminary meeting on the modern touch, managed to gain the recently undergom at operations at the mittes for drafting the Constitution, Nor when U.S. Naval Hospital at Yokohama. He 25th July. It is understood that it has public car very quickly. tarred, aside from scientific romances to rallied splendidly but some days later been decided to use the Constitution of
the United States as a model. dealing with the side of life he was best had a fatal relapsi. :
15 QUEEN'S Road Central.
Hongkong, 2nd August, 1816,
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