I
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
HAVE This Day admitted Mr. A. L. ALVES
as Partner in my business and the style of
the Firm will henceforth be
A. GALLOTTI & Co. Hongkong, 1st September, 1915.
NOTICE.
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WALTER SINCLAIR, of 72. The Peak,
I, Hongkong. Mrchnat, and natural born British subject, originally of Swiss nationality, hereby declare that I have ASSUMED and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times SIGN and USE and be CALLES Bad KNOWN hy The SURNAME of SINCLAIR, in lieu of and ia sabstitution for Siegler aud that such obauge of name has been evidenced by a Deed Poll executed by mo, dated the 11th June, 1916, and which has been enrolled in the Central Office for the Supreme Court of Judicature.
Dated this 24th day of June, 1915,
WALTER SINCLAIR
Witness:--
R. A. EDGAR, Solicitor,
Manchester.
NOTICE
ENTERTAINMENTS
THEATRE
ROYAL,
FAREWELL VISIT
OF THE
HOWITT
PHILLIPS
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TO TINSMITIS AND KINDRED
TRADES.
POR IMMEDIATE SALE, & quantity of
Flightly water damaged open cases
TINPLATES.
1359 Canes 18" x 14" 124 sheets at 110 Ibe.
20" 10" 225 374
at 156.
For order to view apply--.
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO,
(S.C.). LTD.,
4. Kiep's Buildings, Hongkong Hongkong, 3rd September, 1918.
FOR SALE
of
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9BD, 1915.
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET
66
two minutes from Tram, Farnished SEVEN ROOMS. From 1st Novembor, 1915
Apply-
G. TISDALL, Russo-Asiatic Bank. Hongkong, lat September, 1915. [918
TO LET.
HOUSES in "TORRES BUILDINGS,"
Kowloon. Cheap rental Apply to→→
INTIMATION
BY APPOINTMENT.
WATSON'S
Formal announcement is made in the first column of this page that Mr. Walter Seigler has by a deed poll changed his
name to Sinclair.
Estimates come to be presented to the Legislative Council it will certainly be in no tone of complaint as to the amount of the levy. Though the revenue for 1915 was estimated this time last year to yield a somewhat larger amount than
The Chinese Probate action was con the revenue of 1914 we shall be surprised tinged at the Supreme Court yesterday, if these anticipations are fulfilled, and practically the whole day being occupied it is not improbable therefore that in with legal argument..
his time of war the Colony's contribution
imperial defence, reckoned on the pany will perform at the Theatre Royal
The popular Howitt-Phillips present basis of the lowy, will actually Tail far below the estimate.
this evening, when It may ba
Com-
*The Land of
SPANISH DOMINICAN FORMAZONE. stated that they inilitary contribution Promise is to be staged,
PROCURATION,
CO. Hongkong, 26th August, 1915.
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
FRIDAY, SEPT. BRD.
London's Latest Success,
THE LAND OF
PROMISE.”
PRICES: $3, $2 & 81.
COMMENCING AT 9.15PM.
BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S'
Hongkong, 31st August, 1816.
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BELLE VIEW HOTEL.
“SHAUKIWAN “Kolo TELEPHONE NO. 907.
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A
On SATURDAY, the 4th September,
and SUNDAY, the 5th September, GRAND DISPLAY
OF
HUMBER MOTOR-CYCLE and SIDE
35 CARE, do first glas vondition.
Apply
No. 3,
Cure of "Daily Press." Office. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1915.
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www
THE ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT
CLUB.
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETINGS.
FIREWORKS
will take place at the abov→ Hotel, Commencing from 8.31 to 11 P.M.
Admission...
50 Cents,
W. GALLAGHER,
Manager.
Hongkong, Iet September, 1915.
KE
[501
(Registered.).
TO LET.
THE Premises Na 88, SHAMEEN, B.C...
Canton,
comprising DWELLING HOUSE, GODOWNS and OUTHOUSES Istoly occupied by Mesara, F. BLACKHEAD & CO.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 24th August, 1915. [891
១០.
TO LET
い
NORMAN COTTAGE, No. 2, Peak Road, 4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediate posses. Apply....
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915, [876
TO LET.
HARPERVILLE, Garden Road, SEVEN
ROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, immediate possesion bonse la excellent-order- Tennis Court and Garden.
Apply
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 30th August, 1915. [876
TO LET:
FROM 1st September next, desirable SIX and EIGHT ROOMED Residences in Broadwood and Weng-Nal-Chong Roads, the latter commanding a Fine View of the Race Course.
For terms and particulas, apply to
A Refreshing, Invigorating and
Palatable drink, particularly suited
Parties.
for 1915 was estimated a year ago to Mr. G. W. Guthrie, U. 8. Ambassador amount to 22,241,305 as compared with to Japan, who has been visiting Amarion $1,816,505 in 1914 and 81,557,373 in 1913. Jon furlough, will arrive at Yokohama on If, however, the military contribution September 14th by the Jongolia. should fall short of the estimate the
Lieut. Noville Grible, of the Leicester- total military expenditure of the Colonyshire Regiment, who was wounded at is not likely to be much below the estimate, Nere Chapelle, hus bon promoted as the local expenditure on the Volun- Captain and has returned to the Front.. teers and in other directions has doubt- Jess been heavier than usual.
some extent
A Chines murried wohas has reported to the police that some person has stolen from her room in Connaught Road Con- tal jewellery to the value of $334, 'áad
anniversary of the coronation of the Monday, the 6th instant, being the
Hory Father, there will be Te Deant and. Benediction ap balm. at the Cathedral of the Immabulate Conception,
An extraordinary general meeting vi
This, however, is digressing somewhat from the subject of the article. The main point is that the Crown Colonies, like the Self-governing Colonies, share $280 in money, for Tennis, Shooting and Bathing defence by direct taxation, while the the burden of imperial
thousands of Britons who live in foreign eogantries under the protection of British Consuls contribute not.
penny to imperial defence. It scarcely needs to be said that the men and women of "British race wherever they reside have members of the Royal Hongkong Yacht raspunded splendidly to the many appeals Club is called for Monday the 13th inst for subscriptions to a variety of objects for the purpose of passing › resolutions of a philanthropic nature for the most which will have the effect & expelling part, which have been issued during German and Austrian members, the war. They have contributed to the PRINCE OF WALES' Fund and to various other relief funds, as well as to funds for presenting aeroplanes ambulances to the Army, But in this respect, af course, they do not differ from the communities which are taxod for imperial defence. With particular H. H. van Kees, an unemployed Dutch. reference to the Britons living in China, engineer, was charged at the Magistracy Professor SMITH says: "They pay no yesterday with doing damage to a chain direct taxes towards the cost of the war and also ill-treating a coclie. The while they live in China, If they die, engineer was not present in Court and
PINTS $1.00 PER Doz. SPLITS 60 CTs.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 16th July, 1915.
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TRADE
MARK
T020
NOTICA.
y
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO., LTD.
Na EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
MEETING of the ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB will be held at the Club House, North Point, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 13th day of September, 1915, at 0.30 o'clock, in the afternoon, when the anbjoined two
DOLLAR (91) per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1915, will be Payable on MONDAY, the 6th September, 1915, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained st the Company's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
NO
TO LET A HOUSE si Obyervatory Villas
Kowloon
Apply to
"ARRATOON V APOAE & Co. Hongkong, 6th July, 1915.
TO LET.
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Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 3rd HOLE or PART SHOP in Chater
Resolutions:-
1: That it is not for the comfort or conveni-September, to MONDAY, the 6th September,
ence of the Members of the Club as a whole, or of the Subscribers or Visitors thereto, that any Member who is the subject of a Nation between which and Grant Britain a state of war exists should continue to be a Member of the Club
2. That the Articles of Association be accordingly altered by the insertion of this following additional paragraph at the end of Article XXXII, namely:~~~
"Any Member who is the subject of a Nation between which and Grast Britain a state of war exists shall, ipso facto, cease to be a Member of the Club and shall no longer be satitled to any of the privileges of the Clab."
And Notice is hereby also given that a Further Extraordinary General Monting of the aboro Clad will be held at the Club House aforesaid, ou MONDAY, the 4th day of October, 1915, at 6.30 'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceslings at the above-mentioned Ex- traordinary General Meeting of the 13th day of September, 19:6, and of confirming, if thought fit, as special resolutions, the above- mentioned resolutione.
Dated the 2nd day of September, 1015: By Order of the General Committee,
REGINALD BROWN,
Hon. Secretary,
THE ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB,
is
Articles, an above, made, the immothate
effer will be that any present Member who is the subject of a Nation now at war with Great Britain will, facto, cease to be a Member as from the date of such alteration.
REMOVAL NOTICE.
1923
OUR OFFICES Lave This Day beou REMOVED to No. 65, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL.
1917
LIM & HUNT and YEE KEE HONG. Hongkong, 31st August, 1915.
WANTED.TM
JAPANESE 31 years of age. Married.
positiva a nord Work Assistant
or Bokke par. Exporis see on Accounting Staff of Buck Ast as Clark of Shipyard, Full investigation ertid. Balary to be rattlad after trial,
Write-
O. SAKAÏ, No. 11, D'Aguilar Steent Hongkong, 18th Anguit 1916.
(871
HOSOKAWA & CO.
KITANO-CHO, SATSUMABORI, OSAKA, JAPAN.
PAINT BAUSH,
WIRK BRUSHI
FOR BOILER TUBE.
Mancfsetarers and Exporters of the
following:
PAINT BRUNIA.
WIRE BRUSH FOR BOILER TUBE.
BRUSH FOR SHIP'S USE.
Other Kinds of Bause.
Catalogue sert on request.
[909
1915, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co...
General Managers. Hongkong, 30th August, 1915. [013
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
Road,
Apply
CLARK & Co., Opticians, Hongkong, 20th June, 1915.
(705
TO LET.
Second Floor, Overlooking Harbour THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET-immediate possession.
ING of SHAREHOLDERS in the
Apply To above Company will be held at the Company's
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co Offices, on FRIDAY, the 17th of September, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the
Hongkong, 3rd December. 1914. Koport of the General Managers, together with
Statement of Accounts to 20th June, 1016. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd to the 17th of September, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co..
General Managera. Hongkong, 27th August, 1915. [90%
G.
R.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.
KING'S REGULATION NO. 10 or 1915.
THE Undersigned, His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, pablicly notifies all whom it Majesty's Government that delivery of goods may concern that it has been droided by Elis
already sold to nemy arms in Chins must be completed by the following time limits:
Not later than August 25th, 1915, in respect of goods already in stock in China;
Not later than five days after arrival in the port of discharge in China in respect of goods which left the United Kingdom prior to July 26th, 1975, but which bare not yet arrived in
respect of goods which left the United Kingdom Not later than September 25 h, 1916, in
China;
TO LET
HOUSE
Kowloon,
in
Kuntsford Torrans
Apply--
A
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- ?MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, let March, 1915
FOUR
TO LET.
F45
MOUR-ROOMED FLATS in Hauvi Road, Kowloon, and MAY ROAD, Hongkong, with possession in October next. English Baths and Kitchen Ranges, Hot and Cold Water, Electric Light First Clas Modern Appointments throughout, including
FOUR-ROOMED HO
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terrace and Ballebury Avenue, Kowloon, FLATS in Nathan Road Kowloon. A FLAT in Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloon. Apply to-
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LTD Alerandes Buildings. Hongkong, 17th July, 1916.
TO LET.
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O
notor
Shanghai are reported to have obtained- Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Co. of the contract for the whole of the lighting of the city of Hangohow. The machinery will be supplied partly by British and partly by American firms.
WATSON each duties are collected, and appa- his bait of 815 was estreated.
& CO., LTD.,
rently go to the Imperial treasury; but that contribution falls on their heirs. They hare great privileges as Britons; they have a pride of race, increased by
entrusted the chief steward of the ship The Chief Officer of the str. Tungus
provisions. Neither the steward nor the with $100 with which to purchase the ERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. the action of their country during the war. They came foward with voluntary
provisions have been seen dinge, and the. contributions, Are they likely to refuse
police are investigating the mattor, ta dire contribution to the home. Goy." Mr. E. J. S. Tanner, who
criwment? For the cost of the war is about eight sears in the servies of thos and will be, so great that the burden | Hongkong and Shanghai Bank as Tient- SCATCHARD.-On August 26th, at Shang- mi be spread over all the citizens of sin and Shanghai, and who resigned in
hai, ito Mr. and Mrs. R. the Empire." SCATCHARD, & SON.
As the Professor goes on April in order to volunteer for activo to remark, it is much easier to suggest service, has enlisted in the 5th City of MARRIAGE.
London Rifles.
BIRTH
HONGKONG OFFION: 101, Des Vœux Road LONDON Orpion: 181, FLEET STREET, EC.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, SEPTEMBRE 3D, 1915,
OVERSEA BRITONS AND
THE WAR,
Was
for
HUGUES-ZIMMERMAN. On August 26th, ata direct contribution than to explain how Shanghai, LLEWELLYN J. HUGHES of it can he collected. The fairest forth the PW.D., Shanghai Municipal of taxation is, perhaps, the income tax; Conseil, to CREISTINE A. ZIMMERMAN,
Captain C. C. Foss, who was mentioned, of Gainsborough, Lines,
but, as Professor SMITH observes, it is in a recent telegram as having been V.C. Mor conspicuous costly to colleof and possible of crasion, awarded the and he leaves the subjec, with the bravery at Neuve Chapelle, was born at further suggestion that just as in the Kobe, his father being the Bishop of case of the self-governing colonies, the Osaka. Captain Foss already possessed suggestion of help in various forms came the D.S.O. decoration, from the Colonies themselves, so, too,
A Tientsin paper says, that among those might the Britons Overseas propost a system of contribution which would
leaving for home shortly with the inten- enable them to share the duty and Reynolds and E. Dovics of the Eastern tion of joining the army are Messrs. responsability which the war has cast Engineering Works, Mr. N. Coppin, of upon the Empire At the present the P.M. Railway at Shanhaikuan, and time, we believe, the only contribution M. A E. Greoniund, of Jardine. Mathe In an article published in the North- which British residents in the Treaty on & Co., Tientsin, China Daily News Professor MIDDLETON ports of China make to the imperial SMITH, of the Hongkong University, dis- funds is the annual registration fee of Another Shanghai man has met his cusses the position of Britous overseas two dollars demanded from each British death while serving his country at the in regard to the important duty of subject. Is there not in this registration Dardanelles, A few weeks ago a letter wa sharing in the financial burden which the fee-which may be described as a poll received in Shanghai stating that Mr. war entails on the Empire.
He divides tax-the germ of a system of taxation W. J. Smythe, formerly a pupil at St. the Imperial family into four classes: for imporial defene? the inhabitants of the United Kingdom; be increased for
It could oasily Francis Xavier's College, had been the Self-governing Dominions; the Crown
this specia! purseverely woundbi. A telegram was Colonies, and Dependencies; and finally of.
Any other compulsory system received last week announcing his death. taxation in tre Britons from Shanghai
ports The deceased was attached to the second Treaty may not bo very practicable,
Australian contingent. Valparaiso, who live in foreign countries given the wish on the part of British under the protection of British Consuls."wesidents in China to fulfil the patriotic Prince Shimadzu, former lord of the The deeth has coeurred in Tokyo of The first class the millions at Home-duty of coming into line with Hongkong Kagoshima clan. He was born in Kago- are subject to both direct and indirect in the matter of muking a contribution shima in 1855, the sixth son of Prince taxation by the Imperial Government for to imperial defence, it ought not to be Hisamitsu Shimadzu. After taking an imperial defence, and, as Professo: SMITH impossible for a Pairintis Committee to active part in the Restoration he received remarks, they are paying this taxation eraive some equitable a-stem for thein 1884 the title of prinos as a reward in a most admirabis spirit. With regard taxation of British companies and firms. for his services to the throne. to the self-governing colonies, "thy A system of voluntary taxation could received the Second Order of Merit, was also pay, for they are sending equipment,only be maintained, however, while stores ote, for their troops," and ve
a member of the House of Poers and a BAZELDENE No. 53, Hobinson Road, think it may be added that they are also patriotism is at fover heat, but it is while 5 ROOMS with Garden and Tennis Court.
No, S. THE ALBANY."
the war is in progress that the money is As to the Crows moded most-the post-bellum obligations ROOMS, in Duddell Street.
Colonies and Dependencies, they also
The death at the front is reported of "KOSENEATH.", Hankow Rd., Kowloon. No. 6. BELILIOS TERRACE
pay, and Professor Sirg mentions
we count upon being net largely out of Mr. W. B. Andrews, Assistant Commis- No. 26, BELILIOS TERRACE with Hongkong as typical of this class, who the indemnities which our enemies willeioner of Police of the Federated Malay entrance on Conduit Road.
be required to pay for plunging the States. He was only 24 years of apa, and No.
annually pay twenty per cous, of their R. Garden Cr Tonis Court, on se alevated entrance in Conduit Road. In very good order 27, BELILIOS TERRACE, with
rovenues to the Imporial Government as
nations into this ghastly struggle ONE GODOWN, No. 8, Burrows Street, a military contribution. He is not tempted Wssthei.
TWO GODOWNS, in Daddell Street.
into
discussion of the Colony's to-day at 1 p.m. - #WOODBURY," No. 4, Hankow Road,grievances respecting the basis of this
levy beyond remarking that no one can
after July 25th, 1915, but which had been handed to an inland carrier for shipment before July 26th, 1915.
Delivery of goods to enemy firms in China will not be permitted after the dater montioned above.
J. N. JORDAN, His Britannic Majesty's Minister. Peking, Aux ast 14th, 1915. N.B-Ia accordnce with instructions dated August 20th. from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, it is hereby notified is referencs to the buvo that goods from say It itish Colony or Dominion will be accorded treatment precisely similar to goods from the United Kingdom.
E. C. WILTON, Acting British Consal General, Canton.
Exhibited 26.8.15.
E. C. WILTON,
Acting Consul General
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WANTED.
ESIDENCE of 5 ROOMS or more, with
position, excepting Wanchai or East.
Apply to
"K."
Care of Daily Press" Ofios. nagkong, 28th August, 1916.
Goo
TO LET. From 1st March.
LODOWN, No. 6, Duddell Street,
Apply-
A. B. AVASTA,
[905
Care of E. PABANDY,
No. 1, Daddell Street, Hongkong, 2nd February, 1916.
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occupation of Messra. Dennys & Bowley. FROM 1st October next, OFFICES at 2, Connaught Road, at present in the
DOUSES in CLIFTON WADDENS, Conduit Bord.
OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Post Office,
.. 63, THE PRAX "THE RETREAT.” 21, WONG-NELCHONG ROAD, GODOWNS, New Praya, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, at Wandhai Road. apply, eta,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., Len. Hongkong, 1st August, 1915.
N° Kowloon.
TO LETT.
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TO. 4, "FAIRVIEW," Nathan Road, No. 3, DES VEUX VILLAS, 62, THE PRAK.
Kowloon.
"WESTWARD HO," Bonham Road. "MERION," No. 6, THE PEAK, Unfurnished (6 Rooma),
"ROGATE," Austin Bond, Kowloon,
No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 51, PMAX
(Unfurnished)
No. 52, THE PEAK (5 CAMERON VILLAS. Apply to- LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
3rd Floor, Alexandra Balidings. Hongkong, 23rd August, 1016,
paying their troops.
2
to
pos
the
but
A mail for Europe vid Siberia, closes
The public are reminded that applica- approve of a system of taxation for tions for shares of Malaguit Extension imperial defence which makes it necessary Placer Co. should be sent to International to raise one million dollars to pay for Banking Corporation po-day.
a reservoir costing eight hundred thou-i sand dollars to build.” If the subject
Prof. Henry C. Adams, of Michigan University, has returned to Peking, where
Ho had
lord-in-waiting to the Imperial Palace.
joined the F.M. 8. Sorvine as a Polica Pro- hationer in 1910. In the ordinary course he went to China to study Chinese, and on his return to the Maley States jo. 1913 was sent to Pahang, where he acted as Chief Police Officer until February of last year. He went on leave in August, having just previously been appointed an Assistant Commissioner of Police, and shortly after, his arrival Kome joined the Royal Irish
of the basis of the military contributo be will bo again an Adviser to Yuan Shin Rifles as a second lieutenant. He had been
is again discussed this year when the.
several months at the front.